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Walter Shapiro

10 months

The burning question that is on the lips of all Americans: "Where else can I find Walter Shapiro on social media?" Answer: (Bluesky): @mrwaltershapiro @bsky .social (Post News): (Mastodon): @WalterShapiro @journa .host

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Walter Shapiro

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6 years

If I read this correctly, after a 17-year-old high school student was removed from a prime place at the Montana Trump rally, he had to spend 10 minutes with the Secret Service and the local police. Only in authoritarian counties is not clapping a crime.

#plaidshirtguy at Trump rally is ... a Billings high schooler

Billings West High School senior Tyler Linfesty learned Thursday morning during first period that he had been selected for VIP treatment at President Donald J. Trump's rally at MetraPark.

billingsgazette.com

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Walter Shapiro

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3 years

In the wake of Rick Santorum’s firing by CNN, can I offer a small proposal? Fire all the paid politicians on cable and replace them with journalists and columnists. Go back to the old era when reporters questioned former senators and didn’t see them as cable news colleagues.

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4 years

"Mr. Kelly, who served for more than 40 years in the Marines, has told associates that a retired four-star general should not come out against a sitting president in the heat of a political campaign." Urgent Memo to Gen. Kelly: These aren't ordinary times or a routine election.

Annie Karni

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4 years

John Kelly, at Center of Report on Trump Disparaging U.S. Soldiers, Keeps Silent

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6 years

Sometime soon, Kirstjen Nielsen is going to head to a DC law firm or consulting group. She should be shunned in all work and social settings. The sin of separating children from their parents is permanently unforgivable -- and she should never be allowed to forget it.

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7 years

Can we have a round of applause for the AP and Time magazine which boycotted Sean Spicer gaggle after the NYT, WP and CNN were barred.

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7 years

I would go to bed tonight feeling much more secure if Trump had a major hotel in Seoul.

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3 years

Kevin McCarthy on Fox News: “People have taken this too far.” McCarthy has been a major enabler of the Trump efforts.

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3 years

I just realized that we are as close in time from the end of World War II as Pearl Harbor was from Lee's surrender at Appomattox. For a babyboomer, it is hard to believe that WWII is the midpoint between the Civil War and 2021.

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4 years

A good man was misjudged by too many Democrats in 2012. You can disagree with many of his policy views (as I do) but you should never lose sight that some people in public life have sterling character. (Of course, none of this applies to Trump enablers).

Haley Talbot

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4 years

. @SenatorRomney marching in front of the WH: “We need a voice against racism, we need many voices against racism and against brutality. And we need to stand up and say black lives matter.” (w/ @alivitali )

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4 years

I want to praise Pete Buttigieg and @Lis_Smith for running the most press friendly and accessible major presidential campaign since the heyday of John McCain. I hope that someone saves the tapes of all Buttigieg's countless interviews as a lesson for all future candidates.

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Walter Shapiro

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11 months

Me in @newrepublic : "Kennedy has as much chance of leading off for the Boston Red Sox as he does of being the Democratic nominee in 2024. And he should be scorned as an ego-driven, conspiracy-mongering Republican plant."

Here’s a Conspiracy Theory: RFK Jr. Is a Tool of Pro-Trump Agitators

The wayward Kennedy, who is challenging Biden for the Democratic nomination, is proving to be a very useful idiot for MAGA demagogues like Steve Bannon and Roger Stone.

newrepublic.com

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Walter Shapiro

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5 years

Two important points: It was the 1973 Senate Watergate hearings that caused Nixon's approval ratings to collapse. And House Democrats need to show ego-discipline by having a few designated questioners rather than a 39-member free for all at each hearing.

EJ Dionne

@EJDionne

5 years

Democrats: Tearing each other apart over impeachment only helps #Trump . The path is clear: Keep impeachment on the table but first use hearings & further inquiries to make clear to the majority just how outrageous Trump's behavior is. My column

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1 year

This glorious @Peggynoonannyc line on Ron DeSantis should be quoted at every opportunity during the 2024 campaign. DeSantis, she wrote, "carries a vibe...that he might unplug your life support to re-charge his cellphone."

