Mike Allen
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Arlington, Va.
Joined March 2008
🗳️How @KamalaHarris would change the race as nominee . Column by @JimVandeHei & me:. 1. She'd immediately ensure Roe as a main focus.2. Dems would try to make age/fitness the GOP's problem.3. Dems would frame it as former prosecutor vs. convicted felon
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🚨 SCOOP from @axios @BarakRavid: Biden administration puts hold on ammo shipment to Israel. •Serious concern in Israeli gov't.•First time since 10/7 the US has stopped a weapons shipment intended for Israeli military .•US fears Israel will invade Rafah
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🚨 🦊 NEW . Source tells me Trump plans to use vote-count rallies to "wreck Fox" so he can start his own paid MAGA channel, built from his campaign text-message database: "He's going to spend a lot of time slamming Fox"
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BITE DU JOUR: @JoeNBC Scarborough on @msnbc @Morning_Joe: "TIME magazine was right: Steve Bannon is the president of the United States" . .
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🦊 NEW in @axios AM: @FoxNews sends cease-and-desist to @TuckerCarlson, who ramps up plans for "Tucker on Twittter". >>Ep. 3, on Trump indictment, drops tomorrow . >>Tucker adds staff, books big-name guests. >>Lawyer tells me: "Tucker will not be silenced"
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🚨 Scoop: Biden, Bloomberg, McAuliffe rattled by liberal lurch, rethinking runs: Internal polling shows socialism surging in Iowa
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If you're starting to forget what a leader sounds like, we have a refreshing reminder to start your Friday:.
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🥊 Former AG Bill Barr brings down the house today at a Forum Club of Southwest Florida lunch in Naples — .and suggests he'd vote Trump if there's no Biden alternative:. "Voting for Trump is playing Russian roulette with the country. Voting for Biden is outright national suicide".
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🚨 SCOOP in @Axios AM: Former SecDef Mark Esper, fired by Trump, writes in "A Sacred Oath," out 5/10, that a red-faced Trump said as demonstrators filled DC after George Floyd's death:. "Can't you just shoot them? Just shoot them in the legs or something?"
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🚨 NEW: @Meta tells employees it's rolling back major DEI programs — including for hiring, training and picking suppliers, according to a memo obtained by @axios' @sarafischer & me.•Memo cites "changing legal and policy landscape surrounding" DEI.•No longer will have DEI team👇.
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🔥 Why it matters: This marks a huge reversal in the Trump team's narrative
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🚨NEW: Inside Trump slump . Advisers plead w/ him to adopt new hard-hitting, focused stump speech to define VP Harris as liberal, weak.• Praying he'll stop the recidivist improvisation . GOP source tells @axios Trump is "struggling to get past his anger"
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🚨NEW in @axios AM: @SpeakerMcCarthy has given @TuckerCarlson exclusive access to 41,000 hours of Capitol surveillance footage from 1/6 . Carlson producers were on Capitol Hill last week to begin digging through the trove. 📺 Excerpts begin in coming weeks
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🚨 "THE RED MIRAGE" . Exclusive: Bloomberg group warns @margarettalev on @Axios on @HBO @HBODocs that Trump could win electoral college and popular vote on election night -- potentially in landslide -- then lose when mail votes counted
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🚨 SCOOP: Several top Dems privately tell @axios @JimVandeHei & me intolerable pressure from congressional leaders + close friends will persuade President Biden to decide to drop out of the presidential race, as soon as this weekend. Go Behind the Curtain👇
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⚡️ @realDonaldTrump, @IvankaTrump announcement @ 3 p.m.: A key goal is retraining workers so they can fill data-economy jobs that are created in their current workplaces, rather than being laid off
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💰NEW: Trump campaign hauls in $5 million+ since indictment news broke. •Over $4m in first 24 hrs, as campaign announced.•Over $1m in second 24 hrs, campaign tells @axios . @JasonMillerinDC: "a whole new group of Trump supporters who are angered by" news
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🚨 Exclusive look @ Christie unleashed: Trump surrounded by “amateurs , grifters, weaklings, convicted and unconvicted felons”
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⚡️On @NBCNews @TODAYshow, @SavannahGuthrie to @NancyPelosi: “Do you believe the special counsel should honor. the Department of Justice guidance that. a sitting president cannot be indicted?" Pelosi: “I do not think that that is conclusive. No, I do not”
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🍦 by @jonathanvswan: Axios obtains a spreadsheet, circulating in Republican circles, that meticulously previews probes Dems will likely launch if they flip the House
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🧨 it’s official . Speaker Nancy Pelosi told Democrats on Sunday evening that the House will be called back from August recess — likely on Saturday, Axios is told — to act to "save the Postal Service."
