Garrett Haake
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@nbcnews Senior White House Correspondent • Girl dad • Taller than I look on TV • Long-suffering @SMU & @DallasCowboys fan
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Joined June 2009
Sen. @BernieSanders on his Inauguration Day meme fame: “It makes people aware that we make good mittens in Vermont.”.
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Traumatic events never feel fully real when I’m covering them. At home in the shower this morning it started to sink in: unhinged people attacked my workplace, my second home, because the President told them to. My God.
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If you knew all the words to that halftime show performance, it’s probably time to start getting ready for bed.
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Gotta say I didn’t expect this. In Bemidji, MN (pop ~15k), where @realDonaldTrump rallies tonight, a crowd of Biden supporters lines the main drag, signs waving.
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Back outside the White House. Today the perimeter has been pushed back another half block. Federal law enforcement of some kind, but they won’t identify themselves, and all insignias and name plates have been removed.
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Cipollone says “Not even Mr. Schiff’s Republican colleagues were allowed into the SCIF” during impeachment investigation. That’s 100% false. Any member of the three investigating committees could attend, and many Republicans did!.
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PELOSI not budging. Just told a small group of reporters: "The wall is not about money. The wall is about morality. It’s the wrong thing to do. It doesn’t work. Its not effective. It’s the wrong thing to do and it’s a waste of money.".
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My inbox and twitter timeline are flooded with statements from Democrats (and even the Chamber of Commerce) in support of the Biden COVID rescue plan. I had almost forgotten what a coordinated policy rollout looks like.
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For the record, @PeterAlexander is a great reporter and that was a totally legit question. Unreal response by the president.
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“It is insane that we let an 18-year old go in and buy an AR-15. What did we think he was going to do with it?!”. A furious @BetoORourke railing on TX gun laws after interrupting @GovAbbott presser.
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On what planet? I’m a millennial and if I thought any of my friends had this much cash saved I would rob them myself.
1 in 6 millennials have $100,000 saved — here's how much you should have at every age.
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This unfolding NBA players boycott of playoff games to protest for justice is NOT just a sports story. It’s a huge cultural inflection point.
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@mtgreenee This isn’t true. I spent four hours at BLM plaza in DC tonight, talking to the folks who wanted to come out near the White House on an historic night. Lots of people brought their kids or their dogs. It was a bit windy though.
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This shouldn't get lost. At last night's rally, President Trump said he was "counting on" the federal courts to declare a winner on election night. That's not a thing courts do. but the fact that the President is calling for it demands our attention.
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Big win for Harris County and for Texas voter access. The Texas Supreme Court has denied a Republican petition to toss 100k+ ballots cast at drive throughs during early votes. Still a federal court hearing tomorrow but Texas court saying all good is wind in the sails of Harris.
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GOP Reps Boebert & Greene attempt to start a "build the wall!" chant when Biden gets to immigration section. It doesn't get going.
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Not gonna lie, its a pretty weird feeling to have the President of the United States go in front of a crowd of thousands and vow to "do everything possible to destroy" the reputation of your employer. As a reporter, what do you do with that?.
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Not sure how @TulsiGabbard can defend a “present” vote on impeachment. One of the most consequential votes in any politician’s career and you can’t make a call one way or another? Why even be there, collecting a taxpayer-funded paycheck?.
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The man on the left is Larry Edgeworth. I met him as the sound tech on our team that covered the Romney campaign in 2012. He called me “slim,” and helped me put together my first resume tape. He was SO proud of his kids. He was hilarious. Yesterday he lost his fight with COVID-19
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That @SpeakerPelosi had to be evacuated from the ENTIRE CAPITOL COMPLEX is new information, and speaks to the severity of the threat to lawmakers on that day.
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Excuse me? There was no “security wall” breach that led to the clearing of Lafayette Square. That’s totally made up. There was no “security wall.” It was still a park, with bike racks around it, until police cleared it.
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This picture of my dog won’t cure coronavirus. But I hope it helps with your coronavirus anxiety.
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Haven’t figured out how to do this story for TV yet, but the shy Biden voter is a real thing. A 75-year old retired teacher just drove up to my live shot in Bemidji, MN to talk politics. Big @maddow fan. Voting Biden. Won’t go on cam because he doesn’t want his neighbors to know.
