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John Harwood

@JohnJHarwood

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journalist. public speaker. ex- WSJ/NYT/NBC/CNN/"Speakeasy" podcast. co-author Pennsylvania Avenue. requests:

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@JohnJHarwood
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her husband is a billionaire coal-mining magnate
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CBC Politics
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The new U.S. ambassador to Canada says when it comes to climate change she believes in "both sides of the science"
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BREAKING from CNN:   “The Justice Department is investigating a potential crime related to funneling money to the White House in exchange for a presidential pardon, according to a court record unsealed on Tuesday by the chief judge of the DC District Court.”
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from Reuters: “Secretary of State Mike Pompeo cancelled his Europe trip at the last minute on Tuesday after Luxembourg's foreign minister and top European Union officials declined to meet him, European diplomats and other people familiar with the matter said”
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personal news: today's my last day at CNN proud of the work thanks to my colleagues i've been lucky to serve the best in American media - St. Petersburg Times, WSJ, NYT, the NBC family, CNN look forward to figuring out what's next
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twin sisters, reunited at 92 after vaccinations, toast first dinner out with scotch-and-water (Mom's on the left)
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Donald Trump has fled the scene of the crime
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NFL head coach for Houston Texans: “Yeah, I’ll take a knee. The players have a right to protest, a right to be heard. They’re not taking a knee because they’re against our flag. They’re taking a knee because they haven’t been treated equally in this country for over 400 years.”
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it did happen. 2014 Q2/Q3: 4.6%/5.2% which actually is higher than: 2017 Q2/Q3: 3.1%/3.0% magic
@DonaldJTrumpJr
Donald Trump Jr.
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GDP Grows 3% in 3rd quarter. That’s two in a row. Amazing how that didn’t magically happen in the last 8 years. #maga . #winning
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if "American politics" were broken, we'd have seen things like this happen when Democrats controlled the House but we didn't what's broken, very specifically, is the Republican Party
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Biden's assertion that Trump and extremist Republicans pose a threat to American democracy is, undeniably, true
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it happened in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014 and 2015 under President Obama
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
7 years
GDP was revised upward to 3.1 for last quarter. Many people thought it would be years before that happened. We have just begun!
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new NBC/WSJ national poll: Biden 53% Trump 39%
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the Atlantic’s story has been confirmed by the Associated Press, the Washington Post, and Fox News
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
4 years
The Atlantic Magazine is dying, like most magazines, so they make up a fake story in order to gain some relevance. Story already refuted, but this is what we are up against. Just like the Fake Dossier. You fight and and fight, and then people realize it was a total fraud!
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new Quinnipiac national poll: Biden 50% Trump 39%
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new @CNN poll of registered voters: Biden 53% Trump 42%
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the Dow increased more in Obama’s first 11 months (29%) than Trump’s (24%)
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Kayleigh McEnany 45 Archived
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Amazing what happens when you put a businessman instead of a liberal politician in the White House->
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the pandemic is now EVERY WEEK taking twice as many American lives as were lost on 9/11
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GOP Sen Bill Cassidy of LA: “I voted to convict President Trump because he is guilty"
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Trump campaign’s in a bad, bad place right now
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the husband of a top WH aide is trying, with increasing urgency, to tell the nation that President Trump is mentally ill
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George Conway
5 years
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Susan Collins, rationalizing her vote to clear Trump of impeachment charges last year, said he’d learned “a pretty big lesson” the lesson he learned is that Republicans like Susan Collins would allow him to abuse presidential power at America’s expense as he is doing right now
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new CNN national poll: Biden 55% Trump 41%
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Mnuchin—>Yellen Pompeo—>Blinken O’Brien—>Sullivan Craft—>Thomas-Greenfield Meadows—>Klain set policy aside enormous differences in knowledge, experience, competence, skills that governing requires
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if you wonder why some NFL players take a knee, watch this
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Speaker Pelosi tells @AC360 it’s not a good idea for President Trump to be taking hydroxychloroquine because of his age and the fact that he’s “morbidly obese”
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Liz Cheney on Kevin McCarthy refusing to voluntarily testify before Jan 6 committee: “I wish that he were a brave and honorable man"
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6 years
strong 4.1% growth under Trump in Q2 of 2018 would rank as 5th strongest Q of Obama presidency —5.1% Q2 2014 —4.9% Q3 2014 —4.7% Q4 2011 —4.5% Q4 2009
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Houston Chronicle to Ted Cruz: “those terrorists wouldn’t have been at the Capitol if you hadn’t staged this absurd challenge “We’re done w/drama, opportunism, cynical scheming that has now cost American lives “Resign and deliver TX from the shame of calling you our senator”
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Economist/YouGov Poll: should House try to impeach Trump? 50% yes 39% no if House impeaches, should Senate remove Trump from office? 51% yes 39% no
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for those keeping score, change in Dow Jones Industrial Average from the day they were inaugurated into the presidency through Feb 28 of their 4th year in office: Trump +28% Obama +63%
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Pelosi, asked how Trump will handle backdown on reopening government without wall money, gestures toward her office decorations: “we could plant these flowers along the border and he’d say, ‘I got my wall.’ “
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4 years
WH staffers are upset with each other for failing to stop Trump from telling Woodward what he knew when about coronavirus - thus revealing that tens of thousands lives could have been saved by stronger, earlier action
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under Obama: —5.1% Q2 2014 —4.9% Q3 2014 —4.7% Q4 2011 —4.5% Q4 2009
@DonaldJTrumpJr
Donald Trump Jr.
