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Sr editor @thedispatch , coauthor of the Collision newsletter, cohost of the @SubBeacon podcast. Former @cnn @weeklystandard Email: warren @thedispatch .com.

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@MichaelRWarren
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@mkraju According to David Holmes’s opening statement obtained by @mkraju and @jeremyherb , Holmes could hear Sondland tell Trump on the phone that President Zelensky “loves your ass.” Trump responded “So, he’s gonna do the investigation?” “Sondland; “He’s gonna do it."
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Three sources confirm to CNN that Kurt Volker has resigned from his State Department post. First broken by the State Press, Arizona State University’s school paper:
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My God. Romney running, saved by Goodman.
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NEW: A growing number of Republican leaders are telling CNN Trump must be removed from office before Jan. 20. "He has to be impeached and removed," said one current Republican elected official. From @jamiegangel and me.
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After Elizabeth Warren told an activist last night that her kids "went to public schools," campaign admits Warren sent her son to a private school after the 5th grade.
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On CNN just now @MarkSanford , considering a primary challenge to @RealDonaldTrump , tells @jaketapper he hears from people on the ground “a level of weariness with the bully in the schoolyard routine."
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My five-year-old just walked into my room, said that there are "only two pieces of coronavirus left" and that it's "almost over," and then turned around and left.
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New from me and @jamiegangel on Liz Cheney's latest comments, in a behind-the scenes interview with Paul Ryan at the AEI retreat today: "We can't embrace the notion the election is stolen. It's a poison in the bloodstream of our democracy."
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Just asked Ken Buck why he's on this letter. "I'm not," he said.
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The 8 who ousted McCarthy say they are willing to accept “censure, suspension or removal from the conference” to get Jordan the gavel.
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Speaking to CNN from what he said was his room at the Trump International in DC Thursday morning, Giuliani claimed he has a “nice little trail” of text messages between him and Karl Volker, the top US diplomat to Ukraine, showing Volker encouraging him.
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Sondland is scheduled to testify publicly on Wednesday, November 20.
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Exclusive: Giuliani pushed State Dept. and White House to grant a visa to a former Ukrainian official promising dirt on Democrats. Reporting from @mkraju , @kylieatwood , @FoxReports @jeremyherb and me.
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Notable call from National Review for Republican senators to buck the president on the national emergency declaration. “If anyone shouldn’t be okay with this, it’s Congress."
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EDITORIAL | Senate Republicans should vote to disapprove the emergency declaration on principle and out of institutional self-respect.
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When my wife shows me the monthly credit card statement and it just has Target purchases for 3 straight pages.
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Here’s the full statement from Holmes:
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During a break about an hour ago, Mike Braun and Mitt Romney were talking on the Senate floor. Braun: “I think we’ve got another 6 hours.” Romney: “Oh jeez. No one’s watching!” Tim Scott later said something to Romney, to which Romney responded, “I’m dying, I’m dying!"
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@kaitlancollins @jaketapper You're both overlooking the more important Auburn loss to Vandy that season.
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NEW from me: WH budget office, not DeVos, pushed for proposed Special Olympics cuts, official says
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6 years
Please read Andy Ferguson on George H.W. Bush. A wonderful, beautiful tribute to the last World War 2 president.
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6 years
Said farewell to what until yesterday was the @weeklystandard office. I owe my career, such that it is, to Fred Barnes, Bill Kristol, Terry Eastland, and Phil Anschutz, who hired me right out of school to do my dream job.
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The @weeklystandard editors, on the Cohen filings. "The documents are, even for those skeptical of the left’s 'collusion' narrative, deeply incriminating."
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Some Rudy NEWS: He says he won’t testify to Congress without consulting his client, Trump.
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By declaring a national emergency, Trump would likely trigger a series of events that would make things extremely difficult for Senate Republicans—which is why they’ve been trying to discourage him any way they can.
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Tune to CNN, where @mkraju is reading from opening statement of Bill Taylor’s aide David Holmes who overheard the Sondland-Trump phone call.
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Education staffers are telling people it was a "week from hell" after DeVos was pilloried for defending proposed cuts to the Special Olympics they had internally opposed--only to have Trump reverse it and claim credit.
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6 years
Old and busted and 2018: Relitigating the 2016 election. New and hot and 2019: Relitigating the 2012 election.
