Deepa Shivaram
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White House correspondent @NPR. [email protected]
Joined July 2012
A reminder that it has been 42 days since Harris was tapped as the VP pick. There are 42 days until election day. The senator has not once formally taken questions from the press.
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Wow ok emotional moment at Warren’s town hall in IA. A young woman asks if Warren ever had anyone in her life who she looked up to who didn’t accept her. Warren says: “My mother” recalls when she couldn’t make her marriage work and her mom’s disappointment.
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WARREN responds to @AlxThomp reporting on WOC staffers in NV leaving her campaign. "So I just heard about this and I believe the women who have spoken up and believe them unequivocally and I apologize to them personally. It's important to me to try to build an organization. 1/.
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NEW: Warren responds to Tara Reade’s allegation against Biden saying and Biden’s denial, saying, “The Vice President’s answers were credible, and convincing. I support the Vice President, I support his campaign, and I am proud to endorse him for president.”.
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I asked Kamala Harris why she picked Wisconsin as her first state to visit on the campaign. HARRIS: “I once lived in Wisconsin. Did you know that? So Wisconsin is part of my story.”. The senator spent part of her childhood in Madison.
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Warren's full answer below. "Sometimes you just gotta do what's right inside."
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Want to know if the unity message is working? . Warren just thanked the other presidential candidates in the race for running, bc it comes from love of country. And she said it’s time to say thank you and come together to beat Donald Trump. Standing o in Iowa City.
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"I am not on every billionaire's favorite list right now," Warren tells crowd of thousands in Chicago. "They're out there, these little billionaires, they're calling each other, 'run for president!' going on TV and talking about how sad it is, this woman wants to take two cents.".
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@AlxThomp WARREN: ". and so for me this is about taking personal responsibility which I do and being determined that we will have accountability in this organization and keep doing better everyday.". 3/end.
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One of India's most iconic cricket players weighs in after Rihanna and Greta Thunberg tweeted about the #FarmersProtests with. this message. (PS: If you're trying to understand what's going on India right now, I highly recommend reading and following @RanaAyyub.).
India’s sovereignty cannot be compromised. External forces can be spectators but not participants. Indians know India and should decide for India. Let's remain united as a nation. #IndiaTogether .#IndiaAgainstPropaganda.
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She added that you still have to do what’s right and maybe the world will come around and maybe it won’t but you have to look out for yourself.
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@AlxThomp WARREN: ". that is diverse and inclusive and open and lets everyone bring their whole self to work everyday. But I recognize that the legacy of racism and oppression pervade everything that we do in this country. ". 2/.
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Half the embeds just went running to the Warren photo line because there's apparently a woman taking a picture with the senator holding SEVERAL BUNNIES since a group of bunnies is called, get this: a warren??!!.
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KAMALA HARRIS on @MSNBC: "America is in pain right now because that man, George Floyd, should not be dead. He is dead, he is dead, and black blood stains the sidewalks of America. And so when we are watching the protests, it is an expression of deep pain.".
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A reminder that Elizabeth Warren was a national debate champion and went to college at GW on a debate scholarship.
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NEWS: Kamala Harris is pulling out of the justice forum in Columbia, SC tomorrow in protest after Trump received an award today. Instead she will be holding her own roundtable with @Bakari_Sellers -- and extends the invite to all students in the area. Harris statement below.
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Per campaign, Kamala Harris will also make remarks tonight, ahead of Joe Biden's primetime speech. For context, it's not typical for the VP nom to make remarks (Biden himself didn't in 08 and 12), but Harris as the first WOC on a major party ticket, is a historic moment.
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On a women for Biden town hall, Kamala Harris is asked about #AhmaudArbery and how Americans can show that this isn't who we are as a country. HARRIS: "I think we need to face a harsh truth that this is who we have been as a country. And we need to change.".
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Asian Americans are the fastest growing minority group in the country. Virginia wouldn’t be solidly blue without AAPI voters. States with fast growing AAPI populations like AZ and GA are battlegrounds instead of solidly red. This is a wildly ignored voting bloc - it shouldn’t be.
