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Ryan Grim Profile picture
@ryangrim
Oct 1, 2020 • 9 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
lol Cruz must figure he’s politically better off in the Senate minority when it comes to launching another presidential bid, happy to kneecap his vulnerable colleague to make that happen
Trust the process
To walk folks through the logic of how this politically benefits Cruz and other ambitious senators on the right, like this guy below, consider two worlds. One has Rs in the majority but Biden in the White House. That could produce a tough vote on some compromise bill every week
The other world is one where Schumer is majority leader and all you have to do is vote no and fundraise off how horrible these Democrats are. That’s political paradise, and easy to launch a presidential campaign from. And then there’s a third possibility...
Theres a possibility Trump wins. In that case, it doesn’t matter a lot to a Ted Cruz who runs the Senate, since Dems will run the House. McConnell would rather control the senate to keep locking down judges, but that’s McConnell’s legacy, not anybody else’s.
Cruz is smart, he’s thought through all this. He also knows that Tillis needs this bill, he’s getting KILLED on the air as the hypocrite who’s gonna take your health care, and he’s been going after people’s coverage for years so it’s a charge that sticks. theintercept.com/2020/08/09/sen…
But he’s doing it anyway, not in spite of the fact it will hurt the GOP’s chances of holding the Senate, but because of it. It’s a feature, not a bug, and he can say he stood against Obamacare even when it was hard (though it wasn’t hard).
Hawley is doing it too, it looks like. He knows making theSupreme Court fight all about abortion, and saying it out loud, kills Collins, Gardner, and maybe Ernst and Tillis and others, but whatever
Partly it’s that Cruz doesn’t have great options. It’s up or out. He’s keeping his senate seat warm for the Democrat (Beto?) who’ll be favored in 2024.

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The IDF is entitled to its opinion and is free to engage in media criticism, but deliberately killed 5 journalists because you don’t like their work is terrorism, barbarism, a crime against humanity, and should be prosecuted immediately
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Fun 🧵on the power of reporting:

Back in the summer of 2018, Minnesota AG Lori Swanson was surging toward the nomination for governor, polling well ahead of Tim Walz and another candidate.

@rmc031 was spending the summer there and picked up on a scandal the MN press had failed to uncover
The short version is Swanson for years had been deploying her govt staff for campaign and personal stuff. It was a really hard story to nail down and to write in a way that got across what a true scandal it was. She pulled it off, the MN press picked up on it, Swanson flailed and flamed out
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Progressive Turnout Project uses "Mothership Strategies" as its email consultant, which we investigated many years ago at HuffPost for hoovering up emails, blasting people with emails that looked like bills and other crap, and keeping much of the money huffpost.com/entry/end-citi…
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I would post them here but what’s the point
Alright, gotta get the kids to bed first though
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