Alex Thompson
covering 2020 and Elizabeth Warren for Politico. [email protected] Words in NYT, Esquire, Vice. typos via iPhone.
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Hostilities between Warren and Buttigieg boil over
POLITICO 30h 3 tweets
Long reluctant to call out her rivals by name, Warren went there with Buttigieg on Thursday night — and his campaign returned the fire.
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Alex Thompson Team Pete calls Warren a “corporate lawyer” hiding her pre-08 tax returns. Warren calls on Pete to make his fundraisers open press and release bundlers. Pete’s been jabbing at Warren for weeks. she’s resisted direct attacks, till now. W/ 29h
Warren’s Son Attended One of Nation’s Most Elite Private Schools 
Collin Anderson - Washington Free Beacon 5d 5 tweets
The Haverford School’s leafy campus, arched doorways, and neatly uniformed boys would seem to denote the sort of class and privilege that Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) has decried on the campaign trail.
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Alex Thompson After Warren told a student choice activist the other week that 'My kids went to public school' and the campaign had to walk that back/clarify, Free Beacon does some digging on the elite private school she sent her son to, Haverford. from 5d
I'm not going to say how many children I have: UK PM Johnson
U.S. 8d 2 tweets
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday he would not say how many ch...
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Alex Thompson Boris Johnson: I'm not going to say how many children I have. 8d
Waiting for Obama
POLITICO 12d 30 tweets
The Democratic establishment is counting on him to stop Trump and, perhaps, stave off Bernie as well. But can his cerebral politics still galvanize voters in an age of extremes?
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Alex Thompson “In early 2015, when Warren was considering running...Obama said privately that if Dems rallied around her as their nominee it wud be a repudiation of him—a clear sign that his econ decisions after the Great Recession had been seen as inadequate.” ⁦ 11d
Esper Demands Resignation of Navy Secretary Over SEAL Case
Maggie Haberman - Nytimes.com 13d 13 tweets
Richard Spencer, the Navy secretary, differed in his private and public statements, the defense secretary said. Other officials said he angered President Trump by publicly disagreeing with him and threatening to resign.
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Alex Thompson Navy Secretary resigns. “I cannot in good conscience obey an order that I believe violates the sacred oath I took.” From ⁦⁩ ⁩ 13d
Sniping progressives regroup after Medicare for All barrage
POLITICO 17d 2 tweets
At closed-door meetings, leaders of the left implore the movement to stop pitting Sanders against Warren and get on the same page.
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Alex Thompson New: Progressive reps and activists huddled behind closed doors Tuesday w/ new polling to strategize on how to regain their footing in the M4A fight. Rep. Jayapal also told allies to stop sniping at each other. w/ and 17d
'Meth. We're On It.': South Dakota spends $449K on new anti-meth ad campaign
argusleader - Argus Leader 19d 10 tweets
The state paid a Minnesota ad agency just short of $449,000 for the campaign this fall.
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Alex Thompson South Dakota launches new anti-meth PR campaign (paying the ad agency 450k to develop it). “Eighty-three percent of South Dakota's 2019 court admissions for controlled substances are related to meth.” 19d
Dark money group promotes Warren in Iowa
POLITICO 22d 2 tweets
Her campaign asks the group, which is tied to a Warren donor, to stop “immediately.”
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Alex Thompson New: A dark money group affiliated w/ a prominent Warren donor bought bought a half page pro-Warren ad in the Des Moines Register this week (screenshot below). Warren campaign asks “asks that those involved immediately stop.” 22d
Details Aside, Warren Supporters Just Want Plans
Josh Jamerson - WSJ 28d 2 tweets
Interviews with roughly two dozen of Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s backers reveal a theme: Ms. Warren has earned support from some Democrats who are not immersed in the meat of her policy proposals but are instead drawn to the idea that she has a vision...
