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Alex Roarty

5 months

Can finally reveal the name of my new newsroom: NOTUS! It's an impressive group of folks working here (my presence notwithstanding) -- encourage everyone to sign up to start receiving our stories

NOTUS

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4 years

using Sam Elliott as a narrator at the end of a race is the campaign equivalent of a baseball team calling in Mariano Rivera from the bullpen

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The Biden campaign ran this 60-second spot nationally tonight during Game 1 of the #WorldSeries on FOX --

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Source: NRCC now cancelling *all* buys in PA-17, appearing to concede that incumbent Republican Keith Rothfus can't defeat Democrat Conor Lamb

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NEW: Michael Bloomberg is making his initial foray into Florida, a $5.4 million ad buy that criticizes Trump's pandemic response. All ten media markets included, all on broadcast TV

Bloomberg makes initial ad buy in Florida, targets Trump’s pandemic response

Michael Bloomberg is starting to put his money where his mouth is.

www.mcclatchydc.com

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GOP aide on CapHill: "I'm starting to think that while we're pretty good at winning elections, we're not great at the whole governing thing"

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News cycle not done yet tonight, folks. "North Carolina U.S. Senate candidate Cal Cunningham, a married father of two, sent text messages of a sexual nature to a woman who is not his wife, his campaign confirmed Friday night."

U.S. Senate candidate Cal Cunningham admits to sexting with California strategist

Democrat Cal Cunningham said he is not dropping out of his race against North Carolina Republican incumbent Thom Tillis.

www.newsobserver.com

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Watched 2 focus groups w/moderate voters last night, put on by a liberal group. Moderator asked 1st group (five women) about Jan 6th. Long pause followed, before one of the women asked what he meant. Invoking "Jan. 6" didn't immediately mean anything, even days after anniversary

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Conor Lamb unloads on the GOP-led objections to Pa's certification "These objections don’t deserve an ounce of respect. not an ounce. A woman died out there tonight and you’re making these objections."

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Keith Ellison has some strong words for Sanders-loving Democrats angry at the party

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... two others, after agreeing how awful the attack was, said they thought Biden and Democrats had gone too far in the way they talked about last week on the anniversary. One of the women said she thought they had over-embellished it.

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With the Montana primary tonight, it's a good time to remember that GOP Rep. Greg Gianforte last year assaulted a reporter, initially lied about it, and eventually pleaded guilty. He faced no apparent political penalty, and ran unopposed in a Republican primary.

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Later, when asked specifically about how POTUS and Dems marked the anniversary, two men jumped in pretty eagerly to talk about how Biden had made a mistake looking backward instead of trying to move the country forward. They expressed a feeling he had politicized a tragedy

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The conversation didn't get much better from there for Dems , in either focus group. Once the convo got going, it was clear Jan. 6 hadn't been memory holed by the 1st group. But one woman said flat out it wasn't she was worried about anymore compared to other concerns. And ...

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One of the participants would later add that they also resented how reporters who were there personalized their experience

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Statement from Bob Casey, Democratic senator from Pennsylvania: "When all the votes are counted Vice President Joe Biden is going to win Pennsylvania and be well on his way to necessary electoral votes to win the Presidency" ...

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@davecatanese > @SteveSchmidtSES : “The analogy would be in the same way that fire purifies the forest, it needs to be burned to the ground and fundamentally repudiated"

‘Burned to the ground’: Anti-Trump Republicans set new goal of defeating the GOP Senate

Some ‘Never Trump’ Republicans won’t be satisfied with only defeating the president in November. They want to take control of the Senate from the GOP too.

www.mcclatchydc.com

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1 year

It’s just like Twitter in that a relatively small handful of people are yelling angrily each other while the vast, vast majority of Americans are somewhere else, living their lives and ignoring the argument

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Trump supporters and anti-Trump protesters are separated by metal barriers and heckling each other

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3 years

"Roger Lau, who managed the presidential campaign of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), is also joining the DNC as deputy executive director"

Biden shifts his operation to DNC ahead of 2022 midterm elections

The president’s advisers have decided to hold off on any 2024 reelection campaign announcement.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Alex Roarty

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2 years

The 2nd group, this time five moderate men, had a similar reaction (though I'll include one important caveat later). None of them mentioned Jan 6 when prompted broadly about what news they had been paying attention to lately, mentioning Manchin, Arbery verdict, etc ... instead

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8 years

Surge in Latino vote may be the story of the election

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On Thurs alone, 82.5% of Hispanic early voters were considered low propensity voters. That's literally nuts.

