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    12 Sep 2018

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    hell yes Greg

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    2 hours ago

    This is like before the PA-18 special election last year when some Republicans were saying, "it's a Democratic district by registration. Of course Lamb is favored." It was Trump +20 and didn't support any of the statewide Democrats in 2016.

    For historically challenged national media who seem shocked that we have a competitive race for KY Gov REMINDER: Kentucky has far more registered Ds than registered Rs (& always has) I am only the 4th R Gov elected since the 1920’s
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    5 hours ago

    Until Facebook takes responsibility for damaging democracies by letting propaganda run amok, we need to counter the Trump operation where it lives. Glad to see this effort from and .

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  5. 3 hours ago

    Has anybody written a good story about the Jean Smart-aissance? Years of small walk-on roles followed by absolutely kicking ass in genre TV.

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    4 hours ago

    NEW: Alan Dershowitz and ex-FBI Director Louis Freeh have registered to lobby the U.S. government on behalf of Dan Gertler, an Israeli businessman who has been accused of getting rich from corrupt mining deals in Africa, CNBC reports

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    4 hours ago

    Good read suggesting Tulsi path *could* be more conventional than conspiratorial: use a prez race to build profile, see what happens, get a media gig if it doesn’t work The twist is she’s more Kasich than Huck: the D who’ll hit Ds on Fox

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  8. 4 hours ago

    The DNC is an all-powerful election rigging cabal that also can’t convince Steve Bullock that being a senator would be more fun than polling at 0.5% in iowa.

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    4 hours ago

    It's Election Day 2019! Read my Spotlight to find out how the 2020 candidates handled that in VA. (Two tidbits that didn't make it in: spoke with the state's coordinated campaign organizers Sunday & has been encouraging volunteers to mobilize there.)

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    4 hours ago

    . and spoke to six former US-based TikTok employees who say they felt pressured by Chinese colleagues to censor certain content:

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    This article on healer vs fighter in Iowa was written 9 months ago, but back then the potential healer was Booker.

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    7 hours ago

    NEW: Kamala Harris wasn’t supposed to be laying off staff, flatlining in low single digits in polls and throwing a Hail Mary in Iowa But that’s how far her star has fallen A deep dive into how it’s gone so wrong—and how she hopes to find relevance again

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    5 hours ago

    Another day, another @ for ⁦⁩.

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    5 hours ago

    Castro set a fundraising goal (800k). He hit the fundraising goal. Then laid off staff in two early states? Certainly a mixed message to small donors.

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    6 hours ago

    Come on, Maggie, how can you challenge the brilliant political insights of....Jared Kushner?

    Serious question - how does being a potentially impeached president create a lane for being an outsider?
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    6 hours ago

    New — Castro lands endorsements from group of Texas lawmakers who had endorsed O'Rourke before he dropped out. The list, including four El Pasoans: - J. Rodríguez - C. Blanco - A. Fierro - J. Moody - A. Ramos - G. Wu - A. Herrero - O. Longoria - J. Farrar

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    6 hours ago

    Undecided white working-class voters in battleground states support single-payer health care and “are as about conservative as Republicans in the cultural issues,” per the NYT/Siena College poll. Undecided white college-educated voters oppose single-payer.

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    6 hours ago

    There are six A+ rated pollsters: 📈Monmouth University! 🎉 📈Selzer & Co.! 🎉 📈ABC News*/Washington Post! 🎉 📈Marist College! 🎉 📈Siena College/New York Times Upshot! 🎉 📈Muhlenberg College! 🎉 * 538 is owned by ABC News but we've long had this poll rated very highly.

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  19. 6 hours ago

    The big question in politics today is whether the Butti-surge in Iowa turns Jacobin away from the "Warren's worse than Bernie" takes and toward more passionate "Buttigieg delenda est" takes.

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  20. 6 hours ago

    Big backlash to the Nationals celebration at the WH. President celebrating with bluecheck DC elites instead of hardscrabble coal miners.

    Simple explanation of the gap between today's Post/ABC poll and yesterday’s NYT/Sienna poll — about ten percent of the population had a big change of heart during the past 24 hours.
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  21. 6 hours ago

    "Fighting" has been Warren's brand ever since she entered politics -- her two memoirs, combined, have "fight" in the title three times. But go to town halls in Iowa and you hear Democrats just exhausted, tired of "division," which Buttigieg has noticed.

    . out with a new Iowa TV ad, using footage from LJ dinner. Leans into two themes that are popping up more: 1. Imagining the day after the 2020 election. 2. Fighting is not the point (contrast with Warren).
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