New York & its competitive congressional seats could determine which party controls the US House come 2025.
Ahead of November, the Spectrum News
@NY1
team & I will be regularly adding to our campaign blog with updates & original stories.
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Rep.
@AOC
says
@KamalaHarris
is "more than up to the task."
Also warns re: Harris: "It's going to be very important that we brace ourselves for some of the unfair, misogynistic, and racial undertones, overtones, explicit attacks and implicit attacks that she may be subject to."
Rep.
@AOC
on her decision to contribute to the
@DCCC
for the first time, as first reported by the NYTimes:
"If Democrats do not retake the House in November, I do not have confidence that a Republican majority would certify the results of a presidential election."
I asked
@AOC
about being named/threatened directly in this new video from the
#Jan6th
committee.
"I think it's been very clear for a very long time that I work with people who wish me harm," she told me. "I experienced [Jan 6th] as a culmination of the violent rhetoric."
@NY1
An *only in NYC* scenario … with the press lined up outside the Manhattan DA’s office awaiting grand jury action in the Trump case, a block away, a crew is filming an episode of Law & Order SVU
NEW:
@AOC
and
@RepRaskin
penned a letter to
@usantidoping
& the World Anti-Doping Agency, urging them "to reconsider [Sha’Carri] Richardson’s suspension."
"The divergent treatment of recreational alcohol and marijuana use reflects obsolete stereotypes about cannabis products."
“We cannot be abandoning the up to 11 million Americans that are in need, particularly when the emergency rental assistance ... has not gotten out.”
@AOC
to me, during her visit to an ongoing gathering on the House steps, urging lawmakers to extend the eviction moratorium.
@NY1
INBOX:
@AOC
urges the Senate to reject the nomination of Rahm Emanuel for ambassador to Japan, citing the Laquan McDonald case: “That the Biden administration seeks to reward Emanuel with an ambassadorship is an embarrassment and betrayal of the values we seek to uphold.”
“The Republican party has already shown a pattern of the fact that their vote can’t even be counted on,” said
@AOC
, expressing concern the negotiations could just end up watering down a plan that Republicans may not even back in the end.
More
@AOC
: "The path to the majority runs through NY State. This fight has come here to our home ... It's really important that NYers, whether ... members of Congress to just ... everyday voters, take ownership over protecting the country & protecting our rights & freedoms."
In non-impeachment news ...
Shortly, the Senate is expected to vote again on whether to overturn the president's national emergency declaration regarding border wall funding.
#ncpol
.
@AOC
on the $3.5T budget resolution: Says she'd like a larger bill but, "This is an enormous victory. This bill is absolutely a progressive victory. If it wasn't for progressives in the House, we probably would be stuck with that tiny, pathetic bipartisan bill alone."
@NY1
With just a few hours left until polls close in
#NY16
,
@JamaalBowmanNY
is currently marching thru the Edenwald neighborhood of the Bronx with a drum line, talking to voters
During his remarks,
@CawthornforNC
says, "If you don't think young people can change the world, then you don't know American history."
He then incorrectly says James Madison signed the Declaration of Independence.
(h/t
@chriscooperwcu
)
#ncpol
#NC11
#RNC2020
Rep.
@AOC
says she spoke to Biden over the weekend.
“He is in this race and I support him,” she says.
“What is critically important right now is that we focus on what it takes to win in November … he is running against Donald Trump, who is a man with 34 felony convictions.”
“I will not resign. I will be continuing to hold my office, elected by the people,” Rep. George Santos tells my colleague
@slisker
this morning.
He not respond to a question of how he’ll be able to serve his people.
First on
@NY1
, from me:
The three top Democrats in the U.S. House - including
@hakeemjeffries
- are formally endorsing
@JamaalBowmanNY
, who is trying to fend off an aggressive primary challenge by the Westchester County executive.
Trump makes an impeachment joke during the turkey pardon, saying that since the turkeys have been trained to remain cool under pressure, they should be able to handle a subpoena from Adam Schiff
SCOOP: Six mos after the House Oversight Committee began investigating the Rikers Island jail complex, Chairwoman
@RepMaloney
,
@AOC
, &
@RepRaskin
say conditions at the troubled city jail “remain unacceptable & may be worse than previously known.”
