Scott Detrow
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Journalist at NPR. Threads/IG: scottdetrow_npr
Joined June 2008
Security person outside debate site just now : “are you here to pick up press credentials?”.John Hickenlooper: “. I’m a candidate”.
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We were driving too fast to get a clear picture - but we just drove past a destroyed Russian tank with WOLVERINES spraypainted across it.
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It is worth repeating over and over again: the votes being counted now in PA, MI, GA and elsewhere were cast and delivered to officials before or on Election Day. These are not the late-arriving votes Trump attacks. (That are, by the way, legit and allowed in many places.).
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Joe Biden gained about 10,000 votes on Trump in PA WHILE the president was speaking.
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I have no information other than this, but I am told JBA is on lockdown right now due to reports of an active shooter. Another reporter and I are in a shuttle van that is being held due to situation. The VP had already left base on Marine 2.
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Newsroom email: NPR style will be "lordy," not "lordie." (Apparently 'lawdy' not in consideration).
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Democratic House gains keep growing and the most favorable Senate map for one party in a century could end up close to a status quo reshuffling. This was not a split decision election.
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I've said this before, I'll say it again. I am a white dude on the radio, and no one has EVER tweeted at me critiquing my voice. Yet literally all of my female colleagues get constant criticism for how they speak or sound. It's BS.
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Real talk: today has probably been the most hopeless I have felt about all of this since it began. Particularly paralyzed about what to do about child care. (Not asking for sympathy - just being honest because I think this happens to everyone at different points.).
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Mitch McConnell, who blocked an Obama Supreme Court nomination because it was an election year, says in a statement less than 50 days before the election: "President Trump’s nominee will receive a vote on the floor of the United States Senate.".
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Trump says audience members cheered "let him talk" when Timmons interrupted him - I was in the room and that didn't happen.
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NPR is stepping away from Twitter. It’s the right move and I’m proud of us for taking it. Here’s where you can still find all our content:.
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Joe Biden is beginning what could be the most important day of his life the way he’s begun many others: Mass at his parish.
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Resignation comes after aggressive reporting by Washington Post, CNN, NYT, and others. Claiming "fake news" still has its limits.
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Here’s the release from Joint Base Andrews. So this happened just as Harris was flying away on Marine Two.
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To be clear, as the person covering Joe Biden's campaign for NPR, there is absolutely NO discussion in our newsroom right now on how we should frame his win or what we should call him, if and when PA is called for him.
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Despite serious security threats and an ongoing pandemic, America is swearing in a new president today. I’m on the scene for @NPR.
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Very important update: someone else got a pic of it.
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The president is not conceding and claims he won. But as major news outlets call the race for Biden, we are seeing world leaders congratulate the president-elect.
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Hi. It me, the campaign reporter who also spent several years literally only reporting on Pennsylvania and fracking. There are a LOT of things us national reporters are oversimplifying and dumbing down here. Hold onto your butts for a thread.
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I will be honest: it was incredibly difficult to drop my kid off at elementary school this AM.
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The normally laid back @SenBobCasey on GOP using CHIP extension as way to sweeten funding bill for Dems. (Casey's dad helped create CHIP)
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Biden - the one in the hat, shades, and aviators! - is loading cans of black beans into boxes at a Philadelphia food bank.
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The president spent like four months urging his supporters not to vote by mail. They listened.
I’ve been covering presidential elections since 1976 and the difference between vote tallies on Election Day and the new data from mail votes is nothing short of stunning. Americans who are suspicious have a right to that sentiment. I am suspicious.
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Should we start a pool on which @npr reporter’s kid will be the first to inadvertently end up on air as we all broadcast from home? The Abner Award, ala Cokie Roberts’ famous basset hound.
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The vote-counting happening now is. exactly what we knew and reported would happen. This is legitimate vote-counting, of ballots that were returned before or on Election Day.
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Told by a WH official that the four cabinet members who traveled back to JBA with Harris tonight - Buttigieg, Cardona, Fudge and Regan - are all safely off base.
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The last president to skip: Andrew Johnson, who was also impeached, and also left office isolated from nearly everyone else in Washington.
To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th.
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NPR has just pulled away from the president's remarks. We are now fact-checking what he is saying.
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America has seen more covid infections and deaths than any other nation. Unemployment is at its highest level since the Great Depression. Nearly every city in the country is the site of angry protests. And tonight peaceful protestors were gassed for a presidential photo.
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12 years ago Joe Biden came to PA to sell a stimulus plan, & I decided to ask a hard-ass question to impress another reporter I just met. She and I are now married, despite her not being impressed by that Q, & today as Biden sells another stimulus in PA I am riding along!
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NPR has confirmed the Times story: Comey requested DOJ publicly deny Trump's allegation that Obama ordered a wiretap of Candidate Trump.
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We are keeping the toddler home from child care as a precaution since I was in the debate hall. So, pausing from news gathering for five minutes to lead a parade through the basement. #2020.
