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@AlexThomp
Oct 1, 2020 • 8 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
Biden camp two weeks ago: we don't need to door knock and people don't want us to knock on their doors.

Biden today: this weekend will dispatch several hundred newly trained volunteers to knock doors across Nevada, Michigan, NH, and Pennsylvania

apnews.com/article/electi…
This is a huge reversal for the Biden camp which attacked Trump camp for knocking
DNC in August:
"Trump campaign is risking the lives of their staff, the lives of voters, and risking becoming a super spreader organization during the middle of a pandemic."

Biden campaign manager to @apalmerdc and @JakeSherman last month
“I know the republicans want to say we have a million door knocks a week. Well that doesn’t really matter.”

Biden campaign’s states director Jenn Ridder to Wapo last month: “Donald Trump’s voter outreach fails to understand the concerns of Americans right now...He is blatantly having events. He is blatantly going to doors."
washingtonpost.com/politics/campa…
Biden camp to me in August:
“At first I was nervous, but our response rates on phone calls and texts are much higher and people are not necessarily wanting someone to go up to their door right now"
politico.com/news/2020/08/0…
Biden CM to reporters three weeks ago: "While you might hear our opponent spend a lot of time talking about the millions of door knocks or attempts that they're making week to week, those metrics actually don't have any impact on reaching voters"
politico.com/news/2020/09/1…
From the Biden camp, these are their planned safety measures, some of which go beyond what the Trump camp is doing by including temperature checks, symptom questionaires, and a text msg program (which seems like it would be hard to implement).
earlier this week from Biden spokesperson

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New: Jean-Pierre’s colleagues had thoughts abt her & her book
“one of the most ineffectual and unprepared people I've ever worked with”

“The amount of time that was spent coddling her…was astronomical compared to our attn on actual matters of substance”
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Many quietly had fumed for years, believing she was incompetent at her job at the podium and more interested in promoting herself than Joe Biden.

Biden aides largely had stayed silent b/c she was seen as untouchable, given her close relationship w/ FLOTUS aide Anthony Bernal.
Jean-Pierre also caused internal drama by repeatedly blocking National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby from joining her at the White House podium, even when national security issues were at the forefront of the news.
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May 16
Exclusive: Axios obtained the audio of Robert Hur's 2023 interviews of Biden which show repeated mental lapses as he struggles to remember words & dates amid long, uncomfortable pauses.
Biden WH didn't release it last year. Listen below.
w/ @MarcACaputo
axios.com/2025/05/16/bid…
The audio shows what the transcript lacks — Biden's dry-whisper voice and the long silences as he struggles to speak and remember details.
Those often were supplied by his attorneys, who acted as caretakers of his memory.
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Though amiable, the interview became somewhat tense when Biden attorney Bob Bauer chastised prosecutor Krickbaum in this exchange over why Biden had kept a memo about Afghanistan.

"Your answer is that you don't know," Bauer instructed the president.
Listen here.
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Mar 8
New: the legal group co-founded by Stephen Miller has continued filing lawsuits and legal complaints—including against the Trump administration—as part of his larger campaign to make DEI programs illegal.

My look at another lever of Miller’s power

axios.com/2025/03/08/ste…
In early Feb, America First Legal petitioned the Education dept to investigate 5 school districts in VA for allegedly not complying with Title IX

Less than 2 weeks later, the Civil Rights office of the dept announced it was opening an investigation into the districts.
Late last month, the group petitioned the Labor Department to investigate whether outside federal contractors were in compliance with Trump's executive order banning federal contractors and subcontractors from "allowing or encouraging ... workforce balancing based on race, color, sex, sexual preference, religion, or national origin."

They singled out contractors such as Lyft, Meta, Paramount, Twilio and others.
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Oct 30, 2024
My write up:

I also asked the WH how they knew Biden only meant “supporter’s” as they have it in this transcript.

Did they talk to Biden to ask him what he meant? The spokesperson asked to go off the record. We declined. They didn’t comment further.

axios.com/2024/10/30/bid… x.com/alexthomp/stat…Image
Operatives in both parties instantly saw it as a flashback to Hillary Clinton's "basket of deplorables" remark.

The Trump team has already started to fundraise off it, sending out an email with the subject line: "You are not garbage! I love you! You are the best our nation has to offer."
Biden's comments are the latest example of why Kamala Harris' team has been avoiding campaigning with him.

Biden is both unpopular and undisciplined, Harris aides told Axios.

My story from Sunday
axios.com/2024/10/27/har…
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Oct 5, 2024
After Slotkin retreats from EV’s in a new ad this week, Harris told people in Michigan yesterday: "Contrary to what my opponent is suggesting, I will never tell you what kind of car you have to drive.”

Some more context in this piece.

In 2019, Harris backed a plan requiring all automakers to only make EV’s and hydrogen cars by 2035.

axios.com/2024/09/04/kam…
some more on this from @GavinBade
politico.com/news/2024/10/0…
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Oct 1, 2024
New: Kamala Harris’s called private prisons “morally wrong.”

She vowed to end the govt. using private detention centers for undocumented immigrants “on day one” of her presidency.

We asked if she still planned to do that. Her campaign didn’t respond.

axios.com/2024/10/01/kam…
Some of Harris’ posts on the topic going back to her 2016 Senate run.

2019: “On day 1, the administration will shut down all govt. contracts with private prisons.”

When Newsom signed a bill in 2019 trying to do that in CA, she wrote: “it’s time we did the same nationwide.”

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The Harris campaign didn't respond when asked whether Harris would keep her past promises to close private prisons.

Harris' campaign also didn't respond to a request for an interview on the topic.
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