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Ronald Brownstein

3 years

#RockMeOnTheWater : how @JacksonBrowne , Linda Ronstadt, the Eagles; Beatty, Nicholson, @Janefonda , Spielberg, Altman; @TheNormanLear Carroll O'Connor, James L. Brooks, Mary Tyler Moore, Jerry Brown & more transformed music, movies, TV & politics in 1974 LA

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Ronald Brownstein

@RonBrownstein

5 years

If 20 high school students chanted this at a classmate how many would be expelled? If 20 employees yelled this at a colleague how many would be fired? If 20 Army soldiers aimed this at a platoon mate how many would be discharged? How much of US will accept this as a new standard?

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

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Trump fans eventually break out in "send her back!" chants directed toward Ilhan Omar, a Somali refugee who serves in Congress who Trump viciously smeared.

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One bloodstained toddler found orphaned; another thrust into a garbage bin for safety by his father. By now it's clear those opposing assault weapon & large magazine bans are explicitly choosing to accept such horrors on a regular basis so that gun ownership won't be restricted

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Attorneys file ethics complaint against Graham over Georgia ballots

Graham facing ethics complaint over Georgia ballots

Three attorneys have filed an ethics complaint against U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham.

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@RonBrownstein

6 years

It's reasonable to ask how does #Kavanaugh continue serving as a federal judge, much less on #SCOTUS after delivering such an openly partisan attack and identifying so unequivocally as an opponent of the Dem Party? He has validated those who see him as a GOP operative in a robe

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3 years

Clear words to me from former Trump DHS official Elizabeth Neumann on growing white nationalist threat: "The biggest thing that could help...is for the bulk of Republicans to come out & say the election was not stolen, Donald Trump lied, I was complicit in that lie & I apologize"

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@RonBrownstein

4 years

Denying a vote on Merrick Garland for almost a full year while rushing in a nominee closer to a presidential election than ever before in American history would qualify as what if not "court packing"?

The Hill

@thehill

4 years

VP Mike Pence: "Joe Biden and Kamala Harris want to pack the court -- but we're not going to let it happen."

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Ronald Brownstein

@RonBrownstein

2 years

Despite the outraged sugarcoating from @MittRomney @SenatorCollins @LeaderMcConnell @SenatorSinema @Sen_JoeManchin I think historians would agree the filibuster was used today to advance its most consistent purpose thru history: to block equal rights for Blacks & other minorities

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@RonBrownstein

4 years

Dr. Birx seconds Trump's insistence that hospital supplies are adequate & Americans can be confident they'll get a bed or ventilator: "As she spoke, medical staff in New York continued to say colleagues and patients are dying because they lack equipment in overtaxed hospitals."

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Ronald Brownstein

@RonBrownstein

4 years

The fact that so many GOP big state governors-in TX, FL & GA-all tightened statewide restrictions immediately after Trump finally let his advisers frame the full risk from the WH podium underscores how much his earlier minimizing contributed to the critical delays in those states

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@RonBrownstein

4 years

“Dad was a Republican. He watched Fox News, and he had voted for Ducey and Trump. When they told him not to live in fear, that very few people would catch the disease, that its effects weren’t serious, he believed them.”

Perspective | Governor, my father’s death is on your hands

Leaders reopened states and told the public it was safe. My parents believed them.

www.washingtonpost.com

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@RonBrownstein

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Succinct director of Harvard Global Health institute: “People who are dying of this virus are not dying to protect the American way of life. They’re dying because their government has had a completely ineffective response to this infectious disease."

Trump calls Americans 'warriors' in fight to open the economy

As COVID-19 deaths keep rising, Trump's message has shifted from 'one is too many' to praising Americans as warriors fighting to open the economy.

www.latimes.com

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@RonBrownstein

4 years

These images everywhere, unprecedented for a presidential call in my experience, look like what you'd see in a country that has overthrown a dictator or won a war, which in blue America may be exactly what it feels like, given that Trump has treated it as a foreign adversary.

Sarah Boxer

@Sarah_Boxer

4 years

Huge Philly crowd singing and chanting, heading from Independence Hall to City Hall, with jubilant supporters along the way.

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@RonBrownstein

1 year

In TN “After a Republican lawmaker was accused of sexually assaulting 15- and 16-year-old girls he had taught and coached, he was made chairman of the House education committee.”

No One Should Be That Shocked by What’s Happening in Tennessee

I covered the statehouse for years. It’s been heading in this direction for a while.

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Ronald Brownstein

@RonBrownstein

4 years

More stunning: Dems will have all eight Senate seats from AZ/CO/NV/NM for 1st time since 1941. And if Biden holds NV/AZ, as seems likely now, they will hold all 8 Senate seats & win all 4 for president for 1st time since 1936.

