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After a hostile Trump takeover, the RNC is backtracking on its plans to open 40 new outreach centers in Latino, Black, Asian American, Native American, Jewish, and veteran communities in key battleground states.
I just witnessed Mr. and Mrs. Claus get turned away from Le Dip because they did not have a reservation.
Most thrilling thing that’s ever happened in the North Pole. Electric!
Here's what they're saying in
#NY03
after last night's special election:
"I think Mazi Pilip was really far-right, and her issue was the abortion issue. I think that's a woman's choice."
NEW: Just caught up w
@GOPLeader
Kevin McCarthy in the Capitol.
He said he's feeling "actually really good" as he entered the speaker of the House suite on the second floor of the Capitol.
I asked him if he'd set motion to vacate at one, and he smiled and walked in the office
NEW: Blue Rose Research collected 1,331 interviews, testing the effectiveness of
@HouseMajPAC
's ad.
‘Deliver’ was in the top 10% of ads tested this year and drove major movement on measures like
@POTUS
job approval, Democratic Party favorability, and the House Horse Race.
McCarthy: There’s so much that we’ve been able to accomplish in a short amount of time… I had the privilege of being leader for five years. I think about did I leave this place better than I received it.
Rep. Mayra Flores says that when she used a QAnon hashtag on Twitter, it was meant to indicate she was opposed to it. She then immediately tries to change the topic, telling hosts to "stay focused" as they attempt to ask her follow up questions. Seems legit.
Convoy: We're going to attempt and fail to shut off access to your city, make your commutes even more miserable -- and we can't articulate any demands.
Normal People: 🖕🖕🖕
Convoy: 🤯🤯🤯
A trucker with The People's Convoy riding behind Ted Cruz this morning says many Beltway commuters have been flicking the truckers off: "We go around the Beltway, birds are flying. Birds are flying everywhere. That's the kind of people that live up there."
NEW: House GOP making enormous cuts to safety net price to avert shutdown
Including
1M low-income mothers & young kids excluded from nutrition aid
~70% cuts to home heating $ ahead of winter months
~80% cut to $ for schools w/ poor kids
& much more
Michigan congressional candidate
@barrettbrigade1
branded himself "100% pro life -- no exceptions,"
The values section from the website was scrubbed later in the month and after the Kansas results.
#MI07
2. In Democratic politics, research is considered an entry level job that you slog through on your way to something glitzier like press
It's a task delegated to the most inexperienced and lowest-paid staff
🚨🚨🚨Ohio Republican Warren Davidson, who is backing Kevin McCarthy’s embattled bid for House Speaker and nominated McCarthy on the floor Wednesday, acknowledged in an interview with CNN that the window may be closing for the California Republican.🚨🚨🚨
House GOP leaders are sending members home for the week amid deep divisions over funding the government ahead of the Sept. 30 deadline, according to multiple GOP sources. They had planned to be in session over the weekend to pass a stop-gap bill, but they don’t have the votes.
🚨🚨🚨
@HouseMajPAC
is placing over $186 million in initial television and digital reservations, the largest ever in our history, for the 2024 cycle.
Folks, we're taking back the House!
Mazi Pilip just gave one of the worst debate performances I've ever seen.
Now it makes sense why she's been running a basement campaign, refusing to meet with voters, and running away from the tough questions.
She's not prepared.
#NY03
Now that we've said goodbye to Kevin McCarthy, it's time to say hello to
@HouseMajPAC
's new IE Director.
HMP is proud to announce
@shripal734
as the latest addition to our team!
BREAKING: The US economy ADDED 467,000 jobs in January despite the Omicron wave. This is way higher than expected.
Big gains in leisure and hospitality, which added 151,000 in January.
The unemployment rate is 4% (slightly up from December, but for good reasons = more searching
Statement from
@HouseMajPAC
:
“
@GOPLeader
ran his campaign for Speaker on the promise of making history and today by going to a second ballot for the first time in 100 years, he is already delivering. We congratulate the Republican Chaos Conference on their historic disarray.”
