Mark Halperin
@MarkHalperin
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Joined August 2010
BREAKING NEWS: Multiples sources outline the apparent state of play on Biden at this time:. * plans to announce withdrawal from nomination as early as this weekend, with Sunday most likely. * Jon Meacham polishing up remarks. * Biden with NOT resign the presidency. * Biden will.
Join a LIVE @2waytvapp episode tonight at 6pm ET on YouTube. 1. What Nancy Pelosi wants to have happen when and if Joe Biden gives up the nomination. 2. Why people shouldn’t be so sure that Kamala Harris wants the presidential nomination if Biden steps aside. 3. What to expect.
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In the transition and beyond, Donald Trump will adhere to no norm he doesn’t f-ing want to adhere to, on background checks, ethics rules, or pre-inauguration interactions with foreign leaders or anyone else with whom he wants to speak. And rather than being deterred by the tut.
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Talks about a golf legend's junk one day, works the @McDonalds fryer & drive thru the next. Say what you will about @realDonaldTrump -- there has never been a president or presidential candidate like this.
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Utah Speaker of the House announces endorsement of @realDonaldTrump. Says @DonaldJTrumpJr played a big role.
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Here is one factor that those who say the @mattgaetz nomination is dead are not considering: Every Republican Senator has donors, friends, staffers, constituents, and (in some cases) kin who want something from the incoming Trump administration, especially jobs. You think that.
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"Trump is no Republican," writes John Danforth, in an extraordinary @washingtonpost op-ed that concludes thusly:
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Super Democrat Bill Daley, who has been close to Joe Biden since his 1988 campaign & was a Biden ally when Daley served as chief of staff to Barack Obama, tells me of the family pardons:. "Disgusting -- seems to confirm what was said about the Biden family for the last 4 years”.
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As of now, this is the most important tweet of the day. Don’t go overboard but…. .
I have yet to see a piece of unambiguously good news for the Democrats in early voting data or any places reporting live turnout on Election Day but I don’t want to have blinders on. Hit me up with Dem good news, but no modeled partisanship.
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Quote to me from @LaCivitaC of the Trump campaign about @davidplouffe claims that 1) the Madison Square Garden event turned undecided voters towards Kamala Harris and 2) the profile of the remaining undecideds is better for Harris than Trump:. “What the hell is he going to say?.
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Pretty binary options:. 1. There was a massive coverup by the Biden White House to keep the president's undiagnosed cognitive decline from being exposed. OR. 2. There was a massive coverup by the Biden White House to keep the president's diagnosed cognitive decline from being.
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Yes, despite what the ignorant haters want to say, Biden was not supposed to endorse Harris that first day. In fact, many around the VP didn't want him to endorse out of concern that it was going to hurt her "she's earning the nomination" narrative. After I broke the story, Biden.
It appears @MarkHalperin original reporting was right. Pelosi's plan was for an open primary, but Biden stuck it to the establishment who threw him out by endorsing Kamala 30 minutes after dropping out. This is why Obamaworld, Schumer etc were so late to endorse. they didn't.
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Here is "The Morning Meeting," on which I report what my sources are saying: If the trajectory of early voting continues like it is now (IF IF IF), we will know on Election Day that Donald Trump has won, even before the polls open.
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For Democrats, the media, and some Republicans, this will make @FmrRepMattGaetz seem like John Ashcroft.
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This dog is cute & service, companion & emotional support dogs= best souls on Earth.Point was,on long flt Delta sat dog apart from its owner
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Ok. Everyone take a deep breath. @KamalaHarris prospects in PA, GA, and NC rely on . a. big urban turnout.b. big suburban turnout and vote share.c. not being completely wiped out in rural. Right now, even the campaigns can't say conclusively that Team Harris is failing on these.
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Look for some significant Trump personnel announcements in the next 24 hours, including a big national security job for @TulsiGabbard , plus (maybe in this news cycle but maybe a bit down the road) a big job for @RobertKennedyJr (Senate confirmable?), and Trump finally pulling.
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Democrats and the Dominant Media can stay in a heightened sense of panic over Trump’s “threats” of mass deportations and massive tariffs, but have these folks not studied the Maven of Mar-a-Lago at all? He threatens this stuff to combine the leverage gained with American might to.
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The twin efforts going on on X now to (1) get @SenRickScott the majority leader slot & (2) get @DaveMcCormickPA seated are as coordinated as they are impressively fierce & robust.