Jim Acosta

@Acosta

4 years

CNN: Mark Kelly wins AZ senate seat. Arizona will now have two democratic senators. Stunning.

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@RonBrownstein

4 years

Harris County clerk: “To force hundreds of thousands of seniors and voters with disabilities to use a single drop-off location in a county that stretches nearly 2,000 square miles is prejudicial and dangerous.”

Gov. Abbott forces Harris County to close 11 mail ballot drop-off sites

Gov. Greg Abbott declared Thursday that counties can designate only one location to...

www.houstonchronicle.com

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Ronald Brownstein

@RonBrownstein

6 years

Whatever one thinks of #Kavanaugh and allegations he's facing, surely "the total collapse of the traditional confirmation process" occurred when @SenateMajLdr refused to even consider Obama's nomination for a vacant #scotus seat

Lindsey Graham

@LindseyGrahamSC

6 years

@realDonaldTrump What we are witnessing is the total collapse of the traditional confirmation process for a Supreme Court nominee. It is being replaced by a game of delay, deception, and wholesale character assassination.

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Ronald Brownstein

@RonBrownstein

5 years

Fourth poll: CNN, CBS, PBS/NPR/Marist & NBC/WSJ showing the Barr strategy, while allowing Trump Admin to control initial dialogue, has utterly failed in lifting the cloud for any voters beyond his base. Maybe that's all Trump cares about, but got to think Barr wanted more impact

Greg Sargent

@GregTSargent

5 years

New NBC poll: Only 29% say Trump has been cleared of wrongdoing: New WaPo poll: Only 32% say Trump has been exonerated on obstruction (but public is evenly split on whether Trump committed wrongdoing re Russian interference):

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@RonBrownstein

5 years

Not sure why it took 20 graphs or so to reach but there's this: "a longtime anti-money laundering specialist in Deutsche Bank’s Jacksonville office...reviewed the transactions and found that money had moved from Kushner Companies to Russian individuals."

Thomas Edsall

@Edsall

5 years

Deutsche Bank Staff Saw Suspicious Activity in Trump and Kushner Accounts

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Ronald Brownstein

@RonBrownstein

9 months

A Democrat won the WI State Supreme Court race in a landslide this spring. Now the state legislative GOP threatens her with impeachment if she rules against the gerrymandered maps that have created their majorities.

Vos says lawmakers may consider impeachment if Protasiewicz doesn't recuse from redistricting cases

Vos said Protasiewicz would likely be violating the oath of office if she doesn't recuse herself from cases involving maps she called 'rigged.'

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Ronald Brownstein

@RonBrownstein

4 years

Trump openly endorsing and encouraging vigilante intimidation to prevent his opponent’s campaign from reaching voters. @JohnCornyn ok with this? @GregAbbott_TX ok with this? This is their vision for how political debate should unfold in America?

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

4 years

I LOVE TEXAS!

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@RonBrownstein

5 years

"this is not an a la carte menu. If you plan to vote for Trump because of his tax cuts, for example, or his uncritical support of Israel, you’re also voting for his racism."

Opinion | We can’t pretend this is a normal election

Everyone needs to take a stand.

www.washingtonpost.com

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@RonBrownstein

6 years

The idea that the huge death toll on Puerto Rico is "really no one's fault" rather than an urgent question for Congress to investigate through oversight is the perfect encapsulation of @SpeakerRyan utter abandonment of oversight role & any effort to hold Trump accountable

Deena Zaru Pettiford 👩🏻‍💻

@Deena_Zaru

6 years

House Speaker Paul Ryan on Pres. Trump disputing a report on the Puerto Rico death toll: "There is no reason to dispute these numbers and it's a function of this was a devastating storm that hit an isolated island and that's really no one's fault"

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Ronald Brownstein

@RonBrownstein

5 years

Worth noting that @senatemajldr has blocked a Senate vote on the universal background check bill passed comfortably by the House.

Leader McConnell

@LeaderMcConnell

5 years

The entire nation is horrified by today's senseless violence in El Paso. Elaine's and my prayers go out to the victims of this terrible violence, their families and friends, and the brave first responders who charged into harm’s way.

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@RonBrownstein

1 year

Elon Musk's SpaceX, Tesla get more government funding than NPR - Quartz

Elon Musk's SpaceX, Tesla get more government funding than NPR

This week’s Twitter kerfuffle is all about public funding. Elon Musk decided to label National Public Radio’s account first as “government-influenced media,” which it previously applied to state-op...

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Ronald Brownstein

@RonBrownstein

4 years

As I said, the lines in Georgia today lead directly to John Roberts' door.

