Kevin Madden
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I help lead @PentaGrp . Strategic advisory/advocacy/comms pro. "Hope is not a strategy."
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Amazing.
Louisiana lawmakers remotely VOTED BY MAIL to roll back an expansion of VOTE BY MAIL for voters:
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We could even call it, I dunno, the “TPP” and use it to promote American leadership in the Pacific region. Great idea!
Kudlow: U.S. could lead coalition of large trading partners against China. "A trade coalition of the willing."
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How frickin' bananas crazy did the blacked out portion have to be for the My Pillow Guy to say: "Yeah, probably a bit too much let's strike that part."
@MyPillowUSA
CEO Michael Lindell shows off his notes before going into the West Wing at the White House on Friday, Jan 15, 2021 in Washington, DC.
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It's been two months since I had a meal where my dog wasn't staring at me the entire time.
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The GA elections guy should NOT be on CNN engaging in predictions and playing pundit.
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Biden intros Harris (CA): DE
Trump intros Pence (IN): NY
Hillary intros Kaine (VA): FL
Romney intros Ryan (WI): VA
McCain intros Palin (AK): OH
Obama intros Biden (DE): IL
Kerry intros Edwards (NC): PA
Scoop: Kamala Harris is expected to announce her running mate by Tuesday, when she will hold her first rally with her pick in PHILADELPHIA.
The two will then hit western Wisconsin, Detroit, Raleigh, Savannah, Phoenix and Las Vegas.
w/
@EugeneDaniels2
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This. Every word of it.
Talent is a gift. Character is a choice.
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AZ, + NV having tipped blue, NM solid blue, CO solid blue...that western quadrant has really shifted.
Arizona will soon have two Democratic senators and it just voted for the Democrat for president.
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The conventional wisdom in Washington is that nothing happens in August.
August is going to be insane.
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Dangerously ignorant about really, really important stuff:
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NOTHING about it is conservative.
HOUSTON (AP) — The Texas lawsuit asking the U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate President-elect Joe Biden’s victory has quickly become a conservative litmus test, with many Republicans signing onto the case even as some have predicted it will fail.
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Before you endorse the notion that the executive branch can broadly use "national emergency" powers in order to get what it wants, consider this:
Your party won't always control the executive branch.
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So this Conley guy hasn't learned a thing since yesterday.
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WH loves this fight. Loves it.
“White House officials sent Acosta a letter stating that his pass is set to be suspended again once the restraining order expires.”
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Actually, there's nothing shocking about it at all.
Shocking video shows a shark biting the finger of a woman that attempted to feed it in Western Australia, dragging her into the water. She escaped with a fracture and a torn ligament.
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from Walter Mondale's concession speech, November, 1984:
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I left a message about where we'd be on the marker board on your dorm room door.
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"I was a Republican who ran a write-in campaign and I was successful. But I will tell you, if the Republican Party has become nothing more than the party of Trump, I sincerely question whether this is the party for me."
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Post-debate analysis: We're 24-48 hrs away from the next, new outrage cycle and this debate's impact will be minimal.
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I'm the only Bengals fan anyone knows so as you can imagine my phone is blowing up.
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Amazing that POTUS returns to the briefing room to deliver the news of a shooting at the WH.
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The Critic Whose Olive Garden Review Went Viral Remembers How Anthony Bourdain Spoke Up For Her
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VP Pence's body language indicates he knows just how badly this was going for the President.
But also how badly it diluted the power of the Oval Office setting.
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I challenge you to find a better intro/title sequence:
📺DEBUT: 'The Six Million Dollar Man' starring Lee Majors premiered as a regular weekly series 46 years ago tonight, January 18, 1974, on ABC
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@Bakari_Sellers
It's incredibly simple:
-Comms department has zero input
-He likes talking about himself with famous people
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No matter what happens Nov. 3, Republicans can expect more of this for the next 10-15 years.
Florida man
@RepMattGaetz
warming up the crowd here in Orlando: “This is Donald Trump’s party and I am a Donald Trump Republican.”
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Stop double-spacing after periods.
In 5 words or less, start a fight without politics
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he ain't wrong
"I thought this was my building. ... Everybody in this building should know who the hell I am."
Patrick Ewing was upset after he said he got stopped multiple times by security at Madison Square Garden.