Scoop: Andrew Yang set to launch a third party next month, per 2 sources familiar
Plan is to launch w/ his new book, Forward, that comes out October 5.
YOUNGKIN 16 days ago: Bidenomics is hurting all Americans.
YOUNGKIN TODAY: Virginia’s economy is doing historically well… 2.5% unemployment, record growth, record labor force participation rate.
📺Mazi Pilip's campaign continues to flounder:
"Pilip is running a quiet race compared to Tom Suozzi."
"Pilip is better known for what she doesn't say than what she does."
"In the past
@ABC7NY
has requested to sit down with Pilip, we are still waiting for a response."
#NY03
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New York Republicans blocked WABC's
@KristinThorne
from leaving the building when she tried to ask Mazi Pilip a question.
Mazi Pilip can't stop running away from the tough questions.
#NY03
Statement from
@HouseMajPAC
:
Any Republican who voted to drive us even closer to a default crisis so they can slash veteran’s benefits and cancer research will have
@SpeakerMcCarthy
to blame when they lose re-election.
HMP will ensure these extremists are voted out in 2024.
Statement from
@HouseMajPAC
on Kevin McCarthy tying the Fast and Furious franchise after the 9th vote:
“Congratulations to Kevin McCarthy for losing as many votes as there are Fast and Furious movies. Clearly House Republicans aren’t his friends, or family.”
The folks here at
@HouseMajPAC
kindly thank those vulnerable House Republicans for their in-kind contributions!
Those cuts will not look great for them in ads...
So ... Looks like a bunch of vulnerable House Rs are going to have just voted for 30% cuts to hundreds of domestic programs ... only for the bill to fail anyway by a wide margin?
(And even if the bill had passed the House it would still be DOA anyway in the Senate)
👀NY Rep. Anthony D'Esposito (R) is expected to soon endorse Donald Trump for president, a source with knowledge of the matter tells me.
I think D'Esposito, who represents a Biden-won district, is among the most vulnerable House Rs to back Trump
Research conducted by
@HouseMajPAC
has shown that Democrats dramatically improved their position when they went on offense to talk about the economy.
Going on offense, and building contrast with MAGA House Republicans is the right move ⤵️
NEW in Huddle - Bolstered by good economic news, House Democrats are channeling James Carville with their “it’s the economy, stupid” campaign approach this summer. But they’re not necessarily channeling the president’s ‘Bidenomics.’
Joint Statement from
@HouseMajPAC
and Sesame Street’s Count von Count after the 5th ballot:
“We love counting and today’s number is 201, which means Kevin McCarthy still doesn’t have the votes. AH AH AH!”
☀️ THE DISASTER THAT IS HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP
Just this week,
@SpeakerJohnson
has:
→ Seen Democrats win a special election in New York, narrowing the already minuscule GOP majority to two votes.
→ Lost a sixth rule vote on the House floor — a measure that would’ve
NEW:
@HouseMajPAC
is announcing a $45 million New York Fund program for the 2024 election cycle.
House Majority PAC will be the largest investor in New York Democratic campaigns in 2024, and we will flip these New York districts blue and take back the House!
NEW: House Democrats' main super PAC says it will pour a record $45 million into New York to try to flip back 5+ seats and with them, the House majority.
HMP's Mike Smith on the centrality of NY in '24: “It’s not just us seeing it."
Mazi Pilip admits she is not paying attention to what's happening in Congress.
🤡"I don't know which bipartisan bill you are talking about"
If she can't even pay attention to the issues, why should
#NY03
trust her?
Mazi Pilip admits she is not paying attention to what's happening in Congress.
🤡"I don't know which bipartisan bill you are talking about"
If she can't even pay attention to the issues, why should
#NY03
trust her?
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When pressed on her plans to address border security,
@maziforcongress
doubles down on opposing the bipartisan border security bill and can't come up with any substantive answers.
Flailing within the first 5 minutes and clearly unprepared.
#NY03
Instead of working to avert a government shutdown,
@RepMikeLawler
is spending his time complaining about
@HouseForward
and the
@dccc
on the floor of the House.
Folks he is not mad, please don't put in the newspaper that Mike Lawler is mad!
