Edward-Isaac Dovere
@IsaacDovere
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Senior reporter, @cnn. Bestselling author, Battle for the Soul. [email protected]
Joined February 2010
Now adding Blue Sky to the posting - follow me there:
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two presidents tweet the day before Thanksgiving:
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America 2019: bread lines for people who *have* jobs.
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student journalist gets hugely important answer out of House speaker, has receipts that undercut speaker's attempt to clean up after the fact.
For the record, this is how close I was to @SpeakerJohnson when he “misheard” my question for @CitrusTVNews.
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Kris Kobach is the general counsel of the Build the Wall PAC that Steve Bannon was just arrested for being involved in as chairman. The advisory board includes Erik Prince, former CO congressman Tom Tancredo, Sheriff Dave Clarke and former pitcher Curt Schilling.
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Kamala Harris is at a big fundraiser in Provincetown, MA this afternoon that has now doubled the expected $1M haul, bringing in over $2M. She is appearing with Pete Buttigieg.
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“Who gives a fuck about Christmas stuff and decoration? But I have to do it.” - First Lady Melania Trump
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Susan Collins, nine months ago on impeachment: “I believe that the president has learned from this case.”.
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Walz in Nebraska, when his mic cuts out for about 5 seconds: . “I saw Donald Trump’s mic went dead in Detroit. You do not want me dancing for 20 minutes.”. He paused. “Somebody on his staff should explain the ‘YMCA’ song to him.”.
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Pelosi, who knows a bit about leveraging power and appearances, responds to her local archbishop’s denying her communion over being pro-choice by going to see the Pope and getting communion in St Peter’s five days after the Dobbs decision .
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NEW from me: before the inauguration, Sen. Deb Fischer's husband— who went viral for his interaction w/Harris a few weeks ago—went to shake Doug Emhoff's hand. Emhoff refused: “Why would you try to shake my hand when you wouldn’t shake my wife’s hand?”.
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Biden at a fundraiser today: .“Americans made tremendous sacrifices, living under lockdowns, laid off from their jobs. We sacrificed to buy the government time . Donald Trump wasted that time.”.
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New from Emhoff’s ex-wife:. Doug and I decided to end our marriage for a variety of reasons, many years ago. He is a great father to our kids, continues to be a great friend to me & I am really proud of the warm & supportive blended family Doug, Kamala, & I have built together.
NEWS: @DouglasEmhoff to me:. “During my 1st marriage, Kerstin and I went through some tough times on account of my actions. I took responsibility, and in the years since, we worked through things as a family and have come out stronger on the other side.”
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Obama, subtly noting the roots of the economic growth that Trump is now taking credit for:.
Eleven years ago today, near the bottom of the worst recession in generations, I signed the Recovery Act, paving the way for more than a decade of economic growth and the longest streak of job creation in American history.
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House Rs voted over 60x to repeal Obamacare while Obama was president. They voted 0 times on it under Trump, and are now ready to move on.
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In July, a RNC spokesman mockingly tweeted a photo of Biden and his dead son as a boy. Today, a Trump campaign spokesman mockingly tweeted a video of Biden visiting his son’s grave.
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Most of the people who seem to feel quite sure Donald Trump can’t win in November were also completely confident he couldn’t win in 2016.
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NEW - dozens of Republicans who last year voted against the bipartisan infrastructure bill, calling it "socialist," "radical spending," spent the past few months quietly lobbying the administration for money out of that bill to come home to them
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Emhoff on Sarah Huckabee Sanders re Harris last night:. “somehow, b/c Cole&Ella aren't Kamala’s ‘biological children,’ that she doesn't have anything in her life to keep her humble…As if keeping women humble, whether you have children or not,is something we should strive for.”.
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beyond all that Biden said in the speech, the key moment was that first, big hug of his son Hunter Biden -- a visual statement that he hadn't let Trump tear his family apart, as he was saying he wouldn't let Trump tear the country apart.
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Biden stayed "in his basement," as he was mocked repeatedly for doing, because of concerns related to his own health--and to model behavior for staff and supporters. Seven months in: Biden is negative, his staff is negative, there have been no cases linked to his small events.
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A tweet from debate night from Biden’s granddaughter:.
Why is the Trump family allowed to not wear masks in the debate hall while everyone else follows the rules?.
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A man used address he doesn’t live at to vote in the presidential election, and won’t answer questions the registration. The man is a United States senator, Republican of Missouri.
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"I think you will see by June a lot of the country should be back to normal, and the hope is by July, the country is really rocking again." - Jared Kushner, April 29.
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President Trump called @mattgaetz last night from Hanoi to talk the Cohen testimony and the threats (since rescinded) Gaetz made about Cohen. "I was happy to do it for you. You just keep killing it," Gaetz was heard telling him. (Gaetz told me he doesn't discuss calls w/POTUS).
