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12 Jan, 6 tweets, 2 min read
NEW: McConnell believes Trump committed impeachable offenses, believes the attack on Capitol gives Rs a chance to purge the president

and...

McCarthy has asked colleagues if he should urge Trump to resign, is open to a censure

w @maggieNYT >

: nytimes.com/live/2021/01/1…
ALSO: Biden called McConnell yesterday and asked if Senate could dual track impeachment trial and cabinet confirmations.

Far from telling Biden he would not discuss the impeachment, McConnell said he would check with the parliamentarian and get back to Biden.
McCarthy has cycled through just what can be done about Trump, approached Hoyer about a censure and said he could deliver a lot of R votes.

But the deal was: Democrats had to back off impeachment.
This is the thinking in McConnellworld — now is the time to make the move, w Trump staggered
A Senate Republican aide tells me he thinks there were about 20, give or take, Republicans who were *open* to a conviction

Before our story on McConnell
Our full story for tmrw’s paper w another nugget: McConnell not only told Biden he’d be for Merrick Garland for AG, he reminded him he urged Trump to name Garland to succeed Comey at FBI

nytimes.com/2021/01/12/us/…

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9 Jan
I went to the RNC winter meeting but found a parallel universe.

But don't take my word for it

“This room, they’re in denial, and that’s on the record,” said @billpalatucci

From Amelia Island >

nytimes.com/2021/01/08/us/…
One RNC member took an informal survey of which (closed-door) speaker committee members preferred -- @KristiNoem or @NikkiHaley

The answer? Noem, bc she didn't criticize Trump as Haley did
important to note: the RNC had become more activist-dominated before Trump.

But from ‘18 on, his campaign really made it Trumpy, because they intervened in state party conventions to ensure state parties all cooperated to head off any primary threat against him last year.
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8 Jan
NEW: Leading Republicans, including some who’ve stood by Trump, say: enough

@GovChristie urges Republicans to “separate message from messenger” because: “I don’t think the messenger can recover from yesterday.”

w @alexburnsNYT >

nyti.ms/35m81rv
“Trump is a political David Koresh: He sees the end coming and wants to burn it all down and take as many with him as possible” - @kycatswin
What was striking to me re: shifting political calculations is how many Republicans who are on the ballot in 2022 said flatly it’s time for the party to move on from Trump:

Thune
Murkowski
Upton

And that’s just Wednesday night.
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7 Nov 20
Wisconsin and M, Washington, D.C. > Image
17th and H: Image
Day beers, 16th and I Image
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7 Nov 20
NEWS:

Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was elected the 46th president of the United States on Saturday, promising to restore political normalcy....

with my pardner, @alexburnsNYT >

nytimes.com/2020/11/07/us/…
Seeking the nation’s highest office a half-century after his first campaign, Mr. Biden — a candidate in the late autumn of his career — presented his life of setback and recovery to voters as a parable for a wounded country.
Mr. Biden’s victory amounted to a repudiation of Mr. Trump by millions of voters exhausted with his divisive conduct and chaotic administration, and was delivered by an unlikely alliance of women, people of color, old and young voters and a sliver of disaffected Republicans.
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6 Nov 20
Keep an eye on that Pa count this am, especially along the Schuylkill
and speaking of, here’s a pic of two people who, should Biden win, will have played a major role in his election:

@WhipClyburn + @BobBradyPHL, pictured here during the 2016 convention (yes, Brady is blowing kisses)
What @JakeSherman wants to know - will a Senate man ever be able to fully accept the debt he owes to House folks ?
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5 Nov 20
One of the more interesting subjects of The Count (tm) is how thrilled the Pennsylvania machers are w how slow NV and GA are bc they want to deliver the 270th electoral vote straight from the 34th Ward, include a coupla @TommyDinics w the ballots
*subtexts
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