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Public service announcement to Red America: Please stop saying on X that “it’s over,” that Trump will definitely win. Even Mar-a-Lago doesn’t think that!!. There are positive signs for both sides. The early vote & Electoral College options can certainly make Reds optimistic;.
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What to ignore on Election Day:. 1. How long your cousin's dentist waited in line to vote in New Jersey -- and what your cousin says that means for turnout nationally. 2. What Drudge says about the first wave of exit polls. 3. What cable news says about the first wave of exit.
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Per a close DC observer to the Wide World of News on the @PeteHegseth nomination:. Goals of the week were three fold:. 1) AVOID THE FAILURE OF A NOMINEE PAST: Matt Gaetz hated Senators, and couldn’t even bring himself to pretend otherwise. Instead, a likeable and engaging Pete.
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NEWS: .On the record quote from Spencer Zwick, main fundraiser for Paul Ryan now & Romney in 2008 & 2012, on move to replace Trump now
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I will just note without judgment or comment all of these Trump people publicly taking themselves out of consideration for jobs they have been told privately they are not getting (but that they wanted) is a DC Classic act as old as the grease in the fryer at Old Ebbitt Grill.
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Over breakfast at Penn State this morning I talked to a Pittsburgh-area mental health professional who says her business has already started booming with new Democratic patients.
@Peoples_Pundit Just what @MarkHalperin suggested could happen!.
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Professor,. In a Tom Sawyer kind of way, I appreciate your trying to bait me into revealing what I was pitched. I'm old school, in the sense that I don't report things that are not confirmed. And, in the case of the Trump pitch, it seemed false to me from the earliest scrutiny.
Which begs the questions: What’s that story and is it true? Or those would’ve been the questions on Earth 1, Mark. I’m not sure about Earth 2, where the even bigger question might be: Is any such campaign-ending story even imaginable in a post-truth, alt-facts world? Anyway,.
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Trump is not picking people like @mattgaetz & @PeteHegseth for the cabinet to drive @AdamSchiff & Co. nuts -- but it will certainly have that effect.
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There's nothing "populist" abt starting admin w/ demonstrably false statements at CIA wall/WH podium meant only for POTUS ego/image.
A president who speaks from hallowed ground at Langley about crowd size and press coverage may soon see his ratings drop into the 20s.
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Trump did not pick @mattgaetz to be attorney general to drive @jaketapper nuts -- but it is certainly having that effect.
Trump is not picking people like @mattgaetz & @PeteHegseth for the cabinet to drive @AdamSchiff & Co. nuts -- but it will certainly have that effect.
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WHEN JOE BIDEN WILL ANNOUNCE HIS RETIREMENT. The decisions Joe Biden faces now as he moves to end his presidential campaign and his career are personally and professionally painful for him. Based on my reporting -- and having covered and watched Joe Biden for decades -- it is.
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Amazing that almost only statements of re-affirmation of support for @realDonaldTrump today are from religious conservative leaders.
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I asked @MattNegrin to count — and name — Trump's hand gestures from last night's rally. He counted 73.
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It's the oldest story in presidential politics: girl gets FBI director; girl loses FBI director; girl gets FBI director back.
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There are 2 kinds of ppl on Twitter.Those who think Diet Coke is poison that makes you fat. And those who know it is the Lord's finest work.
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That both makes no sense and isn't factually true.
Now, people will ask "why are Dem abandoning mail voting?" or "How do you know that Dems plan to vote on Eday?" Well. because they've told us that this is what they plan to do for a while now.
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Will McAvoy returns to address Clinton v Trump. Written by @MattNegrin, directed by @Griffin
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If Trump supporters went to Bernie or Hillary events & behaved exactly the same way protesters do @ Trump events, how would media cover it?.
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Nikki Haley’s first reaction to a reported Tim Scott endorsement of Donald Trump. cc: @ShaneGoldmacher
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Words @KarlRove applies to @realDonaldTrump in @WSJ column:.unfair, unseemly, stupid, vindictive, impulsive, shortsighted.
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Social media & cable commentators tempted to justify what Trump said or deflect to another topic should think twice. And think again.
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NEWS:. 2 sources say the Commission on Presidential Debates is moving towards unilaterally (w/o consulting the 2 campaigns) declaring that the 2nd prez debate will be conducted remotely b/c of @realDonaldTrump COVID. @debates.