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At an Ohio event where Obama made an unannounced stop on Thursday on his way to his Cleveland rally, one of the state’s biggest GOP donors announced he’d quit the party and likes what the former president has been saying lately about civility
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in the midst of all this, everyone has just internalized that the president had affairs with a porn star and Playboy model (right after his wife gave birth to his son), and then paid for their silence. Now it's just a back and forth about bank accounts and what's legal.
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probably one of the more ridiculous photos of @GeorgeHWBush - sledding with @Schwarzenegger at Camp David in 1991. (plus check out how he signed the photo):
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The Biden campaign appears to have gamed the Trump campaign by releasing an early fundraising number for the Obama event today, getting the Trump campaign to claim Trump “eclipsed” Obama on recent fundraising, and then releasing a full and bigger number for Obama’s.
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It’s 12:01, which means Mark Robinson has passed the deadline to drop out of the race and will remain the Republican candidate for governor in North Carolina.
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Actual progression:.-there was no mtg.-there was a mtg, but about adoption.-mtg wasn’t about adoption.-nothing was offered.-something was offered, wasn’t any good.-what was offered wasn’t taken.-let’s say something was taken, so what?.-memories keep changing, so can’t answer
Asked about shifting explanations for statement on Trump Tower meeting, Rudy Giuliani tells @GStephanopoulos:. "This is the reason you don't let the president testify. Our recollection keeps changing, or we're not even asked a question and somebody makes an assumption."
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What it looks like when an ASL interpreter signs “Let’s Go Crazy”
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Confirmation hearing statements on Roe:.Roberts: “settled as a precedent of the court”. Gorsuch: “a good judge will consider it as precedent”. Kavanaugh: “an important precedent”. Barrett “so well settled that no political actors and no people seriously push for their overruling”.
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Biden, in Atlanta, says of Sens. Loeffler & Perdue backing the Texas lawsuit for Trump: "they fully embraced nullifying nearly 5 million Georgia votes. You might want to remember that come January 5. Maybe your senators were just confused. Maybe they think they represent Texas.".
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The argument coming from Republicans is Harris—who had served 13 years as DA + AG before 3.5 years in the Senate—was a DEI hire for Biden, while JD Vance—who wrote a bestseller, worked in venture capital briefly & has been in the Senate 18 months was picked because of his résumé.
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Pretty clearly, if Donald Trump could have overturned the election results and seized power through court challenges or other routes, he would have—and also pretty clearly, there are not many Republican leaders who would have opposed him as he did.
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“The ones who get very sick and go to the hospital are the ones that don’t take the vaccine. … if you do get it, it’s a very minor form. People aren’t dying when they take the vaccine.” -Donald Trump.
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Biden to @danpfeiffer on why he has not brought up Trump's children in response to Trump's Hunter Biden attacks: "I just think it's crass. I'm running against Donald Trump, not his children. The American people want to hear about their families, not Trump's family or my family.".
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NEWS - Kamala Harris is dropping out of the presidential election today, I'm told reliably. She's informing staff now.
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Political trivia on Trump: he is now the only president to have been impeached and lost re-election (Johnson and Clinton were impeached in their second terms, and Nixon was going to be). He is the only president to have twice lost the popular vote.
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My favorite Passover tradition is the Clarification of the Holocaust Remarks.
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This morning, an interview aired in which Trump said of Biden, “I don’t think he remembers what he did yesterday.” Tonight, Trump tweeted he golfed for first time in months today, though he golfed yesterday. may be that some comments are made for politics more than reality.
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Four months before writing a letter demanding Sec. Buttigieg’s resignation over “intentional ignorance” in lack of oversight about the Ohio train derailment, Sen. Rubio co-signed a letter with 22 colleagues pushing for waivers to allow more automation in train inspections -
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One of Tara Reade's new attorneys donated $55,000 to Trump in 2016. The other is a former writer and editor for a Russian propaganda network.
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George Santos says that he made between $3.5 million and $11.5 million in the first and only year his company was in business, the company was closed just because his accountant filed paperwork late, and this all happened between his two runs for Congress.
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Harris was struck by Walz offering he didn't want to run for president. adviser Cedric Richmond on how it was received: ."‘Look I’m not concerned about my image or my approval rating . I’m going to stay in this moment, be your VP, run through walls, fight"
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Remember when the White House's official photo of the inauguration listed the date as Jan 21st? They fixed it to 20, but left the "st"
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In other words: the children who woke up in detention centers without their parents this morning will also go to sleep in detention centers without their parents tonight and for many nights to come, despite the paper the president signed this afternoon
NBC News: An HHS spokesperson says the agency has received no new orders on how to handle the roughly 2300 children in their care who are currently detained and separated from their parents. @JuliaEAinsley.