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NEWS: In a new legal filing, the @January6thCmte argues for the first time that they believe they have evidence Donald Trump may have committed criminal acts relating to Jan 6 attack.
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Easily the most endangered Democratic senator in 2020, @DougJones announces he will vote to convict @realDonaldTrump on both counts.
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Cippolone regularly repeats my least favorite canard about impeachment conviction, that it “overturns an election.”. Nope. No. Not true. Clinton doesn’t become President. Pence does. The last three years don’t go away. Bills Trump signed don’t reverse. So aggravating.
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Did I read something on here about people having much more vivid dreams during the pandemic? It’s happening to me. Casts of thousands. Multi-level plots. It’s not restful.
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Hooooo boy. Pressed repeatedly by @jaketapper, the director of FEMA can’t give even a ROUGH number of masks they’re shipping out to states.
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“I will formally announce I’m running for the United States Senate in South Carolina, against Lindsey Graham,” @harrisonjaime just now with @maddow - this could be a super interesting race.
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This sounds like a snarky question but I swear it’s serious: who will be the first congressional republican to publicly support nuking hurricanes?.
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Say whatever else you will about what Mitt Romney did today, but it took incredible guts to walk onto the floor today and do that.
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Due to a shortage of tests, Ohio’s @GovMikeDeWine says coronavirus testing will be limited to healthcare workers and those ALREADY HOSPITALIZED. Lack of tests around the country remains a huge story. We are flying blind, still.
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This is the “Unite the Right”’rally crowd. All of them.
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I’m pretty sure Trump arguing with the moderators over people eating pets in Ohio wasn’t part of the campaign’s game plan.
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Oh! Taylor Swift endorses @KamalaHarris at debate’s conclusion … with a photo of her with her cat, no less.
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I’ve covered a half a dozen or so Trump rallies this cycle and this has been his most anti-media. Went after three of my colleagues by name, CNN twice, getting a good laugh at a “CNN Sucks” chant. It rubs off on the crowd, who offered us more middle fingers and jeers than usual.
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Sen. @ossoff will be the first US Senator I’ve covered who is younger than me, which is going to require some serious self-reflection. 😬.
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I’ve not seen or heard of any other Republican elected officials marching/protesting in DC (Feel free to reply if you have).
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“Im so sorry for him,” @SpeakerPelosi tells me of reports @replouiegohmert tested positive for COVID. “But I’m also sorry my members, who are concerned, because he has been showing up at meetings without a mask and making a thing of it.”.
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To be clear: This is a fake photo. This handshake never occurred. Just a bad photoshop being peddled by a Republican member of Congress.
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It’s going to take me awhile to process everything I saw and experienced tonight. No one covered themselves in glory. I’m deeply worried about our country.
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I am absolutely BAFFLED by US Park Police and Secret Service right now. Maybe two hundred protestors were sitting on H Street in front of Lafayette Park and police just formed a line in the park in full riot gear. Provocative and totally unnecessary.
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.@SpeakerPelosi says she has asked retired Lt. General Honore to conduct an investigation into Capitol security.
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Multiple Austin-area sources tell me that my 92 year-old grandma just voted in her first Democratic primary ever.
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@AugensteinWTOP Hey Neal. I was there. Tear gas was definitely used, and park police can’t 🤷🏼♂️ that. And there was no object-throwing before the mounted park police moved in. Don’t want to tell you how to do your job, but using a background source to deny observable fact seems like a bad call.
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Lots of lawmakers are getting their first vaccine shots today. Good for them! I would take it the first day I could too. But its a weird dynamic that they're getting shots while also not yet passing a COVID relief bill, and while all the support staff here doesn't have access yet.
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GOP @RepAndyBiggsAZ just set off the mags outside the house chamber. Refused to be wanded and just blew past the Capitol Police officer into the chamber.
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.@SenatorRomney tells reporters the video presentation was “overwhelmingly distressing and emotional.” He had no idea how close he had come to the mob, and said he’s looking forward to thanking Officer Goodman when he sees him next.
