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Politics Managing Editor @NBCNews / amanda.terkel @nbcuni .com - DMs open for tips.

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1 year
"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."
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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.” 🤔
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If Dems win back the Senate in November, GOP Sen. Tim Scott claims Dems will grant abortions up to 52 weeks. Human pregnancies last about 40 weeks.
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7 months
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
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NEW — Charles Herbster, the Trump-backed candidate who is accused of groping 8 women, has lost the GOP primary race for Nebraska governor
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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
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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…
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Herschel Walker said in an interview that there are 52 states. There are 50.
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein, long a filibuster defender, said she's support a carve-out to get rid of it to codify abortion rights
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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."…
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1 year
. @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
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Rick Santorum says when you put "very sexy things" like marijuana and abortion on the ballot, it brings all the young people to the yard
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6 months
this Newsmax copium is actually hitting pretty good
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1 year
"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."
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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
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2 years
This is why “vote for Democrats” is not sufficient as a response to the Supreme Court decision. From @Robillard
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A Fox Corp. investor has sued Rupert Murdoch, Lachlan Murdoch and other Fox Corp. board members over "stolen election claims" by @janestreet
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10 months
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
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2 years
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
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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
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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...
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1 year
Love that members of Congress are saying that they all embellish their resumes. Say more! My DMs are open!
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5 months
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.”
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7 months
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
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Amanda Terkel
2 years
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.”
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1 year
Hi! Are you the person who was texting Tucker Carlson when he said he hated Trump "passionately"? DM me!
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1 year
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?!
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1 year
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...
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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
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10 months
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
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2 years
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.
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Justice Thomas calls on SCOUS to overrule Griswold (right to contraception); Lawrence (invalidating anti-sodomy laws); Obergefell (marriage equality)
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@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).
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2 years
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
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2 years
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.
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Story with @dnlbrns :
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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
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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
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1 year
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:
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2 months
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."
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“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
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2 years
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.
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Amanda Terkel
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"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
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1 year
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
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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
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6 months
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.
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"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
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Amanda Terkel
10 months
Very excited for this can’t wait to see all the great work we keep doing! Best team!
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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.
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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.
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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
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NEW -- Here's audio of the Matt Schlapp accuser. He recorded his account of the alleged groping right after it happened and shared with @jonallendc
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9 months
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
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2 years
At 7:48 p.m., Biden wrapped up his speech on gun violence in America. Just 3 minutes later, there was another shooting.
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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.
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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.
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@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
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"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
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At a time when IVF is in the news... @aseitzwald notes that Shanahan has advocated against supporting IVF research
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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.
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Here's how Dem strategists described the Biden campaign to @NBCNews : A “five-alarm fire.” Cardiac case in need of a “defibrillator.” Lemming on course to “slowly march into the sea and drown.” by @Petereporter @megan_lebowitz @katiadoyl @aseitzwald
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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:
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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
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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
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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
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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
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2 years
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
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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
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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. …
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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
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"We have a woke military that can't fight or win, as proven in Afghanistan" -Trump in NH, in his first campaign speech for the 2024 race
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. @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.
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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
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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
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2 years
His spokeswoman said, "Herschel misspoke ― he obviously knows there are 50 states"
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NBC News exit poll: Most Ohio voters are unhappy with overturning Roe v. Wade
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2 years
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.
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David Pecker admits National Enquirer made up that story about Ted Cruz's dad and Lee Harvey Oswald. Cruz told @sahilkapur that he's "not interested in revisiting ancient history."" by @RebeccaShabad w/ @adamreisstv @GaryGrumbach @JillianFrankel
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Trump ally tells @NBCNews that politically, they think 3 indictments is better than 1 for Trump... by @Mdixon55 @katiadoyl @akarl_smith @HenryJGomez
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Looks like the @NBCNews ticker of how long it's been without a House speaker is going to keep on going...
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