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6 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
1. The WH/Trump/ many congressional Republicans like @mattgaetz have FLOUNTED health & safety guidelines for covid19 - no masks, quarantines, they congregate in large groups.

They hold rallies for god's sake. Almost as soon as that started- they fell in & created a super spread
2. cluster that they are now refusing to let the CDC trace bc they know it will reveal that they tried to avoid testing, hide positive tests, failed to notify people who were positive, and sent the WH Chief of Staff, @MarkMeadows, down to Congress to infect Congress. In addition,
3. their reckless behavior has forced thousands of staffers and support staff in federal buildings as well as journalists to choose between earning a paycheck and risk exposure to a deadly virus. Follow CDC guidelines as I do, as my family does, and I have barely seen my parents
4. in months, and never after I myself have to venture out into public beyond the grocery store. And never inside and never within 10 ft. That is how all people should be behaving. As an employer, which all members of Congress are, not doing so endangers everyone on your staff.

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We also have a distinct pattern in mail data this cycle. Rs "invented" use of absentee ballots to ⬆️R turnout. Its how they dominated FL elections. Ds got wise
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Rachel
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1. That's bc nothing matters but partisanship + national conditions. Pure Is have are about 60/40 pro-Dem split. R Leaners, like actual Rs are STILL voting Trump at close to a 90% prob.

This hasn't moved even: Ukraine, pandemic, economic collapse, or Trump COVID.

It won't move
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Rachel
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Trump flaunted CDC guidelines for COVID- led thousands, if not millions of his supporters to cavlier behaviors spreading infection- some died. Then when their recklessness at the WH causes an inevitable cluster- got state of the art treatment the regular public can't access.
2. The coddling of Trump, the Trump family, Republican politicians at both the fed and state level- all of that- must stop after this.

It can't continue w/o enablers like the presidential debate commission.

No masks/social distancing- no service

And people who are high risks
3. who are attending large rallies and in congregating and not masking, etc- these people are high risk. They should not be allowed to come into spaces with other people until they have quarantined after their last risky behavior. Stop making it easy for them to endanger innocent
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4 Oct
1. That's bc that "debate" performance from Trump was literally the worst thing ever seen in American politics- & that's after 5 yrs of seeing Donald Trump do his thing.

He was advised against the "strategy" & spent the whole next day convinced he'd killed it 🙄

In my 2016 book
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1. The absolute folly of the GOP's "COVID is a hoax we can simply pretend away & thumb our nose at" is being exposed as this massive cluster spreads:

So Far: Sens Johnson, Tillis, Lee, Kellyanne Conway, Hope Hicks, Donald Trump, Mark Meadows, Ronna McDaniel, Bill Stepien

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