Opinion | Ron DeSantis Is Definitely Running

He presents himself as a serious, forward-leaning, pro-business, antiwoke conservative Republican.

www.wsj.com

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Walter Shapiro

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4 years

I am glad that Jimmy Caterr, after all his health scares, is here to see what is happening in his native Georgia.

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3 years

What could be more Trumpian than this: "Trump has instructed aides not to pay Giuliani’s legal fees, two officials said."

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7 months

Jimmy Carter was about to enter hospice when McCarthy became speaker. Carter (yay) has outlasted Speaker McCarthy.

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5 years

Memo to Tom Perez: Don't you feel proud that you made room on the debate stage for Tulsi Gabbard who just called the 2016 nominee, "the queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption"? But your rigid, cockamamie debate rules exiled Steve Bullock and Michael Bennet. Great going.

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Walter Shapiro

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6 years

I know this obvious, but it should be stressed that, whatever the FBI finds, there are other principled reasons to oppose the Kavanaugh nomination from his extreme views on presidential powers to his extreme partisanship in yesterday's hearing.

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Walter Shapiro

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3 years

I realized as I am reading compulsively about the Russian protests that I have more emotional energy to care about other countries with Biden as president.

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1 year

My final thought at the end of a depressing evening: The 2024 election is about preserving democracy. All other considerations are a distraction.

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Walter Shapiro

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5 years

I don't normally take my marching orders from George Will. But this is a very smart column about a 2020 Democrat who could make a serious and compelling case -- Amy Klobuchar.

Opinion | Amy Klobuchar may be best equipped to send the president packing

Democrats eked out a victory there in 2016, but they can look beyond the state’s borders to the White House with their senator.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Walter Shapiro

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4 years

This article asks the right question: Why does Olivia Troye in her early 40s have so much more courage than Mattis or Kelly or Coats at the end of their careers?

Tom Nichols

@RadioFreeTom

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“It Was All About the Election”: The Ex-White House Aide Olivia Troye on Trump’s Narcissistic Mishandling of COVID-19 via @NewYorker

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Walter Shapiro

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4 years

The Florida rout should end the last shred of fiction that Sanders remains a serious candidate for president. If he were to drop out tomorrow, it would allow states to postpone their now meaningless primaries and substitute a safe vote-by-mail system. Please, Bernie.

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Walter Shapiro

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3 years

@tripgabriel Even subtracting the GOP four legislators who said that they didn't really sign, this is more than half the Republicans in the state legislature. This level of anti-democratic craziness by so many is one of the most alarming post-election developments anywhere.

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3 years

This is an afternoon to salute Zephyr Teachout and Cynthia Nixon for their oft-derided efforts to challenge Cuomo when it truly mattered.

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Walter Shapiro

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5 years

There are many reasons to mourn the passing of Justice Stevens. But, sadly, he may have been the last living person who saw Babe Ruth "call his shot" in the 1932 World Series.

Who saw Babe Ruth's 'called shot?' FDR

Franklin Delano Roosevelt and baseball history came together at Wrigley Field in 1932.

www.usatoday.com

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5 years

Why are the 10 GOP senators -- who will not be on the ballot again until 2024 -- so silent about Trump's loathsome tweets? Don't tell me that they are already quaking at the thought of a primary challenge two presidential election years from now. And, yes, Mitt Romney, you too.

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1 year

We have wasted all of 2023 worrying about the debt ceiling when the resulting deal amounts to a rounding error in the deficit over the next decade. What a stupid bit of gamesmanship by House Republicans.

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4 years

The gold-standard review of the Mary Trump book by Kurt Andersen (the co-creator of "Spy") who, as he admits, has "had an off-and-on sideline of exposing and ridiculing Donald Trump for most of my life."

The most devastating thing about Mary Trump's portrait is her empathy for Donald Trump

The President's "only niece," clinical psychologist Mary Trump, portrays a man warped by his family in "Too Much and Never Enough."

www.latimes.com

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Walter Shapiro

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4 years

Just a reminder that in this century, only the two Obama elections were called on Election Night. Both 2004 and 2016 were called on Wednesday. And 2000 was called in December.

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7 years

White House tradition: President yells at chief of staff. Chief of staff yells at press secretary. Press secretary yells at the press.

