"To cut costs, Twitter has not paid rent for its San Francisco headquarters or any of its global offices for weeks, three people close to the company said."
Georgia GOP Senate candidate Herschel Walker casts doubt on evolution: "At one time, science said man came from apes, did it not? ... If that is true, why are there still apes? Think about it.” 🤔
NEW — Four former Ohio State wrestlers who have accused Rep. Jim Jordan of failing to protect them from a sexual predator when he was the team’s assistant coach are speaking out to
@csiemaszko
about their opposition to him becoming House speaker
NEW -- Justin Jones and Justin J. Pearson, the 2 Democratic state lawmakers in Tennessee who were expelled by Republicans for their gun protests, won primaries for their old seats tonight by
@abedelman
Ramaswamy's wife asked voters what they're hearing about why they're not supporting Vivek. One response: "I couldn’t even remember who said it to me, but they mentioned his dark skin and they think he’s Muslim."
Another voter asks her: "How long have you been in the United…
SCOOP -- Ron DeSantis' top crime talking point is that crime is at a 50-year low in Florida. But
@Mdixon55
reports that top FL officials were warned by staffers that the number is based on incomplete data and shouldn't be used.
"We knew the numbers were bad."…
.
@NBCNews
has confirmed the Daily Beast story about Matt Schlapp allegedly groping a male staffer on Herschel Walker's campaign in October. More details here from
@jonallendc
"Twitter’s leaders have also discussed the consequences of denying severance payments to thousands of people who have been laid off since the takeover, two people familiar with the talks said."
NEW -- Vivek Ramaswamy is saying that if elected president, he'll deport American-born children of undocumented immigrants (even though they're U.S. citizens)
by
@AlexanderTabet
@kekoretski
EXCLUSIVE — Administration officials watered down Kamala Harris' Gaza speech before delivery
The original draft was harsher on Israel about the dire humanitarian situation and the need for more aid.
by
@Yamiche
@carolelee
@ckubeNBC
@albamonica
NEW -- Most of the members of the Florida work group that put together the new Black history standards did not want "personal benefit" of slavery language included.
One member said 2 of the 13 members of the group pushed to include it.
by
@janellefiona
NEW from
@jbendery
-- The White House is privately signaling that it's moving forward with Chad Meredith, the anti-abortion court pick in Kentucky, despite the backlash
A Trump-endorsed candidate in Michigan says she would vote to ban all birth control if it comes up for a vote, bc “sex ought to be between one man and one woman in the confines of marriage” w/
@igorbobic
NEW -- Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) tells
@JNicholsonInDC
that Carl Paladino was being taken out of context in his comments about Hitler. Not clear how it was taken out of context...
Totally forgot that FL GOP chair Christian Ziegler — who is accused of rape and refusing to resign despite pressure — ran the Moms for Liberty media training in July. This was his advice:
“Never apologize. Ever... I think apologizing makes you weak.”
Another interesting backdrop to Jordan's speakership bid, should he win, is that he could get deposed. One of the former wrestlers with an ongoing lawsuit says he plans depose Jordan and have him testify under oath about the OSU scandal.
by
@csiemaszko
NEW -- Herschel Walker has claimed that his mom told him that his grandmother was a "full-blood Cherokee."
@jbendery
talked to his mom, who had a different story
NEW --
@svdate
talked to Michael Fanone, an officer who was beaten defending the Capitol on Jan. 6, about the PA troopers posing with Trump: "Those two or three dozen Pennsylvania state troopers, from the bottom of my heart, can go fuck all the way off.”
SCOOP from
@Mdixon55
@jonallendc
-- Florida Democratic donors are hoping to recruit NBA legends Dwayne Wade and Grant Hill to run for Senate against Rick Scott in 2024
In an incredible update to this... one of the women on both the DeSantis and Trump endorsement lists has now come out and said she's 100% with Trump and not DeSantis. What is happening?!
DeSantis super PAC is out with a list of 51 NH GOP state lawmakers backing the governor today, but 4 of them were on a Trump list of endorsers just 19 days ago. What happened? One of them tells
@DashaBurns
@jonallendc
that she's endorsing them both...
