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Peter Hamby

7 days

A few reality checks from me lately on Gen Z voters, and what the media narratives about Gaza, campuses and TikTok keep missing: It's. All. About. The. Economy.

The Great Biden Israel Gamble

The recent Harvard Youth Poll contradicted pundits who have suggested Biden’s weakness with young voters could put Trump in the White House.

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3 years

Ohio State and Clemson fans getting ready for the big game

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3 years

Every few days, I'm reminded that the U.S. military requires service members to get at least ***17 different vaccines***

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3 years

Are you people trying to start a full on revolt? Honestly what the hell is wrong with Democrats? Leave people the hell alone. This is insanity.

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Crowd at CPAC waving these little pro-Trump flags that look exactly like the Russian flag. Staffers quickly come around to confiscate them.

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They took down Finsta

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“Vaccinated people do not carry the virus"

CDC Data Suggests Vaccinated Don’t Carry, Can’t Spread Virus

Some public-health experts have pushed back on the CDC director’s claim that “vaccinated people do not carry the virus” and “don’t get sick.”

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Twitter sucks today, so here’s some pics the Parkland kids texted me of their back-to-school therapy dogs

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3 years

Laura Ingraham just called Biden the “president elect”

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4 years

Sorry for just realizing this — but Biden is winning Nevada by TWO POINTS with mostly Dem ballots in Clark remaining and they haven’t called it? Forget Pennsylvania. That’s just bananas. Any other cycle they would have called it.

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Peter Hamby

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6 years

A reminder that Mitch McConnell said Al Franken was unfit to serve in the U.S. Senate after a series of he-said-she-said harassment allegations from multiple women, some of them unnamed

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Rep. Rashida Tlaib cursing got 5 times more coverage on cable news than Rep. Steve King embracing white supremacy

Rep. Rashida Tlaib cursing got 5 times more coverage on cable news than Rep. Steve King embracing...

www.mediamatters.org

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7 years

Q: What books are you reading? A: Look over there. There are some books.

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Impeachment coverage looks rad

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If you're criticizing President Biden for calling a "lid" and having meetings/calls about Israel instead holding public events, I have a feeling you might not be a good faith observer of politics.

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4 years

In Snapchat you’ll be able to: - Register to vote - Request a mail-in ballot - Fill out a sample ballot in your district - Make a plan to vote

Snapchat adds in-app voter registration targeted at young people

Snapchat successfully registered 450,000 people through its app during the 2018 midterms.

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Peter Hamby

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5 years

Here’s a hot take: What if Trump declines the debates?

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Kamala Harris would mop the floor with Donald Trump in a debate.

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4 years

Millennials and Gen Z watching cable news for the first time this week are learning a LOT about catheters, fungal infections and buying gold

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My dad left this note for my mom about the health care vote and I think he accidentally created a more efficient version of @axios

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3 years

Just leaving a reminder here that every single Republican Senator and Congressman currently in office claimed victory in their most recent campaign after ~the media~ called it for them.

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5 years

How Twitter works: Beto didn’t “live stream his teeth-cleaning.” He’s been interviewing people in El Paso about life on the border. Including his dental assistant. It wasn’t live. There was a split second selfie shot of him with his mouth open that was screengrabbed by a reporter

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4 years

People got so mad at the Peleton spot, but the O.G. hateable ads are these holiday car commercials with the impossibly rich young couples living in ski chalets gifting each other SUVs with big red bows

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4 years

Here’s the RNC sending mailers to voters in Pennsylvania urging them to request a mail-in ballot, in part “to protect yourself from large crowds on Election Day”

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6 years

Here is David Halberstam on how Joe McCarthy played the journalists assigned to cover him

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4 years

For the doomscrollers: Biden tracking either 307 or 291 EVs. Lay off the apocalypse porn.

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The President of the United States has not released his tax returns. Journalists are attacking Maddow for using her show to discuss this.

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10/10 no notes

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4 years

Love to talk on the phone with @JamesCarville

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4 years

It isn’t discussed enough that a Joe Biden landslide is a real possibility

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@ForecasterEnten

4 years

Biden right now is ahead or down by a point in states containing over 400 electoral votes. He's also up 10 pts in national polls. If that was the result (& the piece points out why it may not be), it would be the largest win for a Dem since LBJ in 64.