Bradley Whitford

@BradleyWhitford

4 years

"Blatantly discriminatory evasions of federal decrees are rare." -Chief Justice John Roberts’ declaration that racism is over as his rationale for gutting the Voting Rights Act in 2013.

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@RonBrownstein

3 years

This is a powerful indictment of the Sunday shows

Matt Negrin, HOST OF HARDBALL AT 7PM ON MSNBC

@MattNegrin

3 years

Turn on the Sunday shows and this is what you get— ABC: The election was stolen NBC: The election was stolen CBS: The election was stolen Fox: The election was stolen

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@RonBrownstein

4 years

May not be decisive in November, but Republicans wondering about Trump's long-term impact on party might consider this stunning finding in new Battleground (Lake/Goeas) Poll: among possible 2020 voters who have turned 18 since 2016, Biden leads 94-6. @MoElleithee

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@RonBrownstein

4 years

Wow. In a stunning measure of suburban rejection of Trump's GOP, per @jmartNYT Biden is +9 in Maricopa, the largest US county Trump won in 16. No D prez nominee has carried Maricopa since Truman in 1948 & even FDR never came close to +9 there. Historic.

Biden Holds Steady Lead Over Trump in Arizona, Latest Poll Finds (Published 2020)

The Democratic nominee leads 49 percent to 41 percent in Arizona, a state that hasn’t voted for a Democrat for president since 1996. In the Senate race, Mark Kelly, a Democrat, leads the incumbent,...

www.nytimes.com

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@RonBrownstein

4 years

FL/GA/TX/AZ, the four mega states where GOP governors most conspicuously followed Trump's cues to open early & widely, & who emphatically blocked D mayors from restricting or regulating that reopening even as caseloads grew, today reported 24,829 new cases. The Sunbelt is burning

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Ronald Brownstein

@RonBrownstein

6 years

In fact, no one has done more to produce this moment than @SpeakerRyan & @SenateMajLdr who have empowered Trump's most chaotic instincts by excusing, ignoring or abetting them. Trump has learned the lesson Hill Rs will sweep up the glass every time he breaks another window.

Susan Glasser

@sbg1

6 years

Did I miss the part of the last 24 hours where the Republican leaders on Capitol Hill said no they do not in fact want Russia to rejoin the G7 they led the way in kicking them out of? Or hostile relations with Canada?

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@RonBrownstein

3 years

"According to seven-day rolling averages, as of Sunday, the five states with the highest per capita covid death rates are all governed by Republicans, as are 12 of the top 13"

Opinion | Tate Reeves and the high cost of covid incompetence

The Mississippi governor had a disastrous interview Sunday with CNN’s “State of the Union."

www.washingtonpost.com

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@RonBrownstein

1 year

Just as it took too long to recognize how great a threat Trump poses to US democracy, it is very possible the world is underestimating the extent to which Musk is not just erratic but is actively committed to empowering & amplifying extremist forces & undermining democratic norms

David Burbach (also @dburbach Bluesky)

@dburbach

1 year

This is really playing with fire and utterly irresponsible for the CEO/owner of a global media property

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@RonBrownstein

3 years

After Trump supporters menaced a Biden bus in TX @marcorubio said this:”I saw yesterday a video of these people in Texas. Did you see it? All the cars on the road, we love what they did.” Now to prevent consequences for Trump after inciting the insurrection he’s touting “unity”

Marco Rubio

@marcorubio

3 years

Biden has a historic opportunity to unify America behind the sentiment that our political divisions have gone too far But instead he decided to promote the left’s efforts to use this terrible national tragedy to try and crush conservatives or anyone not anti-Trump enough

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@RonBrownstein

2 years

When the Senate voted on universal background checks after Sandy Hook, as I calculated at the time, the Senators voting for the bill represented 194 million people, while the opponents represented only 118 million. Pretty decisive. But the filibuster allowed the 118m to prevail.

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@RonBrownstein

3 years

How is Trump's behavior different from a commander abandoning his troops under fire? And why is not a single Republican raising an alarm as cases rise to levels previously unimaginable & health care workers buckle under strain in communities around the country?

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@RonBrownstein

3 years

Trump is AWOL at a moment of escalating national crisis & not a single R has raised an alarm: "Since Election Day & for weeks prior, Trump has all but ceased to actively manage the deadly pandemic, which so far has killed at least 244k Americans, infected at least 10.9 million.."

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@RonBrownstein

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TX D legislator: “Breaking quorum is about the equivalent of crawling on our knees begging the president and the United States Congress to give us the For the People Act and give us the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.”

