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@mkraju
Sep 10, 2020 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
New - McConnell told me battle for the Senate is a “50-50 situation.” He’s gotten Trump to give a boost to Gardner and Daines and to quietly help Marshall in #kssen primary.
And he’s told colleagues today’s stimulus vote is crucial for members “in danger” cnn.com/2020/09/10/pol…
Asked if he thinks Trump is a net positive for Senate Republican candidates on the ticket, McConnell would only say: "We'll find out. That's something that we'll only know the day after the election."
Roger Marshall was the subject of attack ads from Club for Growth, so McConnell made a suggestion to Trump: Ask the group to end that ad campaign. So Trump put the group’s president on speakerphone in the Oval Office and told him to "Stop carving up" Marshall. The Club stopped

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May 14
New — GOP Sen. Josh Hawley attacks Medicaid cuts in House GOP’s ‘big beautiful bill’ and says it must change to become law

“This is real Medicaid benefit cuts. I can't support that. No Republican should support that. We're the party of the working class. We need to act like it.”
“No, I'm not going to support this bill from the House in this form. I think that's clear. It's got to change before it can pass the Senate," Hawley said.

Hawley backs work requirements but argued other provisions laid out in House's plan go "much, much, much further than that."
Hawley says he’s open to higher taxes on wealthy taxpayers, something Trump has voiced support for.

"I'm fine with that…Bottom line is, the focus ought to be working people.”
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May 6
New — Thom Tillis tells us he’s informed the WH he will NOT support Ed Martin to be the next US attorney for DC. Cites Jan. 6. That could derail the nomination.
Asked Tillis about his Monday meeting with Martin, and he said: “I have no tolerance for anybody who entered the building on January the 6th, and that's probably where most of the friction was.”
“If Mr. Martin were being put forth as a US Attorney for any district except the district where January 6 happened, the protest happened, I'd probably support him, but not in this district,” he said
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Jan 21
Spoke to Senate Majority Leader John Thune about the J6 pardons Trump gave out, including to those who attacked police.

“We’re not looking backwards, we’re looking forward,” he said, while contending the 1,000-plus pardons were not blanket pardons.

“I think they were case-by-case.”

Biden “opened the door” to pardons, Thune argued, saying that the former president engaged in the “most massive use of the pardon power that we've seen in history.”
Sen. Susan Collins said she hadn’t yet reviewed the J6 pardons. “I don't know whether there were pardons given to individuals who assaulted police officers," she said, "or whether there were pardons given to people who damaged property, who rummaged through desks, who broke windows in the Capitol. I disagree with those pardons if they were given."
Sen. Tommy Tuberville said he was "100%" for "everyone" of the pardons, adding of the rioters in prison that "they've been there long enough."
 
Pressed by reporters that some of those who were pardoned assaulted police officers, "No, that's not acceptable. But I didn't see it,” Tuberville said.
 
Asked him if he doesn’t believe police officers were beaten, Tuberville said, “I don't know whether I don't believe, because I didn't see it. Now, if I see it, I would believe it, but I didn't see that video.”
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Sep 24, 2024
New — Joe Manchin, a staunch defender of the filibuster, tells us he WON’T endorse Kamala Harris now over her vow to gut the filibuster to codify Roe.

“Shame on her," Manchin, who is retiring at year's end, said in the Capitol. "She knows the filibuster is the Holy Grail of democracy. It's the only thing that keeps us talking and working together. If she gets rid of that, then this would be the House on steroids."

Now that Harris has vowed to gut the filibuster on this issue, Manchin said he wouldn't back her for president.

"That ain't going to happen," he said. "I think that basically can destroy our country and my country is more important to me than any one person or any one person's ideology...I think it's the most horrible thing."
Manchin signaled just a couple weeks ago that he could endorse Harris but changed his mind after she told Wisconsin Public Radio: “We should eliminate the filibuster for Roe.”

cnn.com/2024/09/24/pol…
Asked by @tedbarrettcnn about Harris’ previous support for gutting the filibuster, Manchin said: “Well, she said she supported banning fracking too, and she changed that. I was hoping she would change this."
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Feb 5, 2024
Just spoke with Sen. James Lankford about the GOP opposition to his border deal.

“I'm frustrated when people put out intentionally false information. I expect more. There are policy disagreements on that, I get that,” he said. “If people think that politics are wrong, and now we're in a presidential year, so let's not help Biden in the process, we're just going to disagree on that. I get frustrated when people put out things that are intentionally false, that they know are false, because I expect more of Americans.”
Lankford: “It was funny for me just to be able to watch some of their conversation last night from members that I've talked to that have said to me, ‘Hey, I really need weeks to be able to review this. It's really complicated.’ And then within an hour they were coming out in opposition,” he said. “It was like, so much for the weeks I need to review it. I can tell now the weeks of review wasn't actually to review, it was just to try to kill it, stall it.”
Asked him if he were frustrated with Trump. “His job is to run for president. My job is to serve the nation,” Lankford said. “I'm in the Senate right now on Homeland Security, doing border management, I'm doing my job. He's doing his job, he’s running for president.”
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Jan 26, 2024
New — Details of Senate deal on the border.

Sinema, Lankford, Murphy deal would empower US to significantly restrict border crossings if they surge to 5,000 daily average over a week. Same would apply for 8,500 crossings in a single day.

In essence, border would be effectively shut down now to migrants (not fleeing persecution and who are not entering at ports of entry) — as December saw more than 300K crossings.
- Also asylum process would be sped up to six months. There would still be a minimum of 14,000 asylum applications that could be processed though legal ports of entry while the emergency authorities are in effect.

Deal could be unveiled as soon as next week when more details will be unveiled.
Pressure will be on Senate Rs as Trump has urged them to kill deal as he campaigns on migrant surge but as they have called on the US to regain control of border

cnn.com/2024/01/26/pol…
*1,400 asylum applications - not 14000
Under the soon-to-be-released package, the Department of Homeland Security would be granted new emergency authority to shut down the border if daily average migrant encounters reach 4,000 over a one-week span.

If migrant crossings increase above 5,000 on average per day on a given week, DHS would be *required* to close the border to migrants crossing illegally not entering at ports of entry.
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