KEEP TALKING ABOUT ASIAN AMERICAN YOUTH. KEEP THEM IN THE HEADLINES 🗣🗣.
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.@KamalaHarris comes out to thank attendees who can’t fit inside her WOC roundtable event in Davenport. A woman says, “we need you!” Harris tells her, “we need each other, sister!”
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Crowd at Warren’s event in Charleston cheers the loudest when Ayanna Pressley, who is introducing Warren, says it’s time to get rid of Lindsey Graham. Echoes how Warren’s loudest cheers often come when she talks about taking back the senate/putting “Mitch McConnell out of a job”.
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NEWS: Warren says she is “disappointed” in Sanders re rhetoric for volunteers to criticize her (per @politico reporting). Says Sanders knows her. “We all saw the impact of the factionalism in 2016 & we can't have a repeat of that. Democrats need to unite our party,” she adds.
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Not all women menstruate and not all who menstruate are women. Period equality is simply about equality. Period. #NationalPeriodDay.
"We ALL need to talk about periods — especially if we as a society are going to be serious about fighting for progress towards gender equality, global development, and breaking the cycle of poverty." @nadyaokamoto @periodmovement #NationalPeriodDay .
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Behold the entire cabinet of tasters choice jars with spices, per my mother who wanted me to take this picture 👀
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Background of Elizabeth Warren’s shot at a childcare center has three block letters. BLM.
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My mom also keeps her spices in Taster's choice jars. And when I go home this week I will also be eating masala dosa. And I will also be eating with my right hand only. This video is hugely significant for a lot of reasons. Truly. But @mindykaling, where is the sambar/chutney?!.
Who else keeps their spices in Taster’s Choice jars? . Turns out @MindyKaling and I have more in common than we initially thought. WATCH:
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Warren stops to get boba tea in Chinatown. A woman behind me just popped in and said “Oh my god it’s Elizabeth Warren!”
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Harris boards her plane back at the Milwaukee airport. First on the ground campaign trip in a pandemic ✅
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omg. Q from voter on her running mate: "Do you whisper into baileys ear and say who is going to be my Mike Pence?". Warren: “I already have a dog.”. **MASSIVE cheers in Lebanon**.
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🚨 Vice President Elect Kamala Harris is back at the hill, a transition advisor tells me.
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Yeah, so if you're out here today trying to separate fetishizing and sexualization of Asian women from racism, you can sit down.
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Cute moment between @AndrewYang and @KamalaHarris at an Asian and Latino Coalition event — Yang said it’s always better to go before Harris so he doesn’t have to follow her act. She then came up and gave him a hug.
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Harris wearing two black designers today: Christopher John Rogers and Sergio Hudson. Christopher is a young Black designer, from Baton Rouge, and lives in New York City. Sergio is Black designer from South Carolina. Emhoff is wearing a Ralph Lauren suit.
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Harris received an endorsement from @HigherHeightPAC today and on a call with reporters today, said:. “There has to be a point at which we just stop just thanking black women for all they've done to elect other people, and also say, hey, we know that you can be elected too.”.
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Kamala Harris at a fundraiser tonight on importance of civics education & understanding democracy: “We can't just stop with this is how a bill becomes a law. We need all people to understand where their levers of power are and how they can actually use that power to drive change".
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Warren starting to emphasize *choice* in the Medicare transition process -- this is new for her:. "We're going to push through. full health care coverage at no cost for everyone else who wants it, you can buy it for a modest amount. You don't have to, but it's your choice.".
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In which the writer of the January 2019 NYT op ed slamming Harris’ prosecutor record, which became a consistent criticism, tells NPR: . “She did champion progressive causes," Bazelon said. "And her record has been consistent, and it's been good."
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Kamala Harris going into more detail on electability riff at Supermajority event — talks about how painful it was after Clinton lost in 2016 and people still say America is not ready for a woman:. “We cannot wait for other people to give us permission to tell us what is possible”.