Dan Balz

@danbalz

3 years

After defeating restrictive voting bill, Texas Democrats send loud message: ‘We need Congress to do their part’ By @amyegardner

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@RonBrownstein

2 years

Struck by how clearly and unambiguously Liz Cheney argues that actions on multiple fronts by Trump (and others) in his 7-stage conspiracy to overturn election were not just wrong, but illegal - the committee is both paving a path for, and pointing a finger at, Merrick Garland.

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@RonBrownstein

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Important to remember that this line leads right to John Roberts' door: "GA is one of a slew of Southern states that have closed a significant number of polling sites since the Supreme Court invalidated protections against discrimination under the Voting Rights Act."

Laura Barrón-López

@lbarronlopez

4 years

Took @MsLaToshaBrown 3hrs to vote today in GA. Then Brown drove over to predominantly white polling site in Atl suburbs “I come over to this side of town, and white folks are strolling in. On my side of town, we brought stadium chairs.” W/ @ZachMontellaro

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@RonBrownstein

2 years

Part 1: The bookend to the coming decision on Roe: GOP SCOTUS majority restricts ability of blue states to regulate guns & will likely expand the ability of red states to restrict abortion. Issue isn't states' rights: it's imposing conservative priorities across red & blue states

SCOTUSblog

@SCOTUSblog

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The Supreme Court STRIKES DOWN a New York gun-control law that required people to show "proper cause" to get a license to carry a concealed handgun outside the home. The vote is 6-3.

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1 year

Again: just as many were too slow to see magnitude of Trump’s threat to democracy, it looks like a dangerous mistake to view Musk as erratic rather than a systemic force to empower far right extremism, widen division & undermine democratic norms/structures.

☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️

@schwarz

1 year

I guess I shouldn't be surprised at this extraordinary hatefulness from Elon Musk, but I still am

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@RonBrownstein

4 years

John Roberts in Shelby County decision striking down a central pillar of Voting Rights Act: "There is no denying, however, that the conditions that originally justified these measures no longer characterize voting in the covered jurisdictions." How's that working out for you?

The New York Times

@nytimes

4 years

This drone footage shows a long line of voters waiting to cast ballots in Atlanta on Tuesday. Georgia election officials, poll workers and voters have reported major trouble with voting in Atlanta and elsewhere. Read the latest.

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@RonBrownstein

5 years

The final poll before Nixon’s resignation was the only time a majority supported his removal. Trump is there already.

Mark Murray

@mmurraypolitics

5 years

Gallup has 52% of Americans supporting Trump's impeachment/removal from office. For Clinton, that never got higher than 35% before the GOP-led House voted to impeach him. For Nixon, it got to 58% by Aug 1974

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@RonBrownstein

6 years

He is becoming a verb: to loudly complain, piously moralize and then always, inevitably, to obediently fall in line with what party leaders demand of him...to Flake.

Rick Klein

@rickklein

6 years

Flake: “I will vote to confirm Judge Kavanaugh.”

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Ronald Brownstein

@RonBrownstein

4 years

So just to be clear, Congressional Rs are ok with the president unilaterally changing the tax laws? Trump says he'll stop collecting payroll tax, plans changes in income & capital gains taxes. And they are ok w/him doing that on his own? Might be a relevant precedent some day.

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@RonBrownstein

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Undecided OH female voter in @CNN group: "the last 3 1/2 years" were "so divisive" "it scares me, it embarrasses me" as an American "I think we deserve better" "while i'm not 100% confident Biden put his message out there...iIm ready to take the chance & i will stand behind him"

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@RonBrownstein

3 years

Worth noting that @marcorubio , ostensibly a juror, publicly cheered the same attack on the Biden bus in TX impeachment managers are correctly criticizing Trump for also cheering. A reminder of how many Republicans supported the behavior that anticipated the 1/6 violence.

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@RonBrownstein

3 years

The fact that Trump failed to get #SCOTUS to try to overturn the election shouldn't obscure how many other Republicans, in Congress & the states, enlisted in his effort to do so. A chilling moment w/grim implications for the next decade. 1st impact: more voter suppression laws.

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Ronald Brownstein

@RonBrownstein

4 years

I apologize to everyone who misses the socializing but 2nite kind of settled the issue: Barack Obama addressing the nation alone from an empty room was, to me, vastly more powerful + coherent than him speaking over a raucous, cheering & interrupting crowd. #DemocraticConvention

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@RonBrownstein

2 years

FL GOP Gov & leg have passed "don't say gay" bill; censored how schools & employers discuss race; made it easier for critics to ban books from school libraries; increased penalties for public protest; & punished Disney 4 opposing "don't say gay." Any of that a threat to rights?

