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@laurennfrench ’s husband. @Axios hypeman. Fmr Senate Comms Dir + @GSPMgwu . OR native. Pro-inbox zero, cheap beer + the Green Bay Packers 🧀
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Taylor Swift can still be the surprise guest if Mike Pence has the courage
TMZ reports that Beyoncé will perform at the DNC tonight
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Kasie Hunt abruptly cut an interview w/ Trump spox Karoline Leavitt short this morning when she repeatedly went after Jake Tapper instead of answering Kasie’s questions.
You come on my show, you respect my colleagues. Period. I don’t care what side of the aisle you stand on, as my track record clearly shows.
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Genuinely curious if this first paragraph was meant to be tweeted?
To qualify for the CO primary ballot, the state party requires that candidates post something on social media that announces their excitement while encouraging their followers to follow the state party’s social media accounts
for updates about the state party primary and events.
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🚨 BOMBSHELL from
@mikeallen
+
@JimVandeHei
: Top Dems now believe Biden will exit
"Top Biden aides - including ones who initially urged him to fight on after the debate - are saying it's now when, not if, Biden announces he's not running."
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I know it's football season right now, but there may never be a greater sports moment than George Bush throwing out the first pitch at Yankees Stadium after 9/11.
#WeRemember
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That comma is putting in some work
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Sitting senator sharing InfoWars content —>
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🚨 🚨
@AlexThomp
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@AndrewSolender
Scoop: Biden rebellion resurfaces on Capitol Hill
Dems are circulating a letter arguing there’s "no legal justification" for an early virtual roll.
"People are back to being angry .. the replace Biden movement is back.”
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🚨 🚨 🚨 NEW from
@mikeallen
and
@JimVandeHei
:
“Trump's advisers are deeply rattled by his meandering, mean and often middling public performances.”
Trump “has fumed, stewed and stumbled in private and public ever since” the convention.
Read:
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🚨🚨 Scoop:
@AndrewSolender
has reporting that says President Biden is poised to face a sudden flood of House Democrats urging him to exit race REGARDLESS of the NATO press conference, more than 6 lawmakers tell him.
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.
@AlexThomp
has reporting from inside Biden HQ during the debate.
- one person laid down on the floor, despondent when Biden fumbled an answer.
- When the debate's video feed was temporarily interrupted, one campaign staffer blurted out, "Oh, thank god."
🚨 NEW from
@AlexThomp
: "Worry less": Biden camp tries to rally demoralized staff
Biden's campaign staff, battling low morale and disillusionment, held its second all-hands conference call in less than a week Monday with DNC staffers.
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This is how girls in DC talk about men they meet at Mission Navy Yard
I don’t think the country is fixable but I’m here in case it is.
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Anyway, 🚨🚨 SCOOP from
@AlexThomp
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@HansNichols
: Biden SHRINKS his inner circle
WHO: Anita Dunn, Bob Bauer, Jeff Zients & Ron Klain
They've been relegated below Biden's trio of longtime advisers + FLOTUS's top aide, aka the "loyalty police."
Hey it's Friday, almost 5pm, surely nothing is about to pop
... 👀
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Trump is pushing the false conspiracy theory on the right that pictures from Harris’ rally were AI generated, and that that means she should be “disqualified” and “Democrats win elections by CHEATING.”
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4:59pm: I’m just going to have one drink at the happy hour
5:03pm:
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News: This weekend I obtained something that’s increasingly rare in Washington, DC: an on-the-record answer from
@laurennfrench
.
(It was a yes). 💍
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🚨 SCOOP from
@AlexThomp
: Old yeller: Biden's private fury
"God dammit, how the f**k don't you know this?!," "Don't f**king bullsh*t me!" "Get the f**k out of here!"
And according to one source, no staffer is safe.
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When SEO optimization takes it too far
A "relatively rare" sighting was discovered this week: A massive stingray nearly the length of Travis Kelce, the Kansas City Chiefs tight end and Taylor Swift's rumored beau.
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Scoop: The Harris campaign is telling Wall Street to cut checks as soon as possible, citing a rule that bars donations to tickets featuring a 👀 sitting governor 👀
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I can in no way imagine ever caring if my actions hurt Dulles
At DCA, where VA Sens. Kaine and Warner, MD Sens. Cardin and Van Hellen, D.C. Mayor Bowser, Airport Authority CEO Jack Potter and others are calling on Congress not to expand the number of flights at the airport.
Officials say it would create more delays, congestion, hurt Dulles
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Wow, the last line here:
“The president’s cold shoulder — and heart — is counter to every message he has sent for decades, and it’s out of sync with the America he wants to continue to lead.”
It’s Seven Grandkids, Mr. President, by
@maureendowd
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Marjorie Taylor Greene said “everyone I talk to” thinks the U.S. needs a “national divorce.”