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Walter Shapiro

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4 years

Great @JillDLawrence column: "On Friday night after the Stone commutation, lying awake as I know many people do these days, I made a resolution: Donald Trump will not break me. And I made a wish: Donald Trump will not break America."

Resolve after appalling Roger Stone commutation: Don't let Donald Trump break us, America.

COVID and Trump have brought America to its knees. The utter failure of our system has allowed him to scale new heights of corruption each week.

www.usatoday.com

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5 years

I don’t agree with Justin Amash on many things, but I am baffled by the attacks on him because he doesn’t vote like a left-wing Democrat. In the battle against Trumpism, I accept all allies.

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3 years

It is relevant to point that Joe Biden and Bob Dole were the two most memorable profiles in Richard Ben Cramer's magisterial book on the 1988 presidential campaign, "What It Takes." They were the real-life characters who jumped off the page in the best book on politics ever.

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Walter Shapiro

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4 years

Ben Sasse on a private call: "[Trump] mocks evangelicals behind closed doors. His family has treated the presidency like a business opportunity. He's flirted with white supremacists." Imagine if Sasse ever had the courage to say these things in public:

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Walter Shapiro

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4 years

The longer the Nevada charade goes, the more that I am convinced that nobody wants to call Nevada because it would mean that AP and Fox News would put Biden over the top, while the other networks (that didn't call Arizona) would be limbo.

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4 years

Watching @RalstonReports spend three days trying to convince the rest of the news media that the NV race is OVER OVER OVER aid the best subplot of this week.

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6 years

@lrozen @ClydeHaberman Yes, according to the piece that I linked to in the Billings Gazette. He never said a word of protest. He just wasn't that enthusiastic.

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4 years

Kudos to the Onion for the best summary of the breakdown of democracy in Wisconsin:

Wisconsin Primary Voters Receive ‘I Voted’ Gravestones

The Onion brings you all of the latest news, stories, photos, videos and more from America's finest news source.

www.theonion.com

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Walter Shapiro

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5 years

In today's WSJ, I came upon this Neville Chamberlain quote on Adolf Hitler: "I got the impression that here was a man who could be relied upon when he had given his word." I wonder why it reminded me of Trump and Putin. Or Kim Jung Un.

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Walter Shapiro

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6 years

Best case for waiting for all the relevant documents on Kavanaugh. If only we had seen the new documents on Gina Haspel's approval of waterboarding before she was confirmed as CIA director. But now it's too late.

Cables Detail C.I.A. Waterboarding at Secret Prison Run by Gina Haspel (Published 2018)

The 2002 cables, written or overseen by Gina Haspel, now the C.I.A. director, detail the torture of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the main suspect in the bombing of the Navy destroyer Cole.

www.nytimes.com

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Walter Shapiro

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7 years

Reading Trump's CIA transcript, I realize that he lied about his crowd size to intelligence analysts who make a living studying crowds.

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7 years

Harry Truman and his family didn't try to leverage the White House for financial gain. Truman was broke, aside from his pension, in 1953.

Susan Page

@SusanPage

7 years

Just to remind: Truman wrote a letter to WashPost music critic threatening to beat him up for a negative review of his daughter's recital.

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5 years

I am not, by nature, a leftwing true believer. But I don't understand the case for Democratic moderation in 2020 when Trump will call everything "socialism" and say that Republicans will be sent to the Gulag for having plastic straws. My @rollcall column:

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Walter Shapiro

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3 years

My @rollcall column: "Neera Tanden boasts the two skills most needed in an incoming OMB director — a far-reaching understanding of how the federal government works and the trust of the president-elect."

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7 years

It represents a threat of a major life disruption against any ordinary citizen who appears on TV criticizing Trump. Yes, a chilling effect.

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7 years

If you ask me, launching ad hominem attacks against a named, local-level union leader is a key step beyond random potshots at corporations.

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4 years

@BGrueskin At the reading of the will, the family on Zoom was shocked when it was Harold, the scapegrace son, who inherited the 79 rolls of toilet paper.

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Walter Shapiro

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4 years

Buttigieg has consistently run the most accessible campaign in the caucuses for print reporters. Whatever happens from here, he deserves major credit for embracing John McCain-style openness. Klobuchar is #2 in this based on my experience.

