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The RNC now has security in Salt Lake City interrupting conversations, asking reporters for their room numbers and telling them they should not be interviewing people. For a party that might, in some normal universe, be celebrating its midterm prospects, this is peak insecurity
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About 7,000 on hand for @BetoORourke in El Paso tonight, per organizers, citing a law enforcement estimate
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. @BetoORourke acknowledges he has changed his answer on #2020 ... now not ruling it out
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How it sounded inside a DNC committee meeting the moment Justice Kennedy’s retirement was announced
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. @BetoORourke chokes back tears, cutting campaign trip short and heading back to El Paso after shooting. Full statement ....
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And while we won’t be sharing our room numbers, every reporter here is still talking to members, most of whom don’t seem to mind
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Asked if he’s a progressive, @BetoORourke says, ‘I don’t know.’ He’s not big on labels, he says
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DNC Rules committee meeting interrupted by news of Justice Kennedy's retirement. Cries of ‘Ohh’ and ‘Oh my God.’ ‘This is not good news.'
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. @JulianCastro , asked about @PeteButtigieg 's low numbers w/ African American voters, says, "Just look at his track record as mayor ... He has a bad track record with African Americans on the issues."
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. @PeteButtigieg responds to @realDonaldTrump with a Chinese proverb ....
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Asked if he'd debate @BernieSanders in April, @JoeBiden says, “I think we’ve had enough debates. I think we should get on with this."
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RNC resolutions committee unanimously passes resolution to censure Cheney, Kinzinger, while stopping short of expulsion call, per @pnjaban . Likely to pass full body tomorrow
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One Dem strategist described a focus group in which white, college-educated women reacted to protests by discussing their own property values, mortgage. “White women who have college degrees are starting to really get sick of this” politi.co/2QYKPrO via @politico
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As @realDonaldTrump visits El Paso on Wednesday, @BetoORourke to join event billed as one to honor 'those lives lost, confront President Trump and white supremacy, and demand responsible gun control' ....
Thank you for your leadership, @RepEscobar. When President Trump comes to El Paso tomorrow, I will be joining our strong, beautiful, binational community at #ElPasoStrong. I hope to see you there. facebook.com/events/43387724…
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New: A small group of DNC members is privately gauging support for a plan to weaken Bernie Sanders and head off a brokered convention, allowing super-delegates back in on 1st ballot politico.com/news/2020/01/31…
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New: @BetoORourke has hired Carmel Martin, Obama and CAP alum, as national policy director, among other policy hires — O’Rourke beefs up policy staff politi.co/31SMfbo via @politico
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. @BetoORourke , on call w/ supporters tonight, says he and wife, Amy, will do 'everything we can' for the presidential nominee and candidates up and down ballot in Texas. Calls race 'the honor of my lifetime.'
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. @BetoORourke will not be at DNC this weekend. Will instead be back in El Paso visiting victims of the mass shooting w/ Gabby Giffords
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New: Beto O’Rourke in talks with strategists ahead of likely 2020 bid politi.co/2IbUYjg via @politico
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After days in Central Valley, @BernieSanders asked again about water, says he still hasn't studied issue
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Bizarre press call in which Iowa Democratic Party chairman says results expected later today, reiterates it is a reporting issue and hangs up.
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“The intensity of a shrinking base is not the sign of a growing movement,” @madrid_mike said. “It’s the sign of a dwarf star imploding.” w/ @adamwren
‘Teflon president’: GOP rallies to Trump after threat of indictment politi.co/3Z4aZtM via @politico
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Clyburn praising @BetoORourke effusively for ‘helping establish the tone.’ And @BetoORourke , In a Clyburn t-shirt, talking about ensuring SC part of ‘national story’
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. @BetoORourke says running for Senate "would not be good enough for El Paso." He says, "We must take the fight directly to the source of this problem."
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. @KamalaHarris and her drum line at #SCDemWeekend ...
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In response to @BreitbartNews ejection, @BetoORourke spox @aleighacavalier says campaign 'believes in the right to a free press and works hard to ensure the campaign reflects that,' while 'Breitbart News walks the line between being news and a perpetrator of hate speech' ...
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. @KamalaHarris draws applause at #WorkersForum for her 6K middle class tax break proposal, says working people deserve a ‘life of dignity’
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2020 Democrats hugging one another, saying ‘I love you,’ at moment of silence for dead in shootings
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Late to this, but for this particular paper to endorse @PeteButtigieg -- elpasotimes.com/story/opinio…
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Regarding some Dems trying to push @BetoORourke to a Senate run (he's not switching), O'Rourke tells me @SenSchumer did call him last week but didn't ask him to run 4 Senate. "No, he's not. He literally called just to check in, which I really appreciated."
