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Remember the 2018 California primaries, where people got grumpy with the DCCC for intervening to help the strongest-seeming candidate avoid being locked out? This is what happens when national Dems
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Watching a conservative pre-show for Biden speech, in which Ben Carson claims that Biden is governing "left of AOC." (Not actually true; she wants a $10 trillion infrastructure deal.)"I think
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Primaries aren't over until #DESen on September 15, but it's hard to see an actual setback for the left in downballot races. They either took ground or didn't, but didn't
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Non-trolling question for the people saying Biden needs "a Sister Souljah moment" - who would this be? Who's a cultural figure with enough cachet that Biden could disagree with them
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Just talked to @AndrewYang about this tweet. He'll be "involved in the convention video package," but said the lack of a higher-profile speech "makes my job harder to appeal to
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Listening to Trump on Hannity. What started as a talk about Harris has turned into a discussion of "Hillary smashing the phones with hammers" and the Russia dossier. Sounds, honestly,
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Here’s a perfect little example of how hard it’s been, recently, for Trumpworld to nail Biden. Yesterday, Trumpworld focused on Biden’s @AdyBarkan interview to suggest (based on chopping up a
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The “you ain’t black” thing is a combustion of two pretty well-known factors: CTG rattles people with direct questions, and Biden gets set off if he thinks someone is questioning
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Favorability for the party nominees on election day 2016, per RCP averages:Trump: -21%Clinton: -13%Favorability now:Trump: -9%Biden: -1%Both candidates start the general with lower negatives than last time, but Biden being
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Trying to compare “Bernie or Bust” sentiment to 2016 levels. Talked to Cornel West, a 2016 Bernie-to-Green voter, who has issues w Biden but isn’t feeling the Bust.“I definitely must
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One reason Bernieworld decided to end this, despite there being 27 contests left: He was going to lose them. Sanders only won 45% of the delegates in those contests v
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Biden’s get-things-back-to-normal campaign is really tested by questions about pandemic-friendly voting. On Today Show he hoped “all the experts, both political parties and academia” could figure out vote-by-mail, yet he'd
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