Liz Cheney to
@jaketapper
: “It doesn’t matter what party someone belongs to. If they are running on the basis that they will, for example, refuse to certify legitimate election results in the future, they’ve got to be defeated.”
Biden has the highest favorability among 18- to 29-year-old Americans of any first-term president over the 21 years the
@harvardiop
youth poll has been conducted.
"When vaccine requirements are announced, whether in the military, a company, or a hospital, there is attention paid to the often dozen(s) who protest. Less attention is paid to the thousands who get vaccinated," says
@ASlavitt
.
“What gives me pause when I look back at 1918 is I think about the second wave. People did social distancing and there was this sense of ‘that’s behind us and we can all move on’ and then the second wave hit and it was just devastating.”
Former senior Trump administration official: “He was never interested in things that might happen. He’s totally focused on the stock market, the economy and always bashing his predecessor and giving him no credit.”
“The problem,”
@JoyceWhiteVance
tells
@PhilipRucker
, “is we have a president who has demonstrated that he fundamentally doesn’t believe in democracy, doesn’t believe in our constitutional system of government.”
"I like George Bush very much and support him and always will. But I disagree with him when he talks of a kinder, gentler America. I think if this country gets any kinder or gentler, it's literally going to cease to exist," Trump told
@Playboy
in 1990.
“We’ve had presidents who were immoral, backwards and had terrible policies. We’ve had presidents who were criminals. I don’t think we’ve ever had a president who is so fundamentally unpatriotic,”
@sethmoulton
told
@andersoncooper
last night on
@CNN
.
“I am stunned that the White House put the president’s doctor out there and then issued a contradictory statement,” says
@ScottJenningsKY
. “You can’t do that. This just invites questions about what’s going on there.”
“A guy who got 47 percent is not the future of our party,” says
@BarbaraComstock
, referring to Trump’s total in the 2020 election. “The toxic personality divided our country and is now dividing our party.”
"When the students poured into Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government almost blew it. Then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength. That shows you the power of strength. Our country is right now perceived as weak ..."
Tina Brown: “There is a myth around that Jared and Ivanka will be rejected socially. The rich are never rejected — until they go to prison or lose their money.”
"The moment I found out Trump could tweet himself was comparable to the moment in 'Jurassic Park' when Dr. Grant realized that velociraptors could open doors."
“Most politicians can handle losing a race, but they really don’t want to be embarrassed. When a loss seems inevitable, people who want a future in politics start looking out for their own interests,” says
@AlexConant
.
“Obviously, a president who is no longer in office — except for getting Secret Service and security briefings — is basically a civilian,”
@espinsegall
tells
@joshgerstein
. “I just can’t even believe these orders.”
“The most fucked moment,” a senior Trump adviser says of the first debate. “Why did Trump yell at Joe Biden for 90 minutes straight? No one knows. That was one of the worst debate performances you could have in a general election.”
“Two things motivate almost 100 percent of his behavior: self-preservation or self-aggrandizement,” says
@TimOBrien
. “There never is a strategy because he’s not a strategic thinker.”
"It's been four years of psychotic drama, at the most personal, petty level you could imagine. That is the story of why Trump failed to do anything, for the most part, that he set out to do," says
@Olivianuzzi
.
Americans who are still dying from Covid-19 are "overwhelmingly" unvaccinated, Dr. Fauci told
@JakeTapper
Tuesday. "The thing that's so painful, Jake, as a physician, a scientist and a public health person that I am, is that that's entirely avoidable."
“As a military officer, what I saw was more or less really f---ed up,” a D.C. Guardsman tells
@dlippman
. “A lot of us are still struggling to process this, but in a lot of ways, I believe I saw civil rights being violated in order for a photo op.”
“I will be unbeatable. Trump knows it; that’s why he’s never mentioned me. He’s hoping the Democratic Party doesn’t realize it,”
@AndrewYang
tells
@IsaacDovere
.
“There’s nothing CIA or NSA, for example, guards more jealously than sources and methods,”
@LarryPfeifferDC
tells
@NatashaBertrand
. “It is not hyperbole to say that lives are at stake.”
“He doesn’t know how to make a subtle argument,” says
@gtconway3d
. “He doesn’t know how to make an emotional appeal that’s inspiring, as opposed to based in hatred and anger, and he doesn’t know or care about policy.”
"Trump loves brands, and Woodward has been the gold standard ... so it's the same reason why he likes the ... New York Times," says
@Scaramucci
. "... he's attracted to them the way a low-IQ small moth would be to a flame."
Bill Maher: Trump "will run in 2024; he will get the Republican nomination; and whatever happens on election night, the next day he will announce that he won."
