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President of Bryson Gillette. Communications and political strategist for candidates, companies and causes. Former deputy press secretary for President Obama.
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This interview with Dana Bash is a moment to recognize that it is absolutely under-appreciated that Vice President Harris is running a perfect campaign. 🧵1/4
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Not the first time Jim Jordan didn't put the safety of athletes first.
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This morning, it was fact that Trump would do well on election night and Biden would win when votes were counted.
This evening, those facts still hold but none of the pundits are talking about it and Democrats are already black out drunk/throwing up chardonnay/craft cocktails.
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It is not inevitable that anyone could be able to do what she is doing. She is a true inspiration.
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She took over a campaign that she did not hire. She added pieces to the team who have made it stronger. She ran a convention that was absolutely electric in its energy. And she stepped up to the biggest speech of her life and achieved at the highest level.
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She has worked in the international spotlight these last four years, endured incredible amounts of criticism and came out the other side absolutely ready for this moment.
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America: it is not possible to feel better right now.
John Legend: yes it is.
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@natashakorecki
I watch every Trump and Vance speech and they are littered with things that are absolutely untrue. The notion that the media ought to bend over backwards to filet Walz over a joke about an internet meme, is pretty imbalanced. There is a frog in boiling water quality to how the
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My Uber driver in LA is loving this speech. I have never listened to a Trump speech with a Trump supporter - and I do not like it.
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This is one of the best and most definitional election year state of the union addresses I’ve ever seen.
This election is a choice. President Biden is making that clear.
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This is a great story.
@RepAndyKimNJ
is an awesome guy.
‘What else could I do?' NJ Rep. Kim helps clean up Capitol
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@mehdirhasan
If you want to have a conversation with a presidential candidate, there are plenty of ways to do it that aren’t screaming in her face while she’s speaking. She didn’t insult anyone and you suggesting it is beneath you.
In fact, conversely, it is insulting to her to think that
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The success of this cycle was made possible with the leadership of
@EricHolder
and the amazing stewardship of
@kellycward
— this video is a pretty fun celebration of just that.
Thanks to
@EricHolder
and
@DemRedistrict
, more voters will be able to choose their politicians in this next election instead of the other way around.
And what better way to celebrate that progress than to hear from
@JohnLegend
,
@iamwill
, and
@JayPharoah
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JD Vance: “The rules were that you weren’t going to fact check me.”
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I know this isn't a popular opinion but watching Trump and then watching Biden, was probably better than a debate in seeing just that contrast. The temperature going down, the rational thoughts, the notion that we could actually have an adult in that job.
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Lauer opens to Clinton: Why are you so horrible?
Lauer opens to Trump: Talk about why you're awesome.
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@megynkelly
Be better, Megyn. Expressing disgust at lies, deception and constantly being talked over - is worth reaction.
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10 years ago this morning, this paper was dropped off at Obama for America hq at 233 N Michigan.
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@MeredithFrost
That steely eyed glare at the end is the same look Buzz gave
@jonlovett
when he called him the Barbara Streisand of space one day at the White House.
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Joe Biden saved our country from Donald Trump in 2020, and he just did it a second time today.
I am so proud that President Biden served our nation in one of the most consequential terms in history.
Thank you for your extraordinary and meaningful service, Mr. President.
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The Chris Wallace interview is making me start to think that it is not a sound strategy for President Trump to stake his reelection argument on his own cognitive abilities.
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To be clear, this is not something I took seriously even for a second. Someone asked for a conversation and I wasn’t willing to have one.
Democrat Dean Phillips Looking to Hire Presidential Campaign Staff, Targeting New Hampshire
Among those who have been solicited by Phillips' team are former Obama hand Bill Burton and former McCain aide Steve Schmidt.
w/
@MarcACaputo
&
@amieparnes
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This is the worst I’ve ever seen Trump.
I watch all of his speeches — saw him ramble in Waco, watched him amble in his “announcement” to run again — this is the very worst of it.
Puffy face, bloodshot eyes, his precious hair a mess. And his cadence just plain sad.
#shook
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Rick Caruso has been a pro-life Republican his whole career until he decided to run for mayor. So much so that Donald Trump appointed him to his economic team.
He has no business being the mayor of one of the greatest cities in the world. Los Angeles can do so much better.
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@realDonaldTrump
Tweeting in the middle of the night is not convincing people of your point of view.
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Michelle Obama just have one of the best convention speeches of all time sitting in her house.
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Is no one on tv going to note how f’ing weird it is to see an opera singer perform Ave Maria while the Trumps watch and the crowd waits, to close out this convention?
I miss President Obama. Stevie Wonder was so much cooler at every turn.
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The notion that Trump can be replaced on the ticket is both a fantasy and a cop-out for Republicans looking for some purgatory to hide in.
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Good thing Tim Kaine is there to mention Donald Trump - he doesn't seem to be in Mike Pence's talking points.
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@danpfeiffer
What
@PressSec
doesn't get is that when she comes out to that podium, she is speaking on behalf of the United States of America, not just Donald Trump. The abuses of that concept are getting worse every day.
