James Hohmann
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Editorial writer and columnist for The Washington Post || [email protected]
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Kamala Harris just went to Penzeys Spices and bought Creamy Peppercorn Dressing Base, Fox Point Seasoning, Trinidad Lemon-Garlic Marinade, Turkish Seasoning, and Tuscan Sunset Salt Free Italian Seasoning.
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In recent days, Mr. Trump has received credit from some pundits for self-discipline, staying out of the way as the Democrats argue about their ticket. In fact, his social media feed has been unrelentingly toxic.
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Biden requires “near certainty” that U.S. drone strikes outside conventional war zones will not kill or injure noncombatants. He also bans “signature strikes” and limits drones to situations in which “capture is not feasible.”
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Interviews with seven Trump advisers indicate he misled his own advisers, telling them the boxes contained only newspaper clippings and clothes. He repeatedly refused to give the documents back, even when some flew to Mar-a-Lago to beg him to return them.
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The White House went to great lengths to conceal Biden’s decline not just from the American people but from members of his own Cabinet and key Dems on the Hill. They limited interactions and used go-betweens to reduce visibility into how frail he’d become.
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Vivek’s flip-flop on TikTok makes so much more sense now that FEC filings show his super PAC got $4.9 million from Jeff Yass, a major TikTok investor.
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Liz Cheney still plans to make a difference in the election.
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Judge McAfee denies Fani Willis's bid to quash the subpoena of Nathan Wade. The judge says that now that there's sworn testimony he lied in an affidavit about when their relationship started, the court is going to need to hear directly from Wade.
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A DC woman was carjacked this month and had an AirTag so she could tell exactly where her vehicle was, including when it stopped at a gas station. But the cops refused to pursue the carjacker when she pleaded with them. It's outrageous. Here's how to fix:
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“He is wound tighter than a baseball,” John Boehner says of Jim Jordan. When they passed in the hallways, Boehner would try to defuse Jordan’s fervor by greeting him with the query, “What are you planning to f--- up today?”
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If you’re attacking the NAACP in your campaign launch, you’re losing.
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Blockbuster reporting this morning from @AnnieLinskey, @rebeccaballhaus, @EmilyGlazer and @siobhanehughes. They have 50 sources detailing various ways that Biden’s tiny inner circle maneuvered to hide his decline — going all the way back to 2019.
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Colorado lawyer Jason Murray calls the 14th Amendment "a democratic safety valve.". "The reason we're here is because Trump tried to disenfranchise 80 million people," he says, adding that Trump shouldn't get another chance to do so again.
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He reshared posts that said President Biden should be “arrested for TREASON” and that former GOP representative Liz Cheney is “guilty of treason,” as well as that members of the House Jan. 6 select committee “should be going to jail.”
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Justice Sotomayor sounds skeptical of Trump's lawyer's claims that the 14th Amendment is not self-executing. She notes that there are lots of examples of states disqualifying candidates for state office under 14th Amendment, Section 3.
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Pete Buttigieg has claimed residency in Michigan and voted there in the midterms. With President Biden looking almost certain to run for reelection, the Transportation secretary could theoretically run for Debbie Stabenow's open Senate seat in 2024.
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This is another indicator that JD Vance is the pick.
News: Trent Conaway, the mayor of East Palestine, Ohio, is tentatively scheduled to speak the 3rd night of the RNC, the same night as the VP and Don Jr. Trump advisers view Trump’s Feb. ‘23 trip to East Palestine as a turning point in his campaign
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Ron DeSantis sounds like he’s running for president of Hillsdale College.
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Rubio’s endorsement of Trump is a double snub. DeSantis is his home state governor. More significantly, Haley went out on a limb to endorse him before SC’s primary in 2016. He said that she exemplified what he wanted the GOP to be: “reform-oriented, optimistic & upwardly mobile.”.
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Press aides who compiled packages of news clips for Biden were told by senior staff to exclude negative stories about the president. The president wasn’t even talking to his own pollsters as surveys showed him trailing in the 2024 race.
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It really was so revealing that Biden’s staff wouldn’t let him sit for an interview during the Super Bowl when tens of millions of Americans would have seen him.
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DICK CHENEY just issued a formal statement endorsing KAMALA HARRIS: "In our nation’s 248-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump. He tried to steal the last election using lies and violence . (1/2).
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It's really ironic that Trump is complaining about Nikki Haley claiming victory when she didn't win, considering. .
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@AnnieLinskey @rebeccaballhaus @EmilyGlazer @siobhanehughes The president couldn’t recall lines that his team discussed with him moments earlier. At events, aides often repeated instructions to him, such as where to enter or exit a stage, that would be obvious to any average person.
