This has, literally folks, been the Biden plan for a year.
They “believe that Trump or any other Republican nominee will be reluctant to work with the Commission on Presidential Debates, lessening the chances, and risk, of a head-to-head debate.”
Even if she doesn’t caucus w Rs, Mitt said he wants Sinema back, is open to stump for her in Ariz
Consider: In the vote that counts for McConnell, leader, he’s more likely to be backed by Sinema than Lake
Nov 14, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
News: In a conversation the day after the midterms, BIDEN urged PELOSI to keep serving w him. “I hope you stick,” he told her.
My new column on the president, his “Catholic sister,” and the twilight days of their political careers (or not!)
politico.com/news/2022/11/1…
The attack on Paul Pelosi has left the speaker & president shaken, deepening their alarm about the country. And for Pelosi, who had been weighing the personal & the political, the attack effectively merged those two considerations, bringing her concerns home in the worst fashion
Nov 11, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
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Rick Scott was poised to ride the red wave to launch a long shot challenge against Mitch McConnell, had even recorded video to take on Trump’s bete noire
Then the wave didn’t crash, and there may be no majority >
But winning wasn’t the point. Scott wanted a foil.
But the aborted coup now may just mark the final rupture between Scott and McConnell, who go back to when Scott was a donor and hospital exec in Louisville in the 90s.
Pence tells me he’s open to running v Trump in ‘24 - will go “where we’re called” - and heads goes to Ga today to join ranks against Trump’s vengeance tour
Trump spox says Pence is “desperate to chase his lost relevance” nytimes.com/2022/05/23/us/…
Pence has been targeting Trump over what many Repubs believe are the former prez’s worse impulses:
🥊1/6 (speeches hitting Trump by name)
🥊Charlottesville (Pence went to Heyer memorial)
🥊The ‘22 vengeance tour (today in Ga)
Feb 24, 2022 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Hearing that @JimInhofe - the 87-year-old Oklahoma senator first elected in 1994 - may resign in the next few days. Would trigger an intense campaign among Repubs in a red state where Senate seats don’t come along too often.
Here’s who to watch:
@LtGovPinnell, former RNC member and eager to move @TWShannon, former state house speaker. ran and lost to Lankford for the other Senate seat in 2014
Every member of the House delegation except the fella who could be House Approps chair before long
Feb 13, 2022 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
Bush 43 pitched Ducey + Sununu
Mitch telling recruits Trump has lost juice, his lieutenants sharing polling to prove
Mitt + Collins deputized to woo Hogan
Ducey’s RGA on air for Kemp
Old guard is hoping to win in ‘22 *and* expose Trump as paper tiger
nytimes.com/2022/02/13/us/…
For all the effort to lure non-Trumpy Rs into races, the reveal from ‘22 will be determined by whether DJT can get his candidates nominated
If he takes Ls, starting in Ga, there will be blood in the water.
And as @BillHaslam notes, “Trump has got a lot of chips on the board”
Oct 21, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
News: Jeff Miller, a lobbyist + close @GOPLeader friend, is warning GOP consultants - you can’t work for Liz *and* Kevin
1 firm has dropped Cheney
“You’re either w Kevin & the conference or the person who is undermining them”
On the ultimatum👇
nytimes.com/2021/10/21/us/…
McCarthy thinks Cheney is undercutting House GOP effort to win majority, wants to isolate her. @CLFSuperPAC not helping her, but will aid other impeachers.
Cheney thinks McCarty so thirsty for speakership he’ll stop at nothing and is on a “morally bankrupt” path.
May 12, 2021 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
New: House Rs didn’t just depose @Liz_Cheney - they handed her a megaphone to remind voters of how beholden the party still is to Trump.
And she’s already using it
On Cheney’s new role, the long shadow of Trumpism & a different sort of endless war
And as interesting, at least to me, @Liz_Cheney is clearly playing for history: she brought family friend and legendary photog @kennerly w her today to record her transition from House leader to leader of the anti-Trump Republicans
Apr 9, 2021 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
Look at its tactics, impulses and issue focus
This is the party Trump has remade.
w @npfandos on what the kerfuffle w the biz community illustrates bout the big pic >
Gaga is blocking the Thune-Stabenow shot, not cool
folks working the cameras more interested in celebs than the people about to make laws, thought this was supposed to be a new era #morehoeven
Jan 12, 2021 • 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
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
Nov 7, 2020 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Wisconsin and M, Washington, D.C. >
17th and H:
Nov 7, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
NEWS:
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was elected the 46th president of the United States on Saturday, promising to restore political normalcy....
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.
Nov 6, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
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)
Nov 5, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
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
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