6 years
Incredible numbers. I remember when “the experts” laughed about breaking 3%. Just because Obama never broke 2% doesn’t mean that someone with great policies can’t. Let’s keep this going.
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Trump telling governors “I haven’t heard about testing being a problem” tells you everything you need to know about his command of this situation
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new Fox News poll on whether Congress should impeach Trump and remove him from the presidency: 51% yes 40% no
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pssst (whisper-voice): oil prices have FALLEN below $100-a-barrel today
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4 years
8 Trump campaign staffers and 2 Secret Service agents involved in that Tulsa rally have now tested positive for coronavirus
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5 years
Trump didn’t give Pelosi advance word, indicating he didn’t trust her to keep intel secrets Pelosi was ranking Dem on Intel Committee. no evidence in her record raising doubts her handling of sensitive information Trump gave top Russian officials classified info in Oval Office
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on @CNN , former OH governor @JohnKasich calls Kevin McCarthy and other Republican leaders abetting Trump’s assault on democracy “morally and ethically bankrupt” Kasich is right
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6 years
fact-check: Robert Mueller has not been disgraced or discredited in the slightest
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
6 years
Disgraced and discredited Bob Mueller and his whole group of Angry Democrat Thugs spent over 30 hours with the White House Councel, only with my approval, for purposes of transparency. Anybody needing that much time when they know there is no Russian Collusion is just someone....
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no expert said a quarter of 4.2% growth "couldn't be done." it was done in four different quarters under President Obama, with one difference growth in those four quarters was higher - 4.5%, 4.7%, 4.9%, 5.1%
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Donald Trump Jr.
6 years
“The experts” said it couldn’t be done. This is what happens when you have a real leader and businessman in The White House. @realDonaldTrump ’s policies are working. 4.2% Baby!!! Boom! US economy logs best performance in nearly 4 years!
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Trump’s pardons to shield Manafort and Stone - after dangling the idea to persuade them not to tell Mueller what they know about him - is open corruption the pardons don’t discredit the national security questions about Trump’s conduct w/Russia the pardons affirm them
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average monthly job growth: —first 16 months of Trump presidency: 185K —last 16 months of Obama presidency: 215K
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rarely does one event expose the emptiness of a political party's arguments as clearly as Uvalde has exposed Republican arguments against action on guns
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new Fox News national poll: Biden 48% Trump 40%
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3 years
the problem w/Republican warnings that Democrats will one day get the MTG treatment is that no Democrat in Congress is remotely comparable to MTG
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hard to fathom that the United States has reached a point where the sitting president was unwelcome at that funeral
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from Sally Yates to Fiona Hill to Marie Yovanovitch, Trump scandals have repeatedly showcased strong, principled women in government
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new Pew Research national poll: whites without college degree Trump 64%, Biden 34% everyone else Biden 68%, Trump 30%
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experts laugh when people have no idea what they’re talking about. Under Obama, growth hit 5.2% in a quarter
@DonaldJTrumpJr
Donald Trump Jr.
6 years
Wow! 4.5% is awesome. I remember when the “Experts” laughed when @realDonaldTrump said we could get there. They said we couldn’t even hit 3%. I don’t think Obama ever broke 2%. DJT’s policies are working overtime for America.