#NY17
LONG ISLAND INSIDER: Mazi Pilip’s Phantom Campaign
"The special election for
#NY03
is less than three weeks away.
"But Republican candidate
@maziforcongress
continues to duck the press and avoid a debate with her opponent
@Tom_Suozzi
."
“Yes we lost. But it doesn’t mean we’re going to end here,” Pilip said, covering to Suozzi in
#NY03
.
But it wasn’t clear if she’ll be the party’s nominee again in November. “We’ll have to wait and see,” Nassau County Republican Chair Joe Cairo told me.
“I would’ve walked through a tornado to get someone good in there,” she said.
Waldman said she supported
@Tom_Suozzi
's views on abortion and the border.
#NY03
For anyone who follows Mike Lawler, this is the least surprising thing in the world ⤵️
@lawler4ny
was BANNED from Wikipedia for self-aggrandizing his own page
#NY17
Tough to put into words how great of a person my cousin Joey was.
From father, to cousin, to friend he was always someone you wanted to be around — and you could always expect to have a good time when Joey was there.
We love him a lot and we’re really going to miss him.
"
@HouseMajPAC
is circulating a list of six vulnerable House Republicans who voted for the agriculture bill that included language that would restrict access to mifepristone, a widely used abortion pill."
Don Bacon’s actions tell a dramatically different story.
Bacon cosponsored the Life at Conception Act which would’ve put IVF and other fertility treatments at risk.
Why does he keep lying?
#NE02
I was on Meet the Press Now and made clear that I support IVF. As a two-time foster parent, make no mistake that I want to help people become moms and dads who require IVF to do so.
Good morning from
@playbookdc
!
"The sun has now risen three times since
@GOPLeader
assured Americans that they would wake up to a House GOP majority...and each day, the sun has set with the projected number of Republican seats dimming."
207 House Republicans just voted AGAINST:
❌Fighting inflation
❌Reducing the deficit
❌Lowering the cost of prescription drugs and health insurance
❌Defending America’s energy security
❌Making wealthy corporations pay their fair share
“The ones who get very sick and go to the hospital are the ones that don’t take the vaccine. … if you do get it, it’s a very minor form. .. People aren’t dying when they take the vaccine.” -Donald Trump
One thing I’ve really been wondering about if Trump doesn’t run in 2024.
Will any GOP candidates accept that they lost the Iowa caucus or will there just be never ending challenges to each other while calling the caucus rigged?
NEWS: Marjorie Taylor Greene, GOP congresswoman from Georgia, plans to appear at Iowa State Fair Aug. 19, sources tell me. The fair is a traditional venue for politicians contemplating presidential campaigns, so it’s sparking questions about whether
@mtgreenee
may try to seek WH.
NEW from
@NavigatorSurvey
:
Seven in ten Americans now disapprove of the way Republicans in Congress are handling their jobs, including – for the first time – a plurality of Republicans.
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@maziforcongress
is SHUTTING OUT local reporters from
@nytimes
and
@WNYC
because she's afraid to answer any questions!!!
What is George Santos 2.0 hiding?!?!?!
#NY03
WATCH:
@HouseMajPac
is launching a new TV ad highlighting
@MattLarkin4WA
's support for a national ban on abortion, which allows politicians to outlaw a woman’s right to choose and punishes women seeking health care services that have been legal for 50 years.
#WA08
In
#NV03
,
@CLFSuperPAC
spent almost $11 million -- by far their most expensive House race of the cycle.
They just got completely shut out in competitive Nevada races.
President Biden just delivered his budget to Congress, and it is completely unserious.
He proposes trillions in new taxes that you and your family will pay directly or through higher costs.
Mr. President: Washington has a spending problem, NOT a revenue problem.
NEW: Michelle Steel announces her opposition to a plan that would protect Social Security and Medicare, lower drug prices, and grow the American economy
#CA45
This is not the budget of a President serious about addressing the most pressing issues facing the American people.
Soon,
@HouseGOP
will release our own budget – and we’ll show you what we value. LOWER taxes, LESS spending, and MORE prosperity for hardworking Americans.