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A protester at town hall in Milford, N.H., yells at Biden: “How much did you make from Ukraine?”
Biden responds: “I’ve released 20 years of my tax returns. Your guy hasn’t released one. What’s he hiding?”
Huge applause from the crowd.
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A very telling thing about American democracy is that the maximum legal campaign donation is indexed to inflation, but the minimum wage is not.
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people do realize that ~70% of American adults are already vaccinated, right?
if you’re claiming Biden is starting a massive political fight here – and I’m not sure he actually is – he’s almost certainly on the winning side
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Fun fact: There has never been a Democratic director of the FBI.
The inconsistent and partisan application of the law by the FBI has gone too far.
The Democrats, for too long, have used our government agencies from the FBI to the IRS to target their political opponents.
This inconceivable raid is an attack on our Republic.
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NEW: Here’s @ewarren’s newest plan. It would totally transform American elections.
• Federal standards for ballot design and election security.
• Automatic voter registration.
• No more gerrymandering.
• Election Day would be a federal holiday.
huffpost.com/entry/elizabeth…
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And with this race call, every single Republican who won their primary with help from Democratic meddling has lost in the general election.
BREAKING: Democrat Hillary Scholten wins election to U.S. House in Michigan's 3rd Congressional District. #APracecall at 1:55 a.m. EST. apnews.com/hub/2022-midterm-…
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Warren gets a sustained standing ovation for promising to prosecute federal employees who abuse or mistreat immigrants.
“President Donald Trump may look the other way, President Elizabeth Warren will not.”
Immigration activists are disrupting @ewarren’s speech with a sign declaring: “LEGALIZE 11 MILLION & REUNIFY ALL FAMILIES.”
Warren: “I’m already there.”
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NEW from @hayleymiller01 and me: Democrats have found their candidate in Maine’s Senate race.
State House Speaker Sara Gideon will announce a run against Susan Collins later this month, per five sources.
huffpost.com/entry/susan-col…
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Kamala Harris is:
-the first Black woman selected for a national ticket.
-the first South Asian woman selected for a national ticket.
-the first person from west of Texas selected for a Democratic ticket.
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If Warnock pulls this out, the historical nature of his victory can’t be understated: He’ll be just the second Black person elected to the Senate from the South since the end of Reconstruction, and the first from the party supported by most Black Americans.
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The first two members of Congress to endorse President Donald Trump – New York’s Chris Collins and California’s Duncan Hunter – are both under indictment.
politico.com/blogs/2016-gop-…
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NEW: Maine House Speaker Sara Gideon, the likely Democratic candidate against GOP Sen. Susan Collins, raised an astounding $9 million in the second quarter.
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if you think Democrats’ main message for 2018 or 2020 was about Russia, you’ve been watching far too much cable news and listening to far too few actual candidates
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New: Democrat Theresa Greenfield, Ernst’s opponent in November, has raised $100K online since this interview aired, her campaign said.
“I think that the President is stepping forward,” GOP Sen. Joni Ernst says when asked if Pres. Trump is exhibiting “failed leadership”on coronavirus.
In 2014, Ernst had said that Pres. Obama had exhibited “failed leadership” in his handling of the Ebola outbreak. #CNNSOTU
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Saying someone is not an immigrant if they are from Canada really gives away the game of what you mean by “immigrant.”
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I keep coming back to this quote from ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN:
"The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand."
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I’m having a hard time articulating my thoughts right now, but as I attempt to sleep, I’ll leave you with this:
On Monday night, the president called journalists enemies of the American people.
I really wish he would stop doing that.
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DeSantis made a classic mistake: He gave New England liberals a chance to show how virtuous they are.
DeSantis tries, fails, to prove liberals hate immigrants as much as he does nymag.com/intelligencer/2022…
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The new Quinnipiac Poll shows something that’s popped up in other surveys: Biden’s infrastructure plan becomes MORE popular after voters are told it’s paid for with corporate tax hikes.
poll.qu.edu/national/release…
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press secretary: Mr. President, Princess Catherine has not been seen in public for months.
joe biden [munching block of Kerrygold butter]: hot damn. we do that?
