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Staff writer, @TheAtlantic . NYT bestselling author of ROMNEY: A RECKONING. @MSNBC contributor. Tips/speaking invitations:

Washington, DC

https://t.co/jINX4lACLq

Joined February 2009

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McKay Coppins

8 months

Thrilled to share that my book ROMNEY: A RECKONING will debut at No. 3 on the New York Times Best Sellers list! Can't tell you how grateful I am for everyone who's bought the book, read it, shared it, and engaged with it. This entire experience has been surreal.

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McKay Coppins

4 years

Speaking two languages.

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What’s considered trashy if you're poor, but classy if you're rich?

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Saw a couple teenage boys messing with a Walgreens cashier to the point where she was near tears, and let me tell you, the experience unlocked a level of Stern Suburban Dad energy I didn’t know I had in me.

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4 years

Former aides say they’ve heard Trump privately ridicule conservative religious leaders, dismiss faith groups with cartoonish stereotypes, and deride rites and doctrines held sacred by many in his base. My story on what Trump really thinks about religion:

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Trump Secretly Mocks His Christian Supporters

Former aides say that in private, the president has spoken with cynicism and contempt about believers.

www.theatlantic.com

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McKay Coppins

3 years

Romney not persuaded by Republicans arguing that a Senate trial will further divide the country:

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McKay Coppins

4 years

My kids wanted to go to a movie today, so I made a movie theater. (I feel like if journalism doesn’t work out I could make it as, like, a crafty dad blogger.)

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Everyone is desensitized to it, but we really should be scandalized by what the president just did. It was dangerous, irresponsible, and terrible for the country. Also completely in character.

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Four days before Jan. 6, 2021, Mitt Romney sent this text message to Mitch McConnell. McConnell never responded. From @TheAtlantic ’s excerpt of ROMNEY: A RECKONING:

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My two oldest kids (8 and 6) ask me to tell them an “interesting fact” every night at bedtime. Having now exhausted my own supply of memorized trivia as well as several random lists on the internet, I’m taking suggestions below…

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McKay Coppins

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One thing that's quite clear watching Fox News these days: The hosts have seen all those supercuts that show them downplaying the coronavirus, and they're very sensitive about them.

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My main takeaway from that 60 Minutes thing is that the questions weren't... really tough? Like, at all?

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Hundreds of people dying in a day, makeshift hospital tents popping up in Central Park, bodies being loaded into refrigerated trucks, a Navy hospital ship pulling into the harbor—four weeks ago, this would have been dismissed as a wildly alarmist view of the coronavirus in NY.

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11yo daughter's bewildered reaction to watching Napoleon Dynamite for the first time: "I... don't know if that was good or bad?" Told her this is how we all felt in 2004, and to give it time.

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A 13-year-old actor tries to buy beer, cigarettes, porn, and lottery tickets, and is turned down every time. Then he walks into a gun show and legally buys a rifle.

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There’s just nothing we can do

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For two years, I met with Mitt Romney in his DC townhome as he grappled with what his party—and his country—were becoming. The stories he told me from inside the Senate were extraordinary and damning. ROMNEY: A RECKONING is out next month. First excerpt:

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What Mitt Romney Saw in the Senate

In an exclusive excerpt from my biography of the senator, Romney: A Reckoning, he reveals what drove him to retire.

www.theatlantic.com

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7 months

I would contend that the printer industry failed us as a generation. Have you encountered a printer in the last 20 years that is easy to set up and use, relatively affordable, and just consistently works without constant maintenance and fussing? I have not!

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Millennials got one thing wrong — not having printers in our homes.

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4 years

This is wild. Two Utah businesses instructed staff to ignore quarantine guidelines, resulting in 68 cases. At one of the businesses, half of the employees got it.

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"Nearly half of white students admitted to Harvard between 2009 and 2014 were recruited athletes, legacy students, children of faculty and staff, or on the dean’s interest list—applicants whose parents or relatives have donated to Harvard"

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To Get Into the Ivy League, ‘Extraordinary’ Isn’t Always Enough These Days

A star student finds herself with a pile of rejection letters during the most competitive college-applications year on record.

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3 years

It's remarkable how many on the right continue to place the burden of "healing" and "unity" on Joe Biden. You know Donald Trump is still president, right? And still lying to his supporters about the election being stolen? Maybe we should start there!

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Imagine how helpful it would be if @JoeBiden were to show some grace, call on Democrats to stand down, practice the healing he keeps preaching. Why won't he?

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4 years

Republican sources tell @bartongellman the Trump campaign "is discussing contingency plans to bypass election results and appoint loyal electors in battleground states where Republicans hold the legislative majority."

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The Election That Could Break America

If the vote is close, Donald Trump could easily throw the election into chaos and subvert the result. Who will stop him?

