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national political correspondent at @Axios . writing a book on Biden. alex.thompson @axios .com 202 684 6144 for text, Signal, Telegram

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@AlexThomp

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•Personal news: I'm joining the amazing team at @axios •The big picture: I'm going to be covering 2024 as national political correspondent. •Between the lines: Thank you Politico for the last 4 and a half years. •BE SMART: add me to your email lists: alexscottthompson @gmail

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NEW: Axios hires star Politico reporter Alex Thompson ( @AlexThomp ) as national political correspondent. News outlets are jostling for talent ahead of 2024 — I'm told Thompson turned down offers at WaPo, Politico and Semafor

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1 year

A Biden photobomb via the Nantucket Current

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Sen. Coons, considered one of Biden's best ambassadors w/ GOP Senators, calls on Hawley and Cruz to step down @marianne_levine reports

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Coons calls on Cruz and Hawley to resign

The Delaware Democrat said the two Republican senators who mounted challenges to Biden's victory should step down in the aftermath of the deadly riots in D.C.

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There’s a 4 minute Affleck cut of the Dunkin commercial It’s glorious. Oscar-bait.

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KBJ stopped by the National Portrait Gallery, per their insta.

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One of Raffensperger's advisers told @MarcACaputo that they recorded Trump's call b/c “This is a man who has a history of reinventing history as it occurs...Lindsey Graham asked us to throw out legally cast ballots. So yeah, after that call, we decided maybe we should do this.”

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A wow from @AFP of the Iron Dome, Gaza

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“CEO Parag Agrawal, chief financial officer Ned Segal, and Vijaya Gadde, head of legal policy, trust, and safety, were all fired”

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Elon Musk acquires Twitter and fires top executives

Elon Musk assumed ownership of the site late Thursday, marking a new era for the social media company.

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“BLACK LIVES MATTER” painted on the street leading to the White House. Video from the DC mayor.

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New Biden ad uploaded to YouTube last night is very MAN

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NYT reporters in a rare open revolt over the opinion side running Tom Cotton’s op-Ed calling to deploy the military to “restore order.”

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Welp.

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Stacey Abrams says she intends to run for/be President one day. Do you think the country will...elect a black woman [president in next 20 years]. Abrams: Yes Do you think they'll elect you? Abrams: Yes. That's my plan. And I'm very pragmatic.

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“you look like you're wearing about $250 worth of JC Penney” "Actually, it is Kohl's," Sanders says.

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Warren getting some attn for this line rebutting the attacks from R’s “[the fossil fuel industry] want to be able to stir up a lot of controversy around your lightbulbs, around your straws, and around your cheeseburgers.”

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“I urge all you living in Florida to join the fight” This appears to be the ad Newsom is running on Fox News in Florida this weekend.

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This is wonky but potentially consequential “Stripe Inc. will no longer process payments for President Trump’s campaign website following last week’s riot at the Capitol”

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WSJ News Exclusive | Stripe Stops Processing Payments for Trump Campaign Website

The financial-technology company is cutting off the president’s campaign account for violating its policies against encouraging violence.

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Megyn Kelly says she and Trump had a private conversation this weekend at TPUSA and that all that “nonsense between us is under the bridge” “It was frankly great to see him”

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NEWS: AOC, Ayanna Pressley, Katie Porter, Raúl Grijalva, and 39 left-wing groups already drawing battle lines on Biden admin personnel, signing a letter arguing that no C-suite level corporate execs ought to have Senate-confirmed positions

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AOC, House progressives warn Biden on corporate hires

A letter from left-wing lawmakers and groups calls for corporate lobbyists and high-ranking executives to be shut out of a Biden administration.

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News: Warren's Nevada team in tumult as 6 staffers, all women of color, have departed the roughly 70-person campaign in the final stretch w/ complaints of a toxic work environment in which they felt tokenized and w/ state senior leadership at loggerheads.

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Women of color bolt Warren’s Nevada campaign in frustration

“Complaints, comments, advice, and grievances were met with an earnest shake of the head and progressive buzzwords, but not much else."

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. @Liz_Cheney : “there’s no question the president formed the mob. The president incited the mob. The president address the mob. He lit the flame.”

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Update: a spokesperson for Damon and Ben Affleck's production company Artists Equity tells Axios: "we hereby, expressly give notice that in the case of any use of material from Air by the Trump campaign where approval or consent is required, we do not grant such consent."

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Trump is now cutting web videos w/ Matt Damon’s Air monologue as narration…

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Christie hits Jared and Ivanka: “the grift from this family is breathtaking”

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Scoop: Meghan Groob, Kamala's chief speechwriter, is leaving less than four months into the job.

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Kamala Harris' chief speechwriter is departing

The turnover at the vice president’s office continues.

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3 years

no determination on grades at the end of the semester.