"I have not spoken to the president about Kate Middleton," @PressSec Karine Jean-Pierre tells reporters.
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Gideon 43%, Collins 42%
NEW: Collins faces a tough reelection race, new poll from Colby shows wsj.com/articles/susan-colli…
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When Warnock was born, segregationists held both of Georgia’s Senate seats. His victory would be a seismic moment in American political history.
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The idea that progressives chased Sinema out of the party is silly. Progressives in AZ lined up to back her in ‘18 and she spent the next six years ignoring them entirely.
We may have ourselves a Joe Lieberman situation, in which progressives chase a moderate out of the party, but not out of the Senate, so the moderate — untethered to any progressive base — becomes way more obnoxious…
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Here’s the percentage of money each major 2020 candidate drew from donations under $200:
@BernieSanders 84%
@ewarren 70%
@PeteButtigieg 64%
@KamalaHarris 37%
@amyklobuchar 35%
@JulianCastro 34%
@JayInslee 34%
@SenGillibrand 17%
@CoryBooker 16%
@Hickenlooper 10%
@JohnDelaney 0.6%
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The Biden transition team’s website is up: buildbackbetter.com/
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NEW: The @JoeBiden campaign has released its staff diversity numbers.
35% of all staff members are PoC
36% of all senior staff are PoC
53% of full-time staff are women
58% of senior staff are women
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this is such a massive political gift to Biden and every Democrat running for Senate
...request, and looking to the future of our Country. I have instructed my representatives to stop negotiating until after the election when, immediately after I win, we will pass a major Stimulus Bill that focuses on hardworking Americans and Small Business. I have asked...
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At an event in Iowa, @amyklobuchar says she next to John McCain during Trump’s inauguration and he kept reciting the names of dictators during Trump’s speech.
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The Trump video is
a) 45 seconds long, so it’s not airing on TV.
b) no where to be found in Facebook’s ad archive.
So people will only see it if journalists highlight it relentlessly.
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the idea that Sinema could survive the same GOP primary electorate that just spat out the state’s incumbent AG because he did not election denial hard enough is one of the funniest ideas i’ve ever heard
If @SenatorSinema switches parties, she's wins re-election with 70% of the vote --and does a lot of good for The Republic. But I'm not holding my breath.
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After some back-and-forth between the protester and other people in the crowd, Biden adds: “Let him go. He’s an idiot.”
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The clearest sign I can find of Latinos abandoning the GOP after Trump's big gains in 2024 is Manassas Park, Va., a city of 17,000 people with a 46% Latino plurality population.
Harris won it by 20 in 2024.
Spanberger is winning it by 42 tonight.
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The idea that the pullout from Afghanistan is more humiliating than the U.S. spending $2 trillion and twenty years propping up a corrupt government while American military leaders misled the country about their progress seems backwards.
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In the night's most unexpected development, Princess Leia just called Trump a coke addict.
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The word Biden said most frequently in his speech: “Jobs.”
43 times, according to the prepared remarks.
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.@ewarren is out with eight conditions she argues should be placed on any corporate bailout, including a $15 minimum wage and a three-year ban on dividends or executive bonuses.
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Date @BernieSanders endorsed @HillaryClinton in 2016: July 12.
Date @BernieSanders is endorsing @JoeBiden in 2020: April 13.
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Senate Republicans entered this cycle with 52 seats, and the best political map in a generation.
At best, they’re going to end up with 53 seats.
Gigantic missed opportunity. They could’ve locked Democrats out of the Senate for a political generation.
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Democracy was a major issue for Rs who backed Dems in the midterms: 64% of GOPers who voted for Democrats said Trump’s election denial was the #1 reason they did so.
Read @PaulBlu on some new polling from @StopBigMoney:
huffpost.com/entry/democracy…
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The fact that Buttigieg is engaged in an outright defense of the modern American political fundraising system – which basically everyone agrees creates some corruption – is really amazing.