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McKay Coppins

4 years

Spent some time tonight with a low-income family who works in the service sector. They're struggling and scared. I know this will sound trite, but: It's hard for those of us in (relatively) comfortable positions to understand how truly dire this situation is for so many.

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My working theory is that this isn't strategic, these candidates just find Ramaswamy—both his personal style and much of his worldview—deeply annoying.

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The war on Vivek is strategically interesting.

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McKay Coppins

4 years

My most firmly held lukewarm take is that predicting election outcomes is not a very important journalism task. Political journalists don't need to do it, we're generally not good at it, and there are so many other more vital jobs to prioritize instead.

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4 years

Trump just approvingly shared a video that includes one of his supporters yelling “white power”

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Some of this is already happening, obviously, but it seems like very soon, social distancing is going to be treated by many primarily as a political act—a way of signaling which "side" you're on.

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If you are experiencing a genuinely emotional reaction to this Elon Musk story (one way or the other!) you may not have an entirely healthy relationship with Twitter.

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It went by fast, but I think Trump's unwillingness to call out white supremacists might be a moment that we remember from this debate.

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When the IHME model revised projected deaths down to 60K by the end of August, the coronavirus contrarians claimed victory. It's now early May, we're about to pass 70K deaths, and somehow the coronavirus contrarians are claiming victory again.

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Remember that 2017 internet gag where people would take Trump's tweets and reformat them as official presidential statements to underscore how ridiculous they were? Trump is apparently just... doing that himself now.

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5yo, staring grimly at the floor: “I got in trouble.” Me: “For what?” 5yo: “Doing what I had to do.”

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About that plot to kidnap the governor of Michigan...

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When Trump learned about a megachurch pastor trying to raise $60 million to buy a private jet, he was delighted by the "scam," according to Michael Cohen, and eager to highlight that the pastor was "full of sh*t." "They're all hustlers," Trump said.

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Trump Secretly Mocks His Christian Supporters

Former aides say that in private, the president has spoken with cynicism and contempt about believers.

www.theatlantic.com

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A funny thing about the MAGA outlets that pride themselves on their coziness with the White House is that they never break news on the White House.

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@RaeRoca Nothing scarier than Mom Voice. There was a mom who stepped in at the Walgreens too, and even I was intimidated.

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McKay Coppins

4 years

It is alarming how many people I've known at some point in my life (high school friends, etc.) are now following QAnon accounts on Facebook/Instagram. I doubt I'm the only one experiencing this.

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McKay Coppins

4 years

The gap between Romney and his party (at least at the national level) continues to grow.

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"She tested for coronavirus, and her results were delayed. Five days later, she was dead in her kitchen." She was 39 years old.

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This 39-year-old New Orleans woman tested for coronavirus. She died before getting her results.

She tested for coronavirus, and her results were delayed. Five days later, she was dead in her kitchen.

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3 years

Pulled up to a gas station yesterday with the family, where a young, stylish couple was sitting together on the hood of a sports car. Our 8yo daughter, who has apparently now learned about memes, casually told me and my wife, "That couple is expectations and you guys are reality"

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Trump: Declares nine different "Infrastructure Weeks," derails them all with various antics and scandals, fails to sign any major legislation because everyone in Congress hates him. Biden: Negotiates with Congress to pass a bipartisan $1 trillion infrastructure bill. Result:

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Does not seem ideal

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5 months

It's hard to overstate the degree of cynicism motivating Trump and his allies here. I think even a lot of people who profess to "hate politics" would be shocked if they understood how much of the dysfunction in institutions like the Senate is by design.

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Mitt Romney: “I think the border is a very important issue for Donald Trump. And the fact that he would communicate to Republican senators and congresspeople that he doesn't want us to solve the border problem because he wants to blame Biden for it is is really appalling."

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McKay Coppins

4 years

At their parents’ house in Maplewood, New Jersey

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I wonder where all those people whose twitter bios are like “London/Sao Paulo/NYC” have been for the last seven weeks

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I love it when Trump makes up some outlandish praise he claims to have received and then, in the process of making it up, becomes all impressed and flattered by it.

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Trump effectively requiring every Republican who wants a big job in his administration to come defend him outside the courthouse during his "hush money to cover up an affair with a porn star" trial is a real indicator of where American conservatism stands.

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🟡NEW: JD Vance is at the Trump trial today and @ShelbyTalcott reports Tim Scott is discussing a visit too. Sure looks like it'll be a VP litmus test by end of the week.

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C.D.C. data shows that nearly 40 percent of coronavirus patients sick enough to be hospitalized were 20-54

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My theory is that a large and growing number of prominent conservatives (politicians, media personalities, etc.) are incapable of even feigning fluency in fiscal policy because they've been talking about culture war stuff nonstop for like eight years.

