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National political correspondent at The Washington Post covering the 2020 presidential race. Jenna.Johnson@washpost.com

Washington D.C.
Joined August 2008

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  1. FBI thwarted a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, unsealing charges against 6 people who it said contemplated a violent overthrow of the government and conducted firearms training, tested explosives and tactical drills, ⁦⁩ reports

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  2. 5 hours ago

    Some Republicans — especially Republican men — have deemed Sen. Kamala Harris not “likeable” enough, ⁦⁩ reports. And they have lots and lots of critiques of her facial expressions at the debate last night...

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    The Trump campaign never really wanted to do debates in the first place and now the president's illness gives them the perfect excuse.

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  4. 6 hours ago

    “The climate is changing,” Pence said. “The issue is, what's the cause, and what do we do about it?” Scientists, in fact, are much more certain about the causes of climate change than Pence suggests, ⁦⁩ writes.

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  5. 6 hours ago

    “I just want the record to reflect, she never answered the question,” said Pence, summoning the sort of righteous indignation that can only come with having dodged even more questions. ⁦⁩ on all of the questions Pence didn’t answer:

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  6. 6 hours ago

    Mike Pence’s take on the pandemic: Americans should be trusted to handle their own health, and any suggestion the Trump administration failed in responding is a slam on Americans themselves, ⁦⁩ writes.

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  7. 6 hours ago

    “Seated at distant tables and separated by clear plexiglass barriers to help prevent infection, Pence, 61, and Harris, 55, had arrived in Salt Lake City as two of the most consequential running mates in recent history...”

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    You can have Jewish grandkids & be anti-Semitic. You can have Black kids & be racist. You can have queer children & be homophobic. Becoming a parent doesn’t prevent you from discriminating.

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    Oct 6

    The more I hear about President Trump's covid treatment, the more I think about the late James Brooks, an 80-year-old black man who lived outside Detroit. He left Mississippi for Detroit and built a middle-class life for his family as a company man at Chrysler.

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    Oct 7

    A team of reporters & editors identified nearly 1/3 of 300 who attended the White House Rose Garden ceremony for Amy Coney Barrett's nomination to the Supreme Court and may have been exposed to . Please share to help us ID the rest

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    Oct 7

    Some contact tracing details from the most recent 246 interviews with DC coronavirus patients, per Dr. Nesbitt: 22% caught the virus at a workplace, 13% while traveling, 19% at a restaurant, 22% at a social gathering.

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  13. Oct 7
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  14. Oct 7

    In Florida, Republicans are appealing to born-again religious voters of Caribbean and Latin American descent, hoping to further chip away at the margins of Joe Biden’s support in Florida among Latinos, ⁦⁩ reports.

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    Oct 6

    This is going on at the White House today. (This is the press area.) Video by .

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    Oct 6

    “We had hoped that perhaps once Trump tested positive ...he would be chastened, perhaps gaining a better understanding of the fear and anger across the country at his botched handling of the pandemic. Trump shows no sign of undergoing any such epiphany”

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    Oct 5

    Yesterday 20,000 black chairs were lined up facing the White House. Each represents 10 Americans who’ve died of covid-19. Photo by Katherine Frey of The Washington Post.

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    Oct 5

    ‘The White House residence staff members are largely Black and Latino, and often elderly...Numbering 90-some full-time ushers, butlers, housekeepers, valets and cooks they work more closely with the first family than perhaps anyone else in that building.’

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    Oct 5

    “He has experience now fighting the coronavirus as an individual... Joe Biden doesn’t have that.” — Trump campaign spokesperson , trying to make Joe Biden’s lack of infectious disease a strike against him.

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  20. Oct 5

    “For President Trump’s reelection campaign, October was supposed to be the turnaround month....”

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