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Obama at his Foundation summit: "This idea of purity and you’re never compromised and you’re politically woke, and all that stuff—you should get over that pretty quickly. The world is messy. There are ambiguities. People who do really good stuff have flaws.".
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Jared Kushner, eight months ago today on COVID: . “This is a great success story, and I think that's really what needs to be told. I think you'll see by June that a lot of the country should be back to normal, and the hope is that by July the country's really rocking again.”.
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NEWS - Tara Reade abruptly canceled the interview she was scheduled to record on Friday afternoon with Chris Wallace for @FoxNewsSunday, to air Sunday morning. Reade told Fox on Friday, sometime after @JoeBiden's interview with @morningmika.
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The debate was horrible. The format was not sufficient. The moderator failed to keep control. But the reason for nearly all of that was President Trump.
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Imagine if the response a couple of months after September 11 was that flight problems happen all the time, and those were just 19 guys having a bad day who had a different view of politics.
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José Andres has basically become Batman with a spatula, popping up everywhere and anywhere there’s an emergency.
UPDATE tonight from the volcano eruption on La Palma…as you can see it’s super active! @WCKitchen is here serving meals to the first responders working 12 hour shifts…and with help of some amazing volunteers we are making sure everyone has something to eat! #ChefsForLaPalma 🌋
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Giuliani is now changing the Hunter Biden laptop story. The shop owner told the NY Post he couldn't identify who dropped off the laptop. Giuliani, who wasn't there, said on Sirius XM today "was left by Hunter Biden, in an inebriated, heavily inebriated state with the merchant.".
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Biden statement on Trump admin halting Congressional intel briefings on election interference: ."There can be only one conclusion: President Trump is hoping Vladimir Putin will once more boost his candidacy and cover his horrific failures to lead our country".
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NEW from me: Bernie Sanders was so close to running a primary against Obama for re-election that Harry Reid had to step in to stop him .
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Florida gets about $3,000 more per resident each year from the federal government than it puts in, for over $60 billion each year.
"It's not fair to the taxpayers of Florida. We sit here, we live within our means, and then New York, Illinois, California and other states don't. And we're supposed to go bail them out? That's not right," GOP Sen. Rick Scott tells poolers of sending more money to states.
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There’s a category of Democratic voter who is adamant that democracy is teetering, the planet is burning, women’s rights are at stake w/Roe and gun laws are threatening kids, but also they don’t see the point in voting if they don’t get more than $10k in student loan cancellation.
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hey remember last week when a consortium of scientists around the world released an in depth study on how in 20 years or less we’re going to have a global crisis because of climate change that will kill millions and reshape the planet?.
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Hakeem Jeffries is the first leader of the House Democrats *ever* born after the end of World War II.
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remember: only 99% of scientists say it's a problem to stare directly into the eclipse. So it's an open debate.
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looks like the Republican convention videos tonight used stock footage from a factory in Moscow and a Ukrainian company's shot of working on a cell phone
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Tucker Carlson’s vision of a Trump presidency is that “dad comes home” and says to America,.“You’ve been a bad girl. You’ve been a bad little girl and you’re getting a vigorous spanking, right now. … It’s going to hurt you a lot more than it hurts me.”.
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German delegation reaction to President Trump at the UN saying they're on track to become totally dependent on Russian oil:
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NEWS: @DouglasEmhoff to me:. “During my 1st marriage, Kerstin and I went through some tough times on account of my actions. I took responsibility, and in the years since, we worked through things as a family and have come out stronger on the other side.”
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Jared Kushner, April 29: "I think you'll see by June a lot of the country should be back to normal and the hope is that by July, the country's really rocking again.” . July 31: . .
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court expansion is a real question Biden will grapple w/if he wins--but it's also a perfect example of how skilled Republicans are at shifting the conversation. They've broken precedent on two seats now, and are stoking outrage about how Dems *might* break precedent in the future.
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Jill Stein raised $7 million for a 2016 recount. She’s been spending it on herself, her travel and her staff ever since
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Apparently what everyone didn’t understand about the House and Senate Republicans who voted to overturn the election even after the Capitol riot is that they were doing it because they thought that was the best way to unify the county and bring down the temperature.
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Imagine if the president referred to Chuck Schumer as Shylock. Or Obama as Sambo. But it's become accepted he refers to Warren as Pocahontas.
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Kislyak wasn't caught on CSPAN camera for Trump Tower meeting w/Kushner and Flynn in December, so was deliberately brought in the back way.
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders just clarified that when President Trump said earlier that he'd have run into the school with the active shooter, he didn't really mean that he'd run into a school with an active shooter but rather that he'd "be a leader".
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Here's Trump's full answer on "swashbuckler" Andrew Jackson and the Civil War: "Why could that one not have been worked out?"