SCOOP from
@Mdixon55
-- Ron DeSantis' political team is calling up the Florida congressional delegation, trying to make sure more of them don't endorse Trump
NEW — Sen. Tim Scott rebukes Ron DeSantis over the Florida Black history standards: "As a country founded upon freedom, the greatest deprivation of freedom was slavery. There is no silver lining … in slavery."
by
@HenryJGomez
@Mdixon55
Alito's opinion also chastises liberals for stoking "unfounded fear that our decision will imperil those other rights," including Griswold, Lawrence and Obergefell -- the same exact cases that Thomas says should now be overturned.
@JNicholsonInDC
And note that in the story... Collins makes clear she still supports the bill. She just stating that it's going to be harder for her to get other Rs on board now (which seems pretty obvious).
Some personal news: After 12 wonderful years at HuffPost, I'll be joining
@NBCNews
Digital on 11/14 as senior politics editor, overseeing campaign coverage and politics breaking news. So excited to join the team there, and thanks so much to
@CatherineKimNY
@TomNamako
@etjohnstone
A Jan. 6 rioter who dragged former D.C. Police Officer Michael Fanone into the crowd on the steps of the U.S. Capitol was sentenced to 7.5 years in federal prison on Thursday.
Susan Collins says Elon Musk should let Trump back on Twitter. Other Republicans (Hawley) not so sure. Mitt Romney says he’s staying out of it. by
@igorbobic
@ArthurDelaneyHP
Republicans in an Arizona county decided they wanted to start hand-counting ballots. So they did a test run. And ends up, it's expensive — and inaccurate. So they dropped it.
by
@janestreet
Reading through the Cassidy Hutchinson transcripts is chilling -- the fear she had as she came forward to speak about Trump. Read some of the highlights here:
So a male voter in NC told
@shaqbrewster
that he doesn't like Nikki Haley bc he doesn't think a woman should be president bc she has no "balls to scratch."
“All a woman’s good for in my book is having babies and taking care of the house."
“Our own president betrayed us” — U.S. Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell tells
@igorbobic
he holds Trump personally responsible for the injuries he sustained on Jan. 6
In 2008, yes, Obama also misspoke and said 57 states. The right then used that as more proof of their birther conspiracy, saying he was talking about Islamic countries.
"Never apologize":
@NBCNews
sat in on a Moms for Liberty media training, where members were taught how to spin the press as the group gains greater national prominence
by
@gabegutierrez
JUST IN -- NBC News projects that Jennifer McClellan has made history as the first Black woman elected to Congress from Virginia. Won the special election in the 4th Congressional District by
@zarichards
At his press conference, Schumer says that since Dems retained the Senate, there will be a “firewall” against a nationwide abortion ban that some Republicans have talked about
Nikki Haley earned between $100,000 and $1M for each of 12speaking engagements in 2022-2023. She met with bankers, firms that do business with China, pro-Israel groups.
Her campaign tells
@jonallendc
she has no transcripts, notes or recordings of them.
"Republicans are quick to suggest that President Joe Biden has lost a step — but he proved nimble enough Tuesday night to box them in on Social Security and Medicare. And he did it, in part, by going off script." by
@jonallendc
Very excited to announce that
@aterkel
has been named Managing Editor, Digital Politics at
@NBCNews
! She's had an amazing impact in her short time here — bringing journalists together and driving scoops. Looking forward to her leading the team into the 2024 election and beyond.
NEW from
@Mdixon55
— Matt Gaetz is widely expected to run for governor of Florida in 2026. Four sources tell
@NBCNews
that at an event Sunday night, Gaetz strongly implied to people that he was going to do it.
We made a tool to show you some of what Fox News wanted to keep redacted in the Dominion case. (The judge agreed that Fox had blacked out too much initially and allowed more information to be released) w/
@janestreet
In all 7 states where abortion has been on the ballot since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade... abortion rights have won. And many of these states have been far from bright blue.
with
@jiachuanwu
NEW -- Fox has a fact-checking operation called the "Brain Room" that looked into Dominion election-rigging claims in Nov. 2020. Found them to be false. Fox ran with them anyway.