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Trump standing in front of one of his country clubs to complain about the price of instant coffee has a real “let them eat cake” feel to it. To see how acutely members of that club are feeling the pain of high prices, I’ve gathered some photos from the Bedminster website for you
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Let it not be lost that Comey knew all of this - and still chose to use the FBI to help Trump's campaign. Because, you know, emails.
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Fact check: Trump is the 44th person to have the job. Buffaloian Grover Cleveland is counted twice because of non-consecutive terms. cc
@jonfavs
@KevinMKruse
@maggieNYT
@KellyannePolls
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@megynkelly
I can’t remember, did Donald Trump cheat on his wife with a porn star and then pay her $150,000 to keep her quiet, and then get convicted of 34 felonies in an attempt to keep it quiet and then it didn’t work?
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@megynkelly
Is there a mental health crisis in the US? Yes. Is murder exacerbated by the fact that the mentally ill have ready access to guns that they are using to slaughter Americans every day? Also yes. Consider working on not allowing guns in the hands of just any person who wants one.
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As the Buffalo Bills prepare to take on the Jets, this is your periodic reminder that the Bills are the only NFL team that plays in NY State.
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@MZHemingway
Another example of the desperation of the right, the denigration of Tim Walz’s church. ELCA is the biggest part of the Lutheran Church. It is more progressive than the different synods which is probably why Mollie doesn’t like it as it advances equality between men and women.
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It's frustrating listening to Bernie Sanders bc for all the ranting and raving, he's literally done nothing his entire time in government.
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Awful. And let’s not lose track of just how far discourse has shifted in a few short years. Even a very short time ago, no one would go on even Fox and say the lives of any kids are less valuable because they’re not from Idaho.
Trump has decimated American moral leadership.
.
@foxandfriends
: "...these aren't our kids. Show them compassion, but it's not like he is doing this to the people of Idaho or Texas.”
As Hillary Clinton said, “There is no such thing as other people’s children.”
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A methodical strategy to effectively go through the courts to successfully fight for fair maps isn’t “luck,” it’s Republicans finding themselves on the business end of
@EricHolder
and
@marceelias
’s baseball bats. Having a plan and executing it, is not luck.
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Your president with friends at a golf tournament today.
Inhale. Exhale.
It could be funny if it weren't actually tragic.
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You're telling me that after all the hype about voter fraud in Pennsylvania, there has been one arrest made - and it was a Trump supporter? Come on.
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It's easy to forget that what these folks did at the Lincoln Project was not easy. As Republicans, current and former, they put together a group against the incumbent Republican president - in the best of times that's hard, but in these times, it was an act of real patriotism.
Republicans, it's time to choose between autocracy and
#democracry
.
with
@SteveSchmidtSES
@TheRickWilson
@stuartpstevens
@ProjectLincoln
via
@washingtonpost
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I’ve watched Tucker Carlson/ Sean Hannity every night for months. It hasn’t been pleasant. But what I can share about this evening’s shows, is that there is not a scintilla of evidence offered for their claims. Literally nothing more than annoyance w Jake tapper & Wolf Blitzer.
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It should not be under appreciated what a hard job Biden had tonight. In the face of relentless lies and bullying, he still got his point across. It was messy all the way through, but Biden did some hard work on our behalf.
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@Olivianuzzi
One suggests that America doesn’t need to be better than it was, one commits to making it better. It’s profoundly different — particularly to people of color.
I suppose the election will let us know which one is more effective.
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Live look at Josh Hawley reading Ted Cruz Twitter right now.
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Tucker Carlson: At this stage, the fraud that we can confirm is not enough to change the election result.
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I can’t stop thinking about
@CoryBooker
’s exchange with Dr. Ford when he asked her how she felt. And then she said “I just wish I could be more helpful.”
Her core decency was the only good thing about today.
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When Donald Trump rejected sending the national guard to liberate the Capitol, Mike Pence was sheltered there. And Trump said no.
Think about that.
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It's late, probably so few people will see this, but I had to get it out. YOU HAVE GOT TO WATCH QUEEN ARETHA FRANKLIN SURPRISING
@EricHolder
AT HIS FAREWELL CEREMONY. It is awesome. (h/t my queen,
@kellycward
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@TimMurtaugh
I’m endlessly impressed with the inanity of the right. They have no capacity to take her on. They are losing and it’s getting worse. They can’t see how to get ahead. And so we’re all living in just dumb tweets like this as they figure it out.
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@realDonaldTrump
as someone who demonstrated such bravery in combat, I can see why you'd have so many questions.
Oh wait.
I mean stfu.
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@michaelscherer
Michael, I watch all of the Trump speeches and they are full of things that are blatantly not true. Making a joke about an internet meme is not the same thing. Trump lies about the election results every time he opens his mouth - and it isn’t covered because it isn’t new. But
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Remember when R's made a thing of whether D's read the ACA before voting? They have neither seen this bill nor learned the $$ impact here.
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I don’t recall a single mention of the children who have been shot and killed in the gun violence epidemic in this country at the RNC.
