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Sep 23, 2020 8 tweets 4 min read Read on X
Asked if this is true, @jdbalart said: “Of course not. He was asked to answer questions from Telemundo viewers —they were on a monitor. He would answer the monitor. In one moment the monitor went to black — he said ‘I lost the lady’I told him he could answer looking at me“
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...”and that was that.” I asked @jdbalart about it because I know him well and he’s a helluva reporter first and foremost and he would never agree to something like this, where a subject gets interview questions or is allowed to answer off a teleprompter

@TLMDPR should clarify
Maybe I’ll add a third tweet explaining why I checked this: it was tweeted to me this morning on an unrelated matter.

So I checked it out

This tweet is shocking not just because it's misleading but because @helenaguirrefer, who now helms the @FloridaGOP, used to work in Miami media & knows @jdbalart & knows he wouldnt do what the party is alleging

So I hope this is an errant staffer tweet

I’ve known Helen for years and knew her as a professional colleague (just like Jose did) before she worked for the GOP.

The Helen I knew would be aghast at this error and strike this.

So let’s see

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I wonder what Florida Republican Congressman @MarioDB thinks about his state party posting this about his brother?

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Aug 10
Harris has raised enough money to burn a wet dog so it’s easy to see her plowing a few million on TV in Florida to juice poll numbers & see if team Trump bites

Had Biden made real ground/organizing investments since 2020, she’d have a good chance in FL

But they didn’t

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2/4 Harris lead of 14pts in Miami-Dade is certainly believable & for dispirited Democrats who suffered through the Biden Era’s neglect of the state, it’s encouraging

But Trump won Florida by 1.2 in 2016 when he lost Dade by almost 30. He lost Dade by 7.3 in 2020 & won FL by 3.3
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Polls have Trump up about 7 in FL. Republicans who know the state admit Harris is way tougher than Biden. They were looking at a double digit Trump win in FL w/Joe

Now it’s looking like single digits

It’s unlikely FL becomes in play this circle. But unlikely ≠ impossible
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Filling in a blank in Gov @JoshShapiroPA’s Israel ties: from April-Sept 96, he worked in its DC embassy’s Hasbara/public affairs division

His past employment was flagged to me as his Israel positions have come under scrutiny now that he’s a Harris VP shortlister Image
2/4 Shapiro had once written in a college op-ed that he volunteered for the Israeli Defense Forces, but a spokesperson said he saw no military action

Story 👇



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3/4 Yesterday, Shapiro also disavowed the part of the oped where he wrote in opposition of a two-state solution (he has supported it for years, he said)


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FL’s Supreme Court ruled today to put an abortion rights amendment on the ballot AND struck down a prior court ruling that protected abortion rights

To pass, an amendment takes 60% voter approval in FL.

It will be on the general election ballot with Trump & Biden
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Support for the FL abortion amendment is polling around 70%

That’s cutting it close

The FL GOP is opposed & amid partisan organized opposition, some FL amendments have lost about 10% support from baseline polling in the state

This can “fail” w/59% support
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‘I’ll permanently fuck up your biorhythms’: The inside story of the DeSantis super PAC’s failure.

You've heard some of the story of what happened at Never Back Down

Learn about it all in my first @BulwarkOnline dispatch

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There was talk of staff "mutiny."

There was the "biorhythms" threat

And even a prediction of jail

"I hope you like orange," Adam Laxalt told one consultant
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A year ago, DeSantis was the best hope for Republicans hoping to turn the page from Trump

Here's the inside story of how Trump crushed DeSantis



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But DeSantis wasn't ready for primetime & he wasn't ready for this.

"DeSantis never established dominance," said Trump co-campaign manager @LaCivitaC

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DeSantis set up a campaign structure to deliver him the news he wanted, discarding data-based advice he disagreed with, whether it was likability or abortion

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