Peter Sterne
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Mostly on Bluesky now. Editor @CityAndStateNY. Previously @nysfocus @freedomofpress @politico. He/him. Tips & pitches: [email protected]
Queens, NY
Joined September 2010
SCOOP: Socialist Assembly Member @ZohranKMamdani is seriously considering a run for NYC mayor
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So @AOC just sent out this email with the subject line "My tips for burnout." I assumed it was one of those thinly-veiled fundraising emails with a faux-informal subject line that tricks you into opening it, but nope. It really was just an email about dealing with burnout.
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So @AOC is on Instagram Live assembling furniture while speaking off the cuff about how she believes that she has a moral responsibility to fight for what's right, even if people call her an extremist. "People don't realize Martin Luther King was a democratic socialist.".
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The indictment claims that an Adams campaign staffer told a potential donor that Adams probably wouldn't want to accept illegal donations, but then checked with Adams and learned that actually he was totally cool with it. (p15)
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@mings_ga "Dear Temple Student, as a result of your protected concerted activity, we are retaliating against you.".
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If a reporter pitched me a story saying a candidate lied about receiving an award from the Chamber of Commerce and in the course of reporting learned that they did receive an award from the Junior Chamber of Commerce, I would probably just kill the story.
In his 06 campaign, Walz boasted “that in 1993, he ‘was named the Outstanding Young Nebraskan by the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce for his service in the education, military, and small business communities.’”. But he wasn’t. Via @elianayjohnson .
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One thing that's notable about the Gaza Solidarity Encampments is how they're *not* making a free speech argument. They are very specifically not saying "you should support our right to do this even if you disagree with us" but rather "you should support us because we're right.".
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You wouldn't know it, but the settlement agreement requiring the NYPD not to violently police protests technically went into effect this week.
NYPD is making violent arrests right now. Cops seemed to have knocked one pro-Palestine protester unconscious but was more concerned with cuffing them.
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Adams' press conference – inexplicably held outdoors on the street where anyone could attend – was frequently interrupted hecklers and counter-hecklers & ended with a group of people chanting "Resign, resign, resign!" as Adams left. Possibly the worst presser I've ever seen.
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It's bad enough not to pay your interns. But this site wants to hire an unpaid MANAGING EDITOR.
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There are 2 things that people really like about @AOC: she has bold, uncompromising political ideas; and she tries to meet people wherever they are (Twitter, Instagram, protests, community meetings, Twitch streams) to talk to people about those ideas.
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The fact that the Washington Post's "Fact Checker" columnist thinks "confirmation by law enforcement" is the gold standard of corroboration, despite the fact that the police routinely lie, is a good illustration of a serious problem in journalism.
"This story turned out to be true, but the fact that it FELT false to me says a lot about society" -Glenn Kessler
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I support @vv1lder, the young journalist who conservatives are now trying to get fired from the AP because she was part of Students for Justice in Palestine in college.
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Maybe she’s leaving because the mayor is so innocent that she’s worried she won’t have enough to do.
BREAKING: @NYCMayor attorney Lisa Zornberg just announced she’s leaving her City Hall job as top attorney. Story developing, more TK. (Yes, Adams announced this Saturday at 10:30pm).
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CUNY Jewish Law Students Association released a strong statement in support of the student who criticized Israel in a graduation speech: "If CUNY Law wants to show it cares for its Jewish students, it can do so by showing it cares for Fatima."
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"The reason Republicans hate me so much is because I confront them directly on their lack of moral grounding on so many issues." Says they do everything they can to protect a paradigm that values short-term profit over everything else.
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The journalist whom Trump called on should have yielded to CNN. Don't allow him to refuse to answer Qs from certain news outlets.
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She just gave a socialist critique of late-stage extractive capitalism that values profit over people's health, and then pivoted to tightening hex screws. It's just kind of amazing.
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Not allowing any Palestinians speak at the DNC feels like an incredible unforced error by the party. Won't that just increase attention to the issue that's fracturing the party and alienate potential voters who already feel marginalized within the party?.
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She's calling in every political favor and spending all her political capital on this nomination, which is opposed by half the Dems in the state Senate, many reproductive rights orgs and most unions. She's turned it into the highest-profile fight since Cuomo's resignation.
I’m in the Bronx with leaders and advocates to make clear: The Honorable Hector D. LaSalle is the best person to serve as Chief Judge of the New York State Court of Appeals. Watch live:
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One reason it’s currently so tough to find an at-home covid tests might be because in June, Abbott Labs shut down the factories that manufactured them, laid off all the workers, and even destroyed testing equipment. h/t @NYMag.
