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The Biden administration faces an immigration influx & possible default- an arrest is made in the NYC subway chokehold death- & the #FridayNightcap is back
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DeSantis has been previewing his strategy for taking on Trump at a series of small private dinners at the governors mansion as his campaign nears its official emergence from the shadows.
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On the eve of his events in Iowa, DeSantis' SuperPAC unveils list of 37 state legislators endorsing him.
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Wendy Sherman, U.S. Diplomat Known for ‘Hard Conversations in Hard Places,’ to Retire
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All of that is to say, what a cool f-ing story about a pioneer in the industry and the example she set for the Connies and the rest of us. 7/7
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She couldn’t have been more gracious in meeting me, and I learned a couple of lessons for young folks:
First: the kids you grow up with can become big stars — and still be normal people. At least Connie Chung could.
Second: Sometimes your parents aren’t full of s—-.
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No mystery to you dear reader, but I realize as she gets to us and strikes up conversation with my dad, it’s Connie f-ing Chung. 5/x
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Then, when I was an adult — maybe 15 years ago or so — I was in a parking lot with my dad and we hear his name being shouted repeatedly. We look up and a small woman is moving toward us with alacrity. 4/x
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After all, he was my dad, living in my house, and she was a star on the television screen in my house. It just didn’t add up. 3/x
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When I was a kid, my dad told me — more than once — that he was friends with Connie Chung. Of course, I thought this was ridiculous. For starters, I had never met said friend. Even though I believed they had gone to junior high, high school and college together, it felt sus 2/x
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This is the content I needed: the generation of Asian American women named for Connie Chung. 1/x
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Also, Todd Young isn’t up again until 2028. That’s a more comfortable perch from which to criticize Trump.
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GOP Sen. Todd Young on why he won't back Trump in 2024 GOP race:
"You want a nominee to win the general election. As President Trump says, I prefer winners. He consistently loses. In fact, he has a habit of losing not just his own elections, but losing elections for others."
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If you haven’t been paying attention to Donald Trump for awhile, the CNN town hall is a reintroduction to what he’s been telling his supporters for two years.
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WASHINGTON — Americans saw a pure version of Donald Trump Wednesday — fortunately or unfortunately.
w/@GarrettHaake and @mikememoli nbcnews.com/politics/donal
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Much of what Trump said tonight is what he's been saying on the campaign trail and before friendly audiences. But the CNN town hall re-injected him into the main vein of American politics and gave his messages a broader audience nbcnews.com/politics/donal by
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WASHINGTON — Americans saw a pure version of Donald Trump Wednesday — fortunately or unfortunately.
w/ and
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Trump says DeSantis should think about his future because right now it is "not looking good."
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Trump on 2020 Georgia call: “I said you owe me votes because the election was rigged.”
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Trump refuses to say whether he wants Ukraine or Russia to win.
"I want everybody to stop dying," Trump says.
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Trump stops short of saying he would re-institute family separation policy. But he doesn't rule it out and sounds like he's leaning into it:
“When you say to a family that if you come we are going to break you up, they don’t come.”
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"Then they decided not to finish it" Trump says of Biden and border wall moments after Trump said "I did finish the wall."
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TRUMP says GOP should let America default if Biden doesn't agree too spending cuts.
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TRUMP ON PARDONING JAN 6 DEFENDANTS
“I AM INCLINED TO PARDON MANY OF THEM. I CAN’T SAY FOR EVERY SINGLE ONE.”
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Trump says Pence does not deserve an apology for Jan. 6: "He did something wrong."
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A huge thank you to , , , and for helping to kick off our 2023 Washington Leaders’ Conference! #necindc
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Just had an insightful panel discussion with political reporters, @heatherscope @KannoYoungs @jonallendc @jmart, where they talked about the latest developments in the @WhiteHouse and #Congress. #NECINDC
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“It's pretty appalling to me that something like that can happen to a human being in the free world.” — NH state Rep Jason Osborne, a DeSantis guy, on Trump civil trial.
He referred to DJT, not Carroll.
That’s why GOPers predict no primary harm to DJT.
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OMG my last story with :
“Be very f—ing worried.”
Democrats have sinking feeling: Trump could beat Biden
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New via and , who on Tuesday sat down exclusively with Pence (and was briefly interrupted by protesters):
Mike Pence navigates anger from all sides as he inches toward a presidential run
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Mike Pence recalled in an NBC interview Tuesday that he didn't find out until later that insurrectionists had chanted "Hang Mike Pence.”
As he spoke, gay rights protesters serenaded the former vice president with chants of "F--- Mike Pence."
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CINCINNATI — Pence subtly defended Trump in an interview Tuesday, hours after a jury found Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation.
“I would tell you, in my 4½ years serving alongside the president, I never heard or witnessed behavior of that nature”
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NBA legends & are the top Senate recruits for some Florida Democrats looking to find a challenger to Rick Scott.
Happy to, er, assist with this finger-roll scoop.
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SCOOP from -- Florida Democratic donors are hoping to recruit NBA legends Dwayne Wade and Grant Hill to run for Senate against Rick Scott in 2024
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Feds seek 25 years for Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes in seditious conspiracy case nbcnews.com/politics/justi via
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Conventional wisdom has been that the Disney fight will hurt DeSantis. Could still be true -- but many GOP voters are support what he's doing, and polls bear out that it's more popular with Republicans too nbcnews.com/politics/2024- by
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