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Laura Barrón-López

2 years

Professional news: I'm heading to PBS Newshour to be their White House Correspondent. Excited to join the Newshour team and take on a new challenge!

‘PBS NewsHour’ Names Laura Barron-Lopez White House Correspondent (Exclusive)

Barrón-López succeeds Yamiche Alcindor, who left 'NewsHour' for NBC News in March.

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@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

‘A hot, flaming mess’: Georgia primary beset by chaos, long lines

Georgia’s primary, delayed by the coronavirus pandemic, plagued by issues with new voting machines.

www.politico.com

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Tom Petty estate issues cease and desist notice to Trump campaign

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Freshman Rep. Joe Cunningham (D-SC) just tried to take a 6-pack of beer onto the House floor and was told that’s not allowed. “It’s Friday too,” he said laughing as he turned around.

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6 years

Republicans may have to recall all State of the Union tickets because they say "Uniom" not "Union," per two Dem aides.

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Off-script line from Biden when calling on Congress to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines: "You think the deer are wearing kevlar vests?"

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Pelosi on Ryan: "For some reason I think the speaker thinks he is the speaker of the White House rather than the speaker of the House" Elicits loud boos from Republicans Pelosi: "Oh, I touched a nerve."

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@MsLaToshaBrown @ZachMontellaro Brown was near tears when we spoke. Saying her nephew had to wait 6hrs to vote on Friday during early voting. "We have got to stop making voting a traumatic damn experience for black voters," said Brown.

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3 years

NEW: Progressives strikes back at centrist Dems Rep. Tlaib choked up in interview as she said people in her district walked past blighted homes to vote for Biden/Harris. “I can’t believe that people are asking them to be quiet.” More w/ @hollyotterbein

Tlaib lashes out at centrist Dems over election debacle: ‘I can’t be silent’

In a scathing memo, progressives say centrists are playing into Republicans “divide-and-conquer racism.”

www.politico.com

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4 years

New: POLITICO has heard from multiple Democrats, campaigns on the ground that there is a shortage of volunteers at caucus sites Story is developing... 1/

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. @AOC on moderates coalescing behind @JoeBiden : “The largest impact is in resources, there’s a lot of lobbyists interested here, there’s a lot of special interests, there’s a lot of people who are dedicated to preventing a progressive surge.”

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6 years

As I was asking @maziehirono questions just now, she looked right at @SenateMajLdr as he was passing in Ohio Clock corridor outside Senate chamber, and said: “Do the right thing!” Cornyn chuckled a little. Hirono’s staffers were visibly taken aback.

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4 years

Warren and Sanders have been chatting and occasionally laughing a good portion of their march arm in arm to Dome.

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5 years

Podium lineup for CNN Oct. 15 Democratic debate.

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. @AOC at presser w/Schumer: “We need to make sure that we mobilize on an unprecedented scale to ensure that this vacancy is reserved for the next president.” “We need every day people to call on senators...to call Republican senators to make sure they hold this vacancy open.”

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5 years

Pelosi says Trump told her during meeting that reason he pulled troops out of Syria was because of promise he made on campaign to bring them home. Pelosi told Trump: “Is Saudi Arabia home?” Pelosi says Trump responded: Saudis are “paying for it.”

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3 years

. @WHCOS Ron Klain told @RyanLizza this AM that Biden asked Education Sec Cardona "to have his department prepare a memo on the president’s legal authority" to cancel student loan debt via exec action and that the review could be finished "in the next few weeks"

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4 years

Pelosi: "I am writing to request a full list of the agencies involved... Congress and the American people need to know who is in charge, what is the chain of command, what is the mission, and by what authority is the National Guard from other states operating in the capital."

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PELOSI writes trump on troops in dc.

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Rubio tweets about passing of John Lewis but posts photo of Elijah Cummings. He even made photo with Cummings his new Twitter profile

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4 years

NEW: The most influential candidate who won't be on tonight's debate stage @JulianCastro 's led the field on immigration, police reform, and more. "No matter what happens, I'm very proud of the campaign we've run because I didn't take the easy path.”

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4 years

Organizer in GA just told me it's a "hot, flaming, fucking mess" Some polling locations have yet to open. Hundreds in line by 8am and none had voted. Precincts where no one has appropriate credentials to log into voting machines. Most issues in Fulton County, per organizer

Blayne Alexander

@ReporterBlayne

4 years

Seeing reports and getting several texts about voting issues at multiple polling places in Georgia. Some machines not working. In at least one instance, building not unlocked until 7:30 - half hour after polls opened. #GAprimaries

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2 years

“Classified documents relating to nuclear weapons were among the items FBI agents sought in a search of former president Donald Trump’s Florida residence on Monday, according to people familiar with the investigation.”

