Former Second Lady @DrBiden tells the story of meeting her husband, @JoeBiden. "Mom, I finally met a gentleman," she recounts telling her mother that night. (They would later marry after he proposed five times, she said.)
Jill Biden: "I want you to picture that it's 2021... You pick up your paper and the headline isn't about some late-night tweetstorm... Then you turn on the TV... and when they cut to the president of the United States, you don't turn the channel."
.@DrBiden takes some implicit shots at Sanders in STL: "We need a Democrat who can lead our party up and down the ticket... Democrats in the most liberal cities and the most conservative ones will be able to run with [my husband], not away from him."
“Don’t Stop Believing” plays @DrBiden as she departs St. Louis after a four-city tour of Missouri. She spoke for about 15 minutes — longer than her husband did in his St. Louis rally on Saturday.
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ANATOMY OF A LIE: Billy Bush told Tucker Carlson last week that @Fahrenthold — who was first to report the Access Hollywood tape — was a groomsman at Chelsea Clinton’s wedding.
Then a conservative pundit echoed the claim this morning, and the vice president-elect shared it. /1
The only problem? The claim isn’t true.
No evidence exists online that places Fahrenthold at Clinton’s wedding to Marc Mezvinsky.
A New York Times spox confirmed to me that Fahrenthold “has never met Chelsea Clinton and was not at her wedding.” /2
My guess is that Bush garbled his words, misstating this Fox News report, which says that former NBC News chief Noah Oppenheim and Fahrenthold both attended Harvard with Mezvinsky and that Oppenheim and Mezvinsky were groomsmen at each other’s weddings /3 foxnews.com/entertainment/…
THREAD: This week, Congress sent a bill to the president’s desk that I can almost guarantee you haven’t heard of.
How can I be sure?
**Not a single article has been written about it by any news outlet, anywhere**
As has been reported elsewhere, the Senate passed a lot of bills by unanimous consent this week before adjourning for the year.
Two of these bills got a lot of news coverage: a bill transferring control of the old RFK Stadium site and a measure funding pediatric cancer research.
But a third House-passed bill sailed through the Senate, too, and this one hasn’t gotten any of the attention.
It’s called the Supporting America’s Children and Families Act, and it’s the first major overhaul of our federal child welfare system in more than 15 years.
Unclear why @POTUS is visiting Georgetown. He is at Wolfington Jesuit Residence Hall, where he visited about two weeks into his presidency to receive his ashes for Ash Wednesday.
This! Every piece of legislation or court ruling that’s mentioned in Wake Up To Politics includes a link to the full text so my subscribers can read for themselves and take a look at the documents that are being passed around the halls of power.
Plus: Every day, I include links to every bill being considered in Congress that day. Not many other sources put them all in one place — and it can get lengthy — but I get emails all the time from readers who appreciate being able to actually see what our leaders are voting on.
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Welcome to DC: It turns out Kamala Harris’ condo is not too far from my new apartment for the semester. The street is blocked off and there’s a small security presence (note the “VPPD” plates), although she will now reside at the Naval Observatory like past VPs.
UPDATE: Apparently the Vice President will be actively living down the street from me? If anyone’s looking for me, I might just be staking it out at all times trying to confirm.