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@AOC It's a sad state of affairs, but we're at the point where it's pretty radical for a politician's campaign to send out an email with an interesting subject line that isn't just aggravating clickbait.
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This is one of the most fun livestreams I've ever seen, certainly the most educational, and also the bravest thing I have ever seen a politician do.
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I'm sorry, but seriously trying to match signatures in this day and age is absurd. There's a reason credit cards have basically stopped doing this.
Nevada’s secretary of state, seeing high number of rejected ballots in Clark and Washoe, says one of the biggest issues is that the signatures of younger voters don’t always match what’s on their driver’s licenses:. “It’s mostly the fact that young people don’t have signatures.
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NYmag reporter says that WH official identified as a "person of interest" in Russia investigation is Jared Kushner
@NickFalacci @ericgeller @MiekeEoyang It's jared Kushner have confirmed this with four people. I'm not speculating.
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Now she's talking about Puerto Rico! "Say it with me: Puerto Rico is a colony of the United States." Giving the history of US-PR relations. "It went from being a colony of Spain to being a colony of the United States.".
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AOC says she has been very upset to see lots of Democrats giving anonymous quotes to journalists attacking Biden. "That's bullshit," she says. "If you have an opinion, say it with your chest and say it in public.".
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Uncommitted set a ridiculously low bar for endorsing Kamala – literally just asking her to meet with Palestinian Americans in Michigan – and she still declined to meet it.
At the conclusion of our historic sit-in at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Uncommitted National Movement leaders asked Vice President Harris to respond by September 15 to requests to meet with Palestinian American families in Michigan who lost loved ones to
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AOC: "I have stood up in rooms with all of these people and I have said, 'game out your actual plan for me.' What are the risks of this going to the Supreme Court? And no one had an answer for me. I'm talking about the lawyers. I'm talking about the legislators.".
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AOC: When I'm talking to people in rooms, I'm hearing "my donor this, my donor that" not "my voters this, my voters that." . I could give two damns what a bunch of rich people think. What I care about is what the working class thinks and what people not on social media think.
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It seems weird that the mayor can just issue an order suspending laws he doesn’t like.
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@MolBio_Cat @jchausow Wouldn't it be better to just go back to the old ones? I mean, the new signs are basically an adjustment/parody of the old (very good) ones, so not sure you have to reinvent the wheel.
Forgot your mask? We’ll have some on hand, and masks will be for sale at retail locations at surrounding subway and bus stations and stops.
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Says the colonizer should not be the one to decide the colony's status. "It's not up to Congress to impose a political status on a US colony. It is up to the US citizens in that colony to pursue a process of binding self-determination.".
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Biden is starting to imagine what could be, unburdened by what has been.
.@jeffzeleny reports on @CNN: President Biden is more “receptive” to the push for him to leave the ticket; has gone from saying “Kamala can’t win” to asking if Kamala Harris can win.
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Throwing faculty members under the bus, suspending Rep. Ilhan Omar's daughter, inviting the NYPD to arrest her own students. It seems like Columbia's president is concerned first and foremost with placating the GOP politicians who criticize her.
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Dems mocking electors for voting for Faith Spotted Eagle over Clinton b/c they don't know she was a noDAPL protest leader is peak 2016.
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"OK, it says I need a screwdriver, which is a bad sign. I don't have a screwdriver." She's polling the viewers, asking them to comment 👍 if they want her to try to build it anyway and 👎 if they want her to move on the next piece of IKEA furniture.
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The IRS isn’t investigating the fact that rich people don’t pay taxes. They’re just investigating how someone leaked that information to the press.
The IRS has opened an investigation into apparently leaked tax documents showing that ultra-rich Americans like Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Tesla CEO Elon Musk and business tycoon Warren Buffett paid very little or no taxes
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AOC: Joe Biden actually stomps among old people, who are hard for Democrats to win. Those are not people who are on Twitter but they vote more than any other bracket. You can't assume those voters will transfer to any other candidate.
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The Washington Post frames this as “the political divide becoming increasingly violent” and says that both the Left and the Right have been violent. But if you look at the actual events the article references, it’s clear that’s not the case.
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Seems like the live video is over now. But if you go to her Instagram page in the app, you can re-watch it!.