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UVA law school students this fall will be able to take a course about the Mueller report — taught by Robert Mueller.

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POTUS: “No one fucks with a Biden”

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Trump's former top Russia adviser Fiona Hill doesn't hold back w/ @ErinBanco @swin24 “The president was trying to stage a coup....Just because it failed or didn’t succeed doesn’t mean it wasn’t real.”

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You can now get Biden-Harris "yard signs" on Animal Crossing. via @kellymakena Looking forward to the VR 2032 presidential debates

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Some Warren campaign staffers don’t have a good understanding of campaign journalism. Not my job to “actively support the candidate that you were assigned” It is my job to contact as many ppl as possible rather than just rely on what the campaign wants to give me.

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Wow. twitter going even further than FB and is no longer letting ppl tweet the NYPost story. This is what pops up if you try.

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Facebook says it's reducing the distribution of the NYPost's Hunter Biden story.

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Have a feeling this photo—which Abrams promoted on her own account—of her appearing maskless surrounded by kids in masks is gonna be in a lot of ads this fall.

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Warren hits back: “I was disappointed to hear that Bernie is sending his volunteers out to trash me. Bernie knows me and has known me for a long time...I hope bernie reconsiders and turns his campaign in a different direction.” Also notes the “factionalism” caused by 2016

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Scoop: Bernie stealthily goes negative on Warren w/ a volunteer script to tell Warren-leaning voters that she only appeals to the "affluent"/"highly-educated" & "She's bringing no new bases into the Dem Party" (I re-typed script below to protect sourcing)

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Worth remembering that some Trump-aligned Republicans argued last fall that Biden was the candidate who’d continue wars in the Middle East and Trump was the withdrawal candidate.

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Some more video of Lindsey Graham being called a “traitor” by Trump supporters at the Reagan airport while surrounded by security.

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Couric writes that she wanted to protect RBG and so she edited out RBG saying that those who kneel during the national anthem are showing 'contempt for a government that has made it possible for their parents and grandparents to live a decent life.'

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Katie Couric admits to editing Ruth Bader Ginsburg's negative comments

Katie Couric has admitted to 'protecting' Ruth Bader Ginsburg from public backlash by cutting out negative comments she made about people who kneel during the national anthem, in her new book.

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Chuck Schumer to @AnandWrites : argues for an FDR-like first 100 days. Says they will focus on: climate $15 minimum wage infrastructure bill that will also employee ppl w/ prison records student debt cancellation via executive order immigration

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Mark Cuban backs Biden (not super enthusiastically): “If they were having his last wake, and it was him versus Trump, and he was being given last rites, I would still vote for Joe Biden" @josh_wingrove reports

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Mark Cuban Backs Biden in 2024, Urging More Action on Drug Costs

Mark Cuban urged President Joe Biden to go further to rein in prescription drug costs, a key element of his reelection pitch, as he backed the incumbent ahead of a likely November rematch against...

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GOP congressman just before the riot.

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Biden should concede. I want his concession on my desk tomorrow morning. Don’t make me come over there. #StopTheSteaI2021 @ali

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Steyer and Klobuchar did not know the name of the president of Mexico, in interviews w/ @TelemundoNews “I forget,” says Steyer. "Can you tell me his name?" Klobuchar: “No." Pete knew.

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5 months

The video

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“Go fuck yourself. Go. Fuck. Yourself.” Elon Musk to advertisers threatening to boycott. Just now. “G-F-Y.”

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A Biden meeting w/ the pregnant widow of one of the dead Marines didn't go well "It struck the family as scripted and shallow, a conversation that lasted only a couple of minutes.."

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Christie on Haley: “She's smart & she knows better. And she didn't say it because she's a racist…the reason she did it is just as bad, if not worse, and should make everybody concerned about her candidacy. She did it because she's unwilling to offend anyone by telling the truth”

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What an A1 photo from @erinschaff

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I still find this @margbrennan exchange the most illuminating/honest in how Biden thinks about Afghanistan “Don’t you bear some responsibility for the outcome if the taliban ends up back no control & women end up losing the rights—-“ “No I don’t!”

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NEW: Dems are now rushing to get similar abortion measures on the ballot next year in Arizona, Nevada and Florida — a potential firewall for Biden. SG Doug Emhoff has privately described their path to victory as "Dobbs and Democracy” W/ @StefWKight

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Democrats' new abortion battle plan: Rush to get it on ballots in 2024 elections

Voters have now explicitly endorsed abortion rights via ballot initiatives seven times.

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Rep. Max Rose, a Democrat running for reelection in Staten Island, with a digital ad: “Bill de Blasio is the worst mayor in the history of New York City. That’s the whole ad.”

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"I remember Pat Cipollone saying, 'They're literally calling for the VP to be F'ing hung.'" Mark Meadows: "You heard [Trump], Pat. He thinks Mike [Pence] deserves it. He doesn't think they're doing anything wrong." Pat: "This is F'ing crazy."

