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Barack Obama Looks Back on His Toughest Fight
The New Yorker 122d 13 tweets
An excerpt from the President’s new memoir, “A Promised Land,” on what it took to make Obamacare a reality.
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Alex Thompson Obama really doing his best to re-cast his flip-flop on the individual mandate, blaming it on Axelrod and Plouffe. He repeatedly attacked Hillary on it in the 08 primary If it was too toxic to campaign on, it was predictable it'd be toxic while governing 120d
October surprise: Biden’s zipped lips
POLITICO 121d 3 tweets
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Alex Thompson My bosses somehow let me take over the top of Politico Nightly. The topic: how Biden has finally learned, at the tender age of 77, to shut up and stay on message (mostly) after a career of, well, not doing that thx to & the team 121d
Sources: Gina Raimondo Being Considered as Biden’s Treasury Secretary
The American Prospect 121d 4 tweets
The Rhode Island governor would not be a popular selection among progressives or organized labor.
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Alex Thompson Raimondo for Treasury? 121d
Future Forward USA Action TV Commercial, 'Back in January'
iSpot.tv | Realtime TV Advertising Performance Measurement 122d 1 tweets
Medical experts state that Donald Trump handled the COVID-19 pandemic poorly and a change of leadership is needed in order to stamp it out.
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Alex Thompson the $100 million+ Silicon Valley Super PAC for Biden is running an ad citing , the partisan news site funded by . Both have connections to Reid Hoffman. 122d
Hillary Clinton Says It’s Different This Time
Nytimes.com 122d 9 tweets
The 2016 Democratic candidate was certain she’d win four years ago. Now, she’s even more bullish that Biden will.
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Alex Thompson Hillary tells "So there is an air of illegitimacy that surrounds Trump’s presidency, and that just infuriates them....Because I was the candidate that they basically stole an election from." 122d
Vice Gets Squeezed – Air Mail
Airmail.news 124d 3 tweets
By William D. Cohan - This should be Vice’s moment. We have a narcissistic fabulist in the White House. There’s rioting in the streets. The nation is the world leader...
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Alex Thompson Very punk rock. “These days, Shane Smith keeps a lower profile but can at times be spotted driving around Beverly Hills in a huge, white-on-white Rolls-Royce Phantom convertible.” 124d
Left-wing groups seek to pressure Biden on chief of staff pick
POLITICO 126d 2 tweets
The poll is part of a larger progressive pressure campaign to limit the presence of business-friendly Democrats in a Biden White House.
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Alex Thompson Scoop: left-wing groups are polling potential Biden chiefs of staff as the left-center battle over Biden admin begins before he's won poll doesn't mention names--Ricchetti, Klain, and Reed r unknown nationally--but they describe their resumes Here's a look 126d
The Working Families Party, on the rise nationally, faces a defining test in New York
CNN 129d 4 tweets
The Working Families Party endorsed progressive Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren in the Democratic presidential primary last year. When she dropped out earlier this year, the party threw its support to Sen. Bernie Sanders, the democratic...
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Alex Thompson Working Families Party at risk of losing their automatic ballot line in NY good look from 128d
Twilight of the Media Elites
Pullrequest.substack.com 132d 16 tweets
Into the morbid interregnum
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Alex Thompson . on the NYT and how the subscriber model is changing journalism. "The editorial branding will be august pronouncements about ‘the paper of record’, but the business model is pure Netflix: All The News Fit To Binge." 129d
Partisan Sites Posing as Local News Expand Ahead of Election
Emily Glazer - WSJ 129d 3 tweets
As local news outlets suffer cuts, political donors are seeing an opportunity to influence coverage as the presidential election approaches.
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Alex Thompson Some new details on the liberal group & from WSJ "Acronym told donors in May it found promoting its articles to voters with lower levels of political knowledge is effective, according to documents reviewed by the Journal" 129d
How Biden destroyed Trump’s TV ad ‘death star’
POLITICO 130d 4 tweets
The Democrat's fundraising gusher has enabled a national ad strategy that's helped put reach states in play.