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anyone seriously posing this question is straight-up insane
@TheContemptor
Contemptor
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Jeanine Pirro: "Is Mueller a greater threat than Putin to this country?"
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new Washington Post/ABC News national poll: Biden 53% Trump 43%
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nation’s top infectious-disease doctor Anthony Fauci doesn’t shrink from saying it: “We had a super-spreader event in the White House”
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Dow futures turned from positive to negative during Trump’s coronavirus news conference
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no she didn’t. your tweet is disgraceful
@RonnaMcDaniel
Ronna McDaniel
6 years
Reminder: Nancy Pelosi defended MS-13 when @realDonaldTrump called them “animals.”
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blindingly obvious why Vladimir Putin thought it would be good for Russia to have Donald Trump become president of the United States
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Donald Trump is president
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Boris Epshteyn
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This would be @JoeBiden ’s America. It’s a very scary place.
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new Quinnipiac national poll: Biden 52% Trump 37%
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4 years
as you know, that’s not what happened at all
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every single person involved in this should be exposed
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huge numbers of high government officials do this which is another reason why the Hillary email story was wildly over-hyped and misleadingly covered/exploited
@nypost
New York Post
5 years
EXCLUSIVE: Ex-FBI Director James Comey used his private Gmail account hundreds of times to conduct government business
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Will Hurd’s Texas district alone spans 42% of the entire US-Mexico border Hurd is a former CIA agent He is a Republican He opposes the wall
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George Little
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I have no idea what the answer is but would love to know how many House members with districts directly along the southern border support the wall, in proportion to the length of their district's border with Mexico.
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some personal news: this is my first day at @CNN as White House Correspondent. honored and proud to join a team of journalists I’ve admired for so long
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our Southwest flight attendant, preparing to collect beverage cups before landing, advises passengers to “drink up like Judge Kavanaugh”
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are we agreed that John Goodman plays Bill Barr in the movie?
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my high school classmate Pat Furgurson is a Capital Gazette reporter. He told his wife Becky (also a classmate) that he's safe, charging his phone, trying to find colleagues and "putting out a paper, goddamn it"
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obviously, outlandishly, demagogically false
@NikkiHaley
Nikki Haley
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“The only ones mourning the loss of Soleimani are our Democrat leadership and Democrat Presidential candidates.”
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CNN Instant Poll of debate-watchers on who won: 60% Biden 28% Trump
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5 years
Mueller says Russian intelligence targeted Clinton’s personal office within five hours of Trump publicly requesting it on July 27, 2016
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none of this is funny it’s not entertainment it’s dangerous for the world it’s harming our country it’s life and death for allies
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6 years
as all this unfurls, remember: 2 years ago, current House GOP leader told colleagues, “There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump” when they laughed, he added, “swear to God” current House Speaker then said, “no leaks. this is how we know we’re a real family”
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Trump to Fox: "flipping almost ought to be illegal. 30-40 years I've been watching flippers" 32 years ago, crime boss Tony Salerno, who supplied Trump Plaza concrete, was convicted of racketeering. His top deputy flipped to help FBI lawyer for both Salerno and Trump: Roy Cohn
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average monthly job growth in 9 months since Trump's election: 179K average monthly job growth in 9 months before Trump's election: 199K
@IvankaTrump
Ivanka Trump
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Since @realDonaldTrump inauguration, over 1 million net new jobs have been created in the American economy! #MAGA
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“my mom got a vaccine appointment!” is the new “my kid got into the school she wanted!”
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Hugh Hewitt 2/16 on Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland: “Republicans are under no obligation to hold a hearing much less a vote” Hewitt 9/18 decrying allegations against Kavanaugh: “Seriously, due process is a real concept, deeply embedded in Anglo-American law and politics”
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John Harwood
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the media doesn’t like liars
@marcorubio
Marco Rubio
3 years
Don’t want to be paranoid, but I think many in the media really don’t like Republicans.
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Quinnipiac Poll on whether Americans believe Trump is honest yes: 32% no: 60%
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3 years
Chuck Grassley, an 87-year-old colleague of Ted Cruz, was on the Senate floor yesterday Grassley has just announced he was exposed to coronavirus and has gone into quarantine on the advice of doctors
@tedcruz
Ted Cruz
3 years
This is idiotic. @SherrodBrown is being a complete ass. He wears a mask to speak—when nobody is remotely near him—as an ostentatious sign of fake virtue. @DanSullivan_AK was over 50 feet away, presiding. Last I checked 50 feet is more than 6 feet.
