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Oct 6 • 4 tweets • 2 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
🟡NEW: Team Trump readies attacks on RFK Jr. as internal polling finds him helping Biden, @ShelbyTalcott reports semafor.com/article/10/06/…
“It’s single digits, but it’s enough where it counts to make a difference,” said one person familiar with internal Trump polling showing RFK Jr. helping Biden. semafor.com/article/10/06/…
Trumpworld on RFK Jr: “We’re gonna be dropping napalm after napalm on his head reminding the public of his very liberal views"

Another allied strategist: “He used to be a fun plaything to hurt Biden, now he is something that could hurt the GOP" semafor.com/article/10/06/…
Multiple RNC posts like this just in the hours since we reported Trump was prepping to go on offense vs RFK Jr after polling showed him as a spoiler threat

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Jun 15
"When your opponent is so popular the voters don’t care if he gets indicted, your problem isn’t the indictment. It’s his popularity." joshbarro.com/p/its-time-for…
Chris Christie: Definitely a @semafor reader semafor.com/article/04/19/… ImageImage
The obvious thesis of almost every R candidate is still the same and still unspoken. You don't have to sound like Liz Cheney to make the argument clear, obviously it will be based on other complaints (like DeSantis on COVID), but it's still 99% submerged semafor.com/article/04/19/… Image
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Jun 14
All federal cases charged in DC: Illegitimate. A perfectly normal standard that wasn’t invented to rationalize a set of problems around one very specific person.
It’s a natural evolution given his own legal issue, but the R argument has migrated from FBI being inherently illegitimate to just Americans on juries
Originalism or something, I guess, maybe we should come up with some other legal system
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Jun 12
Big pivot from her prior statement, also maybe why you should not do statements before anything is known
The Biden DOJ is launching its self-coup, we must prepare for our final battl—ah wait that looks kind of bad now that I see it
Here's the fuller clip. There's a lot of DOJ weaponization walkup, but the big news is straight-up saying the allegations (if true) mean Trump put troops in harm's way
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Jun 11
“He’ll implode on his own!”
The entire basis for Trump’s appeal is “vote for me, it enrages all the right people.” The idea you can beat him by arguing — or worse, hoping it sinks in subconsciously — that “he’s made too many people mad, so we need someone new” seems transparently ludicrous.
DeSantis is trying to make a substantive case against Trump, on COVID: The argument is he actually did screw up, DeSantis wouldn’t have. But asking people to be mad about something 3 years ago when you’re accepting the premise that voting for Trump defies a vast DOJ conspiracy…
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Jun 7
Obviously he's had a lot of time to stew on this, but as a reporter who was there this whole time..... Image
1) He did hit Christie in that debate! Repeatedly! In fact that was what half the attack was over, Christie called it a "drive by shot" paired with a "memorized 25 second speech" and said it was part of a practiced DC strategy. You can watch yourself.
2) The "ended" contention is just semantics. The debate sent Rubio crashing in NH, which led to a 5th-place finish (don't take my word for it, this was Rubio's *own explanation* at the time!). The result: Jeb, Kasich stayed in, and a multicar pileup in SC. nbcnews.com/politics/2016-…
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May 8
One key here: He’s still using all the hedges about protecting benefits for current recipients rather than disavowing support for benefit cuts. That’s what R’s tried the whole Paul Ryan era, before Trump kicked the issue to the curb.
“Trump used to support this thing I used to support, it was just what R’s did then” is a VERY different stance then “Trump used to support this thing that I support now and it’s wrong of him to attack it”
I think Trump v DeSantis electability arguments aren’t cut and dry and either could definitely win, but if you’re a D ad maker this interview alone is why you might think DeSantis is an easier matchup
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