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Progressive group to press Biden not to run in 2024 politi.co/3IJQlZD via @politico
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. @Schwarzenegger back at it on gerrymandering, this time w/ pets: '“asking a politician to give up power is like …
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. @JulianCastro , on Daily Show , brushes off @PeteButtigieg 's offer to visit South Bend, suggests that city could just about fit in the Alamodome
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. @FrankLuntz asks his focus group of Trump voters for a word to describe the media, and you get some ‘fake,’ ‘bought and paid for,’ ‘feckless,’ etc.
But then there’s Fil from Texas: ‘Emissaries of Satan.’
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. @realDonaldTrump again says ‘we’re 5 and 0’ and even mentions election ‘in California.’ Pretty sure @JimmyGomezCA is a Dem
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. @BetoORourke , re @PeteButtigieg ‘s rebuke of buybacks and Trump spurning Dems on guns today, says, “Exactly...And Pete even admitted that Trump was only pretending. So why would you change your position or moderate your position to meet someone who’s only pretending half way.”
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“These are the kind of things that are going to breathe life into the Democrats’ hopes of maintaining some sort of coalition,” said John Thomas, a Republican strategist . W/ @adamwren and @meganmesserly
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. @BetoORourke says he would absolutely do a town hall on Fox, tells reporters it’s about reaching voters where they are
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Aitkin County party officials say this isn't a county party event, but not because they disavow it (only that it wasn't discussed and approved ahead of time). The party member who posted it said she mistakenly thought it was on a private page.
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. @BetoORourke ‘s crew organizing a moment of silence before #WingDing . T-shirts from every campaign here, and some candidates, including @SenGillibrand , standing by Beto’s @nsterzenbach
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Beto busts out at CNN town hall politi.co/2QfyZbt via @politico
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New @betoorourke adds to national staff: @nick_rathod , senior political adviser; @AdnanFMohamed , political director; @annakorm , data director; @MorganRHill , research - @LaurenHitt - rapid response ... politico.com/story/2019/07/1…
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Explain the Chinese spy, Sen. Feinstein wapo.st/2vyKMIR?tid=ss_tw-am…
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One thing you hear supporters of @BetoORourke mention is the notebook - which he has out again in Davenport, taking notes on flooding in Iowa
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On a press call bracketing @realDonaldTrump 's visit to MN, state Rep. John Persell says 'the veterans aren’t very happy up here in my district. And am I talking about that? You betcha, I am.”
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New bills from CA today: California moves to pre-empt Trump on environment, endangered species politi.co/2lsTTWS
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Small crowd on hand 4 @KamalaHarris in Cedar Falls b4 she arrives. Passing student asks, ‘what’s this for?’
A: ‘Kamala Harris’
Q: ‘What’s that?’
It’s early
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. @BetoORourke planning to hit all New Hampshire ‘s 10 counties in 2 days Tuesday-Thursday
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. @BernieSanders back to lobby, re @JerryBrownGov, says he'd rather have nurses union support than 'establishment'
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‘I’m not bullshitting you,’ @KamalaHarris tells reporter about focus on 18, not 20. Then turns to college student journalists in scrum: ‘Excuse my language’
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. @BetoORourke got roughed up tonight. But let's keep this in mind about the Spanish: In this ear, in a lot of U.S. households, it's no small thing to see a U.S. politician speaking Spanish on a presidential stage. True whether it's O'Rourke or, later, @JulianCastro , @CoryBooker
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Per @gromerjeffers , @BetoORourke undecided on when to resume campaign schedule ... "I haven't had these conversations yet with my team," he said. "I'm very focused on this community. I haven't made any plans to do anything else." dallasnews.com/news/politics…
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. @BetoORourke ticks up pts to 5 in this measure ...
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. @BetoORourke says decision was finalized so late his wife could not join him today
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. @BetoORourke on the Fire Ball in Clear Lake. Before this, talking to workers, carnival goers.
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George W. Bush to appear at fundraiser for @BrianKempGA in Texas on May 16, per invite obtained by POLITICO ... politico.com/news/2022/05/02…
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Pence staffers appear to spend more time thinking about Haley than vice versa, @adamwren and @natalie_allison write
“It’s like giving a shit about who wins the NIT tournament.”
politi.co/3ZG3GZA via @politico
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. @BetoORourke giving a video message at #WingDing , speaks of El Paso, shootings, immigrants, says he hopes to ‘see you in the very near future.’
