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Senior politics editor for @PhillyInquirer . Contact: blowry @inquirer .com. Former @kcstar / @mcclatchydc

Philadelphia, PA
Joined October 2012
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I love @nidhiprakash so much I had to marry her twice. Photos by @DSQPHOTOGRAPHY
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Seeing a whole lot of people on here talking about Twitter silencing their views who were OK with idea of Congress silencing the voters of Arizona and Pennsylvania.
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Former Missouri GOP Sen. Jack Danforth: "By alleging widespread fraud, President Trump’s purpose is to undermine Americans’ belief in the legitimacy of the election and therefore in the foundation of our democracy. He is causing incalculable damage to our country."
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I try not to curse on Twitter, but I will share that when Barr made his 200 arrests claim I sent a Slack message asking the entire KC newsroom: "Does anybody what the fuck he's talking about?!" And there was a reason none of us did. It wasn't true.
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A local police spokesman says they have no reports of property damage in Hawley's Virginia neighborhood after the Missouri senator claimed vandalism and threats of violence by protesters
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Trump endorses “ERIC” without saying whether it’s Greitens or Schmitt. A truly bizarre ending to the battle of Erics.
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St. Louis congresswoman-elect @CoriBush , who led protests in Ferguson after Michael Brown’s shooting, is headed to the House Judiciary Cmte
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Chris “Law Dork” Geidner
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Very excited to see @CoriBush and @MondaireJones headed to House Judiciary Committee in the new year. @DeborahRossNC seems like a good pick as well.
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. @KansasDems announces that all registered Democrats in Kansas will automatically be mailed a ballot on March 30 for the party's May 2 presidential primary (which is party run). Encouraging voters to seal ballot with water instead of saliva to help stop spread of coronavirus.
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BREAKING: Former Republican Sen. Nancy Kassebaum endorses Democrat Barbara Bollier in the #kssen race. Kassebaum, who served alongside Bob Dole and preceded Pat Roberts, held the seat for 18 years.
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Irish Americans are actually a pretty big segment of the electorate. There’s 30 million of us. GOP’s social media team thought it was a good idea to dunk on Beto by promoting negative Irish stereotypes on our holiday?
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On this St. Paddy's Day, a special message from noted Irishman Robert Francis O'Rourke.
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. @aoc : “I want to know why people like Kris Kobach with a documented history… he has a resume of voter suppression techniques in the state of Kansas, I want to know why folks like that have their fingerprints all over the most sensitive Census operations that we have" #ksleg
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Barbara Bollier and Biden had big leads in Kansas when JoCo early returns came in, but Trump and Marshall both won the states because that’s what happens when you count all the ballot from all the counties. Things change.
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Donald J. Trump
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I had such a big lead in all of these states late into election night, only to see the leads miraculously disappear as the days went by. Perhaps these leads will return as our legal proceedings move forward!
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Got an email from someone accusing us of trying to "cancel" Barr. Yes, cancel culture is really out of control when the Attorney General of the United States isn't allowed to inflate the number of arrests in the city we cover by a factor of 200.
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The City of Independence will give former Sen. @clairecmc the Harry S. Truman Public Service Award in December. Past recipients include Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Bill Clinton, Bob Dole and John McCain.
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Striking statistic from Jeff Zients, White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator, during the briefing today: "In fact, just four states accounted for more than 40 % of all cases in the past week with one in five of all cases occurring in Florida alone."
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And yet, he hasn't asked for any corrections or disputed any facts of our reporting. We also aren't the ones facing fact checks from national and local outlets related to our comments this month...
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Micheal Mahoney
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In KCMO Radio Interview, Mo. Sen. Josh Hawley calls KC Star newspaper “professional liars”. Says he does read anything in the KC Star anymore. #JoshHawley #KCMORadio #KCStar #KMBC
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BREAKING: @repcleaver officially says he supports an impeachment inquiry.
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. @Ocasio2018 calls on every person in the room to knock on 10, 50 doors a piece. "If you have never knocked on a door before, I am talking to you... If you have never voted before, I am talking to you." #ks03 #ksleg
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Psaki says Biden supports push by Capitol Hill staff to unionize. Pretty big for those staffers' efforts.