“This ‘Blue Lives Matter’ stuff was just a code word for race that they were using,” says
@stuartpstevens
. “‘Law and order’? Here you have a police officer murdered on Capitol grounds, and the White House doesn’t even acknowledge it. It’s incredible.”
“It’s so disheartening to think that the president of the United States would overturn the evidence heard by a judge and jury, all out of an animus toward Bob Mueller, James Comey and Pat Fitzgerald.”
Reading the transcript of Biden's press conference today and this is something that jumps off the page: "I want to change the paradigm. I want to change the paradigm. We start to reward work, not just wealth. I want to change the paradigm."
“‘Democrat-led city’ — that’s code for Black,” says
@RevDrBarber
. “They’re coupling ‘city’ and ‘fraud,’ and those two words have been used throughout the years. This is an old playbook being used in the modern time, and people should be aware of that.”
“I think one of the really sad realizations over the last year is not what kind of a president Donald Trump turns out to be—I think it was all too predictable—but rather how many members of Congress would be unwilling to stand up to him ...”
“Debating Donald Trump, it's very possible for two things to be equally true. He can be a very bad debater, which he is, but also very hard to debate,” says
@PhilippeReines
.
“The level of this is shocking and deeply disturbing,” says
@davidcicilline
. “This president has a habit of doing things out in the open, which are completely improper or even illegal ...”
“The bedwetters are doing their thing because it’s the season for double-guessing. But the fact of the matter is: Biden has won precisely because he’s ignored those people.”
“The mini-Trump governors in Georgia, Texas and Florida, they’re going to do whatever Trump wants,”
@SenSherrodBrown
tells
@tripgabriel
. “But DeWine’s not going to do that. He cares about his legacy. He cares about the next generation.”
“I have been a frequent critic of her because of some of her past work … but she was brilliant,”
@shaunking
says to
@POLITICO
about
@KamalaHarris
, referring to a recent
@MSNBC
appearance. “It made me much more comfortable with her as a potential VP pick.”
"He was so concerned with preventing embarrassing stories that he exposed thousands of his own staff and supporters to a deadly virus. He has kept us in the dark, and now our spouses and kids have to pay the price. It's just selfish."
"He did not finish the job. He did not go to the limits of his prosecutorial authority,"
@NormEisen
says of Mueller in an interview with
@kyledcheney
. "When you're facing down a criminal of the president's nature, that is unforgivable."
Warren: “We’re not just fighting for me to do the job that I was elected to do. We are fighting for the rights of voters across Florida to have the elected officials of their choice.”
Eighteen months into this pandemic, so many people I know are still feeling so down (myself included). One friend put it this way: the bad things are disproportionately destabilizing and the good things are insufficiently fortifying. Anyone else feeling this way?
“He hasn’t quite adjusted to the fact that Biden is not Hillary and he has not adjusted that he has been around for five years and not being a fresh face,” says
@newtgingrich
. “The things that worked against Hillary haven’t worked against Biden.”
“He’s in trouble, there’s no question,”
@AriFleischer
says of
@realDonaldTrump
. “By every traditional measuring stick, this looks like a Biden landslide.”
“I’m not wearing a mask outdoors. But I wear a mask in certain indoor settings where there are crowds. And it’s not necessarily because I feel vulnerable. I’m fully vaccinated. I feel like it’s etiquette,” says
@ScottGottliebMD
.
.
@PostBaron
: Trump “wants to disqualify the press as an independent arbiter of fact. ... Trump doesn’t want scientists to be that arbiter. ... courts. ... intelligence agencies. He wants himself and his White House to be the arbiter of fact.”
“It is priority No. 1 to retain Trump voters,” says
@pnjaban
. “The party is definitely with Trump,” says
@Crimsontider
. “There are people that are angrier at these Republicans that have turned their backs on Trump than they are at Democrats.”
“Nixon tried to make the point that ‘you Americans may be upset by my scandal, but I am doing such important things in foreign policy that you should think twice before wanting to throw me out,’”
@BeschlossDC
tells
@PhilipRucker
.
"The best thing for DeSantis is Trump gets in, DeSantis stays out for a while, and Trump runs a race against himself for the next six months," a source close to Trump tells
@jonathanvswan
.
“... definitely legitimate questions that are raised by Hunter Biden’s actions,” says
@RobertMaguire_
. “They are not even in the same ballpark as the conflict of interest questions raised by President Trump’s continued relationship with his own company.”
Thousands of high school students across Florida walked out of school to protest the "Don't Say Gay" bill. They carried signs that said "Please say gay" and chanted "Gay lives matter."
“Announcing on
@Twitter
is perfect for
@RonDeSantis
,” a Trump advisor texts
@semafor
. “This way he doesn’t have to interact with people and the media can’t ask him any questions.”