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1) DOG!.2) notable that while president was claiming fraud (with no proof at all), McSally did not undermine the vote-counting and concedes graciously. 3) also, this dog.
Congrats to @kyrstensinema. I wish her success. I’m grateful to all those who supported me in this journey. I’m inspired by Arizonans’ spirit and our state’s best days are ahead of us.
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Per @washingtonpost - looks like Biden is using the Clinton / Bartlet deep blue Oval Office rug.
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Guards stopped the shuttle reporters take from the terminal. They had rifles out and searched our van. Again, Harris and SGOTUS left already in Marine Two. We have asked for updates on the cabinet members who were also on the flight: Cardona, Buttigieg, and Fudge.
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ALL KEY INFO IN ONE TWEET (since seeing stuff reposted out of context).-Joint Base Andrews is on lockdown due to armed individual.-VP & several cabinet officers had just landed here after trip to Selma but all are off base safely.-Still waiting on clear info re: scope of this.
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Life update: @asmamk and I are NPR's newest White House correspondents. Excited to join our great @nprpolitics White House team.
Update from @nprpolitics chief editor @shirleyhenrydc: @scottdetrow & @asmamk will now join @tamarakeithNPR @FrancoOrdonez @ayesharascoe & @MaraLiasson in covering the White House.
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If Joe Biden wins 270 electoral votes he is the president-elect.
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If, on Super Tuesday, you had told me that on this day 2 years later I’d be reporting on a battle at a nuclear power plant, and that the entire time in between would have been a global pandemic… well then I would have had a lot more to drink at the @HotelVermont bar.
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.@NinaTotenberg: "I need your clothes, your boots, your motorcycle, and a 5-10 second sound bite.".
Walk up to everyone you want to interview the way Nina Totenberg walks up to the Terminator
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. @FLOTUS just met Ukraine’s First Lady, Olena Zelenska, in Uzhhorod, Ukraine. It was Zelenska’s first public appearance since the war began. Biden was in Ukraine for about two hours.
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I have a lot of opinions about what's happened at NPR this week, and I’ll keep most of them in-house. But I’ll say this: going public to torch your workplace, then doing media hit after media hit to continue torching it, is not a thing you do when you have good-faith intentions.
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JBA = Joint Base Andrews. This is the base Air Force One takes off from. Again, I'm just in a van reporting what I see. A couple sirens just went by.
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Chance The Rapper was just here for a Tiny Desk Concert. He paused on way out of NPR to eat a donut off a co-worker's desk.
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Here's a note Tom Perez sent out to DNC members. Says agreement was same for both Clinton and Sanders campaigns
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Media New Year’s resolution: when someone makes a nuanced critique of President Trump, and President Trump responds by insulting that person, let’s please stop characterizing the exchange as a “feud”. (That fills my pontificating quota for this month, thanks!).
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Gillibrand on floor right now, putting this in broad terms: "Do we value women in this country? Do we listen to women? . Or do we just disbelieve them as a matter of course?".
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News fatigue is real. I started to play @UpFirst this AM, only to have my toddler yell, “No! NO NEWS!”.
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At a certain point, given that she’s the number 3 Republican in the House, . maybe we can all stop leading with the fact that Liz Cheney is Dick Cheney’s daughter?.
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. @MilesParks started with a critical fact-check: the votes being counted right now were NOT late votes. They were delivered on or before election day, and are being counted slowly because PA counties couldn't start processing until Tuesday.
NPR has just pulled away from the president's remarks. We are now fact-checking what he is saying.
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If your name is Brookleigh and you live in Alabama, PSA you keep giving people my cell phone number!. I am concerned you won't have the details for this upcoming boudoir photoshoot you booked, among other things.
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Warren tells @nhpr she gets 7 to 8 hours of sleep a night. "I'm taking care of myself because I'm going to be in this fight all the way.".
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My fully-vaccinated parents, who spent so much of the past year isolated and extremely cautious, just sent video of my mom doing the YMCA between innings at a Spring Training game.
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The Bluth family seems to be here to greet Joe Biden at the airport in Georgia.
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Today, the White House announces it will send out 500 million tests to Americans who requests them.
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Biden just toured his childhood home in Scranton - the one he talks so much about in speeches. I asked him what he was thinking about inside on a day he could become president. “My mom.”
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Pope Francis called Joe Biden today. I will use this moment to admit that in 2015 I waited by side of road to see Francis' motorcade go by during his DC visit, waved excitedly, then. realized ten min later I had been accidently waving at Joe Biden.
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My mom - getting vaccinated - was our surprise time stamp today, and I’m really, really dwelling on the amount of family / coworker collaboration that went into this without my knowledge.
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-Flynn resigns .-Sessions recuses.-Nunes recuses. For a minority party, Dems sure have gotten a lot of things they've demanded on Russia.