SCOOP -- Never Back Down, the pro-DeSantis super PAC, has ended its much-touted door-knocking operations in Nevada and Super Tuesday states
by
@akarl_smith
@korecki
One thing I wasn’t prepared for when my kid started pre-K this year was that he would be doing active shooter drills where they hide in the library. He is 4.
@akarl_smith
@katiadoyl
@Mdixon55
@natashakorecki
A recent call between about 15 GOP operatives that was supposed to be about Hunter Biden and going after Dems turned into consternation over what the Trump indict will mean for the party
"Anyone who's ever received a text message from their father knows how important editing is. Editors do amazing things. Editors can turn 44,000 hours of violent insurrection footage into a respectful sight-seeing tour of the Capitol." - Jimmy Kimmel
#Oscars
NEW: Who is Nicole Shanahan, RFK Jr.'s new running-mate?
The 38-year-old tech lawyer lacks experience and name recognition but has wealth, youth, and commitment to Kennedy’s campaign.
BREAKING -- Ron DeSantis fires roughly a dozen staffers as his campaign burns through $$ and struggles to catch up to Trump by
@Mdixon55
@akarl_smith
@jonallendc
NEW — RFK Jr. campaign out with a fundraising email saying Jan. 6 "activists" have been "stripped of their Constitutional liberties"
by
@aseitzwald
@ryanjreilly
Read
@ryanjreilly
's reporting on who these people actually are:
Alito: Liberals are are trying to "stoke unfounded fear" that we're now going to go after Griswold, Lawrence and Obergefell
Thomas: "In future cases, we should reconsider...Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell"
w/
@maritavlachou
NEW -- Smaller events, not letting the press and the public know about events ahead of time, an outside firm to vet attendees: How Biden aides are trying to shield the president from protests
by
@albamonica
@carolelee
@PeterAlexander
@elysepg
There was a dominating narrative in the run-up to the midterms that Republicans were making gains with Latinos. But actually, Latinos stuck with Dems in the Southwest, cementing their gains in what was once a red region by
@natashakorecki
Two separate court filings today by Dominion and a trio of media outlets saying that Fox News blacked-out too much in the documents that were made public by
@janestreet
Biden has secured liberal priorities -- like student loans, climate, pot -- with little GOP pushback politically. Republicans are filing lawsuits against student loans, but they've notably aired only 2 ads against Dems on the issue by
@Robillard
EXCLUSIVE -- Amy Brown, wife of Nevada GOP Senate candidate Sam Brown, opens up about her abortion publicly for the first time ever.
Sam Brown also says he will not back any federal abortion ban.
Interview with
@natashakorecki
Most of the complaint against Flordia GOP Chair Christian Ziegler is redacted, but the words that are not redacted are quite bad.
His attorney has confirmed that he is under investigation.
Ziegler's wife is one of the co-founders of Moms for Liberty.
…
NEW -- Privately, Republican operatives are admitting that Trump's legal woes are serious this time (far more than they're saying so publicly) -- lots of great reporting in here from
@akarl_smith
@katiadoyl
@Mdixon55
@natashakorecki
.
@NBCNews
projects that turnout for tonight's caucuses will be 130K -- substantially lower than the nearly 187K who turned out in 2016, the last time there was a competitive GOP caucus.
NEW -- A group of 16 prominent Republicans and donors met in Palm Beach Sunday. Pro-DeSantis and/or Trump-skeptical.
Consensus was they liked DeSantis, it might be better for him to wait to run in 2028 by
@DashaBurns
@jonallendc
@akarl_smith
@HenryJGomez
NEW — In a private phone call today, Biden urged Netanyahu to minimize civilian casualties in the Gaza Strip as Israel sets out to destroy Hamas in reprisal, two Biden administration officials and one former official told NBC News.
by
@albamonica
…
Also says that Republicans will NEVER win again... even though Dems currently control the House, Senate and White House, and Republicans appear to have a very good chance of winning again.