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Jan 18 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Andrew Yang in Hanover, to support Dean Phillips.

“Someone asked if they should introduce me as the former next president of the United States.” Image Biden is “failing the George Washington statesmanship test,” says Yang, by not recognizing that it’s time to go. “Given that Joe Biden is such a depleted, vulnerable candidate, why is he not getting more competition?”
Aug 25, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Turley, as usual, is wrong.

Nov. 11: Raffensperger starts audit
Nov. 19: Audit finishes, Biden wins
Nov. 20: Election certified for Biden
Nov. 21: Trump requests recount
Dec. 7: Biden wins recount
Dec. 14: Electors vote
Jan. 2: Trump "find votes" call

Turley gets more details wrong about stuff I've covered than any other pundit - impressive guy
Aug 22, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
The Biden "no comment" saga is a great little study in choose-your-own media. I've seen multiple pieces claim that Biden literally did not comment on the Maui fires until he headed there, like this day-of-the-rope-ish piece in American Greatness. amgreatness.com/2023/08/22/a-l…
Image The wildfires started on August 8. The WH approved relief on August 10. The same day, Biden commented on the fires/recovery during an event in Utah. whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…
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Aug 12, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Matt Gaetz warming up crowd for Trump, saying they grilled burgers rare, medium rare, and well done but “the most done you can be is Ron DeSantis.” Image Matt Whitaker introduces himself as “Donald Trump’s favorite attorney general” — definitely true, the only one he hasn’t feuded with
Jul 27, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
New frontiers in “super PACs aren’t allowed to coordinate with the campaign.” (DeSantis is the “special guest” on the Never Back Down super PAC tour.) DeSantis rolled up with three Chevy Suburbans of reporters and cameras; flanked by four security guys, local police, state senate president Amy Sinclair. Some hand-shaking and convos, some waving as he walks by.
Apr 19, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Good morning. Image Ignore the empty seats, there a big line outside
Apr 13, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Pelosi's correct that you didn't see this agita about Cochran, Byrd, Kennedy, etc. But the context is that the left watched RBG hand SCOTUS to conservatives for a generation. That's changed things; see how @brianefallon et al pressured Breyer to retire. There's fancam politics, where you see individual actors as heroes/icons, and there's actual politics, where you put people in place to use power and redistribute resources. Fancam politics took a hit with the "yaaaaaas RBG" stuff.
Apr 11, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Rs had a similar problem in 2018... slim 51-49 majority, Thad Cochran was ailing. Their solution: Cochran resigned early and Mississippi's governor appointed a reliable R vote in his place. "We can't confirm judges because an elderly senator is sick" is a pretty common problem! See also the near-supermajority Dems had in 2009, which kept falling below 60 bc Kennedy and Byrd were sick.
Apr 6, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Hello from Nashville. Image State Rep. Justin Pearson, one of the three Dems facing an expulsion vote today, walking between state troopers and the protesters supporting him. Image
Apr 5, 2023 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
I'm waiting for one WI county to finish its count, but Janet Protasiewicz (D) overall doing better than Biden in the places where >80% precincts are done.

Dodge: Biden 34%, Janet 37%
Jefferson: Biden 42%, Janet 49%
La Crosse: Biden 56%, Janet 64% From WI Dem source: "This is looking extremely good. Dan Kelly’s path to victory is shrinking like Ant-Man."
Jan 27, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Charlie Kirk just arrived at the RNC meeting. Okay, I'll do an RNC chair thread here. The meeting starts at 10 am PT; the vote will come after other business, probably within an hour. It's a secret ballot, with the 168 voting members/proxies putting paper slips in a box that'll be counted inside the room.
Jan 25, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
The RNC winter meeting is down the road at the Waldorf; the closest thing to a public RNC chair debate is here at Residence Inn. Mike Lindell in person, Caroline Wren speaking for Harmeet Dhillon, empty chair for Ronna McDaniel. Wren says the left has been more effective by standing up nonprofits to do work DNC doesn’t do. “We have to fight the war they are fighting. It doesn’t mean hoarding our money in the party committees. It means investing in people like @ScottPresler.”
Jan 22, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
For clarity, typed up the quote from my tape.

"It's interesting, right? You've got [FOP Lodge 7 president] John Catanzara on one side, [CTU president] Stacy Davis Gates on the other side. Interesting. Two sides of the same coin."
Lightfoot's point was that she was optimistic she could work with the unions if they had different leaders. "Hope springs eternal." Hard to do it when "that kind of leadership is there."
Jan 21, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Back on campaign trail… see if you can figure out where based on the clues in this photo Image “The reason I talk so much about equity and inclusion is that I know what the world looks like when you don’t have it.”
Jan 9, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Definitely overheated. Delaying the speaker vote for days didn't affect most peoples' lives at all.

Only hurt Rs insofar as few Americans knew who McCarthy was before last week, and now he's the guy whose power depends on MTG and Trump Like, think of how squeamish Dems are about who they associate with - imagine Pelosi clinching the 2021 speaker vote and taking time to thank the most unpopular people in her party for bringing it home.
Dec 20, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The story in PA is crazy.
1) Dems win 102-101 majority in House
2) Dem in safe seat dies
3) Dems elected LG/U.S. Rep resign
4) Ds set special elections
5) Rs challenge that bc Ds won't have majority in January
5) R running for speaker of 101-99 House It gets weirder! Jan. 31 special election in a safe R Senate seat. R candidate is a state rep, so if she wins, Rs go down to 100 seats. But if Rs prevent Ds from holding quick special elections, they could control the House (which they lost) until May. post-gazette.com/news/politics-…
Dec 16, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I’m at the @approject holiday gala, where @sbalist’s Marjorie Dannenfelser accepted the Human Dignity award for her role in ending Roe.

“We must ensure that the presidential primary stage is filled with Republicans vying to be the most pro-life candidate.” Up next: the Profile in Courage award for Abby Martinez. washingtonexaminer.com/news/mother-of…
Nov 20, 2022 • 23 tweets • 4 min read
Folks...

(I will thread my own stuff under this "folks" tweet.) Haley singles out the Rs who won big: Brian Kemp, Ron DeSantis, Kim Reynolds. Talks about her own PAC's donations around country:

"We raised $10 million that went straight into those candidates' campaign accounts."
Nov 19, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Now that “She Said” has bombed can we talk about the incredibly bad promo campaign? Who sees this poster and says “hell yeah, take my $15” Felt like a mistake to focus on the “movement,” which has petered out, instead of the specific Weinstein story, which was insane and compelling.
Nov 19, 2022 • 23 tweets • 4 min read
Day two at #RJCinVegas. Norm Coleman kicking it off: "Yes, expectations were not matched. But do not discount what we've accomplished... the Biden legislative agenda is dead." Coleman says the GOP still has a better bench than the Dems: "Word salad Kamala Harris. Covid hypocrite Gavin Newsom. Covid pirate Gretchen Whitmer."
Nov 19, 2022 • 18 tweets • 3 min read
Larry Hogan addressing the Republican Jewish Coalition here in Vegas, starting w a knock on loser candidates.

"Frankly, swing voters took a look at some of our less-than-stellar nominees and decided it wasn't what they were looking for. We lost seats we should have won." Hogan talking up Maryland's ban on BDS and its requirement for businesses to certify "that they will not engage in a boycott of Israel." Recalls sending in the National Guard to stop Baltimore riots: "We followed the Reagan program of peace through strength."