Steadman™
National politics reporter at The New York Times. A real one in these streets. [email protected]
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Sanders and Biden Fight Over Health Care, and It’s Personal
Sydney Ember - Nytimes.com 4d 2 tweets
“Unfortunately, he is sounding like Donald Trump,” Senator Bernie Sanders said of Joe Biden, as the two Democratic candidates spar over one of the most important issues in the 2020 election.
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Steadman™ Biden and Bernie are finally engaging w/ each other directly. Read and on the health care policy differences, and why both men want to frame this primary as a two person race -- even as Harris/Warren/Buttigieg make gains 4d
GOP lawmaker: 'I'm a person of color. I'm white.'
TheHill 5d 5 tweets
Republican Rep. Mike Kelly (Pa.) on Tuesday weighed in on criticism of President Trump's tweets targeting four minority congresswomen, saying that he is a person of color because he is white.
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Steadman™ my hot take is that whiteness is a color and we would do well to start thinking of it as an affirmative racial identity and not an assumed neutral 5d
How Joe Biden Became the Democrats’ Anti-Busing Crusader
Sheryl Gay Stolberg - Nytimes.com 8d 9 tweets
With a school desegregation lawsuit roiling Delaware in the 1970s, Mr. Biden led an effort in the Senate to end court-ordered busing.
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Steadman™ Your AM deep read: me and spent month examing Biden's school desegregation record. What we learned -- while he never opposed voluntary efforts that Kamala Harris enjoyed, his anti-busing advocacy was more sweeping than he currently describes. 7d
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Steadman™ 🚨 a new Biden quote obtained this AM by : "Unless we do something abt this, my children will grow up in a jungle. The jungle being a racial jungle w/ tensions having built so high that it is going to explode," he said re: busing in 1977 Read 7d
CBC lawmakers rip Justice Democrats for targeting black lawmakers for primaries
Scott Wong - TheHill 10d 8 tweets
Congressional Black Caucus members are furious at Justice Democrats, accusing the outside progressive group aligned with firebrand Rep.
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Steadman™ I'm old enough to remember when the CBC backed a white incumbent (Capuano) over a black challenger (Pressley) 10d
Embattled Biden ditches Rose Garden strategy
POLITICO 12d 6 tweets
"There are people that are all over Joe to get more aggressive,” said one Biden ally.
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Steadman™ feels like if a biden advisor is going to call harris "slick and slippery" they should at least have to put their name to it 12d
‘Mother Is Not Going to Like This’: The 48 Hours That Almost Brought Down Trump
POLITICO Magazine 12d 20 tweets
The exclusive story of how Trump survived the Access Hollywood tape.
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Steadman™ trump uniquely understood how even the most seemingly principled people around him would ultimately prioritize their access to power and come back around 12d
Warren Raised $19.1 Million in 3 Months, Outpacing Sanders
Nytimes.com 14d 3 tweets
Ms. Warren’s fund-raising total is likely to place her third among Democrats in the second quarter, behind Pete Buttigieg and Joseph R. Biden Jr.
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Steadman™ NEW from and me: Warren raised $19.1 million in the second quarter, more than three times she did in the first. Total has her below Buttigieg and Biden, but notably, above Bernie Sanders and the expectations of her rivals. $19.7 M cash on hand 14d
Kamala Harris Has Been Gearing Up for a Biden Showdown
Nytimes.com 24d 2 tweets
Even before their heated exchange in the Democratic debate over school busing, Ms. Harris had been aiming to win over Mr. Biden’s core constituencies.
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Steadman™ NEW from me: On Harris big debate night, and how -- if you have been paying attention -- her playing directly in Joe Biden's lane should come as no surprise 24d
‘Lock the S.O.B.s Up’: Joe Biden and the Era of Mass Incarceration
Sheryl Gay Stolberg - Nytimes.com 27d 15 tweets
He now plays down his role overhauling crime laws with segregationist senators in the ’80s and ’90s. That portrayal today is at odds with his actions and rhetoric back then.
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Steadman™ NEW from me + : Joe Biden says he "got stuck with" writing the crime bills. Not true. Our deep dive into how, as early as '77, he made the expansion of the prison population an explicit legislative goal "Lock the S.O.B's up," he said in 1994 27d
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Steadman™ Here's Biden in 1993. But take time to dig in our full story, which is here: 27d
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Steadman™ Lots of new info in this, but our monthslong reporting shows the 1994 bill was the culmination of a 15 yr push from Biden, with roots in Delaware, and helps explain his relationship with ppl like Eastland and Thurmond, who shared his more cops/prisons push 27d
‘The Black Vote Is Not Monolithic’: 2020 Democrats Find Split Preferences in South Carolina
Jonathan Martin - Nytimes.com 30d 3 tweets
Though many African-Americans in South Carolina have favored Joseph R. Biden Jr. they are taking a hard look at several other candidates and considering all issues, not just race.
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Steadman™ NEW from + me: A different story abt black voters. On the diversity within the electorate. And how, underneath Biden's good early poll #s, a big possibility looms: a split black vote -- that would actually dilute the group's typical primary power 30d
‘These People Aren’t Coming From Norway’: Refugees in a Minnesota City Face a Backlash
Nytimes.com 32d 30 tweets
As more Somali refugees arrive in St. Cloud, white anti-immigration activists have pressed an increasingly explicit anti-Muslim agenda.