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This is the most intense interview I have ever done. I thought about it for months. And I promise that every twist in the story is true and verified.
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Well here's a first. I am broadcasting from a Delaware hotel room, and just now right before I went on air, it became clear the folks in the room next to me probably aren't tuned into the convention.
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I hope/assume @titonka will never see this tweet, but she hands-down wins the award for greatest out-of-office autoreply of all time.
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@TommyAdams @ayesharascoe Ayesha is an excellent reporter, and one of the best parts of our podcast. Your thread is mean, incredibly condescending, and on top of all that it’s dead-wrong.
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One consequence of Joe Biden exclusively holding events in greater Philadelphia and Delaware: 90 percent of my most recent expense report = Wawa.
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Shout out to a large naked Scottish man, standing in his window taking a phone pic of the presidential motorcade as it passed by.
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Given that two of our NPR colleagues were killed while reporting this year, I fail to see the awesome.
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A response to two rulings that have affected, and were about, millions of people's lives.
Do you get the impression that the Supreme Court doesn’t like me?.
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Another contrast: the Biden campaign also contacted reporters who traveled with Biden and Harris last week ahead of this announcement, to let them know of possible exposure.
The Biden campaign’s decision to reveal exactly who tested positive and when — and announce the last negative test for Kamala Harris — as well as the fact that it is currently doing contact tracing all appear in sharp contrast to how the White House handled things a few weeks ago.
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This is the third campaign event I have been to today. Biden and Buttigieg each had a couple hundred. Sanders campaign says there are 3,000 people here in Cedar Rapids.
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Leo has a point.
I’m sorry we’ve failed you Leo. We will definitely try to do better. Or rename the show as you suggest.
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Will point out again that the best understanding of the president's definitions here seem to be that a vote for Trump is "legal" and a Biden vote is "illegal.".
THE OBSERVERS WERE NOT ALLOWED INTO THE COUNTING ROOMS. I WON THE ELECTION, GOT 71,000,000 LEGAL VOTES. BAD THINGS HAPPENED WHICH OUR OBSERVERS WERE NOT ALLOWED TO SEE. NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE. MILLIONS OF MAIL-IN BALLOTS WERE SENT TO PEOPLE WHO NEVER ASKED FOR THEM!.
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This is . basically the opposite of what WH initially said.
NBC NEWS: Trump says he decided to fire Comey even before meeting with AG and Deputy AG: “I was going to fire regardless of recommendation”.
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OLD MILLENNIALS TRIUMPHANT - I have just been informed one of the ways we have stayed on air is because someone is BURNING CDs of our segments. This means more to me than any other emo burned CD I’ve been given in my life.
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Mixed, weird feelings wandering around an empty NPR, wearing 2 masks and an electronic tracer, as I work on a feature looking back at a year ago tomorrow. BUT - I also learned WAFFLE WEDNESDAY STILL EXISTS AT OUR CAFETERIA.
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10 minutes to a shutdown. Remember to play the Phil Collins song at 11:56:20.
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Last tweet on today’s Great NPR Tech Meltdown: I went from hosting right into toddler-wrangling, so here’s a post-bedtime cheers to every @NPR colleague around the world who scrambled to keep us on the air today. #wemakenpr
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"None of this is classified, Mr Tillerson. These people are dead." - Rubio at the end of a pretty aggressive round of Qs.
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Today’s negative test, 5 days out from possible exposure, is way more meaningful for Biden than Friday’s.
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On his way back to Delaware, Joe Biden reacts to President Trump holding an event tomorrow. “What is the matter with this guy?”
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I have reached out to JBA's public affairs unit, and will pass along any clearer, broader information I learn. (@Andrews_JBA give me a call please!).
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. @NPRinskeep hit 20 years of hosting Morning Edition today. And since this website has been so filled with critiques of NPR (🙃), I will just take a moment to say how much I admire what Steve does every day.
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So happy for Tam! A BIG week for new @nprpolitics babies! Maybe Gibson and Josh will co-host a hologramcast about the 2048 presidential election. (Between now and then, maybe a joint bday party or two)
So. something big has changed since we taped the @nprpolitics podcast yesterday afternoon (and I’m not talking about the release of the Comey memos). Welcome to the world Baby Gibson, born at 1 AM and weighing in at 7 pounds exactly.
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Got the dreaded close contact / ten day quarantine note from school, so guess we’re gonna talk some more about Bruno for the next week or so.
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Rushed from the airport to the Washington Monument to catch the 11:30 rocket launch.
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WaPo: “Can we ask him to shut down the investigation? Are you able to assist in this matter?” .
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For Democrats, the winds have shifted and the Riders of Rohan have arrived at Pelennor Fields: Joe Biden is ahead in states that would give him 270 electoral votes.
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Finally, having kept you this long, I present the greatest story I will ever report. It was about about people who hunt for rattlesnakes near fracking sites.
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Kicking off actual infrastructure week with the highlight of my photojournalism career.
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