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Walter Shapiro

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4 years

From the Kamala Harris pool report: "The University of Utah held a ticket lottery for students, with 60 lucky winners allocated a seat." Why, oh why, are we having a live audience of lucky students during a pandemic? This is madness, no matter how much social distancing.

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Walter Shapiro

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6 years

Memo to Paul Ryan: If 46 House Republicans resign today (giving the Democrats a temporary 193-192 majority), then the Democrats are responsible for not funding the government. Until then, it's all on you.

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7 years

A big-government liberal is a conservative who has been flooded.

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4 years

Can we all agree on one thing -- that after this year, there should be only primaries and never a caucus.

Campaigns warn of chaos ahead of the Nevada caucuses

As aides seek answers on how things will work, volunteers and experts warn of technology glitches.

www.washingtonpost.com

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8 years

I'm mulling a line from LA Times: "The emails were not to or from Clinton." If so, why did Comey disrupt election?

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7 months

Can't wait for tomorrow's showdown between Jim Jordan and the supposed Republican moderates at Gutless Gulch.

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Walter Shapiro

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4 years

Quite simply @RepKatiePorter is the best congressional questioner I can recall. Ever. And, Lord, have I seen a lot of hearings. And there are days when, quite simply, I can imagine Porter as the future of the Democratic Party, something I say very rarely.

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7 years

@SopanDeb Key thing about Trump: He appears to believe that the phrase "many people tell me I'm right" is objective, fact-based evidence.

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4 years

My radical position on Biden's VP: He can pick whoever he wants to help him govern.

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5 years

I was stunned when I read the report on the post-presidency Obama shrine. All Edifice Complex and no library. I wish we could go back to the post-presidential modesty of Harry Truman and Jimmy Carter.

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3 years

One of the saddest elements in the Belarus story: "According to the Instagram story of one woman aboard, Protasevich begged a flight attendant not to give him away. But the Ryanair employee told him that legally they had no choice."

Passengers aboard airliner diverted to Belarus describe confusion and panic

“We all on the plane had panicked because we thought we were going to crash,” one passenger said.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Walter Shapiro

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7 years

Put another way: Lede tells us Spicer was willing to steal a mini-fridge from junior staffers who didn't have White House Mess privileges.

Michael C. Bender

@MichaelCBender

7 years

Among Sean Spicer's many difficulties: He even had trouble taking a mini-fridge from junior White House staffers

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Walter Shapiro

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4 years

Steyer is the least defensible candidate in the race. Anyone but a self-funder would have quit after microscopic showings in the first three states. Why doesn’t he just climb Everest like other dilettantes?

Norman Ornstein

@NormOrnstein

4 years

If Steyer weren’t massaging his ego, Biden might be close to 50%

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Walter Shapiro

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8 months

Kudos to Haley, Scott, Pence and Christie for defending Ukraine. This is a split in the GOP where there are good guys and apologists for Putin.

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Walter Shapiro

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6 years

After 2016, political reporters feel like battered children. Their failure to predict Trump's victory has led to giving insufficient weight to strong evidence that Trump's act is simply not working.

Nate Silver

@NateSilver538

6 years

A lot of the problem with these mainstream media retrospectives on Trump's first year is a failure to recognize how profoundly unpopular he is -- especially for a president in a pretty good economy.

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Buttigieg and Klobuchar are better on the attack than I would have guessed. Warren has a tone of exasperation that I haven’t heard before.

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Kudos @ktumulty for eloquently catching the sadness of Beto's withdrawal as seen through the eyes of those who cared passionately for him. In the months ahead, there will be many scenes like this. So here's to the candidates and the supporters who dream.

Opinion | Beto O’Rourke exits — and leaves broken hearts in his wake

Word was, Beto was going to appear shortly outside the hall where they had expected to cheer his speech tonight.

www.washingtonpost.com

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7 years

@dkahanerules @maggieNYT @BillKristol Somehow I missed all the on-the-record sources during Watergate. Must be my failing memory.

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3 years

I just watched Biden's speech on the half million lives lost to Covid. I cannot recall -- not ever -- a presidential address that was that raw, that personal, that moving, that true to life. Please watch the speech rather than just read about it.