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Peter Hamby

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6 years

That @nowthisnews clip of @BetoORourke talking about the NFL player protests has been viewed a combined *44 million times* across Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube, the company told me

“It Seems Like Iowa in 2007”: Could Beto O’Rourke Be the Next Obama?

O’Rourke offers not just a path to victory in Texas but an antidote to the entire stupid artifice of American politics in the Trump era. He’s authentic, full of energy, and stripped of consultant-d...

www.vanityfair.com

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3 years

Well New York has more deaths, total and per capita, but hey

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The biggest dagger in the Borat movie is really just Pence at CPAC smugly bragging about how there are only 15 Coronavirus cases in the U.S.

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2 years

No president has ever used the military as a backdrop for a political message 🤯

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8 years

Epic @ThirdEyeBlind troll of RNC event. Played none of the hits, bashed GOP platform, asked "Who here believes in science?" So much booing.

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4 years

remember when everyone ranted against the early-in-the-night narratives in 2018 & urged caution about vote counting tonight? follow your own advice, freaks

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4 years

If you’re panicked about Bernie being the nominee, take a breath, flip the script and think about him this way: What if Bernie’s actually the most electable Democrat against Trump? Here are 5 reasons why:

Why Bernie Sanders’s Message and Media Machine Could Be Potent Against Trump

Socialist Schmocialist. Sanders has a set of political assets—celebrity, fundraising power, committed foot soldiers, media sophistication, relentless consistency—possessed by no one else in the race.

www.vanityfair.com

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Peter Hamby

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7 years

This is what President Obama told me, before the election, about why young people need to be involved in politics. Holds up pretty well.

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Trump family's Aspen ski vacation cost taxpayers $330,000. Most Republicans in Congress were elected running against crap like this.

CBS News

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NEW: Trump kids' ski vacation left taxpayers on the hook for security costs of at least $330,000, CBS News learns

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Peter Hamby

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6 years

Anyone who’s ever covered a GOP event in Sarasota knows how extraordinary this R>D swing is. Republicans are in deep, deep trouble and Trump is the reason.

Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee

@DLCC

6 years

BREAKING: @goodforflorida has won the special election in HD72 for the Florida House, flipping the seat from red to blue. Congratulations, Margaret!

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Peter Hamby

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4 years

The sheer amount of Republicans and Fox News hosts talking about Trump in the past tense right now, and talking about the Senate instead, tells ya all you need to know.

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Peter Hamby

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For those waking up on the east coast: You missed a white knuckle ride in Wisconsin. Biden was losing by 100k until MKE came in, then it moved his way decisively. Expect pattern to hold in big urban/blue counties in Michigan, PA and maybe Georgia. Joe romping Hillary’s numbers.

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But it’s fun to keep pretending that a foreign-owned algorithm has no influence on how Americans think as we head into an election year!

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Over the past 24 hours, thousands of TikToks (at least) have been posted where people share how they just read Bin Laden’s infamous "Letter to America," in which he explained why he attacked the United States. The TikToks are from people of all ages, races, ethnicities, and…

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So the actual headline then: "BREAKING: Trump lawyer: Tax returns from past 10 years show income from Russian sources"

The Associated Press

@AP

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BREAKING: Trump lawyer: Tax returns from past 10 years show no "income of any type from Russian sources," with few exceptions.

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I am *shocked* that a glib video, customized for re-tweets and filmed in broad daylight along one of the more secure parts of the RGV by a reporter who parachuted in for the day, did not reveal anything dramatic.

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I found some steel slats down on the border. But I don’t see anything resembling a national emergency situation.. at least not in the McAllen TX area of the border where Trump will be today.

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Peter Hamby

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Moderating this shit is so hard, but bringing up voting & ballot process and allowing the president to cast doubt on the election in front of ~90 million people is a huge mis-step by Wallace.

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Peter Hamby

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Missed this from Pew, but pretty devastating: About two-thirds (68%) say Trump should not continue to be a major national political figure for many years to come; just 29% say he should remain a major figure in U.S. politics.

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The NYT video of Biden in the elevator now has more than 6x the views on Twitter than the NYT opinion videos for Warren and Klobuchar ... combined

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One is enormously popular. The other is known to almost no one.