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Kobach loses in court. Ordered to turn over the Trump documents to @ACLU by Friday #ksleg
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I really need to go bed, but I'm still contemplating the fact that 4 out of 6 Kansas lawmakers voted to throw out Pennsylvania's voters b/c it adopted the mail voting law Kansas has used since 1996 and was used in record numbers this year by Kansans
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Marjorie Taylor Greene yells out -- people tell her to "show some respect."
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Going to point out that both Kansas and Pennsylvania will be accepting mail ballots through Friday, but you're only hearing about Pennsylvania b/c of the Electoral College. Nobody is raising an issue with the three-day rule in Kansas.
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When we first heard this fundraiser was happening in a pre-Jan. 6 world, a colleague asked me who are these couples who are spending Valentine’s Day at a political fundraiser?
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. @clairecmc , Hawley's 2018 opponent: “The guy who was supposed to enforce the law, broke the law for his political ambition. He abused his office to win a campaign. It’s disgusting and sad."
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@alextdaugherty Texas University of Miami will have a natural rivalry with Miami University of Ohio
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In five years of covering politics in this region, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a public official so thoroughly dressed down by another public official. Here’s my initial write up of Kobach’s contempt hearing. More to come. #ksleg #ACLUvKobach
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The reason I try no to curse on Twitter is I do it all day long in real life.
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One thing that is very striking about the abortion vote map from last night. It's not just urban and suburban counties like WyCo, JoCo & Sedgwick-- several rural GOP leaning counties like Osage (which hasn't vote for a Dem since LBJ) also voted no.
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A police officer died to ensure that the votes of the 81 million Americans who voted for the other candidate would still matter. Officer Sicknick stood up for democracy.
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Josh Hawley
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Somebody has to stand up. 74 million Americans are not going to be told their voices don’t matter
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BREAKING: Eric Greitens has been charged with felony computer tampering in St. Louis. Go to for story shortly. #moleg #GreitensIndictment
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Hawley said McCaskill had "drifted way from Missouri" in 2018 and cited her DC condo as evidence. But Hawley right now is using his sister's address in Missouri as he spends most of his personal time in Northern Virginia #moleg
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The fired inspector general had nearly completed an investigation into Trump's decision to expedite arms sales to Saudi Arabia
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Pennsylvania Dem @SenBobCasey on Hawley: “This action, like the Republican House members’ support for a fraudulent legal action rejected by the Supreme Court, is a direct attack on all Pennsylvania voters. It is a cheap, political move that will fail.”
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McConnell, speaking on Senate floor, used Mueller report (or more specifically Barr's summary of it) to attack Obama admin for being too soft on Russia. That might remind some of you of this...
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I missed this yesterday. @RepDavids , who represents the other side of the KC metro, called @HawleyMO "unfit to be a United States senator."
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. @RepDavids spoke with @MattFlenerKMBC about Wednesday's riot at the U.S. Capitol and her call to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove President Donald Trump from office. Davids also had strong words for Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley.
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BREAKING: St. Louis prosecutor's office indicts @EricGreitens "on a Felony Invasion of Privacy charge." More to come on #moleg
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. @SenSherrodBrown , the Banking chair who isn't on Judiciary, sees a connection between split cmte vote on Jackson w/ split vote on Lisa Cook last month in Banking: "I've seen a pattern of how they vote on Black women... Draw the conclusion you want."
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The significance of this to KS politics cannot be overstated. Brownback's signature policy just got erased. #ksleg
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Welp, Al Watkins is on CNN. For those unaware, this is the St. Louis lawyer who leaked the audio that took down Greitens and who represented the McCloskeys this summer.
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St. Louis attorney Al Watkins on his client, the horn/fur dude #Insurrectionist . ‘My client had the doors to the Capitol held for him by the Capitol Police ... he was there at the invitation of President Donald Trump ... The words of the president meant something ...’
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Missouri Reps. Billy Long and Jason Smith were among the 40 Republicans to vote no on the coronavirus relief bill (which provides paid sick leave and free testing). All other House members from Missouri & Kansas voted for it. Passes 363 to 40.
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. @CoryBooker : “This is not a normal day for America. We have never had this moment before. And I just want to talk about the joy.”
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I spoke with current and former Missouri officials from across the ideological spectrum-- Jack Danforth, @JasonKander , @CoriBush and Tom Coleman-- and they all say @HawleyMO deserves blame for yesterday's chaos
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Protests against @HawleyMO are happening this evening in Kansas City, St. Louis, Columbia and Springfield. @KCStar 's @LukeNozicka and @Cortlynn_Stark will have updates from KC.