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3 years

In retrospect, she was trying to warn us all about what was to come.

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McConnell's twitter handle goes from @senatemajldr to @LeaderMcConnell

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Stacey Abrams on VP: “I would be an excellent running mate. I have the capacity to attract voters by motivating typically ignored communities. I have a strong history of executive and management experience in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors.“

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Stacey Abrams on Being Vice President: 'I Am Prepared and Excited to Serve'

An intimate conversation between the rising Democratic star and journalist Melissa Harris-Perry.

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New: I spoke with Hunter Biden. In an interview about his sobriety, he talked about how he sees it as both important for himself and keeping Trump from the WH, as a relapse would be devastating to his father. “Maybe it's the ultimate test for a recovering addict, I don’t know.”…

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Joe Rogan--who supported Bernie--on his podcast yesterday w/ managing director of Thiel Capital Eric Weinstein. "I’d rather vote for Trump than [Biden]. I don’t think he can handle anything. You’re relying entirely on his cabinet." 1.3 million views on YouTube since yesterday

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November 2001

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Doocy laughs it off. "Nobody has fact checked him yet and says it's not true."

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All the Fox News hosts reacting to their texts to Mark Meadows

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Bernie w/ a bit of a warning shot, tells @chrishayes it would be "very divisive" if a candidate gets a clear plurality but not majority of the delegates and the party doesn't nominate that person at the convention.

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3 years

Coming in at a cool $3 billion per page.

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The Senate Democratic Covid relief bill comes in at 628 pages.

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Nice detail from @shearm @peterbakernyt Biden chides aides for what he deems overly academic or elitist language. “Pick up your phone, call your mother, read her what you just told me,” he likes to say. “If she understands, we can keep talking.”

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😬 "Trump did not tell the investigator to “find the fraud” or say she would be “a national hero” if she did so."

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Marriott and now Blue Cross. Could see a stampede in the next few days.

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The peaceful transfer of power

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Markey could be a model for Dem incumbent in Blue states/districts wary of 2022 primary challenges: Publicly Support Medicare for All The Green New Deal Build a policy partnership w/ AOC

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Cheney spokesperson on Gaetz coming to Wyoming: "Rep. Gaetz can leave his beauty bag at home. In Wyoming, the men don’t wear make-up.”

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Republicans amp up push to oust Cheney from leadership - Washington Examiner

As another Senate impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump looms on the horizon, House Republicans stepped up their pressure campaign against GOP Conference Chairwoman Liz Cheney to resign...

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2020 has upended a lot of things but at least there are still political ads like this one for a GOPer in OK-5

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🧐 Notable local reporting on Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders

Whistleblower says governor’s office illegally altered, withheld records related to podium purchase

Attorney Tom Mars said his client can prove that someone in Sanders' office altered and withheld documents that were requested through the Arkansas FOIA.

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Liz Cheney says Rs "should not be embracing the former president" and "somebody who has provoked an attack on the...Capitol to prevent the counting of electoral votes, which resulted in 5 ppl dying..that is a person who does not have a role as a leader of our party going forward"

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Some rivalries never die H/t @jonathanzgreen

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News: Biden campaign manager responds to Trump and writes: "If the president makes good on his threat to go to court to try to prevent the proper tabulation of votes, we have legal teams standing by ready to deploy to resist that effort. And they will prevail"

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Showing up at people’s homes is standard journalism that more reporters should do. like half of “all the president’s men” is Woodstein showing up at people’s homes.

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4 years

The Dems gave Sarah Cooper as much time as @AOC

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Don Jr. among others has shared this video. I don’t think any of us are ready for this next election online.

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CBS News had an independent review done of Hunter’s laptop. They concluded they believe its real.

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Scoop: This staffer didn't just retweet the video. He secretly made the video w/ the Sonnenrad, per a person familiar. It was then shared through @desantiscams where the staffer retweeted it. The video was later deleted it but here it is. My story

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NEW -- Ron DeSantis fires staffer who retweeted video with Nazi imagery by @akarl_smith

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Near the end of the gaggle someone randomly shouted “what about veterans” and Biden was as passionate as I’ve seen him.

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Liz Cheney sent a memo to GOP Reps. this morning addressing the GOP challenges to biden’s victory. “This is directly at odds with the Constitution’s clear text and our core beliefs as Republicans.” “The recent proposal for a new “Commission” is even more problematic”

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Biden at a fundraiser: “A lot of people seem focused on my age…I get it believe me, I know it more than anyone….I’m running b/c democracy is at stake. B/c 2024 democracy is on the ballot once again…Donald trump and his MAGA republicans are determined to destroy American…

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did past Dems fail by not codifying Roe v. Wade over the past five decades? Harris: I think that, to be very honest with you, I do believe that we should have rightly believed, but we certainly believe that certain issues are just settled.