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Comment from a Dem strategist: "Even Lee Atwater would have told you that the key to playing identity politics is to deny that you're doing"

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about how terrible the attack was, and how people were worried about democracy. One man -- who was clearly very far from a liberal -- said he abandoned the GOP after Jan 6 and thought the way Biden handled the anniversary was fine. Tide turned a bit at this point ...

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NEW: In another sign of Democratic super PACs urging the party to consolidate around Biden, @American_Bridge is beginning what it says is the "first ad of the general election" in battleground Pennsylvania.

PA: Janie (:60)

Meet Janie, a resident of Westmoreland County, PA. -----------------------------Founded in 2010, American Bridge 21st Century is the largest research, video ...

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4 years

Biden event just held a moment of silence for Kobe. Audible gasps when the news was announced.

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2 years

However, cuz this is an important component: After the first two men agreed Biden had mishandled, another jumped in to say he thought Biden's speech was appropriate, that he needed to call out the forces/people responsible for the attack. And that prompted longer discussion ...

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A Trump ad running in the Carolinas included footage of a local bicycle manufacturing plant. It touted the president's economy. One problem -- the plant shown was forced to lay off employees because of the administration's tariffs.

‘It was wrong to do that’: Republican CEO wants Trump campaign to remove footage of his SC factory...

Arnold Kamler, the CEO of Kent International, Inc., said President Donald Trump’s tariffs were a major burden on his company.

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5 years

vaccines becoming a matter of partisan debate would be disastrous

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NEW — Sen. Rand Paul used his perch on the Senate Health committee today to push the notion that it’s fine for parents not to vaccinate their kids and that vaccines cause harm

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4 years

No matter how this goes, tonight's been a good reminder: It's not easy to defeat incumbent presidents, apparently no matter the circumstances

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2 years

the one point that kept coming up, across both groups, was a desire to find person responsible for attack. That person/people, the fg participants said, needed to be held accountable, and they weren't sure they had been. That's probably the point that will frustrate Ds the most

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5 years

ehhh ... Trump having to spend money in Texas would likely signal he's headed toward a 2020 wipe-out and no amount of money will change the result. Means he's probably in even worse shape in Florida, North Carolina, Georgia, maybe Montana, not to mention Pennsylvania, WI, MI

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. @DanPatrick says on @FoxNews that Trump will win Texas in 2020, but he's "gonna have to spend money." #txlege

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Alex Roarty

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3 years

And with that, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris cross the 270 Electoral College vote threshold, as certified by Congress. Vermont does it.

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So yesterday, I lost my wallet on the bus. Figured it was gone forever. But late last night I got a call: It was the bus-driver, and she had found the wallet. And this morning she handed it back to me after making a special stop downtown. Plenty of good people in this city

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2 years

with one of the first two men -- who had been so forceful about Biden mishandling the anniversary -- jumped back in to clarify that he thought the attack was terrible and worrying. Very broad, strong agreement on that point in both groups

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1 year

Had a Republican speculate a few weeks back that if Republicans didn't win the Senate, the scorched-earth campaign against NRSC Chair Rick Scott, launched by McConnell allies, would be like nothing we'd ever seen. ...