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DC Police Chief Robert Contee says a teen told him people don’t commit as many crimes in Virginia and Maryland as in DC because “they don’t play.” . Well, if we want a safer city for our residents, we should create the same atmosphere here: We don’t play.
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@AnnieLinskey @rebeccaballhaus @EmilyGlazer @siobhanehughes White House meetings would frequently be canceled. In 2021, a national security official explained to another aide why a POTUS meeting needed to be rescheduled. “He has good days and bad days, and today was a bad day so we’re going to address this tomorrow,” the aide said.
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The U.S. Capitol is, or should be, thought of as the temple of the world’s oldest continuous democracy. Within that, the Senate floor is its most sacred space. Throughout history, those who participated in its proceedings dressed accordingly. Until now.
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New details: The cocaine found at the White House on Sunday was on the ground floor near where visitors taking tours of the West Wing are instructed to leave their cellphones. Staffers are authorized to give guests West Wing tours at night or on weekends.
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Huge news for the D.C. region: The Biden administration has picked Maryland over Virginia for the new FBI headquarters. The complex would be built on an empty 61-acre plot outside the Greenbelt Metro station.
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Devastating sworn testimony for Fani Willis in Georgia: Robin Bryant-Yeartie, a friend since college and former Fulton County DA employee, says that Willis began a romantic relationship with Nathan Wade in 2019 shortly after they met at a judicial conference.
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Some U.S. military officials suggest that Ukraine should slow the rate at which it fires artillery shells, or pick its targets more selectively. That’s an armchair general’s risky prescription, overlooking how Kyiv’s already enormously outgunned/outmanned.
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Nathan Wade acknowledges that he and Fani Willis went to ARUBA and that he paid for all of the trip (and a cruise beforehand) using his business card. He introduced Willis to his mom on the trip. He claims Willis paid him back for all of it in cash after, which feels suspect.
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Five Democratic senators have endorsed Kamala Harris so far: Tammy Baldwin (Wis.), Mark R. Warner (Va.), Elizabeth Warren (Mass.), Tim Kaine (Va.) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.).
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Reform is overdue. SCOTUS has no army or police that enforce its rulings outside its walls. It draws its power from Americans’ willingness to believe in the independence and fairness underlying the dictates of nine unelected lawyers in robes. Editorial:.
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Strong statement on Hungary from five Senate Republicans, including the potential next leader @JohnCornyn. Clear-eyed on Russia and China.
Five senior United States Senators visited Hungary this week. Read their important statement:
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Donald Trump has repeatedly called Kamala Harris a “bitch” in private, according to two people who heard the remark on different occasions. Per @maggieNYT and @jonathanvswan:
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John Fetterman probably couldn’t wear his signature outfit to work as a teacher in many schools or as an employee in most fast-food chains. And yet he might soon be seen draped in Carhartt on the Senate floor.
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New editorial: Elon Musk’s control over satellite internet demands a reckoning
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I had a great conversation today with @SykesCharlie for the @BulwarkOnline podcast about Ron DeSantis joining the Surrender Caucus on Ukraine. DeSantis looks small, weak & unserious. It's bad policy and bad politics. He's being a follower, not a leader.
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Gutting the independent ethics watchdog as the first official act of the 118th Congress isn’t what Americans voted for in the midterms. We fear that tying the hands of the OCE, especially limiting the ability to hire staff, invites a new era of corruption.
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Any fair-minded reading of the Jan. 6 indictment leads to one, sure conclusion: Donald Trump should never again be allowed anywhere near the Oval Office. New editorial:
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No single tool will prevent all violent carjackings, but the number of victims will keep rising if police can’t pursue criminals when the risk of doing so would be low.
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TikTok spent $270,000 on lobbying in 2019. Last year, it spent more than $5.3 million.
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"[Trump] can never be trusted with power again," Dick Cheney continues. "As citizens, we each have a duty to put country above partisanship to defend our Constitution. That is why I will be casting my vote for Vice President Kamala Harris." (2/2).
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We have reached the stage of the cycle where milk is for sale that’s good until Election Day.
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Big news: Senate Intelligence Committee chair Mark Warner is telling Democratic senators that Biden can no longer remain in the election. The Virginian has told others that he is deeply concerned Biden is not able to run a campaign that could beat Trump.
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New editorial: A murder at the Kremlin walls: Who ordered Boris Nemtsov dead?
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Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs (D) calls for an open process to pick a new nominee: “A healthy democracy requires that Americans engage in thorough debate and deliberation to choose our nominee, and I am confident that our democracy will be strengthened because of it.”.