According to new findings from our Axios-Ipsos Two Americas Index, only one in five Americans agreed.
Write up from
@margarettalev
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@KurtBenkert
@bvervelde
Refs know
@AlbertBreer
It wasn’t a missed PI because the refs knew any big pass to MVS is uncatchable for him
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How tall is the person who took this photo
Good discussion with
@SecDef
Austin about Northern Ohio’s defense assets and expanding defense jobs and training here.
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Some *personnel* news:
I recently started working in communications with the terrific team at
@axios
.
Our company is doing some really cool things in the media space and I’m excited to be a part of it.
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🚨 SCOOP from
@AlexThomp
&
@HansNichols
:
NEERA TANDEN will replace Susan Rice as head of the Domestic Policy Council.
Stef Feldman, will replace Tanden as staff secretary.
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@jasrifootball
Let’s also just remember Aaron rodgers had Greg Jennings, Donald driver, and a proven offensive line.
Either Jordan doesn’t, and that’s more impressive, or he does, and that’s even scarier for the league 👀
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why won’t Liz Cheney move on
Trump really going there today:
"FBI BURIED THE HUNTER BIDEN LAPTOP STORY BEFORE THE ELECTION ... REMEDY: Declare the rightful winner or, and this would be the minimal solution, declare the 2020 Election irreparably compromised and have a new Election, immediately!"
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Important to note it doesn’t appear he hosted the cleric after the Oct 7 attack
“Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz, on at least five occasions as governor of Minnesota, hosted a Muslim cleric who celebrated Hamas‘s Oct. 7 attack last year on Israel and promoted a film popular among Neo-Nazis that glorifies Adolf Hitler”
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Everyone is asking Chip Roy about the debt ceiling but not about his siblings losing control of Waystar Royco
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@AlbertBreer
It wasn’t a missed PI because the refs knew any big pass to MVS is uncatchable for him
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So, until noon tomorrow, there are no members of the U.S. House?
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Arsonist offers water bottle
Trump 'will do whatever' he can to 'help the country' after FBI raid: 'Temperature has to be brought down'
#FoxNews
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Guess we’re going to have to change that location in the bio
SCOOP: Gavin Newsom will appoint EMILY’s List President Laphonza Butler to fill the seat of the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein, elevating the head of a fundraising juggernaut that works to elect Dem women who support abortion rights, per a person familiar.
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Tlaib saying Israel bombed the hospital despite multiple reports saying it was hit by a misfired Hamas rocket —>
Israel just bombed the Baptist Hospital killing 500 Palestinians (doctors, children, patients) just like that.
@POTUS
this is what happens when you refuse to facilitate a ceasefire & help de-escalate.
Your war and destruction only approach has opened my eyes and many
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Sending a press release is very fun because that split second between after hitting send and before the screen disappears is when you notice *every single typo* you missed despite staring at the page until your eyes hurt
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⚡️ NEW from
@AlexThomp
+
@HansNichols
:
Biden officials are telling Dem critics that Biden is eager to prove them wrong + plans to hit the campaign trail once he recovers from COVID, with potential trips to GA and TX.
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@ESPNMilwaukee
@CoachMLaFleur
@BenBrust
@AaronRodgers12
@ESPNMadison
@ESPNbd
@ScalzoandBrust
deep unnecessary cringe
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@bendreyfuss
the spacing cut makes me think it's a copy / paste thing but they could be leaning into the bit! who knows!
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🧵 insane
@ally
bank story.
They - without warning - closed all my accounts, and can’t reopen them, because they thought I didn’t have a valid address (I do!).
The only way they told me?
They mailed a letter to what they thought is my address, which doesn’t exist.
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🚨 NEW from
@AlexThomp
: "Worry less": Biden camp tries to rally demoralized staff
Biden's campaign staff, battling low morale and disillusionment, held its second all-hands conference call in less than a week Monday with DNC staffers.
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and I couldn't help but think, it DID all come down to turnout
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🚨 SCOOP
GARY PETERS is “in the mix” for VP.
He’s being pushed for by labor leaders and has indicated interest.
from
@stephen_neukam
,
@AndrewSolender
,
@samueljrob
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News: Montana just banned TikTok statewide, effective next year.
A TikTok spokesperson said it’s an infringement of First Amendment rights.
@danprimack
: “This is a major escalation.”
Catch up:
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Hill staffers: don't do this.
Snapshot from the halls of the Hill: a House staffer just passed by GOP Rep. Max Miller —who is Jewish and has been supportive of sending aide to Israel— and said “free Palestine.” Pretty rare and stunning to see staff challenge members to their faces this way.
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The year is 2012.
You’re a political operative for a high profile campaign, and you *thought* you scrubbed the internet of your bad social media posts and controversial old interviews.
You get a notification, and it’s your worst nightmare:
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There is one senator who is - without question - doing both.
