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covering 2020 and Elizabeth Warren for Politico. [email protected] Words in NYT, Esquire, Vice. typos via iPhone.
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Warren bashes 2020 rivals for 'hobnobbing with the rich and powerful'
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Alex Thompson NEW w/ : Warren bashes 2020 rivals for 'hobnobbing with the rich and powerful' and calls on them to release all bundler names/campaign titles, fundraisers dates/places. Matches Bernie in pledging to ban corporate $ to DNC next summer. 18h
We interviewed Elizabeth Warren about 'Ballers,' and only 'Ballers'
EW.com 5d 4 tweets
The presidential candidate goes deep on her favorite show.
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Alex Thompson Warren gave an interview to Entertainment Weekly about Ballers ahead of the series finale. “Who doesn’t like The Rock? And I have to say, who doesn’t love The Rock’s wardrobe choices...Those vests and the pink shirts…Oh man, it is eye candy.” 5d
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Alex Thompson "Michael Pillsbury, an informal White House adviser on China, said he received information about the business activities of Hunter Biden during a visit to Beijing in the same week Donald Trump urged China to probe the son of Joe Biden." 6d
Joe Biden’s Race Against Time
POLITICO Magazine 12d 5 tweets
The former vice president’s most formidable opponent is not another Democrat. It’s our idea of what it means to be old.
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Alex Thompson another great piece. 11d
Warren campaign fires senior staffer for 'inappropriate behavior'
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Alex Thompson Scoop: the Warren campaign has fired its national organizing director Rich McDaniel. "Over the past two weeks, senior campaign leadership received multiple complaints regarding inappropriate behavior," Kristen Orthman says. Full statements screenshotted 11d
Warren announces $10 million-plus ad buy in early states
POLITICO 22d 1 tweets
The campaign told POLITICO that a digital ad campaign would begin immediately and that the entire buy will ramp up over the next few months.
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Alex Thompson NEW: Warren campaign announces $10 million-plus digital and TV ad buy in the four early states beginning today. "Right now, our biggest expense as a campaign is our staff, but as the campaign heats up, it will be on media to reach potential voters" 22d
Elizabeth Warren Lost Her Dream Job but Gained a Path to 2020
Nytimes.com 25d 9 tweets
She had a plan to take on big banks. In the fight to get it done, she honed the approach to politics that defines her presidential campaign.
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Alex Thompson Former Dem Sen. Ben Nelson (who is supporting Biden) tells why he helped sink Warren’s potential nomination to head the CFPB. He said he worried about empowering someone he saw as a champion of “runaway government.” 24d
“They Played It Up Pretty Big”: Kavanaugh Turmoil Engulfs the New York Times
Vanity Fair 29d 5 tweets
Sources say Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly initially pitched their reporting to the news side, but top editors ultimately felt that there wasn’t enough juice to warrant a story there—punting the scoop to the Sunday Review section.
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Alex Thompson What a mess. “Sources say Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly initially pitched their reporting to the news side, but top editors ultimately felt that there wasn’t enough juice to warrant a story there—punting the scoop to the Sunday Review section” 29d
Andrew Yang’s campaign says over 450,000 people have entered debate contest
POLITICO 30d 2 tweets
The campaign says it raised $1 million in the 72 hours since the giveaway became public.
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Alex Thompson NEW scooplet: Yang campaign says that over 450,000 people have entered the $120k UBI raffle and it raised $1 million since the debate (he raised 2.8 last q). They say over 90% of the 450k + emails they collected are new. Big increase in the email list. 30d
Brett Kavanaugh Fit In With the Privileged Kids. She Did Not.
Kate Kelly, Robin Pogrebin - Nytimes.com 32d 82 tweets
Deborah Ramirez’s Yale experience says much about the college’s efforts to diversify its student body in the 1980s.
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Alex Thompson The NYT added an editors’ note to Kavanaugh story which could help explain why the new allegation wasn’t the headline. 30d
Andrew Yang to announce $120,000 giveaway during debate
POLITICO 33d 6 tweets
Yang will announce the online raffle in his opening statement.