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SCHUMER, throwing some shade at Manchin, says the Senate will still vote on BBB early next year “so that every Member of this body has the opportunity to make their position known on the Senate floor, not just on television.”.
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National Archives confirms in a statement that they had to retrieve 15 (!!!) boxes of Trump presidential records from Mar a Lago in January of this year.
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This just. How many of the 98 people who died in Texas yesterday of COVID-19 would still be dead with less testing? All of them.
For the 1/100th time, the reason we show so many Cases, compared to other countries that haven’t done nearly as well as we have, is that our TESTING is much bigger and better. We have tested 40,000,000 people. If we did 20,000,000 instead, Cases would be half, etc. NOT REPORTED!.
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On with @maddow from Ukraine, NBC’s @ErinNBCNews reports there is a pizza shop owner in Kiev offering free pizzas to any Ukrainian who shows they’ve got a gun with which to fight Russians. Extraordinary.
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Just the way the Biden team planned it, in four easy steps:. 1. 4th Iowa.2. Lull them to sleep with 5th in NH.3. Distant second in NV. 4. Dominate nearly everywhere else. Classic primary strategy.
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Democrats on the floor right now arguing that a late-add to the tax bill benefits ONE college in Michigan, whose biggest donors are DeVos family (Erik Prince a grad). Toomey defending it.
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Mark your calendars. @realDonaldTrump just promised to @FoxNewsSunday to sign a “full and complete healthcare plan” in two weeks.
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The White House now confirms @realDonaldTrump has signed the COVID relief/government funding bill, averting a shutdown. So ends one of the most pointless episodes of this administration.
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Former Manhattan prosecutor Mark Pomerantz is adamant on @60Minutes that another businessman with the same conduct & financials, but not named Donald Trump, would have been indicted “in a flat second.”.
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You can tell on Luke Combs face how cool he thinks it is that he's up there singing this song WITH TRACY CHAPMAN. and he's right. It IS so cool.
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BREAKING: The president just pulled the plug on COVID relief negotiations until after the election.
. 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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Local libertarian calls for forceful use of state power to compel actions of private citizen & perceived political foe.
I call on Congress to have the courage to immediately subpoena both Hunter Biden and the whistleblower!.
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You’re not going to believe this, but it is STILL not Friday.
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How massive is the FBI investigation of January 6th attack? Director Wray says investigations are underway in 55 of 56 FBI field offices.
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Thanks to everyone who sent kind messages after this scary moment. I’m fine, thanks especially to our crew & security team. I have some souvenir welts on my side to show for it. And sorry for cursing on tv. Those rubber bullets/pellets/bean-bags hurt!.
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No response from @SenatorSinema to my questions about reconciliation top lines, whether she opposes tax increases to pay for it, or whether she owes Arizonans more public explanations of her positions.
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Tried to ask @senatemajldr as he passed me in the hallway if the officers who killed Breonna Taylor in Louisville (his hometown) should be arrested. He walked by without answering.
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Members have described Bill Taylor’s testimony this morning as disturbing and very credible, backed up by “meticulous” contemporaneous notes he took during phone calls and meetings. Those formed the backbone of a lengthy opening statement.
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Lisa Murkowski has been meeting with dozens of Alaskan women privately in her office today, including several sexual assault survivors. The last group of 18 just left, describing a very emotional, hour+ meeting.
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Nunes’ contempt for this whole process is physically palpable in the room.
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No guests from the White House or Trump campaign on any of the Sunday shows this morning to discuss their ongoing legal efforts to block the election results.
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At a time when journalists are being attacked constantly for doing our jobs, I appreciated this closing remark from @MittRomney - at a public campaign event where I was the only reporter present - a great deal. More tomorrow.
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Pressed by @SavannahGuthrie - Trump says he "probably" owes money to a foreign bank or entity. That feels like news.
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When @RepJerryNadler played a clip of @LindseyGrahamSC from the Clinton impeachment, Graham wasn’t in the chamber- the only senator not in his or her seat at that moment.
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Just left the chamber, where most members were at least partially engaged with @RepJoeNeguse presentation. The biggest exception: @HawleyMO - sitting up in the gallery with his feet up on the seat in front of him, reviewing paperwork, throughout.
