Matt Berman
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Pete Buttigieg Released Some Detail Of His Work At McKinsey But Still Is Not Naming Clients
"I am asking McKinsey to do the right thing in the name of transparency," Buttigieg said in a statement calling on the firm to release the clients’ names.
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Matt Berman
News tonight from @HenryJGomez: Pete Buttigieg has a timeline out of his work for McKinsey, but still isn’t naming the clients. He’s calling on the company to release the names.
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Democrats Are Freaking Out About Pro-Trump Messaging To Occasional Black Voters
"We haven't yet found the right language that makes the community feel as if we understand where they're coming from and what's actually happening to them,” a DNC official said.
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Matt Berman
Democrats — both high in the party and at the activist level — are getting really worried about messaging campaigns from groups like #ADOS and Blexit that breed cynicism among black voters about the Democratic Party. From @darrensands
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Cory Booker Has "Anger" Over Kamala Harris Ending Her Campaign While Billionaires Stay In The Race
“It’s a damn shame frankly that Kamala Harris’ voice is no longer in this race,” Booker said on AM to DM.
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Matt Berman
“It’s a damn shame frankly that Kamala Harris’ voice is no longer in this race,” Cory Booker said on @AM2DM this morning, while going after the DNC’s debate rules that could leave him out.
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Anthony Weiner Is The Most Important Politician Of The 2010s
Anthony Weiner’s penis tweet was the big bang of our political era.
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Matt Berman
No politician moved the last decade like Anthony Weiner did by accidentally tweeting out a picture of his penis. His life choices were the decade’s Big Bang, setting up so much that happened next.
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Sen. Cory Booker Said Joe Biden “Might Have Been High” For Not Supporting Marijuana Legalization
"The war on drugs has been a war on black and brown people," Booker said during Wednesday's Democratic debate.
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Matt Berman
.@SalHernandez on probably the moment of tonight that’ll stick in my memory longest — the awkward/tense/zingy exchange between Harris, Biden, and Booker
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Hey, It's The Pete Buttigieg Debate
The fifth Democratic presidential primary debate has a different candidate rising under pressure. It is not Michael Bloomberg.
Mike Bloomberg Won't Attend His Company's China Summit As His Possible Campaign Gets Serious
A key Bloomberg Media event will go on without the mayor, as the campaign gets serious.
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Matt Berman
Mike Bloomberg was due to go to a big company event in China next week. He’s cancelled last minute — a sign of how serious his maybe-campaign is getting, and how tricky China is. @BuzzFeedBen scoop
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How Joe Biden’s Candidacy Convinced Deval Patrick To Change His Mind And Run For President
"I’ve got butterflies, of course," Deval Patrick told BuzzFeed News, "because I’ve never done this before."
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Matt Berman
Deval Patrick’s change of heart came as a welcome surprise to some close Obama confidants, including Valerie Jarrett, @darrensands reports
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Top Obama Allies Are Ready To Support A Deval Patrick Presidential Campaign
The perils of the road to the presidency — and a life and business he loves — may ultimately keep Deval Patrick away from the Democratic primary. It’s just that he’s running into an awful lot of reasons to think that maybe they shouldn’t.
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Matt Berman
Deval Patrick, before deciding not to run last December, had top Obama aides ready to back him, @darrensands reported
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Reporters At Bloomberg News Are Worried About Michael Bloomberg’s Potential Presidential Run
Bloomberg told Radio Iowa that he may sell his company or end political coverage if he runs in 2020.
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Matt Berman
When Bloomberg was floating running late last year, reporters at Bloomberg News were worried about what it would mean for them.
Bloomberg himself suggested that Bloomberg News maybe shouldn’t cover politics if he ran.
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Can Mike Bloomberg Make America Boring Again?
Being dull could be the way to the presidency in 2020. And the former New York City mayor wouldn't be the only one to try.
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Matt Berman
Juuust over a year ago, when rumors were floating, @BuzzFeedBen played out what the real appeal of a Bloomberg candidacy could be: making America boring again.
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Glenn Greenwald Got Into A Fistfight On A Live Radio Show
A Brazilian far-right journalist tried to strike Greenwald after a heated argument during the live taping of a radio show in Brazil.
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QU Poll Release Detail
Four-Way Race In Iowa Dem Presidential Caucus, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Half Of Likely Dem Caucus-Goers Might Change Their Mind
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Matt Berman
Bernie Sanders has the most excited and committed supporters in the new Quinnipiac poll of Iowa. poll.qu.edu/iowa/release-d… pic.twitter.com/jmVfDg6vHV
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In The Place Fox News Dominates, Defending Trump From Impeachment Is Just Part Of A War Against "Evil"
Donald Trump's supporters in a Florida district dominated by Fox News could care less what Democrats say about Ukraine or impeachment. “I see what the others say, but the minute they start talking trash, I go back on Fox.”
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Matt Berman
Inside the Fox News bubble, impeachment is just another, expected fight against Donald Trump’s enemies.
Good read from @mollyhc on a place where, even if Republican messaging is wonky, Fox messaging has sunk through.
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Katie Hill Said She Is Leaving Congress "Because Of A Double Standard"
Hill gave her last speech to Congress shortly after voting in support of impeachment proceedings against the president.
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Matt Berman
Katie Hill said on the House floor that she’s resigning because of a "misogynist culture that gleefully consumed my naked pictures, capitalized on my sexuality, and enabled my abusive ex to continue that abuse, this time with the entire country watching."
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Katie Hill's Estranged Husband Claimed To His Parents He Was Hacked Before Nude Pictures Of Her Were Published Online
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Matt Berman
Rep. Katie Hill’s estranged husband told his parents he was hacked before nude pictures of Hill were published online. Scoop from @SalHernandez and @ClaudiaKoerner
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Donald Trump Jr. And MAGA Twitter Are Pressuring Sen. Lindsey Graham To Defend Trump From Impeachment
Graham is one of the president’s key allies, but Trump supporters got a #WheresLindsey hashtag trending Tuesday.
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Matt Berman
Donald Trump Jr. And MAGA Twitter Are Pressuring Lindsey Graham To Defend Trump From Impeachment buzzfeednews.com/article/ryancb… via @ByRyanBrooks
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One Of Rudy Giuliani’s Indicted Associates Was Tweeting About Joe Biden And Ukraine Days After Trump’s Inauguration
“I have a feeling that chapter isn’t closed," David Correia tweeted in January 2017.
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Matt Berman
One Of Rudy Giuliani’s Indicted Associates Was Tweeting About Joe Biden And Ukraine Days After Trump’s Inauguration buzzfeednews.com/article/miriam… via @miriamelder
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Rudy Giuliani Was With His Now-Indicted Ukrainian Friend At President Bush's State Funeral Service. Jeb Bush Says It's "Disappointing.”
Lev Parnas, who is now under indictment, was not invited, Bush said.