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We’re inside Filmore auditorium where just a few people have come to see Elizabeth Warren on a Sunday afternoon. Colorado votes on Super Tuesday.
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A thought on these keynote speeches Warren gives every few months, often focused on women/immigrant leaders, stories of Americans we don't often hear. They aren't pieces of history I learned in school. With these speeches, she is effectively doing what she loves most: teaching.
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Warren says she’s raised $1 million in 24 hours 👇🏽.
@SenatorReid @BarackObama This grassroots movement raised more than $1 million in less than 24 hours—so we were able to expand our TV ads in Nevada!. Chip in $5 or whatever you can now to help us spread our message in Nevada, South Carolina, and Super Tuesday states:
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At Imperial Kuttz, Harris told this young woman, who is a polisci student in undergrad, that she should learn to code. It’s the second time she’s suggested that today — at an event earlier this morning, she told a student interested in law the same thing
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Obama: “It's not just important for us to see a potential woman Vice President for young girls. It's important for young boys to see a female Vice President so that they understand that you know your worth, your power, your voice, your capacity for leadership is not gender based”.
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A good reminder of why “revenge porn” is a largely improper term — and why Harris, while attorney general, called it “cyber exploitation” instead. Kamala Harris’ Crusade Against ‘Revenge Porn’
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This was actually a fascinating stop and highlighted something in Harris that I’m not sure other candidates can tout: In a room full of elderly Filipino and Chinese immigrants, many of whom don’t speak English, she showed a deep level of cultural competency and understanding.
“We welcome back a daughter of San Francisco, of California and of America.”. @KamalaHarris introduced at the international hotel in Chinatown, a historic Asian American space in San Francisco
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Kamala Harris on Breonna Taylor indictment: “I haven’t read it fully yet, but there’s no question that Breonna Taylor and her family deserved justice yesterday, today and tomorrow, so I’ll review it and then I can say more.”.
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As someone who spent months covering her, it is hard not to think about how this debate would be different if Kamala Harris, the only black woman who was in the race, was part of this conversation.
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The Obama-Harris fundraiser is still ongoing and Obama has mispronounced “Kamala” twice now.
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Guys I ordered an oat milk latte in Des Moines and got literal oatmeal in my latte what is happening.
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🚨 Harris was tested for COVID yesterday, part of the routine testing she has been doing, and tested negative, per the campaign.
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.@kamalaharris spent a few minutes talking with this girl at the rope line. I later asked her what the senator told her: . “We talked about how we’re both leaders, I’m a leader in my school and she’s a leader in the United States.”
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Tonight, Warren was asked if she found Joe Biden's comments calling her angry to be sexist and if she thinks there is sexism in the 2020 race. "That shouldn't be a question that just the women have to deal with. This should be a question the men should have to confront, head on"
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NEW: For deaf and hard of hearing people, the new norm of wearing face masks has added an additional barrier in communicating. Without the ability to read facial cues, and for some reading lips, it's making even day to day tasks more complicated.
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Warren just found out about the endorsement from DMR and started dancing and threw her arms in the air.
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Lt Gov. Justin Fairfax just equated Terry McAuliffe calling him to resign after he was accused of sexual assault to how George Floyd and Emmett Till were treated because there was "no due process".
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Drive-in convention here in Wilmington, Delaware. Honking instead of applause. What a moment we are living in.
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So this happened. Fun facts learned: @douglasemhoff and @Chas10Buttigieg would apparently be texting each other during debate nights. @KamalaHarris: “And then we’d be on stage looking down at our spouses like WHY are you texting right now?!”
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And Warren making a very strong point that we can’t just talk about race in the context of criminal justice. “We need race conscious laws,” she says. It’s one of the most thorough aspects of all her plans.
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Ran into Kamala Harris rally with supporters outside the First in the West forum in Las Vegas
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In Ankeny, Kamala Harris tells a story from the night before the Iowa caucus in 2007. She was in the state helping the Obama campaign and met an elderly black woman who said “they ain’t gonna let him win.”