Which of your state’s senators is seeing the Barbie and which is seeing Oppenheimer? (you have to choose)
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Taylor and Joe split? You’re the first to tell me, I hadn’t heard that— they had a good relationship, that makes me very sad, actually.
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One time a POLITICO reporter asked to get drinks, called it a date, then pushed me for a scoop half the time we were there.
My proudest achievement in my five years at
@POLITICO
(and six years of app dates in this cursed city) is contributing this rule to our D.C. etiquette guide
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RFK Jr has now deleted the “ungayed” post—>
RFK Jr makes history as the first Presidential candidate to use the word "ungayed"
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Years poured into the "Senate is better than the House, Comms is better than Leg" movement, all destroyed with one Reply All email.
Tragic day.
Accidentally replied all to an all Senate-wide (possibly all Capitol complex-wide?) email.
If you need to me, I'll be walking into the sea.
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@PatMcAfeeShow
No mention of saying Joe Douglas has proven to be a smart GM (20-46, drafted Zach Wilson 2nd overall, on the brink of getting canned last year), but Gute hasn’t.
Also nothing here on what happens if the Jets don’t get their guy, which is the premise of Packers’ fans argument.
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Hey it's Friday, almost 5pm, surely nothing is about to pop
... 👀
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People actually tried to clown on
@mikeallen
and
@JimVandeHei
for this
President Biden may decide to drop out of the presidential race as soon as this weekend, according to several top Democrats who believe the rising pressure will persuade the 81-year-old.
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🚨 🚨 SCOOP: Iran sent a message to Israel stressing that while it doesn’t want further escalation in the war, it’ll have to intervene if the Israeli operation in Gaza continues, two sources told
@BarakRavid
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Lots of news on Harris in this
@JimVandeHei
+
@mikeallen
piece.
She “wants to break with Biden on issues where he's unpopular” like “rising prices.”
On flip flops, she thinks “whatever she says in the next three months will be what sticks”
Read:
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🚨 SCOOP from
@AndrewSolender
:
House Dems are circulating a resolution to censure Paul Gosar (again).
One Dem member said the resolution is for "using taxpayer money to spread resources to pro[-Hitler], holocaust denialism.”
No comment from Gosar spox.
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The most athletic performance we’ve seen all game
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🚨 SCOOP:
The DeSantis camp fired Nate Hochman after he secretly created & shared a pro-DeSantis video that featured the candidate at the center of an ancient symbol appropriated by the Nazis & still used by some white supremacists.
From
@AlexThomp
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🚨 🚨 SCOOP: Treasury is preparing to announce new sanctions against several Hamas leaders, per
@BarakRavid
&
@HansNichols
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👋🏻
@laurennfrench
and I are jetting off to the Bahamas for our wedding next weekend so we’ll be on this app a lot less.
If you need us please reach out to our pup / bodyguard, Lexi 🐶
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President Biden was raked over the coals by a group of center-left House Democrats on Saturday in what sources said was a "tense" – even "awful" – meeting aimed at stemming defections on Capitol Hill.
Report from
@AndrewSolender
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@mattschneidman
“The covering official was certain that the call had been made correctly” LOL
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A line seemingly designed to fire up his supporters and get an over-the-top response from Trump at the same time
Biden gets big applause for the line about Trump, "I won the election, and he was a loser."
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🚨 🚨 major scoop from
@BarakRavid
:
The White House canceled a US-Israel meeting on Iran scheduled for Thursday after Netanyahu released a video claiming the US was withholding military aid.
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If there’s a world where Taylor Swift is realistically on my call sheet she’s going to be my number one call I don’t really care what else is happening
Assuming it’s Kamala Harris, my first call would be to Gov Josh Shapiro asking him to be my VP and my next calls would be to Taylor Swift & Beyoncé asking them to endorse.
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"House GOP officials say Comer has at times undermined his credibility by being a sloppy communicator — especially in TV interviews during the past year in which he has overstated his committee's findings."
Details from
@AlexThomp
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Forget Summer Fridays. I will trade all my Summer Fridays for Fall Fridays.
Release me at 1pm when it’s 68 degrees, sunny and beautiful.
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SCOOP from
@AlexThomp
:
Tensions between TRUMP and HUCKABEE SANDERS have grown over her neutrality in the presidential race.
w/ Axios NW Arkansas’
@WorthSparkman
:
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Harris could sweep the Sunbelt Battleground states, win every other Midwest Blue Wall state, and still lose.
Pennsylvania is for all the marbles.
These two tweets from Kevin are a very very good reminder that the first appearance of The Ticket is not indicative of who they picked.
It could be this time for VP Harris' campaign but history tells us something very different.
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I love that serious people On Here thought the Philadelphia Mayor’s digital staff knew who Harris had picked as VP
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