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Victoria Brownworth 🏳️‍🌈
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Six police officers have been shot in Philly during an ongoing firefight less than a mile from my house in Nicetown.
Gunshots still being fired at police, currently.
Wounded at Temple U hospital.
Immediate neighborhood on lockdown, sheltering in place.
philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2019/08/14/6-p…
Police were attempting to serve a warrant when they were fired on.
Currently the injuries are not life threatening.
Press conference with Mayor, PPD commissioner and DA are prepping a press conference.
Police still taking fire. Ongoing for two hours.
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Victoria Brownworth 🏳️‍🌈
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I don't think most people understand the dailiness of #gunviolence in America. This incident happened within less than a mile of our house. There have been three men shot to death in front of our house in the past 4yrs as I've recorded in real time on here. That's madness.
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The good news about the #PhillyShooting is no one was killed. Women and kids were extricated safely. The 6 cops had minor gunshots wounds, the hostages were safely extricated and the shooter was unharmed. That's all amazing. But the shooter fired hundreds of rounds over 8hrs.
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This is another story of civilians with arsenals of weapons. That should be illegal. The cop who was shot in the head missed death by a literal inch. He has two small kids. In the #ElPasoShooting and #DaytonShooting more than a dozen kids were left motherless, some newborns.
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Victoria Brownworth 🏳️‍🌈
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The argument that women aren't electable seems to be made solely by older white voters, not by younger voters of all races and genders who voted for women en masse as happened in the midterms.
The latest YouGov.com poll on Aug 14 asked voters which candidates could "probably beat Trump." It was a tight field pretty much within the MoE.
Biden: 35%
Warren: 29%
Sanders: 29%
Harris: 24%

So the "electability" question is only raised about the women candidates.
A question that isn't on any poll but which should be asked is: Why would voters choose someone who can't be a 2024 incumbent over someone who can be?
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Victoria Brownworth 🏳️‍🌈
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THREAD on campaign finances📌📌📌

So today I got assigned a story on FEC filings and it was eye-opening to spend the day looking at contributors.
Thus far this primary (not including Tom Steyer's own cash) the candidates have raised just under a half billion.
A half billion.
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The way that money comes in is telling. But that goes in the story.
Who are the top fundraisers?
Not what you think.
Right now Bernie Sanders is way out in front with $49.5M.
Warren is 2nd with $35.7M
Buttigieg is 3rd with $32.4M
These three have primarily small donors.
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The next few are surprising.
Delaney--yes, DELANEY--is next in 4th with $26.4M, so expect to see him in the next debate as the most annoying candidate (since de Blasio likely won't make it).
Harris is in 5th place at $25.1M--the most ever raised by a black woman candidate.

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