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There are 2 kinds of ppl. Ppl who have had back pain & those who haven't. Those in the 2nd group are the most fortunate ppl on earth.
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Team Pelosi will keep ratcheting things up, until Joe, Jill, and Hunter cry "uncle. " Now Seth Moulton says the president didn't recognize him -- another turtle on another fence post. The paradox is that the more Pelosi & Co. use tactics to humiliate Joe, the more this vain,.
WHEN JOE BIDEN WILL ANNOUNCE HIS RETIREMENT. The decisions Joe Biden faces now as he moves to end his presidential campaign and his career are personally and professionally painful for him. Based on my reporting -- and having covered and watched Joe Biden for decades -- it is.
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At what point will Trump go from being delighted w/ how well Pence is doing to being annoyed at people saying Pence is better than Trump?.
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Between today and Wednesday, the three Harris-Walz principals (Kamala, Tim, Doug) will be doing events in NH, MN & VA, the 3 Blue states Trump seemed to have put in play right before Biden got out. (No NM or NJ….yet). Coincidence?.
2. “New Hampshire may not be in the top tier of swing states in the 2024 election, but Granite Staters are still poised to get some attention this week from one of the presidential candidates. News 9 has learned that Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to the greater
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.@realDonaldTrump has re-written the prez campaign rule book again & again & come out on top. He's doing it again now. #artofthedeal.
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If an angry & defiant @JoeBiden tries to hold on by running out the clock, @SpeakerPelosi will have to raise the pain quotient to unimaginable levels. Veteran Pelosi watchers believe that is what she will do, starting as early as today.
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9 years in, The Trump Show still is what it was in 2015.
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Peak Trump.
The Panama Canal is considered a VITAL National Asset for the United States, due to its critical role to America’s Economy and National Security. A secure Panama Canal is crucial for U.S. Commerce, and rapid deployment of the Navy, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and.
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Whether the US Secret Service investigates this in some formal way or not, you can be sure they are NOT happy about what Trump said.
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Mere talk of firing Mueller is a turning point for some Hill Republicans; actually firing him would be cataclysmic. Mueller is not Comey
Republicans calling Mueller's firing "disturbing" won't be enough. Trump must be told clearly now it would launch a constitutional crisis.
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Interesting to see a nominee speak publicly while awaiting Senate confirmation. .
Amen @JDVance. Anti-Christian bigotry in the media on full display. They can target me — I don’t give a damn — but this type of targeting of Christians, conservatives, patriots and everyday Americans will stop on DAY ONE at DJT’s DoD.
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It just was reporting. I say with no false modesty that I don’t get why others were not reporting this at the time.
Mark Halperin's evaluation of the Harris internal polling was right.
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Remember back when @JoeBiden was the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee & it looked like Trump was potentially expanding the map?. * polls close in Minnesota.* Democrats having to campaign in New Hampshire.* thoughts that Virginia would have to be defended with paid.
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We are so grateful to one and all who are a part of the @2waytvapp community. We literally couldn't do it without you. Thanks for talking, listening, laughing, and thinking. See you on Monday at 9am. @seanspicer @danturrentine.
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I’d love to see a robust debate in which someone actually makes the case that averaging of cheap public polls plus a “model” is more accurate than the data of the best-in-class pollsters doing well-funded & serious work for campaigns, committees or really rich people. Pollsters,.
What they *seem* to think is a poor proxy for what they *actually* think, especially since both campaigns have signaled they think it's in their strategic interest to portray Trump as the frontrunner.
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Always hard for an incumbent to be on the short end of a close race, tempted to stall in the hope that some major counting error is found and puts them back in office. There’s zero indication that such a thing will happen here. @DaveMcCormickPA will be the Senator.
A disastrous update for Casey. It was over but this is the exclamation point. Looks like 16k/20k ballots have been reviewed and he's only netted +3,738. WOW. Will struggle to maybe net 6k out of Philly.
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NEWS: Multiple sources close to the Trump transition expect Kevin Hassett to be named to head the National Economic Council in the White House. Hassett, wicked smaaaaaht by all accounts, was head of the Council of Economic Advisers in Trump I and is a Bush 43, McCain & Romney.
