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2 Nov, 6 tweets, 2 min read
NEW: On election eve, this country is just unbelievably stressed out.

Dispatch from a capital city that feels like it’s preparing for a siege. nbcnews.com/politics/2020-…
A deeply divided nation is on the edge as it plunges deeper into a pandemic and unemployment rages while everyone holds their breath in anticipation of what some fear could be a potential breakdown in law and order or democracy depending on what happens Tuesday.
The White House has been fortified, the National Guard called out and gun sales are booming.

Traffic is surging to Prepper websites, psychologists report widespread anxiety and groups that typically monitor crises in overseas are warning all the ingredients for unrest are here.
If 2020 had a marketing slogan it might be this: “There is a very serious uptick in anxiety around everything.”

nbcnews.com/politics/2020-…
It’s not just you. nbcnews.com/politics/2020-…

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3 Nov
Fine, I’ll be the Dixville Notch truther: It’s not a real town. It’s an old hotel that had some employees living there, but barely does anymore. This started as a marketing campaign. There are two actual NH hamlets that also do midnight voting (though one suspended for Covid).
I was as disappointed to learn this as I’m sure you are now when I went up to Dixville Notch for a magazine story years ago (paywalled). nationaljournal.com/s/55912
The other two towns (Millsfield and Hart’s Location) get less attention but actually have more people. All three are stunningly beautiful.

Hart’s opted out of midnight voting this time due to Covid but Trump won Millsfield. wmur.com/article/2020-n…
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13 Apr
The most ambitious crossover event of 2020
NEWS: Bernie Sanders endorses Joe Biden. "Today I am asking all Americans…to come together to support your candidacy, which I endorse."
Bernie Sanders to Joe Biden: "We need you in the White House and I will do all that I can to see that that happens, Joe."
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25 Feb
NEW: Elizabeth Warren opens up in intvw with me about the surreality of running for president and her conversations with former candidates -- some of the only people who get it, w/@alivitali.

"Running for president can be thrilling but also very lonely."

nbcnews.com/politics/2020-…
@alivitali Elizabeth Warren has called "close to 100 percent" of the candidates who dropped out to talk policy, but it also sometimes gets more personal.

"Kamala and Kirsten, in particular, ask me am I getting rest? Am I eating? And am I having some fun out there?"

nbcnews.com/politics/2020-…
@alivitali It's part of Warren's effort to argue she's the candidate who can unite all the factions of the Democratic Party, melding together from the coalitions and policies of "Cory" and "Julian" and "Kamala" as she often mentions on the stump.
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29 Jan
NEW: Here's the ad hitting Sanders that will start running in Iowa.

It features testimonials from Iowans, including one who brings up his heart attack.
nbcnews.com/politics/meet-…
And here's Bernie Sanders' response:
“I like Bernie, I think he has great ideas, but Michigan, Pennsylvania, Iowa — they’re just not going to vote for a socialist," one man says.

“I do have some concerns about Bernie Sanders’ health, considering he did have a heart attack,” says a woman.

nbcnews.com/politics/meet-…
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9 Dec 19
NEW: Dems have been asking when Republicans will finally break from Trump the way they did from Nixon during Watergate.

Don't hold your breath, it's not going to happen.

Why? We're not in the 1970s anymore... nbcnews.com/politics/donal…
"I really don't think there is any fact that would change their minds," said Rep. Jim Himes, a Dem on the Intel Committee. "We're in a place right now where all that matters to my Republican colleagues is the defense of the president." nbcnews.com/politics/donal…
Former Rep. Bill Cohen, one of the first Republicans to break from Nixon during Watergate:

"The Republican Party today is not loyal to principles as such, but loyal to the person of Donald Trump. He is really a cult figure. Nixon was not a cult figure."

nbcnews.com/politics/donal…
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18 Nov 19
ICYMI: High anxiety: Jittery Democrats fear their candidate won't beat Trump. nbcnews.com/politics/2020-…
The offer: A $1 million check to a major Dem group.

The condition: Guarantee Elizabeth Warren not become the party's nominee — or the money gets refunded.

The offer was rejected, but indicative: “90 to 95% of our donor base is terrified about Warren.”
nbcnews.com/politics/2020-…
Some Dems, especially some donors, have been having a good old fashioned bed wetting in recent weeks (as @davidplouffe famously once put it), concerned none of their candidates are up to the task of beating Trump. And after 2016, it’s harder to reassure them.
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