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4 years

FWIW: Bill Nelson losing the 2018 Florida Senate race to Rick Scott is looming very large at the moment

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2 years

(sorry, had to take a moment to do my actual job and interview someone on the phone!) So people thought what happened on Jan 6 was awful and raised serious questions about the country's direction. But they didn't all necessarily connect it with the GOP/Trump (tho tbc, some did)

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5 years

in other news i asked the pulitzer committee not to give me a prize this year

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Biden: “I asked President Obama not to endorse”

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I’ve been staring at this for the last three minutes

Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸

@AndrewYang

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#MayThe4thBeWithYou

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Rubio's response: “I don’t think that’s a real request. I think it did it to gig you guys ... I think he did it to provoke you to ask me and others and get outraged by it. He plays it like a violin and everybody falls right in, that’s not a real request.”

Rubio says Trump asking for China to investigate Bidens is not a ‘real request’

Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio is one of China’s biggest critics in Congress.

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3 years

The lesson over and over again in recent American politics is you can form a larger, more energized coalition in *opposition* to something rather than in *support* of it. The public has a much better idea of what it doesn't want than what it does want

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a political thriller, set on the forest moon of Endor years after the DS's destruction, in which a young Ewok discovers a shattering truth: C3PO isn't a God, he only used his deification to manipulate his people into a devastating war ... and the Ewok leaders knew the whole time

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4 years

Biden up about 10 points in every recent national poll. In Monmouth, notably, he's also up above 50 percent

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New Monmouth poll, trend from last month: Biden: 52% (+2) Trump: 41% (-) On whether you trust the candidate to handle race relations, it tracks those numbers: Biden 52%, Trump 40%.

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Usual caveats apply: These were just two focus groups, not some kind of exhaustive poll/research. But what I saw does broadly align with what Rs and D strategists told me last week about what they saw in their own research

How will messaging about Jan. 6 attacks affect outcome of 2022 midterm election?

Last year’s attack on the U.S. Capitol left an indelible scar on politics in Washington and laid bare the country’s growing threat of political violence.

www.mcclatchydc.com

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8 years

Democrats have thrown some strong punches at Donald Trump in Philadelphia. That Khizr Khan speech was like an uppercut from Ali.

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2 years

Really does feel as if, if it were 10 years ago, the Democratic Party would have nominated Jeff Jackson and Conor Lamb tonight. Instead it's Cheri Beasley and John Fetterman, and neither faced all that competitive a race in end.What the party looks for in candidates has changed

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Jenn Ridder, Biden's national states director, said that of all the new battlegrounds, *Ohio* surprised her “Ohio presents an opportunity I wouldn’t have foreseen three months ago. I wouldn’t have thought we’d be as competitive as we are in that state."

‘No extra credit’: As some Democrats see a blowout brewing, Biden zeros in on core states

Even as polls show him gaining in traditionally Republican states, Joe Biden’s campaign has remained mostly focused on the six core battleground states.

www.mcclatchydc.com

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5 years

So I spoke with 31 Democratic strategists about Joe Biden's candidacy. I was surprised at the skepticism -- frequently deep skepticism in the political community. Plenty of it on record

‘Weaker candidate than Hillary’: Democrats cast deep doubt on Biden’s 2020 value

“There’s a huge difference between, ‘I want to go to an event with you, I want you to autograph your book, and I want to take a selfie with you,’ versus ‘I want to vote for you for president.”

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7 years

> @DFAaction announced tonight it would no longer support @RalphNortham , called his campaign "racist"

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2 years

to clarify, these groups were labeled as either soft Biden voters -- backed JB but not Clinton -- or soft Trump voters, those who backed DT in '20 but said they regretted doing so

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“I have hurt my family, disappointed my friends, and am deeply sorry. The first step in repairing those relationships is taking complete responsibility, which I do. I ask that my family’s privacy be respected in this personal matter.”

U.S. Senate candidate Cal Cunningham admits to sexting with California strategist

Democrat Cal Cunningham said he is not dropping out of his race against North Carolina Republican incumbent Thom Tillis.

www.newsobserver.com

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NEW: The Republican cavalry is arriving in South Carolina. @Senate_Fund this weekend will begin a *$10 million* investment in TV and radio ads to help Lindsey Graham, as the GOP incumbent tries to fend off Jaime Harris in an unexpectedly tight race

GOP super PAC to spend $10 million boosting Graham in unexpectedly tight Senate race

Senate Leadership Fund is preparing a massive ad blitz to help Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, who is getting outraised by Democratic challenger Jaime Harrison.

www.mcclatchydc.com

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Amy Goodman gets a big cheer for demanding over-air broadcasters have licenses revoked if they don't perform quality journalism. #PPLSummit

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The security footage's most jarring images are of lawmakers literally running away, first Romney, then Schumer.