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60 Minutes thing playing out exactly like we all expected it to.
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It's just SO SO SO much harder to switch out the top of the ticket and run an effective campaign in the space of 3 months than the coverage or punditry indicates.
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Some things just need to be left alone.
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There's no way my wife would allow that.
Could you date someone from a different political party?
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People have political differences, that's a fact.
What truly matters is competency and effectiveness.
Ron Klain is easily one of the most competent and effective professionals I've ever met.
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Republican nightmare: Trump vote-by-mail demonizing driving down GOP participation
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Stop making it complicated.
A candidate is unfit for the presidency if they are unable to take an oath that swears to uphold the Constitution.
Trump gave you an exit ramp.
Take it.
WATCH: George Stephanopoulos Puts a GOP Congressman On the Run for Refusing to Disavow Trump in Wild Exchange
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Pretty difficult. Conventions of this size take over a year of planning once rhe locale is locked down.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump: GOP ‘forced to seek another State’ to host convention after North Carolina insists on coronavirus distancing.
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Nikki Haley probably the most natural political athlete on stage and showing it tonight.
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This TX situation is rough. My brother lives in Austin and no one has heard from him in days. 🤞
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hmmm...if only we had some vehicle to develop a stronger trans-pacific trading partnership with our allies as a way of countering China's influence...
China and 14 other countries agreed Sunday to set up the world’s largest trading bloc, encompassing nearly a third of all economic activity, in a deal many in Asia are hoping will help hasten a recovery from the shocks of the coronavirus pandemic.
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yeah, huh...
The conventional wisdom in Washington is that nothing happens in August.
August is going to be insane.
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Quick pre-debate analysis:
"Spin rooms" were the absolute worst and it's so great they are now dead.
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There’s no “thinking” you are off the record: you either have express agreement with reporter that you’re off the record or you don’t.
Per
@mikeallen
, some officials who talked with Wolff thought they were speaking off the record
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Bain, you say? Heard of them.
Will have more on this in the newsletter, but Deval Patrick formally resigned from Bain Capital yesterday.
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go on the record, folks...
“The president’s tone was horrific. He has destroyed the party,” a GOP Member of Congress tells me just now.
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Why I always scratched my head when some GOPers would say, "well, after Trump..." like the present is just a phase.
He has heirs.
In early 2024 polling, Trump children are 2 of the top 4 GOP choices, while Don Jr. is the top pick among voters 18-29.
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This is the GREATEST version of this song that I have EVER heard.
Can't get it out of my head - Had to share again.
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What concerns me about this is that Kudlow has been wrong on everything.
Kudlow says surges in Coronavirus cases could have an economic impact in some hotspots, but doesn't see another business shutdown and says "it will not stop a V-shaped recovery."
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Folly, for the most part. No matter what happens this November, Trump will shape the profile of the GOP for at least the next decade, possibly longer.
George Will: "I’m fairly confident that Mr. Trump will be defeated in the election. The next morning, a lot of Republicans will say, ‘Trump? I don’t recognize the name.’ They’ll get over this fairly fast."
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Fellas, if you’re over the age of 25 do NOT wear a baseball cap backwards. Unless you’re behind the plate for a professional baseball team.
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convinced Sherrod Brown would be leading this Dem field right now.
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there are like 4 excellent punk-rock band names in this headline alone
Hyper-sexual "zombie cicadas" that are infected with sexually transmitted fungus expected to emerge this year.
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They pay very close attention, actually.
Asked Tillerson if domestic probs will complicate POTUS foreign trip:People around the world don't have time to pay attention to US issues.
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Until media orgs recognize and address this imbalance, just expect more of it 👇
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New ABC poll out today on prez approval has some hints of a core challenge the Biden WH faces: the drop among indies or the "pragmatic middle". These voters were most invested in the Biden "return to normalcy" brand ...(1/2)
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me when I see two surrogates debate candidate enthusiasm levels by arguing about...lawn signs
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I had low expectations and this is so much worse than I could have imagined.
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meanwhile, national & regional news coverage the last 10 days has been like one, big, extended negative ad against Trump
NEW - Biden expands TV ad $$ into Texas & Ohio.