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Nathan Wade acknowledges he used his credit card to book the travel for him and Fani Willis to go to Belize and California in 2022. "That was a birthday gift to me.". He says she paid him back CASH. Now Wade is suggesting he paid "for safety reasons.". Wade is not faring well.
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NRA paid 10k a session for Wayne LaPierre’s wife to get her hair and makeup done. How is that even possible?
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A flash mob of 10-15 men stole hundreds of thousands of $$$ worth of merchandise in broad daylight on Sunday from the Chanel store in DC's City Center. There's a culture of fear among shop owners downtown who fear they're next. It's time to stop playing:.
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Trump's lawyer says every president but Trump, including Biden, would count as an officer of the United States because they all took an oath. "John Adams might be excluded because he took the oath as vice president. It does seem odd that Trump would fall through the cracks. ".
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Guests are asked to leave their phones in small boxes just before entering the West Wing. The cocaine was found near these boxes. On tours, guests are shown the ground floor and first floor. Guests also get to peek inside the Oval Office, the Cabinet Room and the Roosevelt Room.
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Full-page editorial in Saturday's Washington Post:. Eight sensible proposals to help D.C. fight violent crime. 1) Stiffen penalties for illegal gun possession. 2) Keep violent career criminals in jail pending trial. 3) Make it easier to hold dangerous juveniles in detention.
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New Washington Post Editorial to lead tomorrow's opinion page: . It is time to clear out the McPherson Square homeless encampment. Anyone who spends any time in downtown DC will appreciate the urgency:.
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Celebrating President’s Day weekend with a trip to the National Portrait Gallery to see a newly restored portrait of Abraham Lincoln, which has been sitting in obscurity in a New Jersey municipal office building for the last century.
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The crash landing of Biden’s presidency soured major donors on funding his presidential library. The Hunter pardon added insult to injury and has prompted a bunch of heavyweights to close their wallets. Likeliest scenario is Biden team needs to scale back.
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@AnnieLinskey @rebeccaballhaus @EmilyGlazer @siobhanehughes Biden’s team tapped campaign co-chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg, a Hollywood mogul, to find a voice coach to improve the president’s fading warble.
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All but two McCarthy defectors in House are election deniers.
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If the president and his team are as confident of his fitness as they say, they should stop objecting to disclosure. They might as well give transparency a try; wagon-circling has failed. Release the audio of the Robert Hur interview so all of us can hear.
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New Washington Post Editorial: The Trump indictment is a poor test case for prosecuting a former president.
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Important new Washington Post editorial: D.C.’s crime bill really could make the city more dangerous. The city council will vote Tuesday on whether to override the mayor’s veto of a total rewrite of the criminal code. We’re pleading with them not to.
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Biden says “we think too much in Cold War terms.” He says that his thesis is that war becomes less likely across the globe if everyone succeeds economically.
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I guess this is one way to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day… #NeverForget.
Congressman Paul Gosar, in his official newsletter this week, linked to an article praising him in a neo-Nazi site. And we know that he *knew* it was antisemitic because he removed the antisemitic part from the headline!
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To those who claim anti-mask laws are unconstitutional, one of the earliest versions in the U.S. was the 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act, which made it a federal crime to “go in disguise upon the public highways” with the intention of violating others’ rights.
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@AlexFTweets @bresreports Because it suggests they lied in a sworn affidavit to the court and that Willis hired Wade with taxpayer funds after they were already in a relationship.
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A TikTok influencer says he lost 100k followers after going to the White House for a creators event and posting a video of Biden doing the Dougie.
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Tony Dokoupil’s tough questions on Israel were good journalism. The CBS anchor was doing his job in his interview with guest Ta-Nehisi Coates. New column from @RuthMarcus: .
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“Dude I won’t even take calls from Ukraine,” JD Vance wrote on Signal in October, weeks after House Republicans blocked aid to help Kyiv. “Two very senior guys reached out to me. The head of their intel. The head of the Air Force. Bitching about F16s.”
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“A full service sex worker of 25 years” just told Elon Musk at a town hall in Pittsburgh that it’s gotten too hard to solicit customers online because of bipartisan efforts to crack down on sex trafficking. “I’m in favor of anything that supports freedom of speech,” Musk says.
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Kamala Harris says Putin and Trump both offer the same thing to Ukraine: “proposals for surrender.”.
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How do we know it’s a replica?.
Why is there a gold replica of the Ark of Covenant at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home?