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The ground is shaking in Topeka. Looks like #ksleg will pull off the veto override, undo Brownback's tax cuts
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Initial vote: 84-35. #ksleg
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Psaki responds to Hawley's letter, suggests Missouri Republican is "parroting" Russian talking points
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Josh Hawley when he was 15, writing on militia groups: “Feeling alienated from their government and the rest of society, they often become disenchanted and slip into talks of ‘conspiracy theories’ about how the federal government is out to get them.”
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White House response to Florida's surgeon general's comments about unwinding "testing psychology": "Testing continues to be a key pillar in detecting the virus and stopping its spread; leaders should be uniting around it, not undermining it."
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Some personal news: I am changing positions next month. While my byline will still be appearing regularly in @KCStar & @kansasdotcom , it'll also be popping up in @MiamiHerald , @sacbee_news , @theobserver & other @mcclatchy papers as I take a position on our White House team.
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Tuesday: Kansas voters elect an LGBT woman to Congress, two LGBT candidates to #ksleg Thursday: The incoming governor announces she'll restore protections for LGBT state workers, which were rescinded under Brownback
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The mayor of Kansas City says he got turned away from his local polling place because he wasn’t in the system. #kcmo #Election2020
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I made a video this morning about the importance of voting and then got turned away because I wasn’t in the system even though I’ve voted there for 11 years, including for myself four times! Go figure, but that’s okay. We’ll be back later today! #Vote #KCMO
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People who think Tom Brady is an underdog are the same people who think the Empire are the good guys in Star Wars.
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Perhaps this is why prior to the scandal you shouldn't have been allowed to interview your brother in a clear violation of standard journalistic practice
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Brian Stelter
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>> @ChrisCuomo at the top of @CuomoPrimeTime tonight: "Obviously I am aware of what is going on with my brother. And obviously I cannot cover it because he is my brother. Now, of course CNN has to cover it. They have covered it extensively and they will continue to do so."
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Some personal news: I will be returning to @KCStar next month as the politics editor. I'll be overseeing the stellar team of @jonshorman , @drdesrochers , @KatieJ_Bernard and @Kacen . Excited to dive back into Kansas and Missouri politics #ReadLocal #ksleg #moleg #mosen #ksgov #kcmo
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Brownback called his tax policies an experiment. That experiment has officially ended tonight #ksleg
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Thomas County clerk sent me a scan of what she submitted to Kobach's office on election night. She marked 522 votes for Colyer, says SOS office made the clerical error #ksleg #ksgov
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Instead of answering questions about arrangement with his sister (does he pay rent, has he slept there), Hawley's office attacked The Star for asking and the senator tried to obfuscate with tweets about the house he's building (but doesn't yet live in)
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A lot of people are pointing out that Hawley misused Orwellian in his statement last night. One thing worth noting on Orwell, the man btw, is that he fought in Spain to defend democracy after the country’s right wing launched a violent coup against an elected government.
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The governor of Missouri asking for restraining order against the Missouri AG after he says the gov potentially committed a felony. And in Kansas, one of the top candidates for governor was just held in contempt by a federal judge. A few reasons to read
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Sen. Brown called out lawmakers complaining about long hours on Senate floor. He said a lot of Americans stand on their feet waiting tables for eight hours, which he says is tougher than sitting and listening to Dershowitz for a couple hours.
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McCaskill posts video of Hawley’s Turning Point USA speech alongside the video of him fleeing Senate on Jan. 6
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Claire McCaskill
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This is important to get out to as many people as possible.
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On record comment from @NRSC spokeswoman on Kobach: “Just last year Kris Kobach ran and lost to a Democrat. Now, he wants to do the same and simultaneously put President Trump’s presidency and Senate Majority at risk." #ksleg #kssen
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Imagine being @FoxNews and you score the first interview with the senator at the center of a national controversy after raising his fist in solidarity and sending a fundraising plea ahead of a riot... and all you do is ask him to bash Simon & Schuster.
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Found this interesting piece in the student law journal from Hawley's alma mater contending that voting should be treated as speech protected by First Amendment.
