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@CNNPolitics reporter, covering (assorted things). #COYS . Jets/Mets/Rangers… 😕. Go on: Gregory.Krieg @cnn .com.

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big big year
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Been a big year for guys who seem a little sleepy
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AOC visits striking produce workers — essential workers who want a modest raise — at Hunts Point market in the South Bronx:
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. @AOC is here in Timbs and bearing Bustelo. Big crowd-pleaser
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New: Jesse Jackson endorses Bernie Sanders. He says Biden didn’t reach out to him, then gives 13 reasons why he chose Sanders:
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that’s some kicker…
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New: Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib will also endorse Sanders, according to source. AOC will, as @daveweigel and @WaPoSean first reported, will do the same on Saturday in NYC.
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> @BernieSanders on the state of Covid deal talks: "How did we go from $3.4T down to $188B of new money in a moment when the crisis is probably worse than it's ever been. I don't understand that. And that is simply not acceptable. This is not a compromise. This is a collapse."
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Tough stuff to watch, but real — @AnnieGrayerCNN reports from Sanders event in Reno, NV:
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Sanders, on ABC, on Biden's initial bid for GOP votes on Covid relief bill: "I have no problem with reaching out to Republicans. I would prefer to do it that way. But if we hear very early on that Republicans do not want to act ... we’re gonna do it alone" via reconciliation.
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I’ve watched these videos - the long, short, wide and narrow angles - too many times now and tho it’s super important to root out bogus or misleading sources, the kids were clearly taunting the man
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Bernie Sanders campaign manager @fshakir on the prospect of recanvass in Iowa: "I don't believe that the first canvas has even been completed. What are we talking about a recanvass for? I want to see that the first canvass is fully completed & then we can all have transparency...
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WARREN and AOC had lunch today in Washington, two sources confirm
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Remember Devin Nunes? And the Senate going nuclear? And the Chinese summit?? That was today too.
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New: After a year on the job, here’s @AOC on what she’s learned about how power’s won, lost and used in DC ... how she spends her days there ... and why she thinks her name comes up so often at the big dollar fundraisers she doesn’t attend:
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Spoke to the young woman who asked the question just now. When they were embracing afterward, she said, Warren "was whispering in my ear, 'We've got it. We're going to be OK. You're going to get through this. You're going to be good.'"
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Warren's full answer below. "Sometimes you just gotta do what's right inside."
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to this point: spoke to lots of young (eg 17-32 yo) folks at the NYC protests y'day. all dems. some leftist, some liberal. all said they vote. and literally every one looked at me like i was an actual space alien when i asked if they thought party leaders had a plan going fwd.
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knife-wielding hemophiliac
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this thread is perfect. read it, and consider an under-discussed bit of context: young people today are both likelier to vote and likelier to vote Democratic than at any time since before Jim Crow, if ever. young people are already punching above their historical weight for Dems!
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Where do the thousands of millennials who went to Iraq under false pretenses fall into the equation here?
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Young men in the 1940s liberated Europe from Nazism and the Pacific from the Japanese Empire. Today, too many stay home playing video games.
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Sanders nat’l press sec @briebriejoy on the Rogan endorsement and today’s backlash: “Sharing a big tent requires including those who do not share every one of our beliefs, while always making clear that we will never compromise our values.” Full statement:
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Note: The presidential primary is canceled. The other primaries are not. Which makes the public health argument doubly absurd.
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Stacey Abrams
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NY's decision to cancel its primary creates a false choice: asking voters to pick safety or participation in our democracy. This is wrong. Elections officials can hold safe, accessible elections, where voters cast ballots by mail or safely in person. #COVID19 is no excuse.
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Trump cites "Jim," "a friend," "a pretty substantial guy," who says you can't visit Paris anymore cos it's too dangerous.
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New from Iowa Dems: Buttigieg lead down to *.1%* He leads Sanders 26.2% to 26.1% in SDEs.
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Warren volunteers are offering free child care to some Iowa caucusgoers on behalf of the campaign
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> @ryanobles asked Sanders what he expects from sharing the debate stage with Warren. Sanders: “Intelligence.”