Marco Rubio

@marcorubio

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If you didn’t believe these people on the marxist left are coming after your most basic constitutional rights, you better believe it now

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@RonBrownstein

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#SCOTUS has clearly enabled Trump’s delay strategy but it was Biden who appointed Garland over Yates or Doug Jones. Garland then dithered fortwo years & might never have acted unless pressured by the J6 committee revelations. Failure to meet magnitude of the moment on all fronts

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"In the days before the attack that appalled the world and resulted in five deaths, @marcorubio made no public effort to counter what he now calls a lie pushed by politicians he didn’t name."

Rubio waited until after Capitol attack to say politicians lied to Trump rioters

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio said Friday in a video that the people who stormed the U.S. Capitol were “lied to by politicians who were telling them that the vice president had the power to change the...

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@RonBrownstein

6 years

Friend of suspected bomber tells Washington Post: "[He] had no interest in politics...And along came the presidential campaign of Donald Trump, who welcomed all extremists, all outsiders, all outliers, and he felt that somebody was finally talking to him.”

Marco Rubio

@marcorubio

6 years

Why is it so hard to accept that a clearly deranged man carried out deranged acts? The “false flag” conspiracy theories on one side & the “it’s Trump’s fault” on the other shows how unhinged politics has become. This isn’t incivility. It’s a society that has lost common sense.

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@RonBrownstein

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It wasn't that long ago when @LindseyGrahamSC helped craft two immigration reform plans that coupled more $ for border security w/ a pathway to citizenship for the undocumented & passed the Senate w/60+ bipartisan votes. If he really wants a wall he might excavate that history

Lindsey Graham

@LindseyGrahamSC

5 years

To Nancy Pelosi and the House Democrats: No Wall Money, No Deal.

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Ronald Brownstein

@RonBrownstein

6 years

Are @lisamurkowski @JeffFlake @SenatorCollins and every other Senate Republican prepared to ignore this unequival statement from ABA?

NBC Politics

@NBCPolitics

6 years

The American Bar Association calls for an FBI background check before Senate votes to confirm Judge Kavanaugh: "Each appointment to our nation’s Highest Court (as with all others) is simply too important to rush to a vote."

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@RonBrownstein

4 years

As clearly as she can, from not wearing a mask at her announcement event,to participating in this, she is sending a signal to Republicans that she is a soldier in the cause

Jake Tapper

@jaketapper

4 years

Last night a GOP consultant messaged me about this event: “If I’m ACB, I don’t go to this. Looks bad and she doesn’t need him anymore.”

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Ronald Brownstein

@RonBrownstein

5 years

Can’t land more directly on open unadulterated racism than this. Would even George Wallace have appealed to racist and xenophobic feelings this directly with no pretense, euphemism or nuance?

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

5 years

So interesting to see “Progressive” Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly......

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@RonBrownstein

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In every way possible, from his signal he’ll fire Fauci, to attacks on govs, to how he holds his rallies without masks or social distancing, Trump is telling Americans that he has given up on protecting them from the virus. And that that’s what they can expect in a second term

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Ronald Brownstein

@RonBrownstein

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New @QuinnipiacPoll captures the squeeze on GOP. Vast majority of its voters (75%) want big future role for Trump. But 21% don't want a big role for him; 24-28% of Rs blame him for the riot. If even a minority of those uneasy Rs drift away from a Trump-led GOP, it's catastrophic

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@RonBrownstein

4 years

This is what Trump not only unleashes but promotes. Wondering how many suburban professionals look at this and say: yes, what I need to make me safer is a president who encourages his supporters to bring vigilante violence to the streets of major cities?

Mike Baker

@ByMikeBaker

4 years

Clashes. Trump people unload paintballs and pepper spray. They shot me too.

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Ronald Brownstein

@RonBrownstein

3 years

Every House Republican has now voted against COVID relief, #HR 1, police reform (after the 1 yes said he made a mistake) & all but 3 voted vs. #EqualityAct . Biden predicted GOP "epiphany" but this is a pretty clear signal of what he can expect in both chambers.

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Ronald Brownstein

@RonBrownstein

4 years

No matter what they actually say on stage, the loudest message that Trump and Pence broadcast, every day in every possible way, is that no matter how long they stay in office, or how many people die, they will never take the #coronavirus seriously. That's their closing message.

Josie Ensor

@Josiensor

4 years

At a Mike Pence rally in The Villages, Florida. I’d say about a quarter of people here are wearing masks. People have pushed their socially distanced chairs together. The Villages is America’s largest retirement village, aka the most vulnerable to Covid-19

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Ronald Brownstein

@RonBrownstein

5 years

It's one thing to disagree w/proposals-lots of Dems consider Medicare-for-All the wrong direction-but calling policy ideas "not American" and "un-American" echoes conservative arguments against progressives' loyalty to US. Its language one would expect from Trump not a "centrist"

CNN

@CNN

5 years

Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz defends calling Medicare-for-all proposal "not American"

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Ronald Brownstein

@RonBrownstein

3 years

Only thing I'd add to this sharp, focused assessment is that Trump didn't get here in a day. His serial assault on the rule of law has unfolded only b/c Congressional Rs have abetted and enabled each earlier step. He never could have reached this point w/out their complicity.