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The converse she's wearing are from her stop in North Carolina at a store called Social Status, a black owned business in Charlotte.
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"These states are not red states, these states are unorganized states," Rev. Barber calls on Dems to campaign with and for poor and low-wealth black, brown and white people in the South-- not just with a robo call.
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Ahh ok the whole personal news thing!!. After 5 incredible years with @NBCNews, I’m so thrilled to be headed to NPR a digital reporter. Can’t wait to get started on Tuesday 🎉🎉.
Welcome to NPR @deepa_shivaram! .
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In which one of the newly announced co chairs of the Warren campaign uses Harris’ slogan as a hashtag 🧐.
I’m thrilled to join @ewarren @Deb4CongressNM and @AyannaPressley to fight corruption and make sure every family has a fair shot in our economy and our society. This campaign is truly #forthepeople. Join us!
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A little ~exclusive~ this morning: Elizabeth Warren is announcing 20 endorsements in federal, state and local races through her email listserve to supporters. All of the candidates on the list are women.
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I asked @BetoORourke if the Robert E Lee statue in Charlottesville should be taken down and what communities should do with those statues that are taken down. The community debate over the statue of Lee in cville is what sparked the 2017 Nazi rally here. His response below 👇🏽
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Kamala Harris spent the morning walking around S.C. State’s homecoming. She’s under a tent where folks have a whole spread of chicken and rice and it smells delicious. Harris: “I should probably try some of this right? Just to make sure there’s enough salt. ”.
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A voter in Iowa asked Warren about this story today and she responded with excitement, “The CBS story?!” And then turned to the crowd, “Have you guys seen this?” And then proceeded to describe the story in peak professor mode.
WEALTH INEQUALITY: The richest 1% controls more wealth now than at any time in more than 50 years. But what does wealth inequality really look like?. @TonyDokoupil turned America’s economic pie into a real one and asked people a simple question: Who gets what?
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This, again, ties into Warren's intersectional way of looking at policy. To her, abortion is not simply an issue about women's health care -- it involves other moving parts, namely privilege that comes along with race and economic status.
"It is also a profoundly economic issue," Warren says on abortion, and who will be left behind if Roe v Wade is rolled back -- poor women, women of color and, she gives the example, a mother who has three kids already and can't take three days off of work.
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Just announced by the campaign: Kamala Harris will travel to Detroit and Flint, Michigan on Tuesday.
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@Bakari_Sellers ". I cannot in good faith be complicit in papering over his record. Instead, I’ll host students from all campuses as well as the broader Columbia community to come and discuss this critical issue that I’ve worked on for my entire career." -- @KamalaHarris.
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In the middle of this, I asked Kamala Harris is she was having fun and her response was literally just laughter.
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I’ve covered both Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren’s campaigns every day for almost a year. Both accomplished, whip-smart women, with plans. They ran very different campaigns as very different candidates. But the emotions here today are so strikingly similar.
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@HigherHeightPAC Harris added:. "The Democratic Party has, in some ways I think romanticized black women, meaning thanking black women for helping democrats get elected, but not necessarily. talking about black women's issues.”. She named maternal mortality, equal pay and criminal justice.
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Alternatively, I also hear from voters that they notice Trump almost never goes after Harris, which they think means he’s afraid of her.
Trump attacking @KamalaHarris means she’s doing something right and he’s afraid of her.
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Also interesting: Harris has been talking more about how she is the only candidate on the debate stage on the senate intel and homeland security committees — sets her apart when she addresses questions about foreign policy (a q on Iran tonight, for example).
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@Bakari_Sellers “As the only candidate who attended an HBCU, I know the importance that these spaces hold for young Black Americans. Today, when it became clear Donald Trump would receive an award after decades of celebrating mass incarceration. ".
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NEW: Harris and Biden spoke yesterday. She had been giving Warren space and decided to move forward with endorsing the former VP after Warren got out of the race, a Harris aide tells me.
