.@RepSeanMaloney on soon to be former colleague @AOC:
“The last time I ran into A.O.C., we were beating her endorsed candidate two to one in a primary, and I didn’t see her one minute of these midterms helping our House majority.”
NEW - dozens of Republicans who last year voted against the bipartisan infrastructure bill, calling it "socialist," "radical spending," spent the past few months quietly lobbying the administration for money out of that bill to come home to them cnn.com/2022/10/07/pol…
Among those who wrote to the Transportation Department asking for money they voted against: Tom Emmer, the head of the House Republicans' campaign arm, who called the bill a "socialist wish list."
Here's Emmer's letter asking for money to go to Minnesota:
In public, Sen. Tuberville said the infrastructure law was “using fuzzy math and IOU’s to hide the real cost." Here's his letter appealling to Buttigieg “as a former mayor, you understand better than anyone the time and money that goes into applying for highly competitive grants"
Joe Manchin at the White House, pen from the Inflation Reduction Act in his pocket, says he named the bill that because “tell me another time that we paid down the debt, provided more energy, lowered the prices at the pump, lowered the prices at home”
“In any other time,” Manchin says, “this would have been a bipartisan bill.”
“Politics, they are what they are, but I truly believe I’ve never seen a more balanced bill,” Manchin says, adding that he was compelled by seeing other countries make big climate moves.
Says kept talks secret b/c “I didn’t want anyone to get disappointed again, I really didn’t”
Former presidents do sometimes meet with current foreign leaders, but when they do, they usually keep the meetings informal. This one was made to look, at least, like a bilateral meeting.
Orban is in Texas to address the CPAC right wing conference. A long time aide of his quit last week because of a speech the aide called a “pure Nazi text” which included an apparent joke about gas chambers in the Holocaust cnn.com/2022/07/27/eur…
.@KamalaHarris plays Carnegie Hall (speaking at the National Action Network event)
“The American people have waited long enough — and Congress must vote on the Build Back Better plan,” @vp says
Harris calls this “an alarming moment” on voting rights, calling out Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis specifically, saying they “are undoing the legacy of our heroes”
NEW from me and @jeremyherb: secretaries of state around the country are living in fear, as threats from those convinced by Trump's election lies mount - and they don't see nearly enough being done to secure them on the state or federal level
"I am a hunter -- and I think you should be hunted," a woman can be heard saying in a voicemail left for AZ Sec of State Katie Hobbs. "You will never be safe in Arizona again."
"Bullet," read a tweet reply to CO Sec of State Jena Griswold. "That is a six letter word for you."
"It creates an air of apprehension everywhere you go and over everything you do. You're always looking behind your back and over your shoulder," said Michigan Sec of State Jocelyn Benson.
"I didn't feel comfortable walking the dog on the street," said former PA Sec of State