Greg Sargent

@GregTSargent

3 years

Trump's pardon of Mike Flynn is a final act of venal, malevolent, retributive warfare waged on the country that humiliatingly rejected him -- and on the rule of law itself, which he could not subvert to quite the degree he'd hoped. @paulwaldman1 and me:

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4 years

"Americans could be excused for turning off the television in disgust, not only at Trump but the failure of the Commission on Presidential Debates to prevent the president from hijacking the forum. The commission has given Biden ample reason to refuse to participate in anymore"

Los Angeles Times

@latimes

4 years

Editorial: Trump’s bullying was an insult to the American people (via @latimesopinion )

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Ronald Brownstein

@RonBrownstein

2 years

All abortion in Texas, including in cases of rape & incest, will now be illegal by the end of July, 30 days from today. "Doctors could face life in prison and fines up to $100,000 if they perform abortions in violation of the law," per @TexasTribune

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@RonBrownstein

6 years

Incredible statement about a sitting president: In harshest possible phrasing to test, new @QuinnipiacPoll finds a 49% plurality of US thinks Trump "is racist" including 79% blacks, 58% Hispanics, 56% 18-34, 50% col + whites, 50% of indies, but only 36% of non-college whites

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@RonBrownstein

4 years

The biggest lesson of past week maybe that no House Republican was ever gettable, that there was no level of evidence that would cause them to challenge a president of their own party who is expressing the priorities & resentment of their base. It is a stark & ominous moment

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@RonBrownstein

3 years

"Anxiety is growing among a broad range of civil-rights, democracy-reform & liberal groups over whether Democrats are responding w/enough urgency to the accelerating GOP efforts to both suppress voting & potentially overturn future D election victories."

Democrats Are Running Out of Time

Voting-rights advocates are scared that the White House isn’t taking Republican threats to the ballot seriously enough.

www.theatlantic.com

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Ronald Brownstein

@RonBrownstein

1 year

Just in case the @nytimes is still having difficulty deciphering Musk's politics, seems worth forwarding this on.

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

1 year

My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci

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Ronald Brownstein

@RonBrownstein

6 years

Really has Sasse done anything to stand up to Trump tribalism, racial signaling and divisiveness that would show he cares enough about these sentiments to take any risks for them? One thing the past 2 years have shown: Public hand wringing without action is just moral preening.

Jake Tapper

@jaketapper

6 years

“There is a deep and corrosive tribal impulse to act as if ‘the enemy of my enemy is my friend.’ “But sometimes the enemy of your enemy is just a jackass.” — @BenSasse , THEM: Why We Hate Each Other — And How to Heal

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@RonBrownstein

5 years

In 2018, Democrats won a higher share of the total popular vote in House elections than Republicans have won in any election since 1946. From Trump to Ryan on down, the increasing reaction of Rs isn't to ask why they are alienating voters-it's to question legitimacy of the result

Sam Levine

@srl

5 years

The spread of this kind of talk is alarming. It's completely normal to continue to count ballots after an election is over. It just usually doesn't get a lot of attention because the margins are clear enough on election night to make a projection.

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Ronald Brownstein

@RonBrownstein

5 years

After an election in which GOP was swept in the suburbs, new @CNN poll shows 63% of college+ whites oppose #borderwwall , 63% mostly blame Trump for shutdown & 64% disapprove of his job performance. A reminder that Trump's base-first politics, abetted by GOP, carries real costs

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Ronald Brownstein

@RonBrownstein

6 years

So therefore I provided a decisive vote to seat #kavanaugh who has given every indication he will vote on #scotus to block any federal effort to combat it, along with any other environmental initiatives....at what point do anguished @JeffFlake musings become self-parody?

The Hill

@thehill

6 years

Flake: Republicans are going in the wrong direction on climate change

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Ronald Brownstein

@RonBrownstein

6 years

And therefore I will....what exactly? Same question @JeffFlake has faced, and failed, at almost every turn since Trump took office.

Jeff Flake

@JeffFlake

6 years

Fellow Republicans, this is not who we are. This cannot be our party.

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Ronald Brownstein

@RonBrownstein

4 years

The testing delay is a failure of historic proportions with consequences that even now may only be dimly understood. Will there be, at the appropriate point, Congressional oversight to understand the breakdown?