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Steadman™ NEW from me: Today we published the second story in my series on growing white identity politics. This is from Minnesota, where a group of white residents, driven by open xenophobia, are pressuring their city to stop accepting Somali refugees. It may work 32d
In Citing Relationship With Segregationists, Joe Biden Makes Himself a Target
Nytimes.com 33d 7 tweets
Mr. Biden’s fond remarks about dealing with segregationist senators are raising questions about both his political past and his political acumen now in dealing with it.
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Steadman™ Biden surrogates said he did not praise segregationists. But in a 1997 speech I found, Biden makes an explicit point to talk up Senator Strom Thurmond's time ~before~ the Senate. And makes a joke about Thurmond's filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 33d
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Steadman™ Here's a portion of the speech Biden gave about Strom Thurmond, in May 1997 33d
Democratic Candidates Promise to Close Wealth Gap Between Blacks and Whites
Nytimes.com 37d 3 tweets
Inequality of wealth and income was a dominant theme as four Democratic candidates addressed the Black Economic Alliance’s forum in South Carolina.
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Steadman™ My roundup from Black Economic Alliance forum in SC. Warren and Booker probably got best receptions. Also interesting that all candidates except Warren visited protesting McDonald's workers in Charleston, who are seeking $15 min wage 37d
Team Beto Is Tired of the Media’s ‘Bullshit’ Narrative
Gideon Resnick - The Daily Beast 39d 3 tweets
After being bashed as light on policy, the Texas Democrat has unveiled a series of issue platforms his allies say he’s not getting enough credit for nationally.
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Steadman™ some of this seems like what happens when the fawning coverage of the senate race ends 39d
Kamala Harris, Seeking a Campaign Jolt, Defends Record as Prosecutor
Nytimes.com 43d 2 tweets
Trying to stand out in a crowded and fluid Democratic field, Ms. Harris, the former California attorney general, took on the critics of her record as a prosecutor.
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Steadman™ My story on Kalama Harris' prosecutor speech, which was less abt responding to activist critics and more abt appealing to moderate black voters using "smart on crime" framework and the rhetoric of racial representation. "It matters who's in those rooms." 43d
Warren and Sanders: Two Liberals Aiming for the Same Target
Sydney Ember - Nytimes.com 47d 2 tweets
As Elizabeth Warren emerges from Bernie Sanders’s shadow, the two standard-bearers of the progressive base find themselves competing for voters, and donors.
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Steadman™ NEW from me + : Bernie Sanders' footprint among progressives was once thought to be too big for Elizabeth Warren to break out. Now, as she crafts an identity of her own, it has set the two "structural change" campaigns on a collision course 47d
Elizabeth Warren Proposes ‘Aggressive Intervention’ to Create Jobs
Patricia Cohen - Nytimes.com 48d 7 tweets
Ms. Warren laid out a theme of “economic patriotism,” pledging to intervene in markets to support American manufacturing and job creation.
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Steadman™ NEW from me: It's climate day for Dems. On same day as Biden releases plan, Warren calls for $2 trillion green investment and further embraces Green New Deal. Includes call for a "Green Marshall Plan" and just transition language GND made popular 48d
Black Voters Challenge House Members: Why Is Trump Still in Office?
Sheryl Gay Stolberg - Nytimes.com 53d 4 tweets
While House Democratic leaders agonize, black voters want President Trump impeached, and their ardor on the subject is driving their representatives.
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Steadman™ Impt from : way before 2020 candidates, long before the Mueller report, the drive to impeachment was sustained by black voters and their representatives. 53d
Can Jaime Harrison End the Democrats’ Drought in South Carolina?
Nytimes.com 54d 3 tweets
The Times talked to Mr. Harrison, the first black chairman of the state’s Democratic Party, about his bid to unseat Senator Lindsey Graham.
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Steadman™ NEW: Jaime Harrison is challenging Lindsey Graham, in what will be one of the most closely watched non-presidential races in 2020. I sat w/ Harrison in NYC and asked why he thinks Republicans will abandon Graham, and how a Democrat can win in a red state 54d
Elizabeth Warren Gains Ground in 2020 Field, One Plan at a Time
Thomas Kaplan - Nytimes.com 55d 12 tweets
Declining to hold big-dollar fund-raisers and rolling out one policy proposal after another, Ms. Warren has strengthened her candidacy, though financial questions remain.
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Steadman™ Stuff: -New Warren proposal expected within week, timed w/ soon-to-be-announced trip to IND + MI (her 19th + 20th states) -SEIU, once on track for early Harris endorsement, now likely to slow process, w/ leaders privately citing EW -More $$ in Iowa FB ads 55d
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Steadman™ NEW from + me: On Elizabeth Warren's good month. A check-in from Iowa as she gains in polls, overshoots planned crowds, and the "I Have A Plan" strategy shows early signs of success. (250k+ have used debt calculator. big bump after Morehouse) 55d