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🚨 “What happens if all of a sudden someone gets shot — someone shoots one of these reporters?”
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🚨🚨NEW: @blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman tells @Axios tells Axios he'll support Donald Trump as a "vote for change". • Will donate to Trump, Senate GOP candidates .• Rising antisemitism sped his decision .• He earlier wanted a next-gen leader in '24.👇
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per @FrankLuntz: "My focus group is turning deeply against Kaine because of these interruptions. They want the moderator to be even tougher".
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🧐NEW: Biden's cheat sheets, from @axios @HansNichols. Biden's reliance on notecards to explain his own positions, on questions he knows are coming (sometimes at closed-door fundraisers), is raising some donors' worries about his age . Behind the scenes👇.
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🚨 Scoop . Top sources tell me Trump has no plan to call for national unity. "No chance," says a person who talks often to the president. A senior Republican who talks often to Trump said the president is "angry . volatile . disconsolate"
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⚡️ McCabe met with Mueller, corroborated Comey account of firing by Trump . also turned over memos documenting exchanges w POTUS
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🏛️NEW: @elonmusk is the most powerful civilian ever, @axios @JimVandeHei & I write . • Musk sits at the pinnacle of power in business, government & info. • Trump has 4 short years. Musk's influence cuts across government, media, business, space & time
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🚨 Exclusive: “Anonymous” met frequently with Trump, took detailed notes, says other officials will soon go public .
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🚨 Source close to Trump tells @jonathanvswan that an emergency declaration remains the most likely ultimate option . Conservatives, including sources in the conservative legal orbit around Trump, don’t like what they view as an abuse of this authority
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🚨@alaynatreene in @axios Sneak Peek: Pence former chief of staff Marc Short, former press sec Alyssa Fara and former nat-sec adviser Keith Kellogg cooperate with 1/6 committee. Source tells us Short, Kellogg wouldn't have cooperated without Pence approval
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☕️🚨 Scoop: Howard Schultz to end presidential campaign . Will send letter to supporters later today . Plans to spend $100m on reform
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Christmas @ Mar-a-Lago: @realDonaldTrump, relaxed and chatty, hosts press for drinks -- off-record but pics OK @axios
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🚽FIRST on @axios: Trump’s telltale toilet … @maggieNYT obtained these photos ahead of the Oct. 4 publication of her book “Confidence Man”. Source tells her pic on the left shows a White House commode.Pic on the right is from a Trump overseas trip
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🚨💥 @axios @JimVandeHei: It's as if God or the galaxy, or whatever you believe in, are screaming for politicians and the public to pop our bubbles and pay attention — believe our eyes. Think about the no. of educated people in your life who believe BS
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🚨Blue Wall danger: Worry grows among top Dems that Harris is stuck, even sliding a bit, after strong convention & debate. •Her media blitz, spending advantage & largely favorable coverage don't seem to be moving the needle much, if at all, these Dems say
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🚨 Spoiler alert: Arizona "recount" finds Biden won (bigger): After all that, the new tally widens “Biden’s margin by 360 more votes than certified results,” @washingtonpost reports
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🚨🚨 Trump advisers tell @axios @JimVandeHei & me this is their SWING STATE RANKING, hardest to easiest: . 1. Pennsylvania.2. Wisconsin.3. Michigan.4. Georgia.5. North Carolina.6. Nevada.7. Arizona . >>@CookPolitical says only first 3 are still toss-ups
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Scoop: sources close to President Trump say he is in a bad place — mad as hell about the internal chaos and the sense that things are unraveling. Staff dejected, defeated.