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5 years

New from @benbwieder and me: A look at polling and fundraising data suggest Warren's chief rival isn't Sanders -- it's Kamala Harris. The two candidates are in a fierce competition for voters, especially among many women and college-educated white voters

Why Elizabeth Warren’s biggest 2020 competition might be Kamala Harris

Stephanie Ellis-Smith is one of many well-educated, female Democrats facing a new dilemma: She’s having trouble deciding between Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris.

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Excerpt from Trump's NRA speech: "Upon my inauguration, I will direct the FDA to convene an independent outside panel to investigate whether transgender hormone treatments and ideology increase the risk of extreme depression, aggression, and even violence ..."

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4 years

every newsroom prepares a pre-write for this sort of event, mine included. every single one.

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Politico published an article claiming Joe Biden picked Kamala Harris as his running mate, and announced it August 1. It’s since been changed, and scrubbed from the piece. Original on the left. Current version on the right. LINK:

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no time like the present to remind you the political betting markets are trash

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At 10:00 P.M. on Election Evening, we were at 97% win with the so-called “bookies”.

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"the members who are repeating those lies should be ashamed of themselves. their constituents should be ashamed of them."

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Republicans had hoped by now that voters would be interested in litigating what kind of limits should be placed on abortion post-Roe. Instead, seems voters are still just broadly angry at the Dobbs decision and voting in such a way to register that fury

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I suspect this impeachment argument will gain momentum in coming weeks, from @ezralevin : "There are reason this could be a political winner. There are reason it could be a political loser. Given that’s it’s unclear, [Dems] should just do the right thing."

‘The dam has burst’: Liberals warn Democrats risk backlash by not impeaching Trump

Leading Democrats remain fearful that impeaching President Donald Trump will bolster his re-election campaign.

www.mcclatchydc.com

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4 years

The big bet from Biden from the start of his campaign to that speech: Americans really want a normal president again

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7 years

Your party controls the White House in a midterm year. The president is unpopular. And now members in swing districts starting to retire.

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4 years

Been a while since someone like Joe Biden took office! The last four presidents, combined, held elected office for just over 30 years before taking the office. Biden alone has held office for more than 45 years.

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Warren at 19 percent of black voters is probably more important than even her topline figure in this poll. Still just one poll, but suggests her overall growth is a function of more than just increasing her popularity with well-educated white voters

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New Quinnipiac poll by race: White: Warren 33% Biden 23% Sanders 13% Black: Biden 40% Warren 19% Sanders 12%

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Jon Tester announces he'll vote against Gorsuch, and against cloture. 2nd deep red-state Dems to do so, following McCaskill

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Pretty telling state of affairs for Democrats that Jason Kander, who *lost* last year, is one of its new rockstar. He's addressing DNC now.

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Hmmm. Gillibrand endorses Marie Newman in #IL -03, who's running against *incumbent* Democrat Dan Lipinski. (Lipinski, btw, opposes abortion rights.)

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6 years

*arms folded, leans back in chair* be a reaaaallllllllllllyyyy [goes on for 60 seconds] interesting Trump rally tonight

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New: general election poll conducted by GOP firm Public Opinion Strategies shows Biden leading Trump in Pennsylvania and Arizona — but trailing DeSantis. Will bolster RD’s case he’s more electable than the former president

New poll: DeSantis — not Trump — leads Biden in battleground states

The survey should bolster the argument from DeSantis supporters that Florida’s governor is more electable than the former president.