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Gov. Glenn Youngkin has tapped the brakes on 2024, telling advisers and donors that his sole focus is on Virginia’s legislative elections in the fall. @tripgabriel reports from Richmond:
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Tim Walz kept an intentionally low national profile during his six terms in the House because he was representing a reddening district that stretched across rural southern Minnesota. But he quietly did great, bipartisan work on veterans affairs. He didn't care who got the credit.
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New CNN poll of New Hampshire shows Ron DeSantis falling to fourth among likely GOP primary voters. Trump is at 39%, followed by Ramaswamy at 13%, Haley at 12% and Christie at 11%.
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Joe and Jill Biden are visiting the First Ladies exhibit right now at the American History Museum to see the inaugural dress she recently donated. One really cool touch is that all 50 state flowers were sewn on. (By coincidence, I dropped by an hour ago.)
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A senior Trump campaign official tells me the former president very much looks forward to debating President Biden. The Trump camp says that it's Biden who should commit to debating Trump.
The 2024 debate schedule: . 9/16: Texas State University, San Marcos, TX.10/1: Virginia State University, Petersburg, VA.10/9: University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT. VP debate will be 9/25 at Lafayette College in Easton, PA. Of course. Trump might also refuse to debate.
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New Washington Post Editorial: Feeling forced to choose, President Biden picked public safety over home rule for the capital city. Despite our grave concerns about the law, it shouldn’t have come to this. Washington’s leaders should have acted on their own.
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Georgia special grand jury recommended charging Lindsey Graham, Trump attorneys Cleta Mitchell and Boris Epshteyn, former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn and former Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler. DA Fani Willis didn’t do so.
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Biden Convinced Netanyahu to Halt Pre-Emptive Strike Against Hezbollah: Israeli warplanes were in the air awaiting orders when Biden reached Bibi Oct. 11 and told him to stand down and think through consequences of such an action. This is US leadership. 🇺🇸
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Alito Took Unreported Luxury Trip With GOP Donor Paul Singer. “If you were good friends, what were you doing ruling on his case?” said Charles Geyh, an Indiana University law professor. “And if you weren’t good friends, what were you doing accepting this?”
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Nathan Wade says Fani Willis reimbursed him with CASH after their travels.
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The 2024 debate schedule: . 9/16: Texas State University, San Marcos, TX.10/1: Virginia State University, Petersburg, VA.10/9: University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT. VP debate will be 9/25 at Lafayette College in Easton, PA. Of course. Trump might also refuse to debate.
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It looks like DeSantis got dropped from his own announcement. At least temporarily.
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This is a significant defection. It’s the district where I grew up. The only swing seat left in Minnesota. Some Democrats are clearly betting that they won’t face consequences for breaking with Biden. (Republicans who called on Trump to drop out in 16 were run out of Congress.).
As an elected leader, I feel a responsibility to be honest about what I believe, even when it’s hard to hear. President Biden is a good man & I appreciate his lifetime of service. But I believe he should step aside for the next generation of leadership. The stakes are too
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Kamala Harris has no current plans to campaign with Joe Biden before Election Day
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Chris Christie spent the last several weeks investigating the possibility of joining a No Labels bid. His team commissioned polling in 13 states, calculated a potential budget and studied potential maps, eventually concluding a third-party bid would need to win 20 to 25 states.
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Ron DeSantis failed to impress British business chiefs at a high-profile London event Friday, in a tired performance described variously as “horrendous,” “low-wattage” and “like the end of an overseas trip.”
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Watch this whole clip. It’s sad that this woman spent thousands of dollars to come early to Milwaukee to help hash out the GOP platform and was denied any input. The conservative grassroots deserved a say in what the party stands for.
"They rolled us. That's what they did.". Gail Ruzicka, RNC platform committee member from Utah, just after today's vote in Milwaukee: "I've never seen this happen before. I don't understand why they did it, and I'm extremely disappointed that we do not have any pro-life language"
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New editorial — Chief Justice Roberts should face reality: The Supreme Court needs a code of conduct
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Two of the FBI agents set to testify before a House Judiciary subcommittee tomorrow had their security clearances revoked this month over security concerns, via @jaxalemany
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They should write new legislation that does not reduce sentences for violent crimes or tie the hands of prosecutors who are trying to keep bad actors off the street. This is what their constituents want.
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🔥.
We have better audio and don't ban books.
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Washington Post Editorial: These universities are pushing back on censorious students. Finally.
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The biggest winner of this DeSantis announcement is Tim Scott.
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“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” — George Orwell, “1984”.
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Not only didn't Clarence Thomas refuse to recuse himself from the Colorado challenge. He makes a point to ask the first question during oral arguments -- to ask Trump's lawyer why the 14th Amendment is not self-executing.
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