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when people put “deplorable” in their Twitter handles, believe them
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US Rep and Iraq War vet Seth Moulton on Trump/Russian bounties: “if this is not treasonous behavior, I don’t know what is. If I led my Marines into an ambush because I didn’t bother to read the intelligence report I was given, I wouldn’t be tweeting. I’d be in prison.”
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new Quinnipiac national poll on 2020 general election shows every prospective Democratic nominee beating Trump : Biden 51%, Trump 42% Sanders 51%, Trump 43% Warren 50%, Trump 43% Bloomberg 48%, Trump 42% Buttigieg 48%, Trump 43% Klobuchar 47%, Trump 43%
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when Thurgood Marshall was confirmed in 1967 to become the first black man on the Supreme Court, 16 of 22 senators from the 11 states of the old Confederacy voted no or didn't vote when Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed today to become the first black woman, 18 of 22 voted no
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new Gallup Poll on how Americans view Trump's performance as president: 38% approve, 56% disapprove
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the sweetest gift: a Christmas grandchild, wrapped up with a bow
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“Law professors and faculty from George Washington University Law School, Attorney General William Barr's alma mater, said in a letter Tuesday he has ‘failed to fulfill his oath of office to 'support and defend the Constitution of the United States.’ “
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new Gallup poll on how Americans rate Trump’s performance as president whites w/out college degrees: 61% approve 37% disapprove everyone else: 31% approve 64% disapprove
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3 years
Trump just said “we did win the election” an outrageous, authoritarian lie
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5 years
in Jan 2009, the govt Obama inherited was running $1-T budget deficit GOP ripped him throughout his term for running up debt when Obama handed off to Trump, deficit had been cut below $600-B, to 3.2% of GDP now deficit’s back to $1-T, 5.1% of GDP
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the Washington Nationals have announced they plan for President-elect Biden to throw out the first pitch at Opening Day 2021 in Nats Park
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4 years
hard for a fair-minded person watching these hearings to conclude anything other than that Marie Yovanovitch, George Kent and William Taylor are model public servants
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6 years
how narrow is Trump's base? in new Gallup poll, his rating among whites without college degrees is 58% approve, 39% disapprove among all other Americans, it's 29% approve, 66% disapprove
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as i just said on @CNNnewsroom , President Trump is not just unwell physically and politically, but also unwell emotionally a very disturbing picture
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John Harwood
6 years
have you lost your mind?
@frankgaffney
Frank Gaffney
6 years
None of the leftists ostensibly targeted for pipe-bombs were actually at serious risk, since security details would be screening their mail. So let’s determine not only who is responsible for these bombs, but whether they were trying to deflect attention from the Left’s mobs.
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4 years
Barr says elections that have been held with mail have been marked by widespread fraud that’s false
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Barack Obama was not president, and did not visit the DMZ, in 2008
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Rand Paul now warning Americans at Senate hearing about the dangers of relying on expert advice in fight against coronavirus
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John Harwood
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since Reagan: --all 3 GOP presidents left Oval Office w/higher deficits than when they walked in --both Dem presidents left w/lower deficits than when they walked in --per CBO estimate today, Trump on track for 2020 deficit 50% higher than 2017
@EconomyBen
Ben White
6 years
I'm not saying Rs and Ds don't share blame for the nation's deteriorating fiscal position. But tax cut bill was one-party vote. And Dems haven't historically branded themselves as the party of fiscal responsibility.
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if you like to keep score, here's the change in Dow Jones Industrial Average from Inauguration Day to Aug 12 of their 3rd year in the White House: GHWB: +34.2% Clinton: +42.4% GWB: -11.9% Obama: +41.7% Trump: +30.1%
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@JohnJHarwood
John Harwood
6 years
to sum up: Justice Dept Inspector General concluded that bias did NOT affect Clinton email investigation, that FBI had PROPER reasons for declining to prosecute her, and that the only improper actions influencing 2016 election were actions that damaged Clinton, not Trump.
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@JohnJHarwood
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new Monmouth University national poll: Biden 50% Trump 41%
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