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AOC: My community does not have the luxury of accepting loss in July in an election year. My people are the first ones deported. They're the first ones put in Rikers. We need to make decisions in the conditions we have before us, even if they're ugly, even if they're hard.
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"I wouldn't have picked Vice President Trump to be Vice President if I didn't think she was qualified.". OK, it's over.
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Imagine being fortunate enough to own an apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side and complaining about people who have been forced to flee their homes and move to a new country with nothing.
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AOC: "If you think that is going to be an easy transition, I'm here to tell you that a huge amount of the donor class and these elites who are pushing for the president not to be the nominee also do not want to see the VP be the nominee.".
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I made a Google doc of all the journalists you should hire because Joe Ricketts laid them off:
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The idea that it's a "hit piece" to report on how thousands of employees are underpaid is a pretty good illustration of Silicon Valley's moral bankruptcy. h/t @RMac18
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AOC: Maybe I'm wrong, but one thing I get very concerned about is Clarence Thomas and the Supreme Court deciding this election. It's already happened before. That's how George W. Bush became president.
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This was during Occupy Wall Street.
Unbelievable. Mayor Bloomberg says Wall Streeters are "struggling to make ends meet" and shouldn't be protested. http://t.co/4yNDblPZ.
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AOC: When a convention is in 4ish weeks, when Michigan has to finalize their ballot 2 days after the convention concludes. the legal problems start to mount, I am concerned about the lack of thought I have seen from the individuals who would be responsible for executing on this.
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This is amazing. Australian gov sold off locked filing cabinets without realizing that the filing cabinets contained top-secret government documents. Now Australian TV news has all the docs.
Extraordinary breach. Hundred of top-secret of documents were locked in a government filing cabinet. That cabinet was sold at an ex-government furniture sale. The cabinet was locked, so it was sold off cheap. The documents shows the inner workings of five separate governments.
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AOC says that if the political class was concerned about Biden's age and capability, they should have had this discussion a year ago – instead of supporting Biden back then.
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AOC: While I understand the case some folks may be making from a theoretical perspective or a polling perspective, I'm here as a person who is responsible for executing decisions and not just opining on them, I have not seen the plan.
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AOC on IG Live: "If you think there is consensus among people who want Joe Biden to leave, and they will support Kamala, you are mistaken. a lot of them are not just interested in removing the president, they are interested in removing the old ticket.".
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AOC: I do think that people underestimate Biden's performance. I think that's how he became president, through people underestimating his performance.
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It is impossible to overstate how much this will improve journalists' lives.
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@deadeyebrakeman Wait, it was seven hours? I thought they said they notified the Coast Guard after just an hour and a half.
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AOC: I have not seen what I need to see to substantiate an alternative (to Biden). What I will say is what upsets me is people saying we will lose. For me, to a certain extent, I don't care what name is on there. We are losing. My community does not have the option to lose.
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The steady drip of UFO news continues: Previous reports:.
‘Wow, What Is That?’ Navy Pilots Report Unexplained Flying Objects
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‘It’s on life support.’ Hochul’s chief judge pick faces existential opposition
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In response to the NYT publishing Cotton's op-ed calling for military violence against protesters, Black NYT staffers are tweeting "Running this puts Black NYT staff in danger" in unison:
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A local news site tried to fact-check the claim that homeless vets were kicked out of an upstate hotel to make room for asylum-seekers. They found that the hotel has no record of the vets staying there. Really great reporting from @MidHudsonNews:
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AOC: You can totally rake me over the coals. Trust me, if I were trying to do something that I thought was calculatingly the best for me, I would not be on this Live right now. But I'm doing this because I care deeply about the outcome of this election.
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AOC: There is no safe option. I have not seen an alternative scenario that I feel does not set us up for enormous peril based on what I'm noticing privately and what I see publicly.
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This is a stunning rebuke for the U.S. Attorney's Office, which argued that protesters who were part of a protest (and journalists covering the protest) should be held liable for any property destruction committed by other people at the protest
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Some people might say Abbot Labs executives are personally responsible for endangering tens of thousands of people’s lives (though they’re not legally liable for it). But I think this is just an inevitable consequence of a for-profit healthcare system.
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NYC is a place where every day you wake up you could experience everything from an earthquake to a person who’s celebrating a new business that’s about to open.
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It makes no political sense to do this. Waging war on Senate Democratic leadership, organized labor, and reproductive rights orgs carries astronomical political risk, while withdrawing the LaSalle nomination carries almost none. So why insist on this fight?.