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8 months
A guy sitting at the bar here in Milford NH takes off his coat as soon as Chris Sununu introduces Nikki Haley to reveal a “Never Nikki” shirt. He also pulls out a Trump hat. He ate at the bar but was taken out of the restaurant.
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After Donald Trump said “nobody’s gotten to the bottom of 9/11” the day before his NJ golf club hosts the Saudi-backed LIV tour, 9/11 families activist Terry Strada tells ⁦⁦ @jaketapper ⁩ Trump “knows full well it was the Kingdom.”
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A look from @jamiegangel and me at the behind-the-scenes lobbying effort by influential Republicans to get GOP senators to vote to convict Trump. There's even a 9-point memo circulating among Republicans in DC.
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It's long been an odd union between Trump and his vice president. Now the Ukraine mess is causing anxiety in Pence world. With reporting from @PamelaBrownCNN , @Acosta , and me.
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If elected, Bernie Sanders would be the first president since Rutherford Hayes whose name ends in the letter “s.” We will need to determine, once and for all, whether the possessive form will be Sanders’s or Sanders’. (The correct answer is the former, fight me.)
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This pre-inauguration quote from Mick Mulvaney in @TimAlberta ’s new book is something.
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Mike Warren
3 years
CNN has learned that multiple GOP senators and donors are asking NRSC chair Rick Scott about why his political consultants are also working with Sean Parnell in the PA Senate primary, according to 3 Republicans with knowledge. Story w/⁦ @SaraMurray
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Mike Warren
6 years
Rand Paul's recent embrace of Trump seems to have paid off for him. Senate sources tell me today's decision is in large part thanks to Paul's lobbying of the president.
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Rand Paul
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I am happy to see a President who can declare victory and bring our troops out of a war. It’s been a long time since that has happened.
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Republican Voters Against Trump is launching a $2 million ad buy in Arizona and North Carolina as Trump and Biden campaigns up their own ad spending in several red states Trump won in 2016. New with @DavidWright_7 :
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First on CNN: Trump told Perry and State Department officials as early as May to talk to Giuliani about Ukraine
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Incredible, from @kylieatwood and @Kevinliptakcnn :
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Multiple Republicans are considering supporting impeachment, sources say From @jamiegangel and me.
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Not only did Ian Holm play Bilbo in the Peter Jackson LOTR films, he played Frodo in the excellent BBC radio adaptation from the early 80s. With Bill Nighy as Samwise! RIP.
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Ian Holm, star of Lord of the Rings, Alien and Chariots of Fire, dies aged 88
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Bill Kristol is an honorable man of integrity. You, on the other hand, act uncharitably toward those you disagree with and distort the truth about them. I'm proud to be associated with Bill and the Weekly Standard. I'd be ashamed to be associated with you.
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Very proud to have written the cover story for the new issue of @weeklystandard .
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This is remarkable. Two-term GOP former governor Rick Snyder says he won't support Trump.
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I asked @GlennYoungkin three times this afternoon if he thinks something like Texas's 6-week abortion ban should be the law of Virginia. Each time he criticized @TerryMcAuliffe 's position on abortion as extreme but didn't answer the question.
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NEWS: Pompeo has lost confidence at State amid impeachment probe With @kylieatwood
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2 years ago today, the Weekly Standard ended. It was a lively magazine that was so much fun to read. The Standard had a distinct voice, fostered strong writing and was a great place for a young reporter to learn about Washington journalism.
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Talked to @CornelWest outside the United Center a few minutes ago. He said he’s not dropping out and not endorsing Harris. Asked about RFK Jr’s apparent plans to drop out, West said: “That brother, he’s going through some conniptions.”
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The Trump budget is a reminder that budget hawks like Mick Mulvaney have bent to Trump, not the other way around.
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Giuliani tells CNN, when asked if he is still the President’s attorney, “yes."
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Manu Raju
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Trump wouldn’t say Friday whether Rudy Giuliani is still his personal attorney when pressed by @PamelaBrownCNN “Well I don’t know. I haven’t spoken to Rudy. I spoke to him yesterday briefly. He’s a very good attorney and he has been my attorney, yeah, sure”
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A little new reporting on the Pence-Cheney exchange: the criticism from Cheney shocked and thrilled much of the crowd. The exchange became the talk of the conference, especially among the Trump-skeptical donors and scholars.