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If Harris carries these three states, even if the rest of the battleground map goes red, she’s President.
Q POLL . PA: Harris 51, Trump 45 .MI: Harris 50, Trump 45 .WI: Harris 48, Trump 47.
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Trump wanted the drama of a convention rollout for his VP, but here we see the benefits of a separate, well-advanced event. Wall-to-wall coverage, with the nominee herself hyping up the man joining her on the ticket. You can’t buy that kind of media exposure.
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Amash has 200k Twitter followers. By punching down, President Trump just gave him a 60million personal megaphone to say he’s committed impeachable offenses.
Never a fan of @justinamash, a total lightweight who opposes me and some of our great Republican ideas and policies just for the sake of getting his name out there through controversy. If he actually read the biased Mueller Report, “composed” by 18 Angry Dems who hated Trump,. .
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About 40 minutes into Trump remarks in Aurora and we're seeing some folks from the front section start to trickle out to the exits.
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Wisconsin’s @RonJohnsonWI - one of the objectors today- tells me neither his fellow objectors nor president Trump bear any responsibility for the violence today.
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I really don't want to be alarmist, but it took waaaaaaay too long for anyone who even looked like security personnel to get up on that stage. Its 2019. Let's be careful out there.
At the #BigIdeas @MoveOn festival moments ago — @KamalaHarris was on stage answering questions when a man jumped on stage and grabbed her microphone. The senator came back out on stage to finish her speech about #EqualPay.
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I cannot describe how surreal it is to watch President Trump give his generic rally speech tonight in Minnesota. Meanwhile the entire political earth has shifted under his feet while he’s been on stage, and he has no idea.
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As the president lists a bunch of drugs that may/might work or may/might be approved to treat coronavirus its worth noting we are still waaaay behind on the basic testing that White House was promising just last week and all of this should be taken with an enormous grain of salt.
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Our security team has told us it’s time to vacate downtown DC/Lafayette Park. We are going to try to get home safely and I’m praying all the protestors and police will do the same.
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The last two weeks have been exhausting. This is like nothing I’ve ever covered or lived through before. That said, I’m healthy and employed, so no whining on the yacht. With Congress leaving DC for a bit, I’m gonna disappear for a bit now too. Talk soon. Stay safe.
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Every time I go into the chamber I come out with a million little observations. Here’s one. Most senators are taking some kind of notes. @senatemajldr is the only one without even a scrap of paper on his desk.
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That Papadopolous flipped in July & pled nearly a month ago & it never leaked, or got on Senate intel radar, shows how far ahead Mueller is.
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PELOSI starts the clock on impeachment. In a letter to colleagues says tomorrow House will as ask for consent on resolution calling for 25th amendment to be invoked. Then a full vote Tuesday if UC fails. If no action by Pence/cabinet they’ll move to impeach.
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If you don’t take questions, you’re not holding a press conference, you’re giving a speech.
Mike Johnson holds first press conference as speaker but doesn’t take questions from the press.
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Likewise @laurenboebert - straight into the chamber after setting off mags. Cap police aren’t making a big deal about it, but members know they’ll be fined $5k.
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Q: Should there be a full FBI investigation into Kavanaugh’s past?. @lisamurkowski - “it would sure clear up all the questions, wouldn’t it?”.
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I'm not going to retweet him anymore to make these points, but the President continues to tweet baseless lies about the election he lost, and Republicans on the Hill are ignoring it.
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EXCLUSIVE: Former President Trump declined to say if he's sticking by his endorsement of Kevin McCarthy for speaker tonight, telling me in a brief phone interview he's had calls all day asking for support, and "We'll see what happens. We'll see how it all works out.".
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In perhaps the most rebellious act I’ve ever seen him engage in; @MittRomney is drinking chocolate milk on the senate floor.
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GOP spent 50 years building a legislative & legal strategy to dismantle Roe. What’s striking to me in interviews with Dem lawmakers today is that beyond this vote there doesn’t appear to be any similar integrated strategy to defend/rebuild abortion rights beyond: run on it in Nov.
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The whole election just changed in a second, and @realDonaldTrump is on stage in Bemidj. He hasn’t been told, and he’s talking about Hillary Clinton smashing cell phones.
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