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WANT TO KNOW WHY KAMALA HARRIS LOST?. Watch this 10-minute clip from "The Morning Meeting" of a Harvard-trained doctor who lives in TN and left the Democratic Party for Bobby Kennedy. You can read 1,000 @nytimes stories and you won't understand nearly as.
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The reason we are all crying is because Gwen Ifill was our friend, who blessed us with her example, integrity, nurturing & humanity.
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Don’t be surprised if @realDonaldTrump belts out one of the most famous Partridge Family lines of all time:. Point me in the direction of Albuquerque….
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Please watch this @2waytvapp video. On August 28, after talking to numerous sources in & around the presidential campaigns, I reported that many people in Trump World believed that as the campaign came to a close, @KamalaHarris would be past her honeymoon & have what Joe Biden.
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I was kidding!!! It’s actually my all-time favorite!!!!
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Why is @KamalaHarris performing better than expectations so far?. 1. She was always underrated. 2. The White House & campaign time have given her a lot of applicable experience. 3. In Lorraine Voles, Brian Fallon & other senior staff, she now has a team who are vets w/ 2-way.
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Some personal news: I don't predict the outcome of presidential elections. Ever. I report at any given time what my sources on balance believe is most likely to happen eventually, to which I apply my judgment and experience. That is NOT a prediction. So you can save us both time.
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Are you saying that the Harris campaign had a strategy to deemphasize early voting?.
@MarkHalperin You used the word "factual" Mark. Surely you haven't forgotten how to read a poll? And you're saying it doesn't make sense to you that Dems will vote by mail at a lower rate than they did at the height of a deadly pandemic? What part of that do you need spelled out?.
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Some get famous by being outrageous; Gwen did by being exceptional. Some get powerful by being aggressive; Gwen did by being brilliant.
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I wonder if Bush 43 knows the longing & respect DC Dems express when talking about him now -- & IF he knows, how funny he thinks it is.
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I need to go to sleep in order to get up for @Morning_Joe at 6am ET, but the content for the entire episode is still in progress.
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Me (on E 56th St): who is running the campaign, @CLewandowski_ or Paul Manafort?. @DonaldJTrumpJr: “My father."
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The Khans are about to change American history; the only question is how much.
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Grateful to you.
Huge shout out to @MarkHalperin. The job he's done with @2waytvapp in the lead up to this election has been phenomenal.
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Count me as among those who are super curious to hear what @maddow says about this debate when it is over.
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Twitter, where ignorance and mean-spiritedness wage a constant war for supremacy.
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My debate report card grades: @realDonaldTrump A, @TedCruz B, @JohnKasich B, @MarcoRubio B. Full report cards here:
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There is now a “widespread” “belief” among lobbyists etc that Trump has “stalled.”. No idea what has caused this belief exactly. DEVELOPING…. .
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Stay tuned for more.
Look for some significant Trump personnel announcements in the next 24 hours, including a big national security job for @TulsiGabbard , plus (maybe in this news cycle but maybe a bit down the road) a big job for @RobertKennedyJr (Senate confirmable?), and Trump finally pulling.
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Not usually in the biz of advising the media but until their major outlets become something other than a professional fainting society they are gonna struggle with about 50.1% of Americans.
Not usually in the biz of advising Dems but until their party becomes something other than a professional fainting society they are gonna struggle with working class Americans.
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This is the most united NFL players & coaches have been since. ever.
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Polls are just a snapshot in time. But sometimes they're a snapshot of a severed arm.
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not a rhetorical question. or, at least, shouldn't be.
You guys the Lincoln Project has taken hundreds of millions of dollars from people promising to end Trumps power permanently…. Are there ramifications for any of these grifters?.
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The left’s reaction to the @McDonalds photo op & the right’s reaction to the @60Minutes statement are all you need to know about how wrong @BarackObama was when he said there is no Red or Blue America.
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All news organizations must refuse to attend briefings where major outlets are excluded because of critical coverage.
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If Kamala Harris loses, Democrats, the Dominant Media, and history will lay the blame, in various measures to:. 1. Joe Biden’s decision to run for reelection and get out too late for the party to find its strongest alternate candidate or for Harris to.
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It's actually likely to hurt him only with two parts of the demo: women and men.
I don't know much about this politics thing, but I'm guessing beating up a reporter over CBO scoring does not play well in certain demos.
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Roy Moore's win has caused a lot of Establishment Republicans to talk in private abt the state of the GOP in ways that sound like @maddow.
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