'Find purpose': Biden marks 500,000 Covid-19 deaths with poignant address to the nation

“Let this not be a story of how far we fell, but how far we climbed back up," Biden said in brief remarks before a moment of silence for those who died from the virus.

www.nbcnews.com

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4 years

If Biden wins SC, it will be his first primary victory in 33 years of seeking the presidency.

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1 year

We are at the Gaetz of hell.

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4 years

Can we just say that in public life, officials often make tragic mistakes and then learn from them. The true danger are elected officials, like a certain president, who learn from nothing.

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4 years

Fifty Cuomos would get you over 300,000 nursing home deaths from COVID-19, and over a million and a quarter total deaths from it.

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Walter Shapiro

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7 years

This is a good moment to applaud the steadfastness and moral courage of Never Trump Republicans who have never compromised their stand.

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4 years

Axiom of politics: If your opponent is self-destructing, stay out of the way.

Ezra Klein

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4 years

I keep seeing Democrats worrying that Trump is getting all this free airtime while Biden seems quiet. But Biden is up in the polls, and in every presser, Trump just says a dozen more things the Biden team can weaponize in ads later.

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I'm teaching my first class at Yale tomorrow on presidential politics and the news media. One of the questions that I will be wrestling with: Is the media currently over-hyping the Warren-Bernie failed post-debate handshake? My instinct is to say "yes."

Who's lying? How the Bernie Sanders-Elizabeth Warren feud could reshape the Democratic race

The escalating tiff between Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren threatens to divide the Democratic left.

www.latimes.com

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In @newrepublic , I write about how the media over-hyped the "Uncommitted" vote in Michigan: "For all the talk about the youth vote, 'uncommitted' only received 21 percent in Ann Arbor. That’s akin to 'uncommitted' badly losing the Park Slope Food Co-op."

The Media Is Overhyping the “Uncommitted” Threat to Biden

Breathless press reports present 100,000 votes as an existential danger. But there’s little reason to believe the president’s reelection effort is in mortal peril.

newrepublic.com

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5 years

This is important. Kirstjen Nielsen should never get her pre-Trump reputation back.

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If Kirsten Nielsen is indeed resigning, her career should be taught as a textbook example of why it’s better to resign early rather than desperately cling to a Cabinet job. Especially with Trump.

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6 years

Kudos to @DavidVonDrehle for a column on the loathsome history and current tactics of David Brock that I wish I had written:

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4 years

Oddly enough, Biden two days ago scheduled a virtual town hall on the virus at exactly the same time. I am stunned by the coincidence of timing.

Daniel Dale

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The White House has announced a 7 PM coronavirus briefing.

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Glorious silent protest at Wilkes-Barr Trump rally: Anna Lehane, high school senior, is wearing this T-shirt: "Grab My Pussy, I Dare You."

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Someday I will understand why no one in the White House wears masks in horribly close quarters. It is hard to see the political upside for most of Pence’s staff to be infected 10 days before the election. Are they really that afraid of Trump?

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Correct me if I am wrong. Didn’t someone named Trump appoint Tillerson in the first place? Or was he forced to do this by the dastardly Deep State?

Zeke Miller

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5 years

Oh my...

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@JoshuaGreen @Ocasio2018 Why? Seriously, do they think that the socialist revolution is at the gates? Or they can demonize her? Or she just symbolizes all that threatens them about America in 2018?

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3 years

I have never ever heard of a House member wanting to move her office because she was harassed by another House member. Every day @mtgreenee makes history -- and not in a good way.

Patricia Murphy

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3 years

Missouri congresswoman saying she's been harassed by @mtgreenee and afraid for her staff's safety -->

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2 years

I wrote the speech for Carter that he delivered as he installed solar panels: "A generation from now, this solar heater can either be...an example of a road not taken, or it can be just a small part of one of the greatest...adventures ever undertaken by the American people."

Michael Beschloss

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In 1979, President Carter had solar panels installed at the White House. These were later laughed at, derided and removed by officials of Reagan Administration.

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Maybe Biden out of prudence should begin his presidency at Blair House. It is where Truman lived during White House renovations.

Clyde Haberman

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4 years

Biden's people are going to have to scrub every inch of the White House before he moves in. Trump has turned it into a Covid hot zone.