Read the letter to
@NYCMayor
👇
"A prosecutor is not there to exonerate."
I spoke to Rep. Mark Meadows about today's hearings, from the impeachment question to Mueller saying the report did not exonerate the president.
#ncpol
#Mueller
@SpecNewsRDU
"It's kind of funny looking."
A lighter moment here at the
#DNC
. Wrapping up an interview here in Chicago, we asked NY Gov
@KathyHochul
if she'd like to try some deep dish pizza.
She passed.
"It takes like an hour to make ... we want our pizza done in a New York minute."
Obtained by
@NY1
: Footage of Rep. Bowman pulling the fire alarm in the Cannon House Office Bldg on Sept. 30.
Bowman pleaded guilty this morning in court to "willfully or knowingly giving false fire alarm" in DC.
.
@AOC
on
@MeetThePress
: “The Senate already amplifies a minority power so that the 50 Democratic senators already represent millions & millions & millions more Americans than 50 Republican senators … 50 Republican senators is already a built-in filibuster-esque firewall.”
Someone in the House chamber shouted “bye-bye” after Lawler and Molinaro (swing district NY GOPers) voted for Mike Johnson, who is socially conservative and a Trump ally
(h/t
@casssemyon
&
@slisker
)
As
@RepAdamSchiff
says it’s “absurd” to think it’s a coincidence that this hearing is being held in NYC just days after the indictment of Donald Trump by the Manhattan DA, two members of the audience stand up and yell.
Both are escorted out out of the
@JudiciaryGOP
room
The
@AP
has now projected all the congressional races in New York state.
The new delegation will be:
- 15 Democrats
- 11 Republicans
For reference, the current delegation is:
- 19 Democrats
- 8 Republicans
(NY lost a seat after the census)
INBOX:
@VP
will be in NYC Thursday to speak at a get out the vote event with
@GovKathyHochul
, per her office. VP will participate in an official event with Hochul, as well.
#Election2022
NEW: GOP Rep-Elect
@nicklalota
(NY-1) weighs in on the George Santos situation, saying "a full investigation by the House Ethics Committee and, if necessary, law enforcement, is required."
"House Republicans deserve an opportunity to govern without this distraction.”
Here we go: Mick Mulvaney has sent a letter to federal agencies, telling them to "execute plans for an orderly shutdown."
Partial shutdown is now 1.5 hrs away
Surveillance footage shows a tour led by Loudermilk to areas in the House Office Buildings, as well as the entrances to Capitol tunnels.
Individuals on the tour photographed/recorded areas not typically of interest to tourists: hallways, staircases and security checkpoints.
Biden begins speech eulogizing those who died from
#COVID19
, while also speaking of what was lost in the past year (loss of learning, loss of work, loss of family gatherings)
As Pride Month winds down, I spoke w/ the White House
@PressSec
Karine Jean-Pierre, who is the first openly gay person in her role.
She hopes her position at the WH podium sends a message to the LGBTQ+ community: "We see you, we love you."
Story:
At a constituent town hall,
@AOC
calls the Biden admin's $2T infrastructure plan unveiled today "admirable," but argues "it's just not enough" and that more investment is needed
WEEKEND WATCH: My 1-on-1 interview with White House
@PressSec
Karine Jean-Pierre, talking:
- Pride Month (she's the first openly gay person to serve in her role)
- her NY political roots, including what she learned as a
@NYCCouncil
aide
Story here:
Jeffries on Dem losses in NY: "There should be an after-action analysis with a focus on the state Democratic party, a focus on some of the statewide campaigns, and try to figure out what happened in Long Island, what happened in the Hudson Valley."
#Midterms2022
NEW:
@POTUS
is heading to NYC next Tuesday to tout economic plan and infrastructure investments - including funding for the Hudson River Tunnel project. Per White House.
Santos, sidestepping questions en route to the elevator this morning, appears to say that if “142 people ask for me to resign, I’ll resign.”