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NEWS: @AFTunion President Randi Weingarten will endorse Elizabeth Warren for president at a rally tonight in Houston, per a source familiar.
Weingarten’s endorsement is in her personal capacity.
huffpost.com/entry/aft-presi…
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NEW: Harvard Institute of Politics survey finds Joe Biden leading Trump 60% to 30% among voters 18-29.
Notably, that’s not much different than the 62% to 31% lead Bernie Sanders would have.
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Sens. Todd Young (R-Ind.) and Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) have introduced the “Yes In My Backyard (YIMBY) Act.”
The bill would require cities who receive HUD grants to explain “why they are not adopting specific pro-affordability and anti-discriminatory housing policies.”
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Holy crap: After her ‘no’ vote on Kavanaugn’s nomination, Heidi Heitkamp raised $12.4 MILLION in the first 17 days of October.
Of that, $7.5 million was in small donations, per new FEC filing.
docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/for…
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New: Vulnerable Democrats desperately want to pass Medicare drug price negotiation, which is ultra-popular.
Their fellow centrists’ loyalty to the pharma industry is standing in the way.
huffpost.com/entry/democrati…
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A big problem with the “why is Obama only endorsing now?” line from Republicans:
George W. Bush has never endorsed Trump!
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this is what Amtrak says they can do by 2035 w/help from Congress
this would carry 52M passengers/year, up from 32M in FY2019
media.amtrak.com/wp-content/…
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NEW: @BernieSanders is out with a sweeping plan to revitalize organized labor, hoping to double union membership during his first term in office.
huffpost.com/entry/bernie-sa…
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Last month, while he was campaigning in Georgia, Rep. Buck said Republicans needed to win the Senate so they could keep investigating Hunter Biden and potentially impeach Joe Biden.
huffpost.com/entry/gop-congr…
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Michael Bloomberg’s March campaign finance report is out:
He ended up spending over $1 BILLION on his presidential campaign.
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Warren spent all day Thursday flying back east from a trip to Colorado and Utah and spent the flight reading the 448-page report, according to an aide. She continued to read the report last night before reaching this conclusion —>
The severity of this misconduct demands that elected officials in both parties set aside political considerations and do their constitutional duty. That means the House should initiate impeachment proceedings against the President of the United States.
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News: Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is set to lose access to the Democratic Party’s voter data next month, and two top Dem consulting firms split with her campaign earlier this year.
huffpost.com/entry/kyrsten-s…
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I’m at @BernieSanders event in Des Moines aimed at the Latinx community. They passed out headsets for live Spanish-to-English and English-to-Spanish translation, which is pretty impressive.
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From the NYT/Siena polls released this morning:
Do you trust Biden or Trump more on appointing a Supreme Court Justice?
Arizona: Biden 53%, Trump 43%
Maine: Biden 59%, Trump 37%
North Carolina: Biden 47%, Trump 44%
int.nyt.com/data/documenttoo…
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The amount of information the Biden campaign has given out about this situation – and the fact that it was all made available immediately – is a huge contrast with Trump.
NEW: The Biden campaign is canceling Kamala Harris’ travel until Monday, October 19 after two people in her traveling party tested positive for COVID-19.
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This is a position with roughly 75% support from the public, and it’s crazy Trump’s team has allowed it to become a major Democratic message.
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anyone who thinks the Elizabeth Warren campaign ran on “woke identity politics” at the expense of fighting corruption did not bother to watch a single Elizabeth Warren ad or attend a single rally
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NEW: In e-mails to his college classmates obtained by HuffPost, Arizona GOP Senate candidate Blake Masters defended skepticism of the “official story” of the 9/11 attacks, argued voting was often “immoral” and said America circa 2006 was “fascist.”
huffpost.com/entry/blake-mas…
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.@CoryBooker, speaking at a black church in Las Vegas, mentions a man who recently asked him to “punch Donald Trump in the face.”
Booker’s response: “Sir, that’s a felony. And black men don’t get away with felonies.”
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Democrats believe this law, which disproportionately impacts Native Americans, was explicitly passed in reaction to Heitkamp’s upset win in 2012 -->
Breaking: #SCOTUS allows North Dakota voter ID requirement, which had been enjoined during the primaries, to be enforced during the general election.
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New: Joe Biden is explicitly crediting @ewarren with helping to develop his new economic plan, and signing a fundraising e-mail for a group of Warren allies.
huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden…
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Inbox: @BernieSanders is endorsing @cenkuygur in CA-25.
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Kentucky is, and I’m not joking here, Democrats’ 13th-best opportunity to pick up a seat.
Let’s make sure @AmyMcGrathKY raises $10 million in the next 24 hours.
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Sanders has a massive lead in voter enthusiasm.
52% of Sanders’ voters are “extremely excited” to vote for him.
Buttigieg 31%
Warren 23%
Biden 19%
61% of Sanders voters say they’re definitely voting for him.
Biden 48%
Warren 44%
Pete 40%
poll.qu.edu/iowa/release-det…
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"before sunset"
does alabama politics take place in a spaghetti western
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The Trump campaign is trying to convince state legislatures to overthrow the will of the electorate, and bragging about their plans on background.
reuters.com/article/us-usa-e…
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New: Progressive group @DFAaction, which had remained neutral between Sanders and Warren, is backing Bernie ahead of Super Tuesday.
Sanders won 79% of a vote of the group’s membership, compared to 13% for Warren. No other candidate got more than 3%.
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Biden is not known for brevity, but he gave the shortest acceptance speech at the DNC since 1984, and his speech was less than half as long as Hillary’s, according to C-SPAN.
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NEW: Elizabeth Warren is proposing raising the federal excise tax on guns to 30 percent and the tax on ammunition to 50 percent.
It’s part of an ambitious plan she’s rolling out today designed to cut gun deaths by 80 percent.
huffpost.com/entry/elizabeth…
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it is very cool how the US Supreme Court continues to slowly legalize government corruption in America!
politico.com/news/2020/05/07…
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“She is my former press secretary — not on the payroll.” apnews.com/a1bfb62e37fe34e09…
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More broadly, the idea that there is some “message” that the White House/CDC/FDA/whoever hasn’t tried that could convince the unvaccinated seems patently silly at this point.
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i would like Howard Schultz to name a candidate he thinks could achieve this
Howard Schultz: "I would not nominate a Supreme Court justice unless he or she could be confirmed by two-thirds—two-thirds—of the United States Senate." abcn.ws/2hFejwL
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A source notes Minnesota's senators will now be named Tina and Amy, setting up an obvious fundraiser/ad/viral video when both of them are up for reelection in 2018. #MNSen
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New: Elizabeth Warren Now Has The Largest Super PAC In The Democratic Primary
Warren has called on Persist PAC to reveal its donors before Super Tuesday, but the group has no plans to do so.
huffpost.com/entry/elizabeth…
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Let’s be clear about something: There is no evidence — none, zero, zilch — to suggest the results of the Iowa Caucuses will be in any way inaccurate, and people suggesting otherwise are irresponsible.
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And now the Star-Tribune is out with some head-to-head matchups:
Biden 50%, Trump 38%
Warren 51%, Trump 40%
Sanders 49%, Trump 40%
Klobuchar 55%, Trump 38%
startribune.com/trump-trails…
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New: Black voters have surged during the Georgia runoff elections so far, spurred by a massive door-knocking campaign and backlash to the GOP’s vitriolic attacks on @ReverendWarnock.
huffpost.com/entry/georgia-s…
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Warren: “There are 7 million people in the United States with hearing loss.”
Man in crowd: “What?!”
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This is super messed up: Elite colleges are buying SAT scores, then recruiting students they know have no chance of getting in, all so they can decrease their admittance rate and look more exclusive.
wsj.com/articles/for-sale-sa…
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my immediate takeaway: New Jersey’s low ranking is a travesty, and a result of New York-centric propaganda
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I’m at @sethmoulton’s town hall in Amesbury, Mass. — my hometown district!
There’s a contingent of at least a dozen protesters here to confront him over his opposition to Nancy Pelosi.
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