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Rivals warn Sanders campaign plans to game Iowa results, @natashakorecki reports ... politi.co/31gIbSJ via @politico
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. @VP plans to be in Bay Area on Wednesday for a rally with Newsom, campaign says
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The most polite proxy war ever between @BetoORourke and @PeteButtigieg now unfolding in an Iowa park shelter. After man praises Pete for ‘gravitas’ and asks if O’Rourke has it, a woman rises: ‘Thank you for going to the Southern border. Mayor Pete hasn’t made it down there yet.’
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If this is a new, knife-fighting stage of the primary, @BetoORourke didn’t get the memo. Opens #WorkersForum by praising @amyklobuchar , talking about how grateful and lucky he feels to be in a campaign with her and other fellow (great) Dems
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‘Will you go to prom with me?’ @BetoORourke is asked here. He responds he’s touched since no one asked him to his HS prom. Then pleases the crowd with a counter-proposal, asking if she’ll ‘caucus for me’
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. @NBegich statement piling on @SarahPalinUSA : ‘The biggest lesson … is that ranked choice voting
showed that a vote for Sarah Palin is in reality a vote for Mary Peltola. Palin simply doesn't have enough support from Alaskans to win an election.’
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. @BetoORourke responds to @SenSchumer : ‘Ask Chuck Schumer what he’s been able to get done.’ Guessing maybe the Phone calls from Schumer might dry up a bit
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. #IACaucus precinct 317 delegate count in West Des Moines: @JoeBiden (3), @PeteButtigieg (3) , @ewarren (2), @amyklobuchar (1) . @BernieSanders failed to make viability
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. @BetoORourke getting back in the truck, announces 20-city, 12-day 'Keeping the Lights On' tour -- the bet being that Texans will still care about (and punish Abbott for) grid collapse a year ago
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personal news: grateful 4 the run w @cmarinucci on Playbook, & thrilled to join our politics team as a national political correspondent
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I can see I put this poorly. I regret that. What i meant to suggest is that if candidates were stylistically identical, would @BetoORourke stand out. I wish I’d said it better
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. @BetoORourke is asked on @MSNBC how he thinks the media could better cover his campaign. He suggests a disconnect between issues raised by voters at town halls and Qs from national press immediately after about the 'horserace' or 'some kind of sensational dynamic going on'
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'Disgusting': Black Republicans livid over DeSantis' slavery attack -- via @brakktonbooker
politi.co/43GtLd6 via @politico
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‘We’re feeling good, just based on the raw, broad samples from this morning - those gigantic polling locations up north.’ — @amyklobuchar , leading w/ 8 votes in Dixville Notch, Millsfield and Hart’s Location
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. @BetoORourke adds heft to national staff, hiring @LB_WIT and @liseclavel as campaign plans to wed elements of 18 run with more traditional, w/ @AlxThomp politi.co/2QbQI3R
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. @BetoORourke received individual donations from more than 128,000 donors - avg contribution of $47, he tells reporters
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Surge of black candidates comes as Trump stokes racial tensions politi.co/2BXBtYE via @politico
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He adds that with current Senate candidates in TX, he assumes - but didn't ask - that Schumer is "very happy with the number and quality of candidates" running
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'The Fresno Bee has worked closely with radical left-wing groups ...' Nunes declares war on the media politi.co/2uJcp0B via @politico
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DFA backed Warren before it was cool. Now ... Democracy for America endorses Bernie Sanders politi.co/2vAhxbZ via @politico
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Devin Nunes creates his own alternative news site politi.co/2G4IrYW via @politico
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. @BetoORourke opening a field office in El Paso, introduced by supporter who says the campaign started late, is, despite polling/$, ‘on a roll.’ Chants of ‘Beto’ break out when O’Rourke calls his town ‘the greatest fucking city.’
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Kelli Ward, at the RNC, not chatting: ‘gotta go … can’t talk to you.’
NEWS: The Jan. 6 select committee has subpoenaed for the phone records of Arizona GOP chair KELLI WARD and her husband Michael.
Both signed false Electoral College certificates and sued Pence as part of pressure campaign.
w/ @nicholaswu12 @joshgerstein
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If centrists keep it up, Jeff Weaver says one possible tactic is to run progressives as independents, splintering vote.
“Can they get 5 to 10 percent of the vote in some swing districts?” He asked. “I think they can … That is certainly an option.”
politi.co/3wuwybV
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Biden repeats again on CNN that he will debate Biden three times. Says he 'understands' @SpeakerPelosi 's call for no debates with @realDonaldTrump . But he says, 'I'm used to dealing with bullies."
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