(h/t colleague
@slisker
)
"If [Jay] Jacobs was to walk by me right now, I wouldn't know who he is. That speaks loudly, right?"
@RepEspaillat
to me on whether NY Dem Chair Jacobs should go in light of
#Election2022
.
He also called 4 NY congressional seats flipping from D to R "political malpractice."
"We're not going to get justice through verdicts. We have to fight for justice through policy and systemic change,"
@AOC
tells me after the Chauvin verdict.
She also said that "if we want a hope" of meaningful reform, the filibuster needs to be abolished.
@NY1
#ChauvinTrial
Rep-Elect George Santos to the NYPost: “I didn’t graduate from any institution of higher learning. I’m embarrassed and sorry for having embellished my resume … I own up to that … We do stupid things in life.”
.
@CawthornforNC
,
#NC11
candidate, just wrapped up his remarks at the
#RNC2020
. Aged 25, he would be one of the youngest members of Congress in history.
Says: "To liberals, let’s have a conversation. Be a true liberal, listen to other ideas and let the best ones prevail."
#ncpol
The House Bagel Caucus is celebrating its 1st anniversary on Capitol Hill and the line to get a bagel is … massive.
@RepDanGoldman
’s team tells me they’ve got 300 bagels from NY shops, including Murray’s, Terrace, and Brooklyn Bagels
.
@PressSec
says
@POTUS
spoke with
@NYCMayor
last night.
"He expressed his firm support for Mayor Adams' efforts to combat gun violence and violent crime."
Tonight on
@NY1
& Spectrum News >>
To mark Pride Month, I spoke with
@PressSec
- the first openly gay person to hold her role.
"It sends a message of: we got you. We know there's more fight to be done. But this is an admin that sees that fight & is going to take on that fight."
"Let's go right ahead with the very basic, no-brainer to me which is: let's not have members of Congress day trading and then we can expand that."
Rep.
@AOC
is one of those advocating for banning lawmakers on Capitol Hill from trading individual stocks.
.
@VP
stopped to show off what she got after leaving the story: a Charles Mingus, Jr. record, a recording of Porgy and Bess, and Everybody Loves the Sunshine by Roy Ayers - the last she described as one of her favorite albums of all time.
No response to a Q on the debt ceiling.
🚨Announcement!
I have decided to withdraw from my independent run for
#NY1
…
I don’t want my run to be portrayed as reprisal against Nick Lalota… Although Nick and I don’t have the same voting record and I remain critical of his abysmal record, I don’t want to split the
The move-in process is underway at the office of Congressman-Elect Greg Murphy. He just got the keys yesterday.
Reminders of the late Rep. Walter Jones remain, including a hallway display honoring Camp Lejeune soldiers killed in the line of duty
#ncpol
#NC03
.
@CarolynBMaloney
on Sen. Schumer endorsing
@JerryNadler
over her:
“He doesn’t live here. It doesn’t surprise me. The old boys network is very, very close and they support each other.”
Georgia Congressman
@JodyHice
asks
@NYCMayor
why NY - with strict gun restrictions - still sees police take guns off the streets in record numbers.
"Many of them come from Georgia," the mayor replies.
Rep.
@AOC
tells me she's "grateful & encouraged" to hear
@POTUS
's positioning on
#Rafah
:
"Withholding weapons, especially when it comes to the invasion of Rafah ... is the morally, strategically, & most secure thing for us to do here in the United States."
(🎥:
@MelodyKloepfer
)
"NYCHA is worth fighting for ... the childcare needs, the healthcare needs from our communities are worth fighting for."
"There is nothing saying this vote has to be right now today in this moment."
@AOC
to me, on the status of the Biden agenda & an infrastructure vote
@NY1
.
@RepRitchie
and
@danielsgoldman
have delivered their ethics complaint to Rep. George Santos’s Capitol Hill office.
Could briefly see Santos in the back of the office when they walked in.
.