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🚨 NEW: @HillaryClinton has a "very personal" book coming 9/17 — 7 weeks before the election — with a warning to voters about democracy's future . "Something Lost, Something Gained" includes her reflections on marriage, friendships and getting over losing
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🚨 JUST DROPPED . Ep 1 of "Off the Rails," @axios @jonathanvswan, @zacharybasu fly-on-the-wall reporting from Trump final days: POTUS acted out premature victory speech in OCTOBER . Most infamous line of election night speech wasn't in prompter
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!BREAKING @Axios: Speculation mounts US cyber-terminated NK missile: "very strong belief" cyber methods used in past
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🚨 SCOOP @sarafischer @axios: . CNN's Chris Licht scrutinizes talent for partisan tone . monitoring anchors including Jim @Acosta, @brianstelter to see if they can comport w new style — no interviews that look like stunts . Those who can't may get canned
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Scoop: Trump suggested nuking hurricanes to stop them from hitting U.S.
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📚NEW from @axios AM: Trump obsession w @maggieNYT included threats to expose sources — per her "Confidence Man," out Tue.:. Trump "would bellow that he wanted administration officials to obtain my phone records and identify my sources." No sign anyone did
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NEW YORK (AP) - CORRECTION: CBS reporter clarifies on saying Kaepernick would stand for anthem, says they didn't discuss issue.
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Be smart: Jokes are funnier if you don't have to say they're jokes.
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🚨 SCOOP @axios @kadiagoba Up to 25% of House members refuse COVID vaccine! Fracas over return to normal rules, slowing votes
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A source close to Trump predicts he will explode when he reads the Cohn interview.
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💥 @Axios AM: when I ask Sean Spicer if Mueller might want his notebooks - sign up free here:
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🚨 🎧 Exclusive audio sneak from @jonkarl @ThisWeekABC Mar-a-Lago interview for "Betrayal," coming Tue. Trump defends chants of "hang Mike Pence": "The people were very angry . How can you pass on a fraudulent vote to Congress? How can you do that?"
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👀 Trump asked one trusted adviser: "Did you know [incoming chief of staff Mick Mulvaney] called me 'a terrible human being'" back during the campaign?
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🚨 Biden credibility crisis: . • His new reality: No benefit of doubt. Reporters, nervous Dems will pick apart every answer and dig into past meetings. • Top Dems tell us Biden made things worse w/ ABC interview by denying bad poll numbers, party panic
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🚨📚 Detonating Tue. @washingtonpost @yabutaleb7 @damianpaletta "Nightmare Scenario" . Trump: "Hopefully COVID takes out John" . In @axios story, @jonathanvswan gets Bolton's classic response
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You were Rex Tillerson, CEO of Exxon. Now you're Rex Tillerson, Secretary of State to Donald Trump. Your life blows.
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🚨🚨 @NikkiHaley will suspend her campaign with 10 a.m. remarks, top source tells @axios, confirming @WSJ . WON'T ENDORSE TRUMP: Instead, she'll encourage Trump "to earn the support of Republicans and independent voters who backed her," The Journal reports
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Exclusive: Trump plans to sign an executive order terminating birthright citizenship.
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🚨SCOOP: Enraged Biden advisers scold Bibi for "stunt," @axios @BarakRavid reports. The White House canceled a high-level US-Israel meeting about Iran, scheduled for Thu, after Netanyahu released a video in English claiming the US withheld weapons & ammo.
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The reality has White House officials and Republicans sweating profusely
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🍿 7,500-word reporting tour de force @jonathanvswan. Preparations for Trump II are far more advanced/ambitious than previously reported. What's happening behind the scenes is the REVERSE of the slapdash start to '17. REVENGE TOURS are on the drawing board
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🚨The midterm results were actually a terrible leading indicator for Trump 2020: Turns out that without Hillary atop the ticket, Midwest states like Wisconsin are tough for him — Southern states with rising Hispanic populations are getting more Democratic
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Acosta: "It's not often you're accused of a cosmopolitan bias from someone who went to Duke University"
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"A detailed look at how Trump and his allies used clandestine hotel-room meetings, payoffs, and complex legal agreements to keep affairs — sometimes multiple affairs he carried out simultaneously — out of the press.".