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Trump says “motherfucker” at a GOP event

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Put this in the 2023 time capsule.

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Murkowski doesn’t pull her punches on Hawley, telling @burgessev : “I think it’s awful. I am going to support my oath to the Constitution. That’s the loyalty test here”

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‘Exercise in futility’: Republicans lambaste Hawley’s push to challenge election

“I think it’s awful. I am going to support my oath to the Constitution,” said one GOP senator.

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Scoop: the nonpartisan Presidential Transition Center, former W. Chief of staff Josh Bolten, and former UT Gov. Mike Leavitt call on the GSA to ascertain that Biden has won. Until they do, Biden’s transition can’t officially begin. 🔒 now, paywall gone in 30. Letter here.

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Lindsey Graham weighs in: “we all know that AOC and this crowd are a bunch of communists, they hate Israel, they hate our own country”

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Some pushback from both Ron Klain and Jen Psaki to this Jim Jordan tweet.

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Average gas price: June 2020: $2.21 June 2021: $3.07 President Biden’s economy!

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I can tell you that not everyone in Biden world thought that was funny.

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"Vice President Biden—" Obama begins. "That was a joke."

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Tim Kaine is really just living his best life these days.

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NBC reports that NH voters are getting robocalls with a deepfake of Biden’s voice telling them to not vote tomorrow. “it’s important that you save your vote for the November election.”

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CNN has Obama’s 768-page (! That’s just part 1) memoir. Notable section on Obama, Joe, McConnell considering what’s likely coming in January.

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In 2020, Biden had a 13-point win with independent voters, a group Hillary Clinton lost by 4 points in 2016. In September and October, he’s at -16 points w/ the group @ForecasterEnten

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I can report at least one Bloomberg staffer did this.

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Wow. As Trump primary challengers circle, Republican state parties in South Carolina, Nevada, Arizona and Kansas are expected to cancel their 2020 primaries and caucuses @politicoalex ⁩ reports.

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Republicans to scrap primaries and caucuses as Trump challengers cry foul

The moves, which critics called undemocratic, are the latest illustration of the president's total takeover of the GOP apparatus.

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Clyburn tells @alexi : "That phrase ‘defund the police’ cost Jamie Harrison tremendously...Sloganeering kills people. Sloganeering destroys movements. Stop sloganeering.”

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Karen Bass in 2010 at a ribbon-cutting for a Scientology church: "That is why the words are exciting of your Founder L. Rob Hubbard...The Church of Scientology I know has made a difference, because your creed is a universal creed and one that speaks to all people everywhere"

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NEWS: I briefly caught Warren jumping into her car this afternoon and she joined Bernie hitting Biden on SS: "Bernie Sanders and I established the ‘Expand Social Security Caucus’ in the Senate. As a senator, Joe Biden had a very different position on SS."

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Warren joins Bernie in jabbing Biden on Social Security

Warren linking arms with Sanders on the issue also comes after long-simmering tensions between the two exploded into the open this week.

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damn, @jonathanvswan

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. @PhillyInquirer reports that local Detective Jennifer Gugger was removed from her position in the police department’s Recruit Background Investigations Unit after Internal Affairs received tips she’s been at the Wed riot This was a recent FB post of hers

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. @JimmyKimmelLive asks Warren about Bloomberg: JK: Mayor Bloomberg is also running for president. EW: I've heard that. JK: It seems like you don't like him that much. EW: True [laughter] But it's not personal, it's just everything about him....

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Scoop w/ @tylerpager Biden team is producing a 90 minute prime time TV special for inauguration night. Tom Hanks narrating. Demi Lovato, Justin Timberlake, Ant Clemons and Jon Bon Jovi will perform ABC, CBS and NBC CNN and MSNBC Not Fox and Fox News

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Biden team plans inauguration night celebrity TV special

In lieu of an inaugural ball, the virtual event will celebrate "American heroes" who have served on the frontlines during the pandemic.

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BS: I think it’s about 30 trillion [for M4A] AC: do you have a price rage for all of these things? BS: no we don’t. No... AC: ...how do you know how it’s going to be paid for if you don’t know what the price is? BS: I can’t rattle off for you every nickle

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New Biden re-elect ad entitled “War Zone” to air on 60 Minutes in battleground states this weekend, per the campaign Focuses on Biden’s trip to Kyiv.

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Alex Thompson

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some top Democrats have privately been saying for months that they’re nervous about Biden tripping again on the trail. Today he did—>

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Ken Bone is an undecided voter again.

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'Red Sweater Guy' Says Watching Debates is 'Like Watching Your House Burn'

The undecided voter who went viral following a presidential debate in 2016 said he is "uncommitted again" with Election Day less than a month away.

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