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My first @NPR byline y’all! And it was about my hometown 👇🏽. Charlottesville's Robert E. Lee Statue Will Be Removed Saturday : NPR
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This is such a different vibe for Warren today with the message of women can win. She’s stayed away from this for so long - never taking on gender politics head on, always deviating and giving generic answers when asked about it by the press. Today, point blank, “Women win.”.
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Kamala Harris added an additional stop and is meeting w/ Voces de la Frontera, a group of Latinx community organizers/activists. The group helps advocate for many frontline workers across Wisconsin, including employees of meatpacking plants. Press has no access to this meeting.
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This is. pretty much exactly Warren’s pitch to vote for her?.
Sen. Warren has convinced me that Bernie isn't that worrisome. He'll never get anything done. SHE'S the freak who will show up with 17 idiotic plans every day and keep everyone up until it gets done.
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Kitchen table conversation has turned to @MomsDemand and the NRA. “Why are you guys talking about guns?” the youngest asks. “So you don’t have to worry about it,” Harris says.
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This is new: Kamala Harris is actually talking about her record. Not in response to a question from someone in the crowd but talking about what she did to prosecute sexual assault cases and her creation of Back on Track, things she says were “in the name for the people”.
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On this tour of small businesses in Des Moines, Harris has run into at least four school aged kids on the street. “Why aren’t you in school?” she’s been asking. (It’s lunch hour for them apparently).
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Rally goers have started marching. Lots of cars honking + chants of “stop Asian hate” #Atlanta
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@Bakari_Sellers ". pushing the death penalty for innocent Black Americans, rolling back police accountability measures and racist behavior that puts people’s lives at risk, and then learned all but ten Benedict students are excluded from participating. ".
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Y’all. Right before this she said Trump was using this as a political tactic and said, “I have no support for it whatsoever.” . Read the whole tweet thread from reporters before you do this 👇🏽.
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Warren draws around 7,000 in Seattle (including overflow crowd). She starts her remarks congratulating Sanders for winning the Nevada caucus. and then immediately slams Bloomberg for trying to buy the election.
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Kitchen table issues — literally. Tonight, Kamala Harris is making salad with a family in Ames, Iowa 🥗. So far, we’ve heard a lot of talk about school. And how to make salad dressing. And what olive oil tastes like.
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Biden/Harris made pre-recorded remarks at a campaign virtual celebration of India's Independence Day. Harris on her mother: "She wanted us to understand where she had come from and where we had ancestry. And of course she always wanted to instill in us, a love of good idli.".
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A very on brand Elizabeth Warren, who — one week after ending her candidacy — is still releasing/updating plans 👇🏽.
I am deeply concerned about the threat that coronavirus poses. Trump’s stumbling response is putting American lives and the economy at greater risk. I offered a plan ten days ago, and today I updated it based on the latest data and expert recommendations.
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People stumping with/for Elizabeth Warren in IA/NH this weekend:. ⭕️ Rep. Katie Porter, co-chair of Warren's campaign.⭕️ Julián Castro, who endorsed Warren this week.⭕️ Massachusetts AG Maura Healey.⭕️ Boston City Councilor Michelle Wu.⭕️ and several folks from Black Womxn For.
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Gender and power dynamics pretty much always include women being held to different standards. As more women gain power, especially in government, we’ve seen more women call out the double standard. What is equally worth watching is if, when and how men speak up, too.
Dr. Biden earned her degrees through hard work and pure grit. She is an inspiration to me, to her students, and to Americans across this country. This story would never have been written about a man.
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After her hit ended, @KamalaHarris cracked up and said “there’s kind of a lot of sound going on,” and then turned to @amyklobuchar while her hit was still going and whispered, “You’re doing great, Amy!”
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FIRST TO NBC: Elizabeth Warren earns endorsements from over 100 Latino leaders via @NBCNews.
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At Supermajority event in Las Vegas, @KamalaHarris says she saw Dr. Christine Blakey Ford recently and keeps in touch with her.
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