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22 Apr, 5 tweets, 2 min read
New -- The prospect of Herschel Walker's #gasen bid is so real that it's frozen the GOP field.

But concerns abound if he's ready for a bruising campaign and if Trump thought through the implications of his endorsement

McConnell tells us it's "wide open"

cnn.com/2021/04/22/pol…
Walker didn't seem to be in any rush to announce.
"Right now, (I'm) just going through the process and thinking about it. Not really talking a lot about it."

"This got nothing to do with President Trump," Walker said. "With me, I'm about this country right now."
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Doug Collins is thinking about running again - and he’s spoken with the NRSC, including about the nasty spat he had with the committee last cycle. Rep. Buddy Carter has taken steps to prepare for a Senate run but says he will only run if Walker doesn’t.
Walker has had several conversations with Trump and his team — as well as the NRSC.

When asked about Walker, Warnock told us: "I'm prepared to defeat whoever they put up."
Asked about Walker, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told CNN: "Well, I've met him."
McConnell added: "I have no idea who we're going to come up with down there. ... I think it's wide open."

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24 Mar
Joe Manchin, whose opposition to Neera Tanden's nomination as White House budget director stemmed largely from her partisan tweets, told me the situation was different with Colin Kahl, the Pentagon policy chief nominee, who also came under sharp criticism over his past tweets.
Manchin says that Kahl's tweets weren't as "pointed" at specific individuals and senators and were focused much more about policy.

"Tanden's was much more prolific than that -- and pointed," he told me. "It wasn't about policy, it was more about a person. There is a difference."
Still, Manchin said supporting Kahl was "not an easy decision" and said that he had "many phone calls" with the nominee -- and also spoke with Lloyd Austin and Bob Gates. He didn't speak with Biden. He said he made his decision to support the nomination on Wednesday morning.
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23 Mar
Tammy Duckworth just told me she’s voting NO on Biden nominees until President makes commitment/ appoints AAPI picks to key executive branch positions. She said found it “insulting” that a senior WH aide last night pointed to Harris’ South Asian roots when asked about AAPI picks
Duckworth said she has informed the White House she will oppose the nomination of Colin Kahl as the Pentagon's top policy chief, whose nomination was already hanging by a thread.
Duckworth says Asian-American lawmakers were told the USTR and White House budget director would be Asian-American. But after Neera Tanden's nomination collapsed, she said it appears the White House is going in a different direction.
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23 Mar
At their retreat last night, Mazie Hirono criticized White House for a lack of Asian-American representation in the Biden Cabinet and attention to AAPI community in polling, telling me that she wasn't satisfied with the response of White House deputy chief Jen O'Malley Dillon.
"I shared the position that AAPI community has that there hasn't been a significant number of AAPIs at the cabinet level," Hirono told me. "I realize that we have Katherine Tai, but I don't think the trade representative is what the community understands as a cabinet level."
Hirono also said she raised concerns that the White House was sharing polling about the views of voters on Biden and his agenda but that polling did not adequately represent the views of the Asian American and Pacific Islander community.
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23 Mar
On call with Biden tonight, Warnock argued that passing voting legislation is more important than keeping filibuster, per source. Biden contended that the bill is important but they need to pressure GOP and get votes to pass it (which they don’t have). cnn.com/2021/03/22/pol…
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