Trump? Completely dark in Iowa, Texas, Ohio & NH, last 2 weeks.
TV spending is a clear reflection of who has cash and who doesn’t in presidential race.
@PoliticoScott
& I dive into it:
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Who is a character that had roughly 15 minutes or less in a film but had a huge impact on it ?
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Have you called a friend just to check -in and say hello recently? You should.
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“Where ya from?”
“Yonkers.”
“Is that Long Island?”
“No, just north of The Bronx”
“Near White Plains?”
“Eh, kinda.”
“I thought you were from Boston.”
“Where ya from?”
“Minnesota.”
“Which part of Minnesota?”
“Just outside Minneapolis.. Minnetonka, Hopkins, Eden Prairie.. you know like Prince.”
“Oh. Fargo! Great movie.”
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so basically the same
Dark time in Trump's inner circle. Spoke to several longtime friends, donors, and aides in the past 24 hours. Many say he's listening to very few people, isolated, and meanspirited about his potential rivals. Several of them say they're tired of his rants and are avoiding him.
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Few things more futile than a good ol' Washington leak hunt.
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Perfectly reasonable debate--with the moderators staying the hell out of the way--and all without a circus-like audience yelling and screaming.
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RIP Estelle, who is sitting in heaven right now having coffee and a piece of cake.
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walk off stage, get in a salt truck and head right for I-95.
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Draw a 25 mi radius around Philly, Phoenix, Milwaukee, Detroit. That's the 2020 ballgame.
Taking a step back from KY and looking at all the elections last night, GOP should be most concerned about what happened in local elections in Chester, Delaware and Bucks County, PA last night. That is genuinely alarming if you know the voting history.
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The "step aside/down" talk is just indulging in fantasy, unfortunately. Early voting already underway, ballots printed.
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I truly believe the media can cover a campaign without ever once setting foot inside a rally event.
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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there are no permanent majorities
No words minced here: “If you can replicate his draw amongst rural, working-class voters without the insanity, you have a permanent governing majority,” said Josh Holmes, a top adviser to McConnell.
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99% of the strategic guidance from Rs toward Trump is rooted in the notion he'll have a miraculous personality transplant.
The advantage Ds have is simple: they know that's impossible.
This
@maggieNYT
@katieglueck
joint on final debate sums it up:
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the schools thing has enormous potential to cost Dems seats at fed and state level in 2022.
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campaigns are brutal, stressful, un-glamorous endeavors. kudos to Jeb staff/volunteers who gave everything they had for their guy.
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The main headline and soundbite that will be on a loop out of this debate---->
WASHINGTON (AP) —
@JoeBiden
commits to picking a woman as running mate if he wins Democratic presidential nomination
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We'll move past "politics" and the "optics" of the child separation issue at some point and realize what the brain SCIENCE shows us is a much, much more troubling concern- http://
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Poll: 67 percent of voters support voting exclusively by mail in 2020
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If I had to predict one "surprise" Iowa caucus night headline, it would be a Klobuchar breakout...
Also:
the biggest emerging story in Iowa right now may be
@amyklobuchar
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@PeteButtigieg
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@JoeBiden
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will never not be amazed that I used to bang out entire press releases on my Blackberry without a single typo yet can't send a simple text line on an iPhone without a gazillion errors/typos
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your opponent is indicted but you don't see it as an opening...
Speaking tonight to key strategists w/ several top contenders, evident that for now this isn't internally being tracked as an opening for rival camps. They think GOP voters will mostly rally to his side. But they also believe that once Georgia comes, Trump pol. bleed out possible
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Voting-by-mail is secure & provides ballot access to millions of voters (from all parties) who want and need it as an option. The smartest GOP campaigns & operatives are hard at work developing their own VBM protocols.
There is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-In Ballots will be anything less than substantially fraudulent. Mail boxes will be robbed, ballots will be forged & even illegally printed out & fraudulently signed. The Governor of California is sending Ballots to millions of people, anyone.....
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never saw one episode
Kim Kardashian announces end of long-running hit reality show
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“Trump dominates media coverage, making it impossible for his competitors to get any coverage or forward traction.”
HIS OPPONENTS DEFENDED HIM.
The 2016 comparison is apt in that Trump's opponents currently all think he'll just self-destruct on his own:
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