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@shaneharris

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SCOOP: FBI searched Trump’s home to look for nuclear documents and other items, sources say.

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3 years

Rep. Clyburn questioned how his 3rd floor office was located but not his clearly marked ceremonial one. Rep. Horsford said he thought the riots were “an inside job,” per two members on call. Rep. Sanchez raised ? of possible collusion among some Capitol Police, per ppl listening

Kyle Cheney

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NEW: House Democrats are concerned that Capitol rioters — who seemed to navigate the complex with ease — had hidden help. They plan to probe this, among other security concerns. w/ @sarahnferris @lbarronlopez

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Scoop: National immigrant rights group Make the Road Action endorses Bernie Sanders Big get for Sanders as MTR can wield significant influence & gotv efforts w/in immigrant and minority communities in Nevada ahead of caucus

National immigrant rights group endorses Sanders

Make the Road Action is wading into a presidential race for the first time.

www.politico.com

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6 years

I’ve never heard Sen. @brianschatz talk like this. “I love the Senate and I’ve never been so appalled at this institution.” He was visibly upset leaving Senate SCIF after viewing FBI’s Kavanaugh report.

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3 years

NEW: Rep. Clyburn says Biden “should endorse” a filibuster carveout for Dems’ elections/VRA bills “Pick up the phone and tell Joe Manchin, ‘Hey, we should do a carve out.’ I don't care whether he does it in a microphone or on the telephone — just do it.”

Top Biden ally pleads with him to scrap filibuster for election reform

Rep. Jim Clyburn said it’s time for the president to embrace more aggressive changes to the Senate rules.

www.politico.com

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NEWS: Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) was carjacked at gunpoint tonight outside his apartment building in DC, multiple sources confirm to me. And Cuellar is safe they say

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"If you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, no one would convict you." -- Lindsey Graham (R-SC)

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Scoop: Co-founders of Justice Democrats and ex-AOC aides @saikatc , @corbintrent , @zackexley are setting their sights on Senate Democrats. They’re launching a search for challengers to WVa Sen. Joe Manchin and Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema w/ @hollyotterbein

Progressive PAC kick-starts search for challengers to Manchin, Sinema

New group plans to target Senate Democratic incumbents.

www.politico.com

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. @DanaBashCNN Do you think wearing a mask projects strength or weakness? @JoeBiden : “It projects leadership.” Biden said Trump mocking of him and others wearing masks makes Trump a “fool”

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. @AOC on Instagram live right now calls Jan 6 assault supremacist violence and "racist violence." Says "there were acts of heroism but next to that were acts of betrayal" by police, members

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Asked about @PeteButtigieg campaign using stock photo of a Kenyan woman for their Douglass Plan, @KamalaHarris is left a little speechless and laughs: “I'm sure someone agrees that was a big mistake. He’s gonna have to answer for that. I don't have words to describe that.”

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NEW: @JulianCastro will join @angela_rye at Paschal’s in Atlanta the night before the fifth Democratic presidential debate for a one-on-one convo about the 2020 race. Castro didn't make the debate stage, but will discuss poverty, immigration, and other 2020 issues with Rye.

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New: @AyannaPressley boycotting State of the Union tonight “The occupant of the White House incessantly stokes fear in people of color, women, healthcare providers, LGBTQ+ communities, low-income families, and many more."

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. @LindseyGrahamSC to reporters on questions he has about Flynn/White House:

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Per Dem source: “I'm at Spring Valley High School and a lot of the Nevada Dem Party volunteers did not show up. They are worried about the precinct chairs showing up as well.”

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@MsLaToshaBrown @ZachMontellaro . @GaSecofState office shared stmt from state's voting implementation mgr blaming counties for "poor planning, limited training, & failures of leadership." Raffensperger said situation was "unacceptable," would investigate what counties need to do to resolve issues before Nov

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NSDP party officials are telling campaign representatives that there’s a deficit of volunteers across the state, and so they are asking representatives of campaigns to act as precinct chairs, per multiple sources on ground

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5 years

Some professional news: Excited to join @CNN as a political analyst! (In addition to my awesome job at @politico .)