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This is a Rush Limbaugh-ism.
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Maggie Haberman
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POTUS has a new anti-media line, this time about CBS's Sunday news show, which in Lima he calls, "Deface the Nation."
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3 years
More from Cheney: "We can't whitewash what happened on January 6 or perpetuate Trump's big lie. It is a threat to democracy. What he did on January 6 is a line that cannot be crossed."
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Mike Warren
4 years
A cold war is underway within the Republican Party as its members begin to navigate how former President Donald Trump and his legacy fit into the GOP's future.
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Mike Warren
4 years
But also making the rounds with Republicans is the set of talking points, which charges that "it is difficult to find a more anti-conservative outburst by a U.S. president than Donald Trump the last two months."
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6 years
Pelosi schools Trump in the art of power @CNNPolitics
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Over the course of multiple interviews Thursday, Giuliani complained the whistleblower was treated better than him, a guy looking for dirt on Biden. "I should be as sympathetic as a whistleblower. I did my job and now all these people are torturing me.”
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"Put it this way, I am very glad my boss isn't on the ballot this cycle." New from @ryanobles and me on the new concern Republican operatives have for Trump's reelection -- and retaining the Senate majority.
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News: Rudy Giuliani tells me some of the documents in the State IG’s briefing to Congress originated with him. He says he “routed” them in late March. Giuliani adds that Pompeo told him he’d be referring the contents for investigation.
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5 years
When asked if he was concerned about being subpoenaed by the House, Giuliani laughed. "I consider them a joke. A sad joke. They have no legitimacy. I would think of challenging their subpoena on the grounds that they're not a legitimate committee.”
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One of the highest-ranking former Trump administration officials to endorse Biden, Miles Taylor, was chief of staff to DHS secretary Kirstjen Nielsen. With @JDiamond1 and @jaketapper
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I can’t get over this phrase; “Her whole life, her parents had helped her avoid sauce” is something else.
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After the session started again, a page brought Joni Ernst a glass of milk, prompting laughter from Martha McSally and Josh Hawley, who were next to her. Ernst looked up at this reporter in the gallery, held up her glass and gave a thumbs up before taking a sip. #milkwatch2020
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The @weeklystandard is a writer's magazine—not just a place for writers to flourish relatively freely, but a place where editors appreciate, foster, and partner with writers. A truly blessed and wonderful place to work.
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3 years
Notable comment from @Mike_Pence tonight at conservative youth conference in Houston. “I want to encourage anyone here who hasn’t gotten the shot who’s eligible to go get it. And if you’re not sure about it, go ask your doctor and get the very best advice that you can.”
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News from @VickyPJWard : Giuliani associate willing to tell Congress Nunes met with ex-Ukrainian official to get dirt on Biden
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Why is it that Rogue One, which I'm rewatching now, captures the feel of the original Star Wars trilogy better than any of the other movies? What went right in the production process that didn't in the other ones?
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3 years
Trump jokes for the second time tonight that he'd prefer Stacey Abrams to Brian Kemp for governor of Georgia.
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A crowd in Richmond waiting for @NikkiHaley event, beginning momentarily. Haley will also be in Tysons Corner in NoVa tonight. Virginia is a Super Tuesday state.
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2 years
After 2020 and the fallout from Brad Raffensperger's public feud with Donald Trump, Republicans in Georgia told me Raffensperger had no shot to being renominated in 2022. Tonight, he's currently on top and hovering just above 50%.
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Trump's ACTUAL quote was "Milwaukee has certainly had its share of visitors. The French missionaries and explorers were going there as early as the late 1600s to trade with the Native Americans. Actually, it's pronounced 'milly-wah-kay,' which is Algonquin for 'the good land.'"
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3 years
You can watch it on CNN right now, @Mike_Pence is defending his role on Jan. 6 2021. Just now: "I heard this week that President Trump said I had the right to overturn the election. President Trump is wrong. I had no right to overturn the election."