@AOC
on the rental assistance situation in NY:
"NY state under the Cuomo administration has been one of the poorest performing states nationally on getting these funds out ... so long as those funds haven't gotten out, we have a responsibility to extend the moratorium"
@ny1
NY Attorney General Letitia James is looking into Republican Congressman-elect George Santos after a NYTimes report raised several questions about his bio and finances (h/t
@bcuza
)
If Joe Biden can’t run for re-election, he is unable and unfit to serve as President of the United States. He must immediately resign.
The Democrat Party is in absolute free fall for their blatantly corrupt and desperate attempt to cover up the fact that Joe Biden is unfit for
#SuperTuesday
poll closing times (all Eastern) 🗳
- 7pm: Va. and Vt.
- 7:30pm: NC
- 8pm: Ala., Maine, Mass., Okla., & most of Texas
- 8:30pm: Ark.
- 9pm: Colo., Minn., & part of Texas
- 10pm: Utah
- 11pm: Calif.
Note: Tenn. was 8pm but polls will stay open late after tornados
Schumer on NY flooding: "We will do everything we can to get all of the federal aid that's needed."
He says he has spoken with
@FEMA_Deanne
, the former Commissioner of the NYC Emergency Management Department. "She knows New York well."
@NY1
“It’s infuriating. It’s frustrating. But it’s kind of predictable,"
@RepBowman
said of Manchin torpedoing climate spending.
“Quite seriously, much of the fate of our planet comes down to November,”
@AOC
told me.
#climate
#reconciliation
Two New Yorkers,
@MondaireJones
and
@AOC
, share a moment yesterday after the White House signaled they were moving ahead with new restrictions on evictions, following days of demonstrations on Capitol Hill.
(As captured by my colleague, photog
@tessa_mariaa
)
"We have one speaker, that’s Nancy Pelosi, she’s done a tremendous job ... We’ll see what happens at the appropriate time … when it comes to House leadership,”
@RepJeffries
tells
@SymoneDSanders
on MSNBC.
"It's an emotional time for all of us who lived through it," Dem Leader
@RepJeffries
told me of the
#Jan6
anniversary.
He expressed thanks to the police officers who "defended democracy, the Congress, saved lives, and in some instances sacrificed their own lives as a result."
Rep-elect George Santos does not respond to various shouted questions while en route to the Capitol for the start of the 118th Congress.
Questions included:
- Do you regret anything you've done, said?
- Any remorse, any apology?
- Why should any lawmaker trust anything you say?
Former Prez
@BillClinton
is making the campaign rounds in New York's Hudson Valley.
After campaigning for
@spmaloney
over the weekend, on Wednesday he's scheduled to attend events w/
@PatRyanUC
&
@JoshuaUE99
, the other two Dem congressional candidates in the region.
Scooplet: The
@MTA
is poised to receive a $116M grant for 230 electric buses + a workplace training program, per
@SenSchumer
.
Money comes from the bipartisan infrastructure law and Schumer's green buses push.
Who is blame for the eviction moratorium not being extended?
@AOC
tells me there’s blame to go around.
“The White House knew about this for over a month … This is not all Republicans’ fault, when the House Democrats hold the majority.”
@NY1
From earlier today:
@EliseStefanik
participates in the hay bale toss at the Schoharie County Sunshine Fair.
This community was added to her district as part of redistricting.
The House Select Cmte investigating Jan. 6 has subpoenaed fmr WH Chief of Staff and NC Congressman Mark Meadows (letter attached), requesting documents and calling him in for a deposition.
#ncpol
Also subpoenaed: Daniel Scavino, Kashyap Patel, & Steve Bannon
Schumer says he regrets recruiting
@CalforNC
, per
@axios
#ncpol
“Schumer told party donors during recent calls that the death of [RBG] & the fact that Cal Cunningham ‘couldn't keep his zipper up’ crushed Democrats' chances of regaining the Senate”
Some personal news to share ... I am switching beats in our DC bureau.
I will soon begin reporting for
@NY1
& our Spectrum News stations across upstate NY. I'm excited to cover New York politics from Capitol Hill - it goes w/o saying, there's no shortage of stories to tell.