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Progressive group @justicedems is calling on White House to issue a plan on how they intend to pass $15 minimum wage “or risk betraying campaign promise” 8 Senate Democrats just voted against procedural vote on $15

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New Latino Decisions poll finds nationally Latinos back Biden by 66%, Trump 24%. In May Biden was at 61% Latinos in battlegrounds Arizona: 63% Biden, 29% Trump Fla: 55% Biden, 41% Trump NC: 61% Biden, 24% Trump PA: 59% Biden, 28% Trump Conducted Aug 7-15 for Somos, UnidosUS

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Sanders up first at the dome: “We will tell Republican governors they will not suppress the right to vote.” “We remember Dr. King’s revolutionary spirit and we say to the 1% you cannot have it all, this country is for all of us.”

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. @AOC : "I don't want to hear or see the Republican party talk about Blue lives ever again. This was never about safety for them....they don't give a damn about the law. They give a damn about white supremacy."

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In statement, sticking to their position that they will only vote for bif if reconciliation passes first, @RepJayapal says “This agenda is not some fringe wish list: it is the President’s agenda, the Democratic agenda, and what we all promised voters…”

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Per source: Desert Oasis High School just announced that they don’t have the registrations or the early ballots yet. They are on the way.

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Rep. Steve Scalise blames Nancy Pelosi for lack of diversity in House GOP conference at E-PAC launch: "I’ve noticed that when female members run on Republican side Nancy Pelosi will spend a lot more money in many cases twice as much more to defeat Republican female candidates."

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NEW: Pete Buttigieg isn’t doing well with Latinos, either Latinos from DC to NV and CA say outreach is non-existent. “I don’t know who is working for him, who is supporting him or where they exist in our ecosystem.” w/ @ec_schneider

Buttigieg has a serious Latino problem, too

It's not just African American voters he's failing to connect with.

www.politico.com

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@MsLaToshaBrown @ZachMontellaro @GaSecofState UPDATE: At least five counties have extended voting hours to either 8pm or 9pm in Georgia due to delayed openings, machine problems, long lines Fulton, Chantam, Muscogee, Cobb, Richmond Counties

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. @AOC said GOP members cheered rioters carrying confederate flags in Capitol: "If any member of congress so much as stutters to say that the confederacy were traitors to the United States that the confederacy is a legion of white supremacists, turn in your pin and get out."

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Biden on killings of Floyd, Taylor, Arbery: "We've spoken their names aloud, we've cried them out in pain and horror." "It's a list that dates back more than 400 years. Black men, black women, black children. The original sin of this country still stains our nation today"

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. @KamalaHarris : “You can't unify folks if you don't understand who they are and their specific needs and the right that they have to be represented, based not on a stock photograph, but who they actually are.”

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Excerpts of Biden's speech in PA today: "Does anyone believe there will be less violence in America if Donald Trump is reelected? We need justice in America. And we need safety in America." "We are facing multiple crises – crises that, under Donald Trump, keep multiplying."

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@MsLaToshaBrown @ZachMontellaro @GaSecofState @staceyabrams Is Fair Fight looking at legal action and when? @staceyabrams : "Yes and soon."

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Biden transition: Attack on Congress "by a mob that included domestic terrorists and violent extremists" and continued threats/potential for violence "is a challenge that the President-elect and his team take incredibly seriously."

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@burgessev It was NOT bud light. I got a closer look. Was from Westbrook Brewing Co of South Carolina.

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@AOC . @aoc talks about fear "to run in Capitol and not know if there is an officer there to help you or hurt you" Says she didn't trust some of her GOP colleagues to not disclose her location, fearing she'd be kidnapped

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. @AOC : “Anti-racism plays 0% of a role in Democratic electoral strategy -- zero, explicitly, implicitly. I'm not telling people to virtue signal, but there's just like no plan for it.” Democrats need to “take our gloves off with Republicans," she said.

Tlaib lashes out at centrist Dems over election debacle: ‘I can’t be silent’

In a scathing memo, progressives say centrists are playing into Republicans “divide-and-conquer racism.”

www.politico.com

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NEWS: @TomSteyer targets two Oversight Republicans @Jim_Jordan and @RepMarkMeadows in $75,000 ad buy across their two districts. Steyer could up the ad buy to seven figures over the next few weeks. Similar ad used against Meadows and Jordan will run in Ariz. & Colo. Story TK

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@hollyotterbein In a memo being circulated by Justice Dems, Sunrise and others, progressives laid out their own dire diagnosis of Dem election losses and criticize centrists for playing into Republicans’ “divide-and-conquer racism.”

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NEW Univision poll of Florida All registered voters: Biden - 63% Sanders - 25% Among Florida Latino voters: Biden - 48% Sanders - 40% Latinos broken down... Cubans Sanders - 47% Biden - 46% Puerto Ricans Biden - 53% Sanders - 38%

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Professional news: I'm covering the new White House with a focus on the power dynamics between Biden and the Hill. Also keeping an eye on WH relations w/progressives and activist movements. Send all the tips And check out our new White House team!