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No one i know who LIKES BEER has ever heard of a drinking game called Devil's Triangle

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5 years

Stacey Abrams has this newfound rep on Twitter as woke resistance folk hero but she’s showing here what she was in Georgia: a smart progressive who was also [gasp!] a pragmatist willing to cut deals across the aisle.

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4 years

Mitt Romney — conservative Republican who ran for president twice as a conservative Republican on the promise of appointing conservative judges — was never gonna be swayed by your clap emojis

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4 years

Here we have a Democratic member of Congress and a New York Times employee spreading conspiracy theories. Our institutions are quite healthy.

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Biden people in Clive high-fiving because they hit viability threshold by ONE person. One woman screamed “CARTER” at some dude and he ran over at the last second. Glad we choose presidents with a series of lightly-regulated, barely-managed high school lock-ins.

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I know the Pelosi drama is sexy, but Chuck Schumer -- the Democratic leader of the SENATE -- told investigators to back off Facebook as they were looking into the company. His daughter works there.

Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis (Published 2018)

Russian meddling, data sharing, hate speech — the social network faced one scandal after another. This is how Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg responded.

www.nytimes.com

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I’ve known @Bakari_Sellers for 14 years - this is peak 🤡. I truly wonder when the last time some of these millionaire Fox hosts in NYC went to the red states they claim to speak for.

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Laura Ingraham says Bakari Sellers was “sporting an accent” she never heard him use on TV before

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Harlan Hill gonna eat a shoe on his onlyfans

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Joe Biden is going to win the popular vote by a significantly larger margin than George W. Bush in 2004 — closer to Obama’s popular vote win in 2012.

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Guys. Georgia.

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I tweeted this unambiguously great news this morning -- 8 hours later my mentions are still dominated by COVID scolds & doomsayers who are pathologically incapable of admitting that things are getting better

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“Vaccinated people do not carry the virus"

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don’t ask

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Pete tonight: the first candidate to successfully clap back at Tulsi after one of her kamikaze attacks. Everyone else whiffed.

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For those retweeting the AP headline, here’s the slightly more watered-down basis for it:

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"Facebook is the primary protector and enabler of the far right in the United States, without question."

A former right-wing media creator on how a ‘different reality’ became so prominent. (Published 2020)

Matthew Sheffield grew disillusioned after years of working in conservative media.

www.nytimes.com

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8 years

Good snap

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This is excellent. Trump boosted his support with south Texas Latinos for many of the same reasons Rick Perry and Ted Cruz won ~38% of Texas Hispanics in their races. Culture, faith and patriotism matter to many.

Why Democrats Lost So Many South Texas Latinos—the Economy

Party messaging didn’t resonate in socially conservative border communities fearful of Covid-19 shutdowns and the loss of well-paid oil-industry jobs.

www.wsj.com

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5 years

Today on Good Luck America: @AndrewYang on tax policy! He has some big questions about Elizabeth Warren's wealth tax. Part 2 out tomorrow --- and a special episode on the Knicks coming soon. @snapchat

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everyone knows that the best use case for masks -- according to science -- is putting them on to walk into a restaurant and then taking them off immediately

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If you think Trump will never fade away, you might not have lived through the Sarah Palin moment. I wrote about how Palin's rise and fall offers clues for Trump's de-platformed post-presidency

“I Think People Will Get Tired of Him”: For Donald Trump, Sarah Palin’s Fall Shows the Limits of...

The former Alaska governor dominated coverage while she was seen as a GOP kingmaker and potential presidential candidate—until reality (or at least reality TV) set in. The spotlight on Trump, too,...

www.vanityfair.com

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5 years

Credit to Andrew Yang, at least, for forcing a conversation about automation into a party that still thinks about manufacturing and the supply chain like its 1994.

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The Beto-Bernie skirmishes tell us something important about 2020: Bernie isn’t the only one who gets to define what progressive means — especially with immigration dominating the fight

Why Is the Left Already Trying to Annihilate O’Rourke?

The howls from the Chapo wing of the Internet say as much about Bernie Sanders’s diminished stature as they do about the golden boy from Texas. Is Beto the real deal, or just a Davos Democrat on a...

www.vanityfair.com

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Motion to have staff counsel undertake questioning at every committee hearing henceforth

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like 5 straight women callers into @NHPR have said they switched from Warren to Amy K because Klobuchar is "feisty" & "tough" and she can take on Trump -- but they're worried Warren can't win. Recency bias is a helluva drug in a crowded field.