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Progressive strategist Rebecca Katz just now: “Congresswoman Tlaib’s tweets were from the heart. The Clinton people have now spent more time denouncing her than they did Harvey Weinstein. Let’s move on.”
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Dan Merica
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HRC spox @NickMerrill : “I can’t imagine this kind of behavior is something Iowans want to see from candidates & their surrogates & I don’t imagine the vast majority of voters in Rep. Tlaib’s district, which Secy. Clinton won by over 60 points in 2016, want to see this either.”
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Sanders says campaign has raised ~$4 million over last two days — 200k contributions, 25k new donors.
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Bernie Sanders
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I don't spend my time in mansions talking to big-dollar donors about our campaign behind closed doors. We're doing our campaign update to our donors and supporters right here, right now, with all of you. Join us live:
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Pramila Jayapal is endorsing Sanders for president & will become his campaign's national health policy chair. She will join him in Iowa for an event tomorrow. Jayapal and Mark Pocan, the progressive caucus co-chairs, now both with Bernie. > @WaPoSean & @JStein_WaPo first
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> @EWarren , pre-That Tweet, on Dem leadership v AOC & co: the new folks “bring new energy, and they bring an excitement to people who feel like they've been sidelined forever. So I’m just glad to see a lot of folks in it. I know it gets bumpy, but I'm glad to see people fighting.”
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Susan Collins to reporters, then Susan Collins in a fundraising email. Both from today.
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A few months ago: young leftists are small in number, overrepresented online and don’t vote. Now: young leftists are absolutely crucial to Democrats’ hopes of beating Trump.
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New York Times Opinion
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The Democratic Socialists of America has declined to back Joe Biden for president, as has Jacobin magazine, an influential publication among young leftists, writes Mitchell Abidor, who worries about "a quixotic display of socialist principle."
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And here’s the statement from a few mins ago by Omar on why she’s endorsing Bernie:
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AOC endorses Jessica Cisneros in TX-28 primary with Rep. Henry Cuellar, whose home and a campaign office were the subject of a "court-authorized" FBI search yesterday --
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the evidence in colin kaepernick's lawsuit against the nfl should just be a reel of all the passes thrown by nfl quarterbacks today
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Why is Bernie Sanders is winning over Latino voters? Leading Latino strategists, activists & @AOC talk here about early, sustained investment, understanding diversity within the community, and not *only* talking to it about immigration:
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New: Biden and Dems suggest heavier hand with protesters, risking further alienation of youth voters -- and not just the usual suspects... The College Dems, hardly a hothouse of progressive activism, issue a warning to the White House -->
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Sanders campaign launches interactive quiz asking,"Who said it -- Biden or Trump? Guess who's lying about Medicare for all." First item cites Biden's comment y'day at AARP forum:
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1. There’s no problem. They’re counting. 2. To the extent the wait is annoying, etc, we can thank GOP legislatures in Upper Midwest for not allowing earlier counting. 3. There’s a massive pandemic. It’s actually amazing how smooth this has been .
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Allie Beth Stuckey
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Remember when the media insisted that massive mail-in voting wouldn’t be a problem and that we were silly for suggesting it?
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Can put this on loop. Streaming in from Union Station, been like this all AM
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Should the candidate with the most delegates, even if they're short of a clinching majority, be the unquestioned Dem nominee? Bloomberg: No Warren: No Biden: No Pete: No Klobuchar: No Sanders: Yes
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So her overall unfavorability is anchored in the disapproval of older white males? Shocking.
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"Elizabeth is absolutely right." --Sanders tonight "I'm with Bernie." --Warren in Miami.
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Ayanna Pressley endorses Jamaal Bowman in NY and Charles Booker in KY:
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Trump campaign blitzes Bernie over email for second straight day:
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BERNIE on BETO entering the race, to @ryanobles : "It’s a free country, anybody can run.”
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good functioning society
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Sanders names AMLO before the Telemundo interviewer can even get the now famous question out. Then says: “There ya go. All right. Let's move on.” h/t @AnnieGrayerCNN
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In Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, Sanders, the first Jewish candidate to win a presidential primary (NH, ‘16), now has the support of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress. w/ ⁦ @AnnieGrayerCNN
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Tomorrow: Trump waves around a map in Oval Office showing that Kansas City is, in fact, in Kansas.