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SCOOP: Congressional Black Caucus overwhelmingly passed a vote of "NO confidence" on DNC chair Tom Perez today in their caucus meeting. Story TK shortly

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Sen. John McCain won't say if he liked or disliked Trump's speech: "It was a continuation of the campaign that won him the presidency."

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New: Sanders met with Hispanic lawmakers tonight “It literally looked like a new Bernie,” a Latino member in the room said. w/ @hollyotterbein

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Was just texted by a member about this. A Democratic member was carjacked at gunpoint by 3-4 people, per member. A number of members live in this building

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News - a member of Congress was apparently carjacked in Navy Yard this evening, theee ppl familiar tell @sarahnferris and me

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NEWS: White House expected to cancel up to 20,000 in student debt for Pell Grant recipients, source familiar with decisions tells me. And everyone else will get 10k in relief up to 125k income.

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More from @brianschatz interview w/reporters earlier... "If you don't interview people provided by counsel for the accusers, who say they can corroborate, and then you say our interview process provided no corroboration, it's a joke.”

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McCarthy was asked about House GOP members associated w/Fuentes, specifically Greene. He said “she denounced him” There’s no public evidence Greene denounced Fuentes. She claimed she didn’t know about his “controversial” views when she spoke at his white nationalist conference

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One of McCarthy's most outspoken supporters in his bid to be Speaker, Marjorie Taylor Greene, spoke at Fuentes's conference last year. Another GOP member of the House, Paul Gosar, has spoken at Fuentes's conference two years in a row.

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Republican Kirk Adams said a big push from Cindy McCain could be major boost to Biden with swing suburban white voters in Maricopa County “those swing suburban voters, John McCain did very well with those people.”

Trump accelerates Arizona’s swing state evolution

Migration from California, a growing Latino population, and shifting attitudes among white college-educated voters are reshaping the state’s politics.

www.politico.com

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NEW: My look at how historic distrust of health system among black ppl & Latinos -- a product of generations of racial inequities gone unchecked -- and a lack of culturally competent outreach informing about virus is having consequences as covid-19 rages

Trump coronavirus response feeds distrust in black and Latino communities

Trustworthy communication to minority populations has been sorely lacking, public health experts say.

www.politico.com

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Clyburn on Trump calling impeachment investigation a “lynching”: “That is one word that no president ought to apply to himself.” “I’m not a just a politician...I’m a product of the South. I know the history of that word.”

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"It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see where the gain would be for the president in investigating the son of a political opponent," Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman told House investigators per transcript via @NatashaBertrand , @AndrewDesiderio

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Warren tells CNN she’s willing to have fight over witnesses even if it means trial goes into Feb 3 Iowa caucus She was responding to this @mkraju , @jeremyherb report:

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@MsLaToshaBrown @ZachMontellaro @GaSecofState . @staceyabrams on GA elex problems: "What we know is that the best intentions met the worst preparations." When people have to wait for "5, 6, 7 hours we don’t know who leaves, we don’t know who gives up when they can’t afford to stay."

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New: House Dems prepare to probe disputed NC 9th election If a judge orders that Republican Mark Harris be certified, Rep. Marcia Fudge is “confident that the House would bring an action against the state.” Meaning House Dems would sue North Carolina

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News: NC Judge Ridgeway rules AGAINST Mark Harris' petition for certification in #NC09 Says a "certification is not appropriate until the investigation into the protest is concluded by final decision."

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New: A Dem member just texted me this right now: "I just tried to leave Longworth after getting my Covid test, only to be told that the building is now on lockdown. Apparently some external threat. Propane tanks under some bridge. Stuck in my office."

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An alert just went off in the Capitol urging people to stay inside and to not leave due to an external security threat. It urged people to stay away from windows and doors

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After Syria briefing, Cornyn admits senators still don't know what legal rationale Trump acted under...

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Young voter asks Biden if his stance on recreational marijuana has changed Biden: “No it has not.” “I need more data to make judgement” on if marijuana should be recreational but “no one should go to jail for it”

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NEW: Biden is considering exec action to phase out ICE contracts with private immigrant detention facilities, multiple sources w/knowledge of the process told us. But WH has no immediate plans to issue the EO 1/ w/ @tylerpager @samstein

Biden weighs putting an end to private immigration detention facilities

During the campaign, the president promised to halt the use of private facilities to detain undocumented migrants.

www.politico.com

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NEW: Fears grow over tech-induced chaos in Nevada 1 volunteer at precinct chair training wasn’t told about iPads until late into 2hr training. Google form wasn’t brought up “There were old ladies looking at me like, ‘Oh, we’re going to have iPads?’”