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Two Democratic campaigns in California were hacked in a story probably not getting the attention it deserves

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NEW: The DNC has hired data and technology group Hawkfish, according to a source with knowledge of the decision. The Bloomberg-founded group is disliked by some progressives and had previously been in discussions w/Biden to help run its digital campaign

DNC hires Bloomberg-tied tech firm Hawkfish for 2020 election

The Democratic National Committee is bringing on the digital and tech agency founded by Michael Bloomberg for the 2020 presidential campaign, a move that will be seen as controversial by some...

www.mcclatchydc.com

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As the Democratic presidential primary heats up, some groups focused on down-ballot races worried the party will lose focus on everything but the top of the ticket “It is not an existential crisis, but it can very quickly become an existential crisis.”

After building their bench in 2018, Dems risk losing focus on state and local races

Democrats are giddy to start the presidential race but the group of party leaders who spent 2018 focusing on state and local office have an urgent request: Don’t forget about us.

www.mcclatchydc.com

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it has been frustrating the last few days to walk around AdMo and see coffee shops, bars, and restaurants full like everything is normal. it's not 'keep calm and carry on' it needs to be 'keep calm and radically change your daily life because otherwise people will die'

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this is the 37th time Joe Biden has won the 2020 presidential election in the last two months

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Bloomberg wants Biden to be able to declare victory on ED We hope "we’re able to win the state, which in our view will allow Joe Biden to declare victory on the night of the election and keep [DT] from other attempts at tearing this country apart.”

Bloomberg makes initial ad buy in Florida, targets Trump’s pandemic response

Michael Bloomberg is starting to put his money where his mouth is.

www.mcclatchydc.com

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Team Bloomberg says that in the coming days it'll release a Spanish-language ads -- part of what the former mayor's aides say will be an intensive focus on Latino and Black outreach through Election Day in the mega-battleground

Bloomberg makes initial ad buy in Florida, targets Trump’s pandemic response

Michael Bloomberg is starting to put his money where his mouth is.

www.mcclatchydc.com

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DeSantis says Florida is getting redder. He’s campaigning like he believes it. My piece on the governor's unconventional approach as Election Day approaches --->

DeSantis says Florida is getting redder. He’s campaigning like he believes it.

In the last month alone, Ron DeSantis has released a much-discussed ad mimicking “Top Gun,” left Florida to campaign in a quartet of far-away swing states and talked about throwing Anthony Fauci...

www.miamiherald.com

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Eye-opening quote from Steve Daines in this @jmartNYT story, summing up not just the challenge in his race but the challenge all GOPers face currently face in even red areas

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Trump is getting killed on Fox News right now FWIW. Hosts can hardly believe what they saw.

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Bob Casey goes there: "This Nixonian"

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Rothfus, facing another incumbent who spent the early part of this year racking up a lot of name ID and goodwill in a special election, was always likely to be the first incumbent to get cut off for the GOP. question these next ~6 weeks is who else gets triaged

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Progressive polling outfit @NavigatorSurvey did some a focus group during the speech, with a mixed group of partisans. Headline finding: 30% of the group started the night having positive view of Biden's handling of Ukraine. By end of speech, that figure rose to 57%

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"In private polling conducted by Mr. Trump’s campaign, the president is now well behind Mr. Biden, according to people briefed on the most recent round of results."

Trump Campaign Looks at Electoral Map and Doesn’t Like What It Sees (Published 2020)

As polls show President Trump significantly trailing his rival, Joseph R. Biden Jr., his campaign is spending heavily in states, like Ohio, that it had hoped would not be competitive at all this year.

www.nytimes.com

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i think as a general rule, it's smart to ignore a poll whose methodology you doubt even when its results play against type, i.e. Rasmussen showing better-than-expected numbers for a Democrat

Political Polls

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#Ohio @Rasmussen_Poll : Biden 51% (+4) Trump 47% (LV 9/1-2)

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To some, there's a simple story in this election. A lot of people who didn't like Trump voted for him 2016. But after the pandemic and Floyd protests, those people moved away from him en masse -- and everything else is gravy for Democrats My story:

Trump lost these North Carolina supporters after dual crises struck. It could cost him a second...