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5 years

My end of the year thought for those who are suddenly seriously questioning the 45th president: What in God's name ever made you think that Trump's presidency would be any different from what we're seeing today?

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Walter Shapiro

@MrWalterShapiro

5 years

An absolutely terrific (and I mean terrific) @JillDLawrence column on what Robert Mueller could say -- sadly won't:

What if Robert Mueller decided to tell Congress what he really thinks?

I did not anticipate Barr's perfidious misrepresentations, maddening Democratic caution or scandalous Republican indifference. Let's clear things up.

www.usatoday.com

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Walter Shapiro

@MrWalterShapiro

3 years

I just read this piece. It is one of the most eloquent and haunting post-election stories out there. I hope you will read it and I will add that I'm a huge fan of @ClareMalone .

Clare Malone

@ClareMalone

4 years

I spent a lot of the past four years talking to my dad about people and politics, about good and evil. That's kind of where I think this piece about the Trump era came from. Here it is:

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Walter Shapiro

@MrWalterShapiro

4 years

Deft portrait of McConnell: "Hypocrisy — coupled with an utter lack of shame — is not a character fault in his eyes. It is a management style, a means to an end." By @ktumulty :

Opinion | Senate Republicans are showing us why they should lose their majority

To their credit, a few Republicans are standing up to this head-spinning pivot on the part of their leaders.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Walter Shapiro

@MrWalterShapiro

4 years

There are more prominent GOP figures on this single pro-Biden Op-Ed than most Democratic nominees of the past have come up with during their entire campaigns.

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Walter Shapiro

@MrWalterShapiro

4 years

Please go back and read this entire thread. It is exceptionally powerful.

Andy Slavitt 🇺🇦

@ASlavitt

4 years

What reason do we have to not do this? What reason do we have to not throw the kitchen sink at this? What are we going to regret later knowing we could? Will it haunt us if we don’t when this time is over? /end

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Walter Shapiro

@MrWalterShapiro

5 years

My first look at Beto. And I consider him a more serious contender than the latest poll numbers would suggest.

Beto’s Bet on Iowa

The candidate who graced the cover of "Vanity Fair" settles in for a long tour of retail politicking.

newrepublic.com

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Walter Shapiro

@MrWalterShapiro

2 years

Can everyone who, even for a millisecond, took Avenatti seriously as a presidential candidate please use this opportunity to take a timeout to read and reflect.

Jim Roberts

@nycjim

2 years

Michael Avenatti is found guilty of swindling former client Stormy Daniels out of her book money.

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Walter Shapiro

@MrWalterShapiro

6 years

For sport, let's count over the next 24 hours the number of Republicans who say they are "deeply troubled" by the McCabe firing, but then drop all interest in the matter. A real Congress instead of a lapdog Congress would schedule hearings on Trump's conduct.

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Walter Shapiro

@MrWalterShapiro

13 days

I realize I am not part of Columbia. I realize that campus situations are usually more nuanced that they appear in the news. That said, I am hard-pressed to think of any university president who has handled things worse than Minouche Shafik.

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Walter Shapiro

@MrWalterShapiro

3 years

My @newrepublic piece: "Yellen and Kerry could have easily spent the twilight of their careers giving speeches and gracing global conferences. Instead, both of them have signed on for the 16-hours-a-day rigors of government service at a time of crisis."

Here Come the Adults

Biden’s Cabinet is shaping up to be everything that Trump’s was not.

newrepublic.com

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Walter Shapiro

@MrWalterShapiro

8 years

Just saw a Twitter promo for "The Walking Dead." It took me 15 seconds to realize that it wasn't about the election.

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Walter Shapiro

@MrWalterShapiro

8 years

My question for Trump: Why would the Republican governors of states like FL, NC, OH and WI rig an election for Hillary?

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Walter Shapiro

@MrWalterShapiro

5 years

For those Republicans who know better, this is the time for courage and honesty as Trump appears increasingly deranged. For those Republicans who think this is normal politics, it might be a moment to change your TV viewing habits.

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Walter Shapiro

@MrWalterShapiro

4 years

The Covid-19 Spread Act of 2020.

Tom Nichols

@RadioFreeTom

4 years

I thought this was paraphrasing or something, but no, this is actually a proposal to pay people to travel at least 50 miles away from home.

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