In past 24 hours,
@JoeBiden
margin in AZ has gone like this +3.4 pts, +2.8 pts, +2.4 Pts, +2.2 pts (more votes expected to be added to totals in next couple hours)
Tap the keg: Illinois will celebrate it's first official Barack Obama Day on Saturday. State law calls for it to be "observed throughout the
State as a day set apart to honor the 44th President of the
United States of America."
"We need to rewrite the rules of the 21st Century economy to make it work for us,"
@AndrewYang
says in new TV spot that first ran in Davenport at 05:28 on KLJB (FOX).
Jamie Dimon and Lloyd Blankfein have their photos flashed on the screen while a narrator says "crooks on Wall Street who destroyed our economy" in a new
@BernieSanders
TV ad focuses on criminal justice. Spot first aired at 05:20 in Columbia, S.C. on WLTX (CBS).
I haven't seen every speaker, but
@PeteButtigieg
is answering more questions in a rapid fire manner than any other candidate I've seen on the soapbox at the Iowa State Fair.
New
@PeteButtigieg
TV spot with him in military fatigues and promoting his
@votevets
endorsement this week first aired Thursday at 06:55 local in Des Moines on KCCI (CBS)
@WSJ
poll: Democrats hold a slight edge over Republicans, 47% to 44%, when voters are asked which party they would support in their congressional district if the election were held today, GOP had led by 5 points in March.
In Las Vegas, the most diverse crowd I've seen for a
@PeteButtigieg
event in the first three nominating states. Lots of applause when he spoke Spanish.
President Biden intends to sign an executive order on Friday creating a commission to study reforms to the U.S. Supreme Court, the White House said, following a push by progressives to make changes such as increasing the size of the court. by
@KThomasDC
:
The disclaimer is in English, but
@PeteButtigieg
speaks Spanish for the entirety of the rest of this new TV ad. The spot first aired at 08:18 in Las Vegas on KINC (UNI).
New
@WSJ
/ NBC News national poll has
@JoeBiden
at 52% and
@realDonaldTrump
at 42%. When landscape is narrowed to 12 battleground states. Mr. Biden holds a 6-point lead, 51% to 45%, compared with a 10-point lead last month. By
@aaronzitner
Nikki Haley is attending a retreat in Charleston on Monday and Tuesday to thank about 100 of her biggest donors, a person close to Haley told the WSJ. She isn’t expected to discuss her political future and has no immediate plans to endorse Trump.
Michael J. Fox says first time he met
@BarackObama
was in 2006 in Chicago. Future president was smoking a cigarette. Fox told story while introducing
@PeteButtigieg
in Keene, NH. After meeting BO, Fox says he called wife to say he met future POTUS. He felt same way meeting Pete.
"There's nothing sexier than a good sewer and water project,"
@amyklobuchar
says in Waterloo, Iowa, making the case that infrastructure doesn't get enough attention.
New
@PeteButtigieg
TV ad featuring footage from evening of his possible Iowa caucuses state delegate equivalents win. Spot first aired at 05:58 in Boston (covers southern NH) on WCVB (ABC).
Iowan tells
@RonDeSantis
to stay in race through convention because, this man said, someone else in the race might be in prison by then. “We are girded for that long battle,” the candidate responds.
Latest
@PeteButtigieg
TV ad targeting union workers and others concerned about losing private health coverage to the "Medicare for All" proposed by
@ewarren
and
@BernieSanders
first aired at 07:27 in Reno on KOLO (ABC).
Being a mayor is as relevant -- or more so -- as being in Congress to be prepared for the presidency,
@PeteButtigieg
tells a city focused presidential candidate forum in Waterloo, Iowa.
“OK, that's it,”
@amyklobuchar
says as
@ewarren
attacks her health plan... (That's a phase used on Minnesota schoolyards before a fist fight break out.)
New
@AndrewYang
TV ad stressing his proposed "universal basic income" first ran at 05:09 local in Rochester, Minn. (covers northern Iowa) on KTTC (NBC).
"If you're in that fortunate top 10%, I wish you well, I do. But I think you're paying your own college tuition so that we can use our dollars for other things,"
@PeteButtigieg
tells the Teamsters forum in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Rep. Liz Cheney told the
@WSJ
that she sees her re-election bid as a referendum on the future of the GOP, with voters potentially facing a choice between what she sees as traditional conservative values and loyalty to former President Trump, by
@aduehren
:
New
@AndrewYang
TV ad showcasing his family, including a son with "special needs," first ran at 05:37 local in Rochester, Minn. (covers northern Iowa) on KTTC (NBC)
Larry Hogan, the GOP governor of Democratic-leaning Maryland and a possible 2024 presidential candidate, is expected to use a high-profile speech Tuesday evening to call on his party to extricate itself from the grasp of former President Donald Trump:
“He’s not going to get the 40%, if he’s going and calling out my supporters and saying they’re barred permanently from MAGA. He’s not going to get the 40% by calling them names. He’s not going to get the 40% by trying to take over the RNC,"
@NikkiHaley
says in Troy, Mich.
“As the only candidate who has won and governed a Trump state, I’m focused on realistic solutions to the problems we’re facing — the first of which is ensuring we are competitive everywhere so we can beat Donald Trump,"
@GovernorBullock
says after qualifying for July debates.
Nikki Haley received stock options worth close to $300,000 roughly six weeks after jumping into the presidential race as part of a real-estate company merger that could deliver even more lucrative payouts in the years ahead, SEC filings show
Super PAC backing
@NikkiHaley
releases video mocking
@GovRonDeSantis
for not answering questions from GOP voters on his first swing through IA and NH as a presidential candidate:
“There is a confluence of things that suggest a very tough outcome for Republicans." Our deep dive on the state of the race two months before the midterm vote, w/
@greggiroux
: