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NEW: Speaker Pelosi warns her party’s presidential hopefuls that ideas like Medicare For All and free college may fire up the left but won’t beat Trump.

“Remember November,” she says. “You must win the Electoral College.”

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Pelosi tells Bloomberg News: “What works in San Francisco does not necessarily work in Michigan. What works in Michigan works in San Francisco — talking about workers’ rights and sharing prosperity.”

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PELOSI on

Medicare for All: “has its complications... the Affordable Care Act is a better benefit than Medicare.”

Green New Deal: “very strong opposition on the labor side ... because it’s like 10 years, no more fossil fuel. Really?”

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Remarkable quotes from Speaker Pelosi here questioning the political viability of the most progressive ideas in the 2020 Democratic primary.

“As a left-wing San Francisco liberal I can say to these people: What are you thinking?”

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🚨 Nancy Pelosi, who could still be Speaker in 2021, says the next president must abide by pay-as-you-go rules because “we cannot just keep increasing the debt.”

That would limit the ambitions of an Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders.

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Nancy Pelosi says she doesn’t quite understand the race to more lefty positions in the 2020 primary. “Bernie and Elizabeth own the left, right? Is anybody going to out-left them?”

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When I asked Speaker Pelosi if she favors a wealth tax, she didn’t say yes or no, but called for “bipartisan” tax changes that unwind the “dumb” Trump tax cuts of 2017.

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Tax Policy Center on Elizabeth Warren’s health care financing plan: “She has come up with a clever way to make workers indirectly pay for a share of that single-payer government system while making it look like a new tax on employers.”

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This gets dicey because the ~$9T Warren raises from employers is already being paid by workers. She’s essentially redirecting the same money away from private insurers and into Medicare in order to move those workers into the program.
Put another way: ACA requires large employers to give workers health care. Warren eliminates that private coverage and taxes that same money to finance Medicare For All.

Biden labels this a middle-class tax hike; Warren says there’s no added burden on the middle class.
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🚨 BETO DROPS OUT 🚨

“Though it is difficult to accept, it is clear to me now that this campaign does not have the means to move forward successfully.”
Beto O’Rourke technically has until December 9 to jump in the Texas Senate race. But he has repeatedly said that won’t happen, including as recently as last week.
“Beto’s our man...”

“...similar to Barack Obama”

Revisiting this piece on Beto’s Iowa swing in April. Voters dug him, saying he reminds them of Obama and JFK: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

But it’s not a hope & change moment; Democrats are angry and scared.
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NEW: Elizabeth Warren finally reveals how she’d pay for Medicare for All.

Taxes on employers, corporations, 1% + revenue via war savings and immigration reform. Her advisers peg the cost at $20.5 trillion.

Contra Bernie Sanders, no middle class taxes.

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
This is a defining moment for Elizabeth Warren’s campaign, attaching her name to ~$20 trillion in new taxes/revenue that’ll follow her from here. A massive undertaking with its own set of political risks.

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Warren digs DEEP to find the money without having to pinpoint middle class tax hikes — from soaking the rich, taxing corporations and cracking down on evasion, legalizing migrants and accounting gimmicks like OCO i.e. unspent war funds.

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