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Alex Thompson Great look at how Warren supporters care more that she has a plan, not as much about the particulars. "“It’s just the idea that she’s thought all these things through. I think that just to have a plan is amazing,” 28d
Elizabeth Warren blows up the 'war room'
POLITICO 29d 8 tweets
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Alex Thompson New: As Biden and Pete up their attacks on Warren, her response is largely: no comment no surrogates on TV no Twitter fights no statements bashing Biden/Pete Internally, the campaign calls the comms approach "Blinders and Bulletin Board" w/ 29d
Michael Bloomberg sasses Elizabeth Warren for digs on the 1 percent
New York Post 30d 1 tweets
DES MOINES, IOWA – Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he sassed Sen. Elizabeth Warren for making the super rich her political punching bag. “If my company wouldn’t be successfu…
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Alex Thompson Flashback to Aug, at the Everytown Forum in IA when Bloomberg came on and said he told Warren backstage: “If my company wouldn’t be successful, we wouldn’t be here today....So enough with this stuff.” Warren declined to get into a back-and-forth after. 30d
A Calculator For The Billionaires | Elizabeth Warren
Elizabethwarren.com 30d 14 tweets
Some billionaires seem confused about how much they would pay under Elizabeth’s Ultra-Millionaire Tax. Don’t worry, now we have a calculator for that too.
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Alex Thompson New: tWarren campaign releases a “calculator for the billionaires” “Some billionaires seem confused about how much they would pay under Elizabeth’s Ultra-Millionaire Tax. Don’t worry, now we have a calculator” Special links 4 bill gates and Leon Cooperman 30d
Warren walks an Oklahoma-Harvard tightrope
POLITICO 31d 3 tweets
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Alex Thompson New: Warren wipes Harvard from populist pitch. On the trail, she refers to herself as a "teacher" instead of "professor," she asks for "Okies" in the crowd rather than ppl from Mass, when she wears college swag, it's often a Berkshire Comm College hat. 31d
Alabama SGA warns groups: Protest Trump during LSU game, risk losing reserved seating
al 31d 5 tweets
The Student Government Association at the University of Alabama is warning groups that protesting President Trump during Saturday’s LSU game could result in loss of reserved seating for the remainder of the season.
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Alex Thompson the Student Government Association at the University of Alabama is warning groups that protesting President Trump during the Tide’s Saturday game vs. LSU could result in loss of reserved seating for the remainder of the season. 31d
I Have Fought for the Democratic Party My Whole Career
Joe Biden - Medium 32d 5 tweets
The other day I was accused by one of my opponents of running in the wrong primary. Pretty amazing. On one level, it is kind of funny.
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Alex Thompson Biden bashes Warren as a know-it-all elitist in new Medium post. Says her running in the wrong primary swipe was “representative of an elitism that working and middle class people do not share...If you were only as smart as I am you would agree with me.” 32d
Seb Gorka's Love of Imagine Dragons Got Him Banned on YouTube
Mediaite 33d 2 tweets
Sebastian Gorka, the former deputy assistant to President Donald Trump, was banned from YouTube on Monday seemingly over his repeated unauthorized use of Imagine Dragons songs in his livestreams. Gork
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Alex Thompson YouTube banned Seb Gorka B/c he wouldn’t stop playing Imagine Dragons on his radio show. 33d
Buttigieg distances himself from his McKinsey consulting days
POLITICO 38d 2 tweets
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Alex Thompson The McKinsey “resume line has faded from Buttigieg’s stump speech amid revelations about McKinsey’s work with authoritarian governments and growing skepticism of large corporations.” Missed this great look from ⁦⁩ this week 35d
Can Warren Escape the Medicare Trap?
Paul Krugman - Nytimes.com 47d 5 tweets
The candidate of plans needs a really good one right now.
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Alex Thompson Tough op-Ed from Krugman about Warren and Medicare for All (Krugman is an email pen pal w/ Warren). “Warren has made policy seriousness a key aspect of her political persona, so her fogginess on health care really stands out.” 47d
Boston.com - Local breaking news, sports, and culture
Boston.com 901d 13 tweets
The news, sports, and culture that Boston really cares about right now
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Alex Thompson . probably found Romney's secret Twitter account. "The Pierre Delecto account’s very first follow was eldest Romney scion Tagg, joined shortly thereafter by Glen Johnson, a current Politics editor for 48d
This Sure Looks Like Mitt Romney’s Secret Twitter Account
Slate Magazine 48d 26 tweets
Who follows all Mitt Romney's available kids on Twitter and likes tweets about Mitt Romney?
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Alex Thompson . probably found Romney's secret Twitter account. "The Pierre Delecto account’s very first follow was eldest Romney scion Tagg, joined shortly thereafter by Glen Johnson, a current Politics editor for 48d