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Alex Thompson NEW: Andrew Yang to announce $120,000 giveaway in his opening statement tonight. 10 families will be randomly selected to receive $1,000/mo as part of a pilot program for Yang’s UBI plan. Ppl will be able to enter the online raffle starting tn for a week 33d
Elizabeth Warren TARP oversight panel introduction video December 2008
YouTube 34d 1 tweets
The first video of the Congressional Oversight Panel (COP) on TARP with chair then-Harvard Law professor Elizabeth Warren
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Alex Thompson TARP oversight panel had lil power (monthly reports, hearings but no subpoena power) so Warren plotted a different strategy: be loud. Viral hearings, the monthly report became a monthly media tour, AND she made explainer videos (I uploaded the 1st to YT) 34d
‘Why Are You Pissing In Our Face?’: Inside Warren’s War With the Obama Team
POLITICO Magazine 34d 24 tweets
Interviews with Warren's inner circle reveal a combative relationship between her and the Obama administration.
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Alex Thompson NEW: "I was not going to set that agency up asking Tim Geithner every day ‘Mother may I?’” Warren says now. My deep dive on Warren's war with the Obama team during the financial crisis (w/ a Warren sit-down + Rahm, Axe, Valerie, Summers, and others). 34d
Why the most pro-marijuana Congress ever won’t deal with weed
POLITICO 37d 1 tweets
Two-thirds of Americans support legalization, but legislation seems to be going nowhere fast on Capitol Hill.
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Alex Thompson Congress is more pro-weed than ever but they won’t touch the stuff. “Marijuana advocates are divided among themselves over whether to push for full legalization or settle for less far-reaching legislation.” ⁦⁩ ⁦⁩ report. 37d
How Elizabeth Warren Raised Big Money Before She Denounced Big Money
Shane Goldmacher - Nytimes.com 37d 8 tweets
Ms. Warren wooed wealthy donors for years, stockpiling money from fund-raisers, and has used $10.4 million from her 2018 Senate race to underwrite her 2020 bid.
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Alex Thompson Interesting Bernie/warren contrast in this ⁦⁩ story. ⁦⁩ says bernie won’t do high-dollar fundraisers if he’s the nominee. Warren has said she would return to them so she wouldn’t unilaterally disarm against Trump. 37d
Republicans to scrap primaries and caucuses as Trump challengers cry foul
POLITICO 40d 34 tweets
The moves, which critics called undemocratic, are the latest illustration of the president's total takeover of the GOP apparatus.
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Alex Thompson Wow. As Trump primary challengers circle, Republican state parties in South Carolina, Nevada, Arizona and Kansas are expected to cancel their 2020 primaries and caucuses ⁩ reports. 40d
Post-Gazette newsroom donates Pulitzer monetary award to Tree of Life congregation
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 41d 7 tweets
The $15,000 donation will be used to help rebuild the Squirrel Hill synagogue, Rabbi Jeffrey Myers said.
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Alex Thompson Post-Gazette newsroom donates Pulitzer monetary award to Tree of Life congregation The $15,000 donation will be used to help rebuild the Squirrel Hill synagogue 40d
'Details Are Irrelevant': Biden Says Verbal Slip-Ups Don't Undermine His Judgment
NPR.org 43d 6 tweets
In an ongoing series, The NPR Politics Podcast is hitting the road and interviewing 2020 Democratic presidential candidates. In this episode, Asma Khalid and Iowa Public Radio's Clay Masters sit down with former Vice President Joe Biden to ask why...
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Alex Thompson Biden tells that he turned against the Iraq War as soon as 'shock and awe' started. But 5 months after the invasion, he said "I would vote that way again today....It was a right vote then, and it'll be a correct vote today." 43d
It's now Biden, Warren, Sanders — and everyone else
POLITICO 43d 3 tweets
'It’s too late in the game to keep saying it’s too early,' a former Hillary Clinton adviser says of the Democratic presidential primary.
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Alex Thompson Heading into the fall, only Biden, Warren, and Sanders are polling above single digits. 3-person race? 5-person? still wide open? and with a sharp look. 43d
Trump Loves to Boast About Making His Supporters Cry
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Alex Thompson You gotta watch this supercut of all the times Trump talks about “big, strong guys” who cry while thanking him for saving America. and Oliver Noble do it again. 46d