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@chrislhayes Your assumption that people know anything about history is extremely generous

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4 years

Whichever state goes first next time, as @danpfeiffer said, it should be a swing state or one that will be in coming years. You want better demographics, affordable-ish media markets, plausible drive times. Nominees: Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Georgia, South Carolina.

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Peter Hamby

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7 years

Watching Trump on Snapchat map you can actually see how far he is from the modest crowd gathered on the street

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Abigail Spanberger on self-care

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Lol to put this in perspective, a few minutes later this came on

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4 years

If Rupert pulled the trigger on a Pennsylvania call right now ...

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Kato Kaelin now looks like Mike Myers in a Kato Kaelin mask

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3 years

Secretary of Labah

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2 years

journalist curmudgeon here, but the fact that the NYT now allows headlines-in-search-of-stories to be published just blows my mind.

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7 years

Been watching reporters chuckle and scoff at this claim over the last few days, which is just proving her point.

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Hillary Clinton: Political journalists "can't bear to face their own role in helping elect Trump" ()

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Every reporting gun should be trained on the platforms right now. Fox News is background noise in comparison.

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Michigan: Hillary got 519K in Wayne County Biden is only at 241K in Wayne right now. He's gonna add over a quarter million votes there alone. Margin is 70K right now.

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Early voting lines in South Carolina (this is Columbia)

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New for @PuckNews , reporting from Venice, CA: Why Gavin Newsom is in trouble — and the Biden voters who put him there

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This is not normal

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Bill Ackman talking about Dean Phillips here is a good example of Bill Ackman knowing absolutely nothing about how politics works

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Bloomberg closing statement: We need to build teams with superb product managers who set KPIs that enable America to make smart decisions for our customers.

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4 years

that is very bad math for Mister Trump

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A new batch of returns from Cobb County pulls Biden within 40k votes of surpassing Trump in Georgia. The Democrat has a path: The state says roughly 122,000 absentee ballots are still not returned, mostly from solidly Democratic metro ATL and Savannah. #gapol

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RFK’s superPAC spent $7 million to tell 100 million politics-weary Americans that there’s an independent candidate named Kennedy running for president. If you think that’s a crazy waste of money, you probably shouldn’t be making observations about politics.

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U.S. police have attacked journalists at least 100 times in the past four days

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And yes, once this lead tips blue, media orgs can absolutely call the race, even if vote counting will finish tomorrow. Biden's margin is only going to get bigger and Trump can't make it up.

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now the Pennsylvania margin is 26K votes. Here we go.

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One of the biggest miscalculations TikTok made here was coming into this hearing bragging about how deeply enmeshed TikTok is in American society. Misreading the room by a mile.

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This hearing is an abject disaster for TikTok

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They said said this day would never come: a Both Sides take on Obama’s Mother Emanuel speech

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5 years

Portman does nothing without a lot of planning, calculation and looking at the numbers -- and a media plan (local rollout here). This is actually a big crack.

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NEW: GOP Sen Rob Portman: Trump wrong to seek help from Ukraine, China *Ukraine prosecutor fired b/c he DIDN'T pursue corruption - not b/c he was digging into Bidens *1st Portman heard of Trump wanting Europe to help w/Ukraine aid: when it was released

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Mayor Pete on Elizabeth Warren’s small donor strategy: “We're not going to beat Trump with pocket change” Mayor Pete on his gun fight with Beto: “I get it. He needs to pick a fight in order to stay relevant" And much more on today’s Good Luck America:

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The news side of Fox right now is just laughing off the idea of Trump winning any lawsuits.

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It’s almost like TikTok has powerful influence on the American public and can shape their political behavior!

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One House GOP staffer tells me: “it’s so so bad. Our phones have not stopped ringing. They’re teenagers and old people saying they spend their whole day on the app and we cant take it away”

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Biden gets knocked for gaffes, but is there any candidate who has been more on message from Day One? Maybe Bernie. Same lines, same pitch, same message, every single day since joining the race. On full display tonight in contrast to Trump.

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