George Will offers a pretty devastating takedown of Biden and Harris today, but especially Harris — who, he writes, "sounds like someone giving a book report on a book she has not read."
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She put a stranger on her shoulders at a Phillies rally. Now fans want them to marry. wapo.st/3h4Q75b
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Interesting moment: Ryan at first was booed at Fox town hall when he said a police officer was killed Jan. 6. He went on to say rioters wanted to overthrow the gov't and kill Pence -- “I don’t care what your politics are, but Americans should say ‘No!’ -- and he was applauded.
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Ryan is booed when he says that a police officer was killed on January 6 (an officer who was assaulted by insurrectionists died the next day)
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NEW: Capitol Police cameras caught the break-in at Nancy Pelosi's home. But no one was watching.
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One of the midterm's biggest radio blitzes is a series of provocative ads about transgender care and "anti-white bigotry" from Stephen Miller & his allies. The spots have run in 24 markets and account for about 15% of all GOP radio ads in the past month: nytimes.com/2022/11/01/us/
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“Is it going to be Christmas tomorrow?! Is it going to be Easter tomorrow?!” says the 4-yr-old tripping on too much Halloween candy.
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I don’t actually believe that both sides being mad at you means you’re doing something right. BUT if I did subscribe to that theory, I’d be on a helluva run right now… 🔥
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Most American high school students fear it. Keegan Gregory lived it.
Last November, he found himself face-to-face with a school shooter.
This is the story of what happened next.
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*In 2010, the GOP launched a Fire Pelosi camapign, w images of her engulfed in flames.
*In 2021, McCarthy joked about hitting her on the head w a gavel.
*In 2022, the GOP spent $40M vilifying her in ads.
*And on Friday, her husband was attacked w a hammer. washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/
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Oh my. Debate among yourselves.
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“The geometry of a throuple is complex,” Evan Sterrett writes in a Modern Love essay. “With a couple, there’s only a straight line connecting two dots. But introduce a third point, and so many more possibilities emerge.”
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Last year, Kevin McCarthy joked that if he became the next leader of the House, “it will be hard not to hit” Nancy Pelosi with the speaker’s gavel. Then, on Friday, a man broke into Pelosi’s house and attacked her husband w a hammer.
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How much money have Republican congressional candidates spent on recent ads targeting Nancy Pelosi?
that and more details via & :
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How the Friday morning attack on Speaker Pelosi’s husband felt like the all-but-inevitable culmination of more than a decade of vilification of the most powerful woman in Congress. My story, w + .
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On tonight's Washington Week, @TheAmaraReport, @MacFarlaneNews, @AshleyRParker and @KannoYoungs join @Yamiche to discuss the upcoming midterm elections and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband being attacked by a man who was looking for her.
Watch at 8/7c on @PBS!
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I thought Keanu Reeves like Tom Hanks — someone literally everyone loved.
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As Adam Laxalt, the Republican candidate for Senate in Nevada, ambled along a throng of Trump supporters at a recent rally and posed for pictures, it was his campaign’s communications director, Courtney Holland, who was really working the crowd.
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I called animal control about a raccoon sitting in my tree
They said it was probably a mom trying to get some time away from her babies and that’s normal
Now excuse me while I make margaritas and hang out with my new bestie
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Within an hour last night, a 13-year-old and a 4-year-old were shot in D.C., per the police department.
It looks like they will both survive, but the effects of being shot at such a young age are impossible to quantify.
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This was one of at least four shootings in D.C. on Monday night alone.
“Those could be homicides but for marksmanship,” Chief Contee said. twitter.com/ELaserDavies/s…
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We take you inside the past 21 months of Biden’s presidency — the failures, the successes, the bad luck, the remarkable achievements and the crushing disappointments. Please take a minute and give it a read. W + .
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Perhaps the most perfect lede — and she’s had some great ones: “TORONTO — After 10 minutes sitting alone, I panicked. I was meeting Ralph Fiennes for dinner and suddenly realized I was in the wrong restaurant.”
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On the same day, three New Yorkers—a trader, a lawyer and a social worker—ordered cocaine from a delivery service. Within hours, all three were dead from fentanyl.
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"Although Biden never wavered in his decision to bring U.S. troops home, he was livid, advisers said, with the intelligence community for having underestimated how quickly Kabul would fall."
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Biden aides asked VP Harris to meet the first shipment of baby formula from overseas. It was a symbolic photo opportunity — but one that would have tied her to yet another crisis. Harris refused. Our latest dive into Biden’s first two year—> washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/
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As Biden’s long-planned Afghanistan withdrawal dissolved into chaos, Biden grew frustrated, unable to understand why no Democrats were willing to defend him. One of many NEW details in our deep dive on Biden’s presidency. W + . washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/
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NEW: Our deep dive into the first two years of Biden’s presidency.
New scenes from the Afghanistan withdrawal, the COVID response, inflation messaging and more
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Over many (many!) weeks, we (, and I) talked to 80 people to bring you the definitive story of Biden’s presidency so far. Inside the missteps, successes and failures — and what is all means:
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German TV news on what is happening in British politics is amazing. No need to understand German, watch to the end
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May all political tenures forevermore be measured in Scaramuccis...
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But she outlasted the milk in the refrigerator. I wasn’t able to do that! Kudos. twitter.com/carlquintanill…
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In Pennsylvania, John Fetterman is closing w/ football, a rare uniter in a deeply divided state and country.
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Put me in, coach. I promise to fight for PA as hard as I fight for my own family. Every time.
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Reporters were held in a room at Arizona’s largest journalism school Tuesday and prevented from questioning gubernatorial candidate , who left in a freight elevator . Story by via
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🚀So many congrats to , who is going to do a great job — and continue, alas, to be a formidable competitor. And also to , who is building one hell of a team over there. 🔥
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Okay, some personal news: I'm thrilled to be returning to @POLITICO to cover the White House and help helm West Wing Playbook.
It's an exciting time there and I can't wait to be part of the team. Carpooling to work, also a plus!
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Dan Snyder will be gone from public life one day soon, and you can thank the dozens of women who came forward in the face of retaliation and smearing.
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"Those are so Top Secret." New audiobook by Woodward shows Trump knew his epistolary romance with Kim John Un was classified. My latest—>
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The White Lotus Speaker…
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“[McCarthy] thinks the job is a little bit like being a concierge at some rock star hotel, where people make crazy demands, and you say, ‘Yes, sir, right away, sir. We'll have the dim sum and cocaine to your room in 15 minutes, sir.’ @davidfrum
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My take on the nuanced tale the Jan.6 committee sought to tell: Trump was NOT an angry king or reckless madman— caught up in the emotion of the day — or a mere hapless bystander, unaware of the destruction he wrought. He was executing a pre-meditated plan.
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Trump was a leader who knew he had lost — who was repeatedly told he had lost and who privately admitted he had lost — yet who plunged ahead with a calculated and deliberate plan that shook the foundations of the very democracy he had sworn to uphold.
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