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Bryan Lowry
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Meanwhile in KC, @GRicekcstar reports the guilty verdict for the first white Kansas City police officer in 80 years to face a criminal trial in the shooting death of a Black man. “Justice was gotten today,” said Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker.
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Realizing slavery was evil doesn't erase the Founders. Some of them even realized it eventually. Ben Franklin owned slaves, but later in life became an abolitionist and in 1789 called slavery "an atrocious debasement of human nature"
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A more positive stat from Zients is that vaccination rate is rising in those states: "In the past week, the five states with the highest case rates-- Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Missouri and Nevada-- had a higher rate of people getting vaccinated than the national average."
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. @RepAnnWagner is so far the only House Republican from Missouri to say she'll oppose objection to Electoral College results. Wagner says she "cannot and will not unconstitutionally insert Congress into the Presidential election in this manner."
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. @clairecmc on McConnell: "Mitch McConnell's got to navigate this and try to hold onto power in the Senate. And make no mistake, that's the only thing he cares about."
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@JessicaHuseman As a native Pennsylvanian, I’m disturbed by the number of officials from other states who think they can overturn the will of PA voters.
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Tucker describes Duckworth losing two legs in Iraq as getting "injured while serving in the Illinois Army National Guard." Duckworth was injured and served in the Illinois Army National Guard, but quite an understatement to phrase it that way
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Justin Baragona
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Tucker Carlson not only doubles down on his claim that Tammy Duckworth hates America, he also calls her a "coward," a "fraud," and a "moron" while questioning whether she should be described as a "hero"
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Going to ask people commenting to please the read the story, which made it pretty clear KC officials didn't believe there had been 200 arrests. And then read this confirms the number as a two week total wasn't close to true
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Personal news: I'm excited to announce that I will be joining @PhillyInquirer , the paper I grew up reading, as senior politics editor next year! Honored to join the team that will bring you crucial coverage of the presidential race & other key contests in my home state in 2024.
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An absolutely seismic win for abortion rights supporters in deep red Kansas tonight in first post-Roe vote on the issue.
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I can confirm there was indeed a process server waiting with a subpoena Bannon outside the Kobach fundraiser. ⁦ @politico ⁩ has some details on the FTC case, which involves Cambridge Analytica.
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Biden thanks the Senate for voting 94 to 1 to pass bill to combat hate crimes against Asian Americans, promises he will anxiously sign after House passage. The lone vote against the bill in the Senate was Missouri's Hawley
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@MEPFuller The Senate made reporters go through one to watch the (previous) impeachment trial.
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"I'm not going to be able to have Lindsey Graham up in our waiting room drinking the rest of our Wawa holiday blend."
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Kobach now says Kansas won't be sharing the last 4 social. Update coming on soon #ksleg
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In addition to Fox's disavowal, Senate GOP sources say is increasingly isolated: “Who is going to join a bill with him ever again? Who is going to work with him to achieve any legislative agenda? I wouldn’t rule out being taken off committees"
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. @ProjectLincoln on @HawleyMO 's silence on Officer Sicknick: "Why hasn’t he had time to put out a statement about the fallen police officer? Because he’s mad at Simon & Schuster... Someone died in service to his institution and it’s not worth the time to say, I’m so sorry."
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Cleaver told Davids to come to him if anybody gave her trouble, but... “We sat there for a while and then she said, ‘Have I ever shown you how to break somebody’s arm?’ And then I thought, ‘Oh yeah, that’s right. I probably have to go to you to help me.’”
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This is a must-read story from ⁦ @MiamiHerald ⁩: Florida sheriff allegedly tried to deport a U.S. citizen to Jamaica. He’s from Philadelphia.
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Newly elected Kansas Rep. @JakeLaTurner has tested positive for COVID-19, his chief of staff alerted me. He voted on the Arizona objection hours ago but won’t be returning to the floor.
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Loews cancels @HawleyMO ’s Valentine’s week fundraiser in Florida.
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Loews Hotels
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We are horrified and opposed to the events at the Capitol and all who supported and incited the actions. In light of those events and for the safety of our guests and team members, we have informed the host of the Feb. fundraiser that it will no longer be held at Loews Hotels.
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The other day Trump confused Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri. Today Pelosi picked a lawmaker who represents Kansas City, Kansas to escort him in the #SOTU
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BREAKING: Federal judge orders Kobach to produce documents he shared with Trump in voting case. Check soon! #ksleg
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