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McEnany, May 1: “I will never lie to you, you have my word on that.”
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Alex Alper
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“The preisdent has always supported mask wearing,” ⁦ @PressSec ⁩ says
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Sanders at union hall in (county Trump won by 30 pts) Michigan — “I’m here for one reason,” he says, to defeat Trump in 2020.
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Warren in OH, as she did in WV, asks the audience if they know anyone who’s struggled or died from addiction:
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> @AOC spox on her decision to join, as a co-chair, the Biden-Sanders task force on climate: “She believes the movement will only be successful if we continue to apply pressure both inside and outside the system.”
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New: Mark Kelly gets fresh support from @IndivisibleTeam after announcing he’s backing filibuster carve-out for voting rights. He’s been added to their “Give No Ground” incumbent protection program — details on that here:
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Medicare for All gets another win in SC, 50% to 44%, per exit poll. (It had stronger wins in IA, NH & NV, which all had about 6 in 10 in favor). Industry group ad campaign blunted in part by @wendellpotter 's Medicare for All NOW!'s efforts in SC.
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Warren's campaign manager accuses Buttigieg senior strategist of tweeting signal to a super Pac
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> @DemSocialists will not endorse another 2020 Dem candidate (cough Warren cough) if Sanders loses the primary. By no means a unanimous decision. One delegate opposing rez said, "Trump is too dangerous to take cards off the table right now." He lost the argument. #dsacon2019
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>> @AOC and @JamaalBowmanNY jump aboard the @mayawiley train, as NYC progressive leaders — @JuliaCarmel__ + @NYWFP y’day — consolidate a week before early voting begins in city’s Dem mayoral primary:
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This scene from @mj_lee 's story on Trump 'n' religion is... something else:
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On folks saying take the deal and try again in '21: "Number one...We don't know which party is going to control the Senate. Number two, you cannot wait months. People are in desperate economic condition today. They cannot feed their kids. We've got to get them help right now.”
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“Ms. Sinema’s office declined to say how long she would be abroad, what countries she was visiting, how the trip was being paid for and whether she was doing any additional fund-raising for her own campaign.”
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Sanders endorsed Jackson’s groundbreaking 1988 presidential run. (The year, of course, that Biden made his first, tho short-lived, run.)
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Trump: “AOC plus three” Incoming squad ranks:
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Rep. Jamaal Bowman Ed.D.
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There’s more than three. 😉
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Someone asked Warren why she doesn’t talk more about the economy 🤔
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Protests outside the #DeploraBall at Nat'l Press Club
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Sanders leads California in new Berkeley IGS poll:
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Bikers for Trump arrive at rally in Settler's Landing Park
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Harris will be with Biden in Detroit on Monday night before primary >>
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Kamala Harris
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. @JoeBiden has served our country with dignity and we need him now more than ever. I will do everything in my power to help elect him the next President of the United States.
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What the "nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him, he got nothing done" criticism, which doesn't just come from Clinton, misses is that THAT has always been part of Sanders' *appeal* -- because the things that "got done" are things many voters now regret or oppose.
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Asked about Biden trying to pass his Covid pkg w GOP support in Senate, @AOC was skeptical: "We have a very limited window in order to execute, so if we give it a shot and they slow down and they hedge and they minimize, I don't think that's an acceptable cost." Her full answer:
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Sorry aliens, but I’m not sure you even crack top 20 weirdest developments of 2017
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Sanders campaign co-chair Rep. @RoKhanna *about last night*
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Subtle.
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Martha McSally
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Mark Kelly has spent years endorsing, bank rolling, and campaigning for the most radical Democrats driving the agenda. We can't let that happen.
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yo momma diplomacy at work
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
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Why would Kim Jong-un insult me by calling me "old," when I would NEVER call him "short and fat?" Oh well, I try so hard to be his friend - and maybe someday that will happen!
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The squad is getting bigger and it's also now gonna be a bigger proportion of this slightly shrunken House majority. Truly bonkers night.