‘A complete disaster’: Fears grow over potential Nevada caucus malfunction

Volunteers complain of poor training for a vote-reporting system that was adopted on the fly.

www.politico.com

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Chris Matthews' exchange with @ewarren re Bloomberg CM: “You believe he’s lying?” EW: “I believe the woman..” CM: “You believe he’s lying?” EW: “...which means he’s not telling the truth” CM: “And why would he lie, just to protect himself?” EW: “Yeah, and why would she lie?"

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. @POTUS on shooting at MSU: “The fact that this shooting took place the night before this country marks five years since the deadly shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, should cause every American to exclaim “enough”& demand Congress take action”

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NEW: Jim Clyburn, who wields enormous influence in his home state of South Carolina, is planning to endorse Joe Biden ahead of SC primary, multiple sources w/knowledge of the Democrat’s plans told Politico W/ @natashakorecki , @MarcACaputo , @heatherscope

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7 years

Find someone who looks at you the way Ted Cruz looks at Neil Gorsuch.

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@lbarronlopez

3 years

@PressSec @brianschatz Sen. Schatz also made a similar argument to Psaki: "People back home when they find out that we've provided more money for the vaccines and more money to reopen schools safely...they're not going to ask us the composition of the vote count. That's a Hill fixation."

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. @JoeBiden tells @jaketapper his campaign raised "$5 million just since the victory" in South Carolina Asked if he enters convention in 2nd but no one has 1,991 required, will he fight? “Yes... the rules have been set...you don't change the rules in the middle of a game."

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@lbarronlopez

4 years

2020 Dem candidates get ready to march to Dome in Columbia,SC for King Day

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@lbarronlopez

6 years

Sanchez: "As much as @SpeakerRyan loves to play the Catholic card and say that he really feels for these Dreamers and he wants people to believe he’s empathetic, schedule the vote. Man up. Put your money where your mouth is."

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@lbarronlopez

4 years

. @PeteButtigieg : "While I do not have the experience of ever having been discriminated against because of the color of my skin, I do have the experience of sometimes feeling like a stranger in my own country -- turning on the news and seeing my own rights come up for debate."

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@lbarronlopez

3 years

. @PressSec on $15 minimum wage: Biden is “firmly committed to raising minimum wage to $15.” “In terms of what options are, we’ll see what the parliamentarian decides and then we’ll see what additional options are but we’re getting a little ahead of where we are in process”

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@lbarronlopez

5 years

SCOOP — Ocasio-Cortez eyes a new primary target: Hakeem Jeffries One person who spoke to Ocasio-Cortez and her team said Jeffries (the No. 5 Dem in House leadership) is the “highest priority” for the member-elect.

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@lbarronlopez

7 years

Sen. Thune on @AARP opposing House GOP ACA repeal/replace bill: "How do you lose AARP and Club for Growth? That’s like a perfect storm."

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@lbarronlopez

4 years

@AOC @JoeBiden AOC on if Warren should drop out: "I don't think that's up to me. That's a very deeply personal decision for any one candidate. I don't think it's appropriate to call on other candidates to drop out...."

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@lbarronlopez

5 years

Some personal news: I’m thrilled to be joining @politico as a national political reporter covering House campaigns for the 2020 cycle.

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@lbarronlopez

4 years

NEW: Ayanna Pressley isn't interested in a savior I followed Pressley around South Carolina for 3 days as she urged black voters to trust that Warren’s expansive view of government action can make a tangible difference in their lives. Here's what I saw:

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@lbarronlopez

4 years

NEW: The story of coronavirus isn’t blue to red. It’s Black and Brown. As virus shifted from blue to red states, pundits said "Trump county" was under siege. That hides deeper reality: Minorities are bearing the brunt w/ @ec_schneider @AliceOllstein

‘People can’t ignore it anymore’: Across the country, minorities hit hardest by pandemic

No matter where the virus strikes, communities of color bear the brunt.

www.politico.com

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@lbarronlopez

5 years

NEW: A number of freshman House Democrats in vulnerbale seats are starting to warm to an impeachment inquiry “The administration's actions are pushing us to a point where that may be the only option,” said Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-NJ) W/ @sarahnferris

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@lbarronlopez

4 years

Trump: “I told my people, ‘Slow the testing down please!’” Public health experts call for exact opposite and raise alarms about uneven testing distribution, particularly in minority communities.

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@lbarronlopez

4 years

Sanders on MLK: “This was a man who stood up to the establishment of his time.”

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