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Senior Politics Editor, NBC News. amanda.terkel@nbcuni.com - DMs open for tips.
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including "the French" in here is probably the funniest thing that's ever happened
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We recommend avoiding general and often dehumanizing “the” labels such as the poor, the mentally ill, the French, the disabled, the college-educated. Instead, use wording such as people with mental illnesses. And use these descriptions only when clearly relevant.
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Pro tip for looking for classified documents. I always ask myself, "Where did I last have it?" and it never works. So don't do that.
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Gov. Chris Sununu talked to and threw a bit of shade at Trump -- "We just want the best normal candidate" -- and also said he feared how DeSantis might use executive powers to go after "woke private companies"
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Sen Rick Scott is running for re-election in Florida, naming a campaign team and pledging to still run on his controversial Rescue America plan that invited bipartisan criticism He also talks briefly about McConnell, DeSantis & the prez primary
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Comment from Marjorie Taylor Greene's spokesman
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NEW from @jonallendc -- Marjorie Taylor Greene wants to be Trump's VP pick nbcnews.com/politics/2024-
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NEWS: MTG wants to be Trump VP “She sees herself on the short list,” Steve Bannon told NBC. A second source who has advised her said her “whole vision” is to get on the ticket. This explains the *why* of her oft-chronicled recent rebrand efforts.
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Pompeo also writes that while Khashoggi's murder was "ugly" it wasn't entirely "surprising" to him: "I’d seen enough of the Middle East to know that this kind of ruthlessness was all too routine in that part of the world"
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