Many of Donald Trump’s skeptical 2016 backers in key battleground states still planned to vote for him again at the beginning of the year. Then came the pandemic and protests.

www.mcclatchydc.com

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4 years

you may never find a nuttier single news day for a Senate race

Brian Murphy

@MurphinNC

4 years

The North Carolina Senate race — which may determine which party controls the chamber — got really, really interesting today. and #ncpol

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@Alex_Roarty

2 years

a poor result for Trump given that Biden is at a low point politically while the former president been in the news much less (usually an absence that's helped Trump) -- though the Electoral College/popular vote split still looms

Ken Thomas

@KThomasDC

2 years

New @WSJ poll: Biden 46% Trump 45% in a hypothetical rematch in 2024.

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Alex Roarty

@Alex_Roarty

7 years

looks like I picked the wrong night to stop sniffing glue

Scott Bland

@scottmbland

7 years

Polls close in 2.5 hours in the Montana special election #MTAL

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Alex Roarty

@Alex_Roarty

7 years

NEW: @ACLU to launch program to expand voter rights in *each* of the 50 states. Vowing to play offense on this issue

ACLU moves from defense to offense, starting in Kris Kobach’s home state

Flush with cash and a newfound demand for activism, the American Civil Liberties Union next month will launch a new effort to expand voting rights in all 50 states that top officials hope will...

amp.mcclatchydc.com

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Alex Roarty

@Alex_Roarty

5 years

our top computer scientists could spend a hundred years designing an AI to write the worst, most inane tweets ... and it would still never reach heights like these

Darren Rovell

@darrenrovell

5 years

When we look back on LeBron James, and his living up to the incredible hype that he did, being willing to put the No. 23 on his back played no small part. He was saying to all of us, I’m ready. And he was.

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Alex Roarty

@Alex_Roarty

4 years

Two candidates who, combined, received nearly half the vote in the New Hampshire primary are out of the race less than a month later.

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Alex Roarty

@Alex_Roarty

4 years

It's obviously true that Trump can still win. What's also true, and where the analysis should focus (because we aren't fortune-tellers), is that if he does come back, he'll have to do so from a weaker position than he held at this time in '16, according to a broad set of metrics.

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Alex Roarty

@Alex_Roarty

4 years

After flipping through the local 5 p.m. local news broadcasts here in Raleigh, I would describe the earned media situation for Cal Cunningham right now as somewhere between harsh and brutal

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Alex Roarty

@Alex_Roarty

5 years

this is not new, but worth reiterating every once in a while how the broader GOP message is indistinguishable from Trump's (in this case, suggesting Dems' 'border security' plan is about registering undocumented immigrants)

NRCC

@NRCC

5 years

We got our hands on the upcoming Dem border security plan. Here's a sneak peek!

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Alex Roarty

@Alex_Roarty

4 years

is Joe Biden still talking to voters? can we just cut to that instead of the post-town hall commentary?

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Alex Roarty

@Alex_Roarty

4 years

That this appears to be a disappointing election for Democrats up and down the ballot -- while their presidential nominee retains a real chance of winning *Georgia* -- encapsulates just how unexpected and strange these results are (so far)

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Alex Roarty

@Alex_Roarty

4 years

Is the political climate worse for Republicans now than it was in 2018?

Dave Wasserman

@Redistrict

4 years

New at @CookPolitical : seven House rating changes, all in Democrats' direction. Read all about it in our new 7,000 word overview of the most competitive races ($).

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Alex Roarty

@Alex_Roarty

1 year

- This @ShaneGoldmacher is going to get another round of attention Committee opted against heavy IE spending this cycle, especially at the end. Decision will get a lot of scrutiny moving forward

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Alex Roarty

@Alex_Roarty

1 year

"... Furthermore, we have to look at whether common psychiatric drugs, as well as genetically engineered cannabis and other narcotics, are causing psychotic breaks."

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Alex Roarty

@Alex_Roarty

7 years

It's usually a good indication of how the game is going when one team complains about the refs