Garrett Haake

@GarrettHaake

4 years

Due to a shortage of tests, Ohio’s @GovMikeDeWine says coronavirus testing will be limited to healthcare workers and those ALREADY HOSPITALIZED. Lack of tests around the country remains a huge story. We are flying blind, still.

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@RonBrownstein

5 years

“Nielsen should not be permitted to launder her reputation through a fellowship at Harvard, like Corey Lewandowski or Spicer did. She should not get to follow H.R. McMaster to Stanford. There are plenty of places that will hire a disgraced child-torturer”

Opinion | Cancel Kirstjen Nielsen (Published 2019)

Her role in terrorizing children should make her a permanent pariah.

www.nytimes.com

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Ronald Brownstein

@RonBrownstein

4 years

In a virtual rally with Stacey Abrams, Beto O'Rourke and Julian Castro, TX D Senate candidate @mjhegar defines her race vs @JohnCornyn as a contest between an "ass-kicker and a boot-licker."

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Ronald Brownstein

@RonBrownstein

5 years

Every day in this presidency unprecedented things happen but just let this sink in: none of those wounded in a mass shooting would meet w/the President. That comes just after a poll showing majority of US considers him racist. Beyond his base he's approaching maximum illegitimacy

Jake Tapper

@jaketapper

5 years

4/ The source confirms the WaPo report that not one of the patients still being treated at University Medical Center wanted to meet with the President so administrators brought back two patients who had already been discharged who expressed a willingness to meet with him.

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Ronald Brownstein

@RonBrownstein

6 years

Just wondering how Congressional Rs and Fox News would respond if a Democratic president tweeted messages directly at the target of a federal investigation openly discouraging him from cooperating with prosecutors. How long until they accused that president of witness tampering?

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

6 years

....it means lying or making up stories. Sorry, I don’t see Michael doing that despite the horrible Witch Hunt and the dishonest media!

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Ronald Brownstein

@RonBrownstein

4 years

Is there any elected R who will challenge Trump promoting violence against his opponents? Or condemn the TX lawsuit to discard thousands of validly cast votes in Houston? Party is tattooing itself not just w/Trump's racism but his disdain for democracy. May be hard to scrape off

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

4 years

In my opinion, these patriots did nothing wrong. Instead, the FBI & Justice should be investigating the terrorists, anarchists, and agitators of ANTIFA, who run around burning down our Democrat run cities and hurting our people!

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Ronald Brownstein

@RonBrownstein

2 years

Between Sinema killing federal voting rights legislation & SCOTUS GOP Majority blocking vaccine mandate, a powerful reminder of how the red state legislature/GOP Justice/Senate supermajority requirement axis drives national policy even a Dems putatively hold a governing trifecta

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@RonBrownstein

1 year

Musk has left no doubt that empowering and amplifying the most divisive far-right purveyors of disinformation & hate speech is a principal goal for him on the site. Claiming to champion democracy, he's systematically deploying Twitter to benefit authoritarianism.

The Hill

@thehill

1 year

Twitter reinstates Marjorie Taylor Greene’s personal account

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Ronald Brownstein

@RonBrownstein

3 years

Trump's America. Five years ago, did anyone imagine that threats of violence against public officials would become routine? Or taken beyond talk, as in MI? Or effectively encouraged by a president? Easy to lose sight of how radically our situation has changed & how fast.

Governor Katie Hobbs

@GovernorHobbs

3 years

Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs released this statement in response to ongoing and escalating threats of violence directed at her family and her office.

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Ronald Brownstein

@RonBrownstein

4 years

Trump operates as a wartime president for red America-with blue America, more than any foreign adversary, as the target. Convincing his base that blue America is a threat to “their” America & that he “alone” can protect them is central to his political vision.

Josh Gerstein

@joshgerstein

4 years

This tweet from yesterday still nagging at me. Don't remember a president talking publicly about hating anyone since Nixon warned about such thoughts in his farewell speech

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@RonBrownstein

4 years

“A president who speaks of shooting people in the street — who elevates those who threaten to shoot people in the street — cannot be separated from the individual who does, eventually, shoot people in the street.”

Opinion | Kenosha Tells Us More About Where the Right Is Headed Than the R.N.C. Did (Published 2020)

The conservative media’s embrace of Kyle Rittenhouse speaks volumes about its priorities.

www.nytimes.com

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Ronald Brownstein

@RonBrownstein

4 years

Just wondering how many GOP professionals not on his reelection campaign payroll listen to this speech & say: yes, that's it, unbridled culture war (before an all-white audience that disdains masks & social distancing), that's how we win back the suburbs w/50k cases per day!

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Ronald Brownstein

@RonBrownstein

4 years

If my math is right, TX AZ & FL, each with GOP governors who have followed Trump's cue in reopening early & widely & have refused to reconsider their course as the virus has accelerated thru their states, added over 9,000 #coronavirus cases today alone.

