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6 Nov, 4 tweets, 3 min read
So @EmmaVigeland, exactly which Senate seats were Dem locks? Iowa? Texas? South Carolina? Louisiana? Kentucky? North Carolina? Maine? Montana? Mississippi? Alaska? Alabama? Michigan? Who knew Cal Cunningham would be sexting while running for the U.S. Senate? 1/4
Frankly @EmmaVigeland, it seems progressives got caught up in the polling hype. Dems got two wins in the Senate. They knew they would lose Jones in Alabama. Outside of NC and the two in Georgia, the best shot was the Maine Speaker of the House. But she lost. So WTF? 2/4
Maybe what you should be telling your followers @EmmaVigeland is to cut the whining and FOCUS on Georgia. If Dems can notch wins for @ossoff and @ReverendWarnock, that's a net pickup of three seats, making the Senate 50-50. @KamalaHarris is the tiebreaker. 3/4
Seriously @EmmaVigeland, of the 14 states Dems were running in, Trump won 12 of them in 2016. Dems won the Colorado seat (even though progressives are whining about Hickenlooper. So really, Maine was the best hope. So what do y'all actually think would have put the Dems over? 4/4

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7 Nov
So let me get this straight: some progressives are calling the @ProjectLincoln a failure for raising $67M. Yet progressives raised $200M for four Dem Senate candidates and they all got crushed. The Lincoln Project's aim was to move just 4% of the vote. They were very clear. 1/5
So are angry progressives saying it's @ProjectLincoln's fault that @SaraGideon lost in Maine and @GreenfieldIowa lost in Iowa? Were they thinking the LP was going to be THE savior and deliver a blowout victory on all levels? 2/5
This attack on the @ProjectLincoln is asinine. Polls show Trump was down 5 points with white men, the @GOP's strongest group. Who made that happen? Biden? LP? Who knows! Progressives need to stop trying to blame everyone because you wanted a blowout. 3/5
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5 Nov
Y'all see this stupidity? These anti-Biden white progressives are pissed, saying Dems lost House seats. But last I checked, they gained Senate seats. But they are mad it wasn't a total Senate takeover. Well get off ya asses and help @Ossoff and @ReverendWarnock win runoffs! 1/4
Listen up all of you anti-Biden, Bernie loving white progressives, Black folks are TIRED of your shit. We just witness the GOP coalesce around Trump. Why? They get power. Too many of y'all are bitching about your guy losing again in the primary. Here is power: 2/4
If Dems win both Georgia seats, that puts them at 50. Who is the tiebreaker? @KamalaHarris as president of the Senate. Would I have preferred Dems have 52 to 57 seats in the Senate, yea! But I'll take 50-50 and a Dem VP over 53-47. So excuse me with ya bullshit. 3/4
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5 Nov
The only problem @icecube is that you didn't get Trump to put $500 billion of capital in Black communities. It's a lie. It's ONE LINE on the cover sheet of his so-called Platinum Plan. No specifics. NOTHING. Bruh, you got played. 1/2
Why do I know you got played @icecube? I've talked to numerous Black Republicans who currently work with the administration and THEY said the $500 billion "commitment" is a joke. You're just wrong, bruh. 2/2
I am 100% for Black folks making it clear that we are constituents who must be addressed by who is in power. But @icecube, you REALLY think you got Trump to agree to $500 billion when you said you never talked to him? Bruh, you talked to Jared Kushner. 1/10
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15 Oct
So I just got an email from a staffer of @speakerpelosi @team_pelosi: "Thanks for the request -Speaker Pelosi is not available." What did I ask? "Does Speaker Pelosi have ANY availability between now and Nov. 3?" #WheresNancy 1/4
I also talked to my man @MadisonSiriusXM, and he's been requesting @SpeakerPelosi to do his show for years and it hasn't happened. Yet both of us have had @senschumer on multiple times. #WheresNancy 2/4
It makes NO sense that @SpeakerPelosi's communications team IGNORES Black Media and won't book her. What should they do? They should have her doing Black media rounds AT LEAST once every six months. Target nationally syndicated radio shows; digital shows; and Roundtables 3/4
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15 Oct
Y'all may want to let this person know that this is my 13th Black media experience. And at every one we've had to fight tooth and nail to get interviews with major political figures, entertainers and others. We also have to fight like hell for ad dollars, and it's often way 1/5
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See @kamala_for, Black-owned media can't grow and build scale if we are always relegated to 2nd class status. Does @SpeakerPelosi know who I am? Absolutely. Who is blocking her from doing interviews with Black media? Her staff. How many of them look like us? I'll wait. 3/5
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11 Oct
So let’s discuss what constitutional means as it relates to this @KBeds interview with @jaketapper. “Jake Tapper Repeatedly Grills Biden Deputy Campaign Manager on ‘Bizarre’ Dodging Over Court-Packing mediaite.com/a/knkfc 1/8
1. Is what the @GOP doing with the Barrett confirmation hearing constitutional? Yes. Does it run afoul of Senate customs? Yes.
2. When McConnell blocked #MerrickGarland, was that constitutional? Yes. Did it run afoul of Senate customs? Yes. 2/8
Do I get why @KBeds wouldn’t answer @jaketapper’s question? Yes. The @GOP wants “court packing” to be an issue in the final 22 days. Now, here is also what is CONSTITUTIONAL: those in power get to change the laws, rules, customs. If @senatemajldr can do it, @SenSchumer can. 3/8
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