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It’s the eve of the impeachment trial, but Mitch McConnell’s not losing sleep over procedural questions. His main concern, and I cannot stress this enough, is keeping the majority in 2020. New from me on the efforts to keep the Senate Republican:
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Chris Christie still battles coronavirus as other senior Republicans try to carry on
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By my count there are 7 sitting senators who went to Harvard Law School during Dershowitz’s tenure there, plus Elizabeth Warren, who taught there.
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*Correction, should be Kurt Volker, not Karl.
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@weeklystandard I owe Steve Hayes for his leadership and his mentorship. I owe Richard Starr for giving me a shot and supporting me. I owe so many at the Standard for great friendships, including godparents for my two sons. I owe this magazine as a reader and as an employee. I miss it already.
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SC's flag is far and away #1 that it almost seems silly to rank the rest.
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Flags, ranked: #FlagDay 10. RI 9. OH 8. IA 7. TX 6. NM 5. CO 4. CA 3. TN 2. AZ 1. SC
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!! "Mr. Trump is at even greater risk in the next-largest red state in the South: Georgia. In the latest Republican polling, Mr. Trump has fallen several points behind Mr. Biden in the state..." !!
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A year ago today, the Weekly Standard ended. There was no other magazine like it. I miss it as much as a reader as I do as an employee. All great things must end, but we still have the memories and (in my basement) the print archives!
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5 years
NEWS: Giuliani considers launching an impeachment podcast Coming up live on CNN with @PamelaBrownCNN on this story shortly.
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@weeklystandard And I owe all the readers, who it's all about. Thanks for reading.
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New from me: Republicans across the country are looking to Georgia's newly reelected Gov. @BrianKempGA for inspiration on how to take on Donald Trump and win. “If you don't take the bait, you've got a pretty good chance of winning."
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Some more from Buck:
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REP. BUCK tells me : "I have not signed the letter. I'm not going to sign the letter. I am not in favor of electing Jim Jordan speaker." He said it was a "misunderstanding" because he "helped draft a letter during the last speaker vote."
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Humbled to add that this will also be the final cover for the @weeklystandard .
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Very proud to have written the cover story for the new issue of @weeklystandard .
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@kylieatwood “If there is something really problematic, it’s Rudy,” one former Trump White House official told CNN.
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6 years
"When Manafort publicly signed onto the campaign, Stone called me, singing 'Back In The Saddle Again.’”
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A tense moment in a closed-door meeting between House Republicans and a US Chamber lobbyist. Departures of some important Chamber people, including its top tax lobbyist just last week. Read @mkraju , @arogDC and me on the GOP/business community break-up.
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Mike Warren
4 years
The contact tracing effort from the White House is pretty lackadaisical. Rudy Giuliani, who tested negative, informed the few people he says he came in contact with they could be exposed. No one at the White House told him to report back.
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First elected to the Senate as a Democrat in 1986, reelected in 1992, and then switched parties the day after the 1994 midterm elections, when Republicans won a narrow Senate majority.
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GOP Sen. Richard Shelby, who is 86: “Today I announce that I will not seek a seventh term in the United State Senate in 2022. For everything, there is a season.”
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How Georgia's pro-Trump election chief became the bane of the GOP
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Finally giving the fans what they want: more and longer official reviews with zebras staring at TV screens.
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CNN
5 years
The NFL says pass interference non-calls can be reviewed next season
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As Trump readies summer rallies and speeches, allies worry he's stuck in the past New reporting from ⁦ @GabbyOrr_ ⁩, ⁦ @DanaBashCNN ⁩, and me on Trump’s fixation on relitigating 2020 as he kicks off a busy summer of public appearances.
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Mike Warren
5 years
"Journalists were not invited to Mr. Trump’s campaign breakfast, but a New York Times reporter was dining in the restaurant as a guest."
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Maggie Haberman
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“Mr. Trump, who does not enjoy extensive travel, agreed to the West Coast swing if he could stay at his hotel in Las Vegas, people familiar with the planning said.”
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I wrote two weeks ago about how the trade war threatens the economy in the heart of Trump Country, the American South, where lots of car manufacturing is done.
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As @DavidMDrucker and I reported nearly a month ago, Haley is acting like it's 2024 or bust for her.
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Nikki Haley: “Many of the same politicians who now publicly embrace Trump, privately dread him. They know what a disaster he’s been and will continue to be… I feel no need to kiss the ring. I have no fear of Trump's retribution. I'm not looking for anything from him.”
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