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Ronald Brownstein

@RonBrownstein

3 years

Trump lost 91 of the 100 largest counties in the U.S., more even than he did in 16 or Romney did in 12.

Brad Heath

@bradheath

3 years

These people are banking on your being an idiot. The counties Biden won are home to about 60% of the U.S. population, almost 200 million people.

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@RonBrownstein

3 years

“While Joe Manchin is demanding both parties agree on any further federal voting-rights legislation, a new study quantifies how completely Republicans have excluded Dems from the passage of the restrictive voting laws proliferating in red states” Exclusive

Democracy Is Already Dying in the States

Republicans around the country are proving Joe Manchin wrong.

www.theatlantic.com

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Ronald Brownstein

@RonBrownstein

7 years

"no hearings, no studies, no CBO analysis, not even text of a bill circulated the day b4 vote" via @intelligencer

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@RonBrownstein

3 years

Just worth noting that she did endorse litigation meant to literally cancel the votes of five million of her constituents.

The Hill

@thehill

3 years

Outgoing Sen. Kelly Loeffler: "I refuse to be intimidated by the cancel culture and its dangerous narratives."

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Ronald Brownstein

@RonBrownstein

6 years

This tax bill is the coalition of restoration taking aim at the coalition of transformation: in different ways it targets urban residents, blue-states, college & grad students, Millennials-all groups central to the D coalition. It's an enemies list as much as a revenue bill

Richard Florida

@Richard_Florida

6 years

Just think about how much more damage will be inflicted in three more years. It is almost like purposeful destruction of every asset in the knowledge economy ...

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Ronald Brownstein

@RonBrownstein

5 years

True, but same question applies as on every other Trump outrage and excess: why does it fall only to Democrats to defend standards, morals, laws? Are Republicans now completely exempt from any responsibility to push back when Trump violates norms?

Josh Kraushaar

@JoshKraushaar

5 years

Trump's July 4 extravaganza: Wasting taxpayers' money, canceling commuter flights and risking the infrastructure of DC for partisan purposes... if Ds can't translate that into a winning political message...

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@RonBrownstein

3 months

Trump told NRA Friday his mass deportation program would begin "within moments" of taking office. To do at scale would likely require 150-200k law enforcement officers, including a private army of red state ntl guard he'd deploy into blue states More here.

Trump’s ‘Knock on the Door’

The former president and his aides are formulating plans to deport millions of migrants.

www.theatlantic.com

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Ronald Brownstein

@RonBrownstein

3 years

She’s right and @marcorubio , in between bible quotes, publicly praised and celebrated those who harassed the Biden bus. Has he reassessed those remarks?

Texas Tribune

@TexasTribune

3 years

Wendy Davis says Trump supporters harassing a Biden bus in Texas should have served as a warning before U.S. Capitol riot: "This is a symptom of a broader problem that is not going away."

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Ronald Brownstein

@RonBrownstein

4 years

As I've said many x, Trump views himself as the wartime president for Red America, with blue America, not any foreign rival, as the adversary.

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

4 years

“Leave Democrat cities. Let them rot.” — a message from the President of the United States

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Ronald Brownstein

@RonBrownstein

2 years

Can anyone really argue that the West would have produced this level of organized response if Trump was in office and belittling allies, praising Putin, & denigrating international institutions-after extorting Zelensky and falsely claiming Ukraine interfered against him?

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@RonBrownstein

7 years

Amazing stat: By 2040 70% of US pop will live in 15 largest states w/30 Senators. Last 30% of pop will have 70 Sens

Next 100 Days: In the Era of Trump, NYS is Out of Step and In the Crosshairs

New York City's values have perhaps never been further from the national agenda being pushed by President Trump and the GOP-controlled Congress.

citylimits.org

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Ronald Brownstein

@RonBrownstein

4 years

On national TV, Trump has now repeatedly said states should be pushed to the back of the line for life-saving material aid if their governors don’t play ball w/his political needs. How does that differ from what he did to Ukraine? Genuine question for GOP Sens who voted to acquit

Daniel Goldman

@danielsgoldman

4 years

It wasn’t a secret that Trump extorted Ukraine for his political benefit, yet 52 Senators voted that that was okay. So it should be no surprise that he is doing it again — this time with blue state governors who have the temerity to speak the truth to the petty bully in the WH.

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Ronald Brownstein

@RonBrownstein

3 years

"the National Black Justice Coalition (NBJC) is calling on the PGA Tour and Masters Tournament to pull the upcoming championship event from the Augusta National Golf Course. NBJC is also urging professional golfers to refuse to play in Georgia until SB 202 is repealed."

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