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5 Dec, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Playbook this AM: "Trump’s task in Georgia”

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP will re-emerge from his self-imposed post-election quarantine this afternoon at 4:30 when he flies to Valdosta, Ga., for a rally for Sens. KELLY LOEFFLER and DAVID PERDUE.
THIS FRONT PAGE of the MACON TELEGRAPH (Ga.) says it all: “Republicans bank on Trump in Georgia runoff”. bit.ly/3mPhQ80
And this story in the ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION by the great @bluestein explains the stakes and the dynamics quite nicely. “Faith shaken in system, Trump’s Georgia supporters consider skipping U.S. Senate runoffs” bit.ly/2VJCiv8
@bluestein THERE REALLY IS NO MIDDLE GROUND here: either TRUMP tells people to go to vote in the runoff, which is ONE MONTH from today -- or not, and Republicans could lose the Senate, which is the party’s last lever of power in Washington.
@bluestein The “or not” here is if he carries on with the everything-is-rigged stuff, which will have Republicans running for cover and readying to hand the Senate over to CHUCK SCHUMER.

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3 Dec
Playbook this morning: BIDEN’S MARCH MADNESS

WE ARE NOW 8 DAYS AWAY from government funding running out, and there’s a healthy heap of skepticism in the House & Senate that Congress will be able to put together a full year of spending bills in time for the Dec. 11 funding date.
SO WHAT’S THAT MEAN FOR D.C.? A short-term spending bill becomes really likely. One thing being talked about is extending government funding until March. AND WHAT’S THAT DO? ….
It puts a big fat government funding fight in the first quarter of next year, just as President-elect JOE BIDEN will be getting his presidency started.
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1 Dec
Good morning — PLAYBOOK this AM

THERE HAS BEEN DISCUSSION in the W.H. of excluding the following Hill Republicans from the W.H. Christmas party this year: @SenatorCollins, @MittRomney, @lisamurkowski and @BenSasse and Reps. @RepKinzinger (Ill.) and @Liz_Cheney CHENEY (Wyo.).
@SenatorCollins @MittRomney @lisamurkowski @BenSasse @RepKinzinger @Liz_Cheney We’re told this has been reversed -- that they may get an invite -- but this has dominated West Wing chatter in the last few days.
@SenatorCollins @MittRomney @lisamurkowski @BenSasse @RepKinzinger @Liz_Cheney THE SENATE CAME BACK INTO SESSION Monday evening, and all the chatter was about the impending confirmation process and the next presidency, which, if you are living on Planet Earth, will include @JoeBiden as president and @KamalaHarris as VP.
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24 Nov
PLAYBOOK PM … NEW … @SpeakerRyan on a call this morning said the “attacks on our voting system really need to stop, in my opinion.” And he said TRUMP’S lawyers are offering “baseless conspiracy theories.”
@SpeakerRyan "I really think it’s in the president’s best interest to acknowledge these things and not just have the GSA technically facilitate the transfer of power, but to embrace the transfer of power, the system we have."
@SpeakerRyan >@SpeakerRyan on JOE BIDEN: “I personally think it’s in Joe Biden’s best interest -- he obviously would not want to hear this -- for us to win these Georgia Senate seats …
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24 Nov
Playbook.

THE BIGGEST SHIFT in Washington in January won’t only be that Democrats are taking the White House. It will be that the BIDEN administration will be -- as @BrendanBuck pointed out -- “delightfully boring.”

@harrispolitico calls it “Joe Biden’s Team of Careerists.”
THIS IS AN ADMIN filled with people who have deep experience in government and in the agencies they will be running. THE POST puts it this way: “By design, they seem meant to project a dutiful competence, as Biden creates a government overseen by those who have run it before.”
THEY BELIEVE IN A LINEAR , plodding, purposeful and standard policy process. Impulsive policymaking and widespread leaks from competing factions in the administration are probably over.
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23 Nov
Playbook: TESTING @JoeBiden METTLE WITH THE HILL: JOE KNOWS CONGRESS and his team are putting out the word that he is pressing senior D leaders to cut a stimulus deal with Senate Republicans -- even if it is smaller than Democrats have hoped for.
>@jimtankersley and @ESCochrane have a good story on this today nytimes.com/2020/11/22/bus…
-- CUTTING A DEAL LIKE THAT would be a complete reversal of the Democrats’ position, and would represent a fold, of sorts, by @SpeakerPelosi and @SenSchumer , who have, for months, said that no deal is better than a half deal.
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22 Nov
Playbook this nice Sunday morning: Republicans serve Trump a heap of reality

THE WALLS are beginning to close in a bit on President DONALD TRUMP. A FEW HILL REPUBLICANS are inching closer to reality in acknowledging that TRUMP’s presidency is coming to a close.
@Liz_Cheney set herself apart from her leadership colleagues in telling TRUMP to put up or shut up. It’s a noticeable divergence from @GOPLeader. Whether she means it or not, CHENEY has periodically put space between herself and the top of the House GOP leadership.
>@SenToomey who is not running for re-election -- took it a step further, saying that TRUMP has “exhausted all plausible legal options to challenge the result of the presidential race in Pennsylvania.” TOOMEY congratulated BIDEN and KAMALA HARRIS for being elected.
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