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.@BetoORourke in Charlottesville just now, on taking down the statue of Robert E. Lee: “We cannot wonder how racism continues to be perpetuated in this country when we’ve elevated racists.”.
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"I'm watching you kid, I love you," Biden says, still on speakerphone, as Harris addresses staff at campaign headquarters in Wilmington.
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reminder that one of the things that Walz told Harris in his vetting interview was that he thinks he's a bad debater.
See you on October 1, JD.
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Steve Bannon, of course, wouldn’t have been able to help get out Hunter Biden’s supposed hard drive if he wasn’t out on $5 million bail for allegedly embezzling $1M in donations from a fake border wall group, after being arrested on the $35M yacht of an exiled Chinese businessman.
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The current state of DC is Biden and Dems touting a bill they say would reduce inflation, expand health care and protect the climate and Republicans responding by voting against a burn pit bill they previously voted for & a microchip bill they say is critical to national security.
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.@Schwarzenegger just logged onto a local meeting in Cameron County, TX to announce his first grant to open more polling places nationwide from his @GovArnoldUSC Institute--for $250,973.66, which will fund two "super center" sites to handle 20-24,000 voters, in that county alone
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NEW - I talked with @GovGaryLocke about being pulled into the 2020 campaign by the Trump campaign using a clip of him in a montage of Chinese officials. “I don’t expect an apology from them. It is so characteristic of their view toward people of color.”.
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President Hillary Clinton's top adviser Chelsea Clinton will fundraise for Clinton Fdn while in West Wing office
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what's it called when a senator tells rich donors three weeks ago that a pandemic was coming, continues to go to Intelligence briefings, then sells off $1.6 million in stocks before the market collapses, and says nothing to the public?.
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Sanders on Russia: “Unlike Donald Trump, I do not consider Vladimir Putin a good friend. He is an autocratic thug. I don't care, frankly, who Putin wants to be president. My message to Putin is clear: stay out of American elections, and as president I will make sure that you do".
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Biden greets Harris after he introduces her at the Congressional Black Caucus dinner. Harris: ."He has been one of the most transformative presidents in American history. I thank you Joe Biden for everything you are and everything you have yet to do."
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the Hatch Act gets made out to be some quaint rule about ethics that's hard to enforce, but its purpose is to codify clear lines to keep a presidency from abusing taxpayer resources and warping the government into a function of a person and/or a party.
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former House Speaker John Boehner, now a medical marijuana lobbyist, is currently sitting on stage in Michigan drinking a bloody Mary, saying the Republican Party he knows has been lost to Trump and that, among other things, he's now more open on gay rights than he was.
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The governor of Georgia, who was adamant that there was no voter fraud in his state last year and the results were sound, signs new voting restrictions that were created in response to the fraud he said wasn’t real.
The Republican governor of Georgia just signed into law severe voting restrictions pushed by Republicans that those Republicans claim is needed to prevent voter fraud that does not exist.
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Stephen Miller’s wife, who is Pence’s press secretary and who has COVID herself a few months ago, was mocking Kamala Harris’s team for wanting debate precautions *yesterday*.
Update: Now Trump senior adviser Stephen Miller tests positive as well. #18.
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The president keeps saying that there’s some program related to low income housing that Cory Booker would run. Booker still has nothing to do with whatever program he’s thinking of—but he is Black, and lives in a low income neighborhood himself.
The “suburban housewife” will be voting for me. They want safety & are thrilled that I ended the long running program where low income housing would invade their neighborhood. Biden would reinstall it, in a bigger form, with Corey Booker in charge! @foxandfriends @MariaBartiromo.
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Biden, after speaking directly for a bit to the daughter of a veteran who died from burn pit exposure, hands her the pen he signed the bill with:
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Jared Kushner complained to @playbookplus this morning that "LeBron James opened a phenomenal charter school which is making a big difference in Cleveland but then he’s backing people who want…to close down charter schools.". James' I Promise School is a public school, in Akron.
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.@KBeds of the Biden campaign says that the Trump campaign asked as a condition that Chris Wallace not mention the number of COVID deaths in the debate tonight.
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NEWS - North America’s Building Trades Unions voted today to endorse Biden — much earlier than usual, and w/plans to spend eight figures on mobilizing its 250,000 members specifically in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. They credit infrastructure.
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the RNC requested legal permission to use Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” at the convention on Thursday night. Cohen’s estate said no. The RNC used it anyway.
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a Republican who unseated a Democrat last year to be Maricopa recorder has some thoughts:.
Wow. This is unhinged. I’m literally looking at our voter registration database on my other screen. Right now. We can’t indulge these insane lies any longer. As a party. As a state. As a country. This is as readily falsifiable as 2+2=5. If we don’t call this out.
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