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Jake Sherman
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House Democrats are confused. Angry at the @dccc . Unsure where to go next. A mix of “what the **** just happened” and “don’t blame me.” Wild days ahead. Lame duck coming up. Leadership elections. Soul searching. Buckle up
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CNN hosting Sanders town hall next Monday in DC. Wolf Blitzer moderates:
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“I’m getting sick and tired of you misrepresenting what this administration is doing” — @WhipClyburn has a tense back-and-forth with demonstrators from @OurRevolutionSC outside his office
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Late Registration, then?
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Hunter Walker
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The states where Kanye is already too late to get on the ballot include Texas, New York, and Illinois, three of the top six in terms of electoral college votes. There are several other deadlines coming up in the next couple weeks.
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Murphy gets it.
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This website would be absolutely impossibly hilarious if the Times endorsed Sanders.
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imagine being so scared of donald trump you’re willing to delay/deny ppl THE COVID VACCINE
@rickklein
Rick Klein
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Azar: Biden team will be cut in on vaccine distribution plans "once GSA determines that there is - if there is - a transition to do." "We'll make sure that happens when and if it's appropriate to do that." @GMA
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Sanders: Democratic socialism is the legacy of FDR and Trump is the American face of a growing global authoritarian movement. Now it’s time for the US — as it did in the 1930s — to choose sides:
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The Warren-aligned PCCC sent a message to Michigan Democrats urging them to vote "strategically" for Sanders "to stop the premature ending of this primary election." So, not an endorsement, but... not sure what to call it.
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Sanders campaign releases list of alleged discrepancies in the Iowa Democratic Party's counting, calls the SDE number "an antiquated and meaningless metric":
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New: The jockeying to run Biden's Labor Dept. is heating up. AFL-CIO pres Richard Trumka is trying to rally support for Boston Mayor Marty Walsh. Bernie Sanders has been contacting labor leaders today to ask for their backing. Rep. Andy Levin also gaining support. Story TK
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Snatching further defeat from the jaws of defeat
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Noah also asked Sanders why he's doing Fox News town hall. His answer:
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WUT
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Sanders: “Do you think that when people receive money from powerful special interests that they're really going to stand up to those special interests and do what has to be done for the working class in this country? I don't think so. It doesn't work that way."
@AnnieGrayerCNN
Annie Grayer
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NEW: ⁦ @BernieSanders ⁩ attacked ⁦ @PeteButtigieg ⁩ for taking money from billionaires this morning. Then, ⁦ @ryanobles ⁩ talked to the Vermont senator and dug deeper into those comments. Story w/ ⁦ @GregJKrieg ⁩ & ⁦ @ryanobles
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Cherokee Nation says Warren has apologized for the DNA test. Statement here:
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Greg Krieg
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> @AOC and @RoKhanna are two NO votes on the Dem rules package that includes PAYGO regulations. It's up for a vote tomorrow. More here, including new statement from the Congressional Progressive Caucus:
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Beto on Bernie's meeting with congressional Dems *before the 2016 DNC:
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this isn't a take. i didn't cherry pick. i was out there all day, so ranged from tourists to kids off school or work. no hipster cafes in sight (ok, maybe one or two.) the question wasn't leading.
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The Warren-Sanders exchange:
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*Scenes* tonite at Irving Plaza as AOC and The Strokes (big Bernie 2020 NH primary energy) rally for Maya Wiley:
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Parting words from Buttigieg: don't "treat presidency like it's the only office that matters."
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also: this was reported on extensively by umpteen news outlets. lots — like 99% give or take? — of ppl who heard the police chief speak and thought some form of 🤔 never saw the tweet in question.
@ToLey88
Tom Ley
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So true. Who can forget all the blood that was spilled this week because Aaron Rupar may have misframed a tweet?
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Buttigieg confronted Ellison personally backstage to complain about text sent to DNC members saying he supported Ellison.
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Pete Buttigieg
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To clarify: I have made NO ENDORSEMENT for DNC Chair
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👀Just when you’re SURE you’ve lost the capacity for surprise👀 “Trump hired a ‘Faux-Bama’ to participate in a video in which Trump ‘ritualistically belittled the first Black president and then fired him.’” via @eorden
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From the crowd: “Eat the rich!” Sanders: “Hmmm, I don’t know how tasty that would be...”
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