This tribute is beautiful.
They are not like us.
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@TrumpWarRoom
I don’t remember - how many times were the children slaughtered in the gun violence epidemic mentioned at the RNC convention?
Oh right, none.
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Dear media, do you think a single American cares if China is mad about a phone call?
This. Is. Trump's. Game.
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I think someone should tell him about Obama saving the American auto industry.
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I honestly didn’t connect with that for the reason they removed the trees until this.
Wow! With the trees removed, this political theater is staged extremely well on government, taxpayer funded property!
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@LaCivitaC
On your watch, Donald Trump is spending his days and nights with someone who says that 9/11 was an inside job. But you think that a tweet from 4 and a half years ago is the thing worth paying attention to?
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It’s too easy for too many Democrats to dismiss the words of these Republicans and the Never Trump Republicans - but they all do this at their own peril.
They should be commended for saying something when so many will say nothing.
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In the profound and abject failures of this president, it is easy to lose sight of the nuts and bolts of how bad he is at campaigning - but I urge you to take note of how terrible this story is for the candidate incumbent trying to make gains on this day.
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@PaulBegala
I can vouch for this. Paul says all kinds of profane and rude things literally every day. (cc
@DianeBegala
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The thing that betrays the dishonesty of this defense of the president calling on the Proud Boys to “stand by,” is the fact that his very next sentence is: “Somebody’s got to do something about Antifa and the left.”
The quasi-intellectual gymnastics do not deny that clear fact.
The facts (see the transcript):
1. Trump said "sure" (twice) when asked to condemn white supremacists.
2. Wallace introduced the "stand" language.
3. Biden brought up the "Proud Boys."
4. Biden then refused to condemn Antifa.
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But seriously. Real question for Sanders supporters: what has he ever done that demonstrates an ability to get anything done?
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Shoutout to my wife
@kellycward
and her boss
@EricHolder
who have been saying — FOR YEARS — that if the maps are fair, Democrats will win.
So much of the good feelings you have tonight are because of the work at
@DemRedistrict
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My country is a different place than I thought it was when I woke up this morning.
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Tim Scott gave an unapologetic case for the abject dishonesty of the Trump era.
He could be such a leader for bipartisan solutions but is instead stuck in Trump lies.
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"Entitlement" -Mazie Hirono
That's the most important word said this afternoon. And his temperament is the expression of what happens when entitlement is threatened.
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If you like Ron DeSantis a lot, I disagree. Make a statement with your vote and give him your support! It will feel so good!
Writing in Ron DeSantis as a Republican/conservative is a total waste of your vote in the 2024 election.
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I do have to say, Twitter without Donald Trump, is better.
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@markknoller
The smug indifference that comes across in this photo is really something. Combine that with the royal strangeness of people holding umbrellas for her gives the perfect image of this administration.
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Which reminds me, John McCain picked Sarah Palin to be his running mate -- and he thinks Susan Rice is unqualified?
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This piece brutalizes Tom McClintock and Kevin McCarthy for their failure of moral leadership and acceptance of the likes of Dinesh D'Souza into our state. Definitely worth the read. (cc
@KevinMKruse
)
#ca04
The Republican cancer: After cozying up to a purveyor of anti-Semitism, Rep. Tom McClintock sends 'prayers' to Pittsburgh victims
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@ryangrim
There was a failure across the political universe when it came to polling. There was not a serious person in the country who predicted these results in the House, the Senate or even the president outperforming his 2016 tally by millions of votes.
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This might be the funniest example of life imitating art that I’ve ever seen.
Key and Peele sketch Team USA edition
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@PhilipRucker
He could easily put this controversy to rest if he just released the tape of the conversation.
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Not only is it fundamentally wrong for
@BernieSanders
to say
@HillaryClinton
is unqualified, it's spectacularly stupid ahead of NY primary.
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Both Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson effectively conceded tonight, moving on to discuss what a Biden presidency is going to look like.
It’s not insignificant.
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@megynkelly
I’m so sad for what you do for clicks. You’re one of the smart ones but you’re showing yourself to be so much less than you are.
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Joe Biden is not going to win Wisconsin by 17 points. Vote.
NEW
@ABC
/
@washingtonpost
polls out of Wisconsin and Michigan (Likely voters)
Wisconsin
Biden: 57% (+17)
Trump: 40%
Michigan
Biden: 51% (+7)
Trump: 44%
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Yet bc of the abject incompetence, his casual lechery is somehow only one of a dozen horrifying stories about him today. But this is gross.
Trump to a reporter: "We have all of this Irish, beautiful Irish press. Where are you from? Come here, come here”
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So when the GOP had a Kentuckian speak at their convention (Mitch McConnell), there were insanely loud boo’s. When the Dems had a Kentuckian speak (Andy Beshear), he was greeted like a hero.
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This definitely vindicates the president. He could have saved tens of thousands of American lives but refused to get owned by a potential Democratic talking point.
Check. Mate.
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"I alone can fix it."
That is an actual line in Trump's speech.
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