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AOC: People say I'm a neolib sell-out careerist. If I were here to sell out, there are much more lucrative ways!.
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AOC: I think there are certain things about Joe Biden as a candidate and as a person that people often conflate. The debate had no audience. Then people went the next day and saw that he did amazing at a rally. It went super well. Joe Biden needs the energy of people around him.
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AOC: I've been on the left, I am on the left, and I've seen the left be really wrong before electorally. I've seen the left be very right electorally. President Biden has very strong union support, and that's not something that just goes automatically to any Democrat.
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@ryanryan_hi @prisonculture I feel bad for those poor landlords who say they’ll lose money on fixing up the apartments. Maybe the state should help them out by taking the apartments off their hands 😉.
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I am personally surprised that members of the Squad have not yet said anything about whether Biden should step down.
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@itslaylas You're way too young to remember this, but conservatives used to call Columbia "University of Havana-North".
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The degree to which moderate Dems are fully embracing xenophobic GOP talking points is concerning.
When asked how Congress should address the migrant crisis, New York @GovKathyHochul calls for “a limit on who can come across the border.” Hochul tells @margbrennan many are "simply saying they need asylum and the majority of them seem to be ending up in the streets of New York."
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AOC: What I'm seeing here in terms of how this decision is being made through a litigation among a certain class is disturbing to me. The mechanisms by which this decision is being made is concerning me.
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The police and FBI arrested a neo-Nazi terrorist whose garage was full of explosives. After he said he used the explosives for model rockets, THEY LET HIM GO. Then he got an AR-15 and tried to commit a mass shooting. Incredible ProPublica investigation:
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AOC: If you think a lot of the folks who are in charge of swaying this position are defaulting to the VP, you are mistaken. That is not something to be taken for granted. That would have to be a fight too. So all you folks who are coconut-pilled in the comments, buckle up!.
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@Nate_Cohn I mean, yes. It's pretty obvious from the data that's what happened. But it is absolutely unacceptable to spend over 24 hours confirming the results and then report inaccurate results when you finally do. It's absolutely insane.
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This is great news — people of conscience are quitting the NYPD and the institution is shrinking through attrition — and I don’t think it’s fair to give de Blasio the credit. It’s the protesters who are forcing NYPD officers to reconsider their complicity.
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AOC: I just want people to come to their conclusions eyes wide open. If you're falling out of a coconut tree, god bless you. If you're riding with the president, god bless you. I'm not an open convention person. I think that's crazy.
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NEW: @AOC, @JamaalBowmanNY, @NydiaVelazquez and other progressive elected officials sent a letter to Columbia University calling on the Ivy League school to reinstate @ColumbiaSJP and @ColumbiaJVP. Read more @CityAndStateNY:
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AOC says that if Democrats swap out Biden, the GOP will bring legal challenges based on the Ohio law.
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A democratic socialist woman of color is probably going to defeat the 4th-highest-ranking Dem in Congress. Nice.
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AOC says she's not calling out the people who have publicly called for Biden to resign but the ones who are too cowardly to say what they believe publicly but are happy to talk to journalists anonymously.
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The NYT just laid off its director of newsroom security — a very short-sighted and dangerous move. If the paper's leaders don't think they need a dedicated position focused on digital security, then they are seriously underestimating the threat to their journalists & sources.
Today the @nytimes chose to eliminate my role, stating that there is no need for a dedicated focus on newsroom and journalistic security. I strongly believe in what I do (and what we did), and to say I’m disappointed would be an understatement. (1/3).
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Last year, Reality Winner gave journalists some details about Russian hacking — info supposedly so highly confidential and dangerous that she was sent to jail for 5 years. Now the exact same info is in this criminal indictment released to the public.
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AOC: In my 4 primary elections, my vote share has only gone up since I first won election, even with disinformation campaigns targeting me from the right and from the left.
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AOC: I'm a polling skeptic. My first election, polls had me down by 35 points. I won by 13. This year, I had a primary election. My own private polling had me down by double digits from where I ended up performing.
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And a quick note for journalism students: it is totally fine if your pitch unravels or your story is killed. It’s not a reflection on you & your work. Sometimes the facts aren’t there. You just drop it and move on to the next one.
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AOC: My opinion is to not get your opinion from whatever's on CNN. Look at the facts of it. It's kind of crazy to me that people are talking about this without talking about how this would actually go down.
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