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The sources say Trump feels ill-served by not just his staff but also by several of his Cabinet officials.
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In the media, the focus is on the son. In the West Wing, colleagues are watching the son-in-law.
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UPDATE just posted: Trump lawyer charges 'unlawlful' leak by career employees, claims 4th Amendment violation
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😢Sobering stat from @caitlinnowens leads @axios AM: . Guns have passed cars as the leading cause of death for America's kids, per CDC data. 2/3 were homicides. Guns kill more young men; cars kill more young women. 📨 Sign up for AM
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on @MSNBC, Steve Schmidt says @mike_Pence won on TV style, but "When we look back a week from now, @timKaine scored the points" #VPDebate.
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hot in @Axios AM . James @Comey compares Trump to mob boss during taping with @ABC @GStephanopoulos (airs Sun. @ 10pm; "A Higher Loyalty" book out Tue.) . source tells me interview is "going to shock the president and his team" See the promo:
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leading @Axios AM: The "known knowns" on Russia that even Trump’s closest friends don’t deny tell a damning tale that would sink most leaders
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🚨 NEW . @axios @SophiaCai99 aboard Trump Force One, leaving Waco after rally . Trump, w/o evidence, suggests Bragg has dropped Stormy case: . "I think they've already dropped the case . It's a fake case. Some fake cases, they have absolutely nothing".
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🚨 NEW in @Axios AM: . @maggieNYT & @jonathanvswan sign deal for definitive book on Donald Trump's final act in public life. • More enduring than a campaign book: Lots of juicy inside-the-room detail but also deeply reported, longer arc. 👇 Full details: .
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🚨 NEW @axios: @JohnKerry to leave @POTUS administration in coming months to help @JoeBiden campaign . >>Says Biden's reelection is "single biggest" difference that can be made on climate in '24. Deets ⬇️
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SIREN: Source close to Aryeh Bourkoff tells me he never followed up with Trump team re Trump TV: "no interest in being in business w/ Trump".
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A source who’s spoken to POTUS: “He’s wondered aloud if there may be any way to go after Amazon with antitrust or competition law."
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🚨A Trump source tells @axios @JimVandeHei & me yesterday's @elonmusk @X storm, which sunk a huge spending bill, is the new playbook:. GOP lawmakers got "instant and overwhelming feedback. Before, it had to be slowly funneled through conservative press. Now there is a megaphone".
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🚨🚨🚨'25 agenda: If Trump wins, MAGA insiders will push to investigate, prosecute — even try to imprison — Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg. "Of course [Bragg] should be, and will be, jailed," Steve Bannon, prosecuted by Bragg in a fundraising case, tells @axios.
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NEW: Trump’s lawyers tell @Axios they want SECOND special prosecutor ASAP; they are more upset w/ FBI than Mueller. They want an investigator to investigate the investigation
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🕶️NEW: @BenLaBolt continues as @WHCommsDir but adds title of Senior Advisor to the President with this week's departure of Anita Dunn for Future Forward. Ben, who increased lifestyle/consumer media in WH mix, will help frame @JoeBiden stretch run & legacy👇
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🤬Old yeller … @axios @AlexThomp: Behind closed doors, Biden has such a temper that some aides try to avoid meeting him alone. POTUS classics:. •"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!"
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📚 NEW: @MarkLeibovich vivisects Trumptown in "This Town" sequel . "Thank You for Your Servitude," out 7/12. Leibo tells me the book's stars are the "Republican collaborators who enabled him despite profound misgivings". Preorder
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Conservatives should have seen this coming. Trump goes where the applause is loudest.
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⚡ crashing through Trump's red line . Rep. Eric Swalwell, a senior Democrat on House Intel, tells @jonathanvswan: "We are going to take an MRI to any Russian financing that the Trump Organization and the president may have had"
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🐊 Some candidates struggle to nail their message. @RonDeSantis struggles to nail his NAME . In videos and interviews in the past week, the governor has gone back and forth between Dee-Santis and Deh-Santis, per reporting by @axios @AlexThomp, @SophiaCai99
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