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Alex Thompson Based on current ad buys, Biden is set to outspend Trump on TV by $178 million (from June 1- Election Day). ⁦⁩ reports. 130d
Sacha Baron Cohen: This Time He’s Serious
Maureen Dowd - Nytimes.com 131d 16 tweets
Reviving his Borat character and playing the political activist Abbie Hoffman, the actor feels he “had to ring the alarm bell and say that democracy is in peril this year.”
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Alex Thompson Sacha Baron Cohen got a sit-down w/ a Trump adviser (unnamed) for his Borat sequel in a scene that ⁦⁩ writes will “leave you gobsmacked” and is even wilder than when he got Dick Cheney to sign a waterboarding kit for him. 131d
Analysis: Why early vote trends can't tell you who will win
CNN 131d 3 tweets
You've seen the pictures of early voting lines out the door. You may have read the stats of the high number of voters requesting absentee ballots. All of this is certainly consistent with the long standing belief of record turnout in 2020.
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Alex Thompson .⁦⁩ says: “be very careful trying to translate early and absentee voting statistics into trying to understand“ whether Biden or Trump will win. 17 days is a long time. 131d
Biden's ABC town hall questioners include former Obama speechwriter, wife of former Pennsylvania Dem candidate
Fox News 132d 13 tweets
Two of the questioners at the ABC town hall featuring Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Thursday had ties to high-profile Democratic politicians, including one who previously worked as a speechwriter in the Obama administration. 
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Alex Thompson First NBC’s bungling of this, now one of Biden's ABC town hall questioners last night was a former speechwriter in the Obama administration 132d
Wall Street donors line up behind Biden in massive third-quarter fundraising haul
Brian Schwartz - CNBC 132d 3 tweets
Joe Biden's fundraising committees benefited from big money contributions from finance leaders on Wall Street and across the country during the third quarter.
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Alex Thompson Lot of late Wall St. $$$$ coming in late for Biden, reports. Tim Geithner w/ 150k. John Doerr at Kleiner Perkins gave over 355k 132d
AOC, House progressives warn Biden on corporate hires
POLITICO 132d 3 tweets
A letter from left-wing lawmakers and groups calls for corporate lobbyists and high-ranking executives to be shut out of a Biden administration.
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Alex Thompson NEWS: AOC, Ayanna Pressley, Katie Porter, Raúl Grijalva, and 39 left-wing groups already drawing battle lines on Biden admin personnel, signing a letter arguing that no C-suite level corporate execs ought to have Senate-confirmed positions 132d
Democrats’ Coming Civil War Over Police Unions
POLITICO 133d 1 tweets
How far is the party of labor willing to go to confront them in the name of racial justice?
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Alex Thompson Democrats say they are pro-union. But what about police unions? Great dive on the coming Dem civil war over police unions w/ AOC, Dan Kildee and others backing away from a union bill they supported earlier this year. 133d
Bidenworld fires warning shot against Cabinet jockeying
POLITICO 133d 3 tweets
Members of Joe Biden's transition team have been fuming at the recent flood of stories listing people in contention for top administration posts.
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Alex Thompson NEW: Bidenworld fires warning shot to those involved in all the recent cabinet jockeying “public campaigning for administration jobs during an election of this magnitude is tone-deaf,” said a Dem strategist close to transition officials 133d
Distribution of hacked material policy
Help.twitter.com 134d 2 tweets
We don’t condone attempts to compromise or infiltrate computer systems for malicious purposes.
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Alex Thompson from , Twitter defends decisions based on "Hacked Material Policy." What constitutes hacked material tho? Snowden leaks? How about WikiLeaks state department cables? Are Podesta emails now off-limits on Twitter? here's their page. 134d
Joe Biden is the luckiest, least scrutinized frontrunner
Mike Allen - Axios 134d 11 tweets
The circumstances of this general election have allowed Biden to avoid the treatment most nominees endure.
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Alex Thompson Since Aug. 31, Biden has answered less than half as many questions from the press as Trump — 365 compared with 753...and done approximately 35 local TV interviews, three national interviews and two town halls. From 134d