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There are available SVB narratives that conservatives should like. (e.g., "Dems did too much fiscal stimulus while the Fed was asleep at the switch in 2021, and that necessitated these rapid rate hikes that made SVB insolvent") But they're mostly interested in prattling about DEI

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I find myself thinking about this at least once a day:

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This is a much more honest description of what's going on than all the conservative commentary straining to articulate first principles

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"When you have the votes, you can sort of do what you want," Trump tells Fox of comparisons to Obama/Garland.

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Tomorrow morning, @TheAtlantic is publishing a piece I've spent a good chunk of this year working on. It's an unusual—and unusually personal—story for me, and I'm eager/slightly terrified to share it. Watch this space!

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Ten years ago, Mitt Romney was ridiculed for saying Russia was America's number one geopolitical foe. I spoke with him last night. "You know, it’s hard for me to believe that they didn’t realize that I was right at the time. Because it was so obvious."

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Romney Was Right About Putin

A conversation with the Republican senator about Russia’s threat to the world, the members of the GOP who praise Putin, and how this conflict ends

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Wow. Utah Democrats just voted not to put forward a candidate for U.S. Senate, and will instead back @EvanMcMullin 's independent bid against Mike Lee. I wrote last year about Utah's cross-party anti-Lee coalition. That coalition will now be put to the test

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Inside the Red-State Plot to Take Down a Top Trump Ally

Mike Lee, the former Trump critic, and current Trump acolyte, may be vulnerable in 2022. An unusual coalition of opponents in Utah is trying to unseat him.

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How will the GOP recover from the complicity and corruption of the Trump era? To many Republicans, the answer is simple: Pretend it never happened. My story on the collective case of amnesia about to set in among conservatives:

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The Coming Republican Amnesia

How will the GOP recover from the Trump era? Pretend it never happened.

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4 years

PSA: My wife woke up at 5:45 am so that she could be at the polls here in VA when they opened, but found a massive line. I went a few hours later to vote around mid-morning and walked right in. Don't be deterred!

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Really feels like Trump’s whole approach here—beginning with the outlandish 3 am rant from the WH—has backfired with elected Republicans. Basically all of them are saying versions of this:

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GOP OHIO GOV. MIKE DEWINE on @FoxNews : "We count the votes. We believe in the rule of law. I am for Trump, but if it ends up being Biden, all of us will accept that... Every vote has to be counted. We as a country accept election results. We believe in counting all the votes."

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This is how I will choose to remember Lou Dobbs.

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4 years

Every couple days, someone in my life who isn't following the minute-to-minute insanity of Trump's legal team asks me "so uh is Joe Biden still going to be president?" and I just say "yes."

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I was at Steve Bannon’s rooftop Election Night party when reality started to set in—then I got dramatically kicked out. On failed prophecy, cognitive dissonance, and the future of Trumpism in America:

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When the MAGA Bubble Burst

At Steve Bannon’s Election Night party, bravado reigned. But reality quickly caught up with the Trumpism diehards.

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McKay Coppins

4 years

I wonder if this will be the standard when Trump is a former president.

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"I think President Obama should have kept his mouth shut," @senatemajldr said, calling it "a little bit classless" to criticize a sitting administration as a former president

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Well, not *everybody*

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4 years

Watch the video and then read the statement. The fact that so many police departments—already facing a massive crisis of credibility—are choosing to lie about things we can all see clearly on video is instructive.

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A BPD spokesperson released this update. Five people were arrested and another person was injured during a protest in Niagara Square tonight. @WKBW

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The greatest trick Trump ever pulled was convincing the world the last year of his presidency didn’t exist.

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Yet another example of “Donald Trump’s term ended in 2019”ism Violent crime spiked under Trump and has declined under Biden. Last year looks the single biggest one-year drop in homicides *in recorded history*

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Newt Gingrich trying to undermine faith in democratic institutions in pursuit of raw partisan power, you say? You may not be surprised to learn this is a pattern. My 2018 profile of him:

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The Man Who Broke Politics

Newt Gingrich turned partisan battles into bloodsport, wrecked Congress, and paved the way for Trump’s rise. Now he’s reveling in his achievements.

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This was the most surprising revelation to me after attending a Trump rally for the first time in four years:

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"According to two people with knowledge of the matter, Parscale Strategy has also been used to make payments out of public view to Lara Trump...and Kimberly Guilfoyle"

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How the Trump Campaign Took Over the G.O.P. (Published 2020)

The president’s campaign manager and his allies commandeered Republican voter data and fund-raising engines, consolidating power — and profiting — in ways never before possible.

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Some nights he vented; other nights he dished. I got the feeling he liked the company—our conversations sometimes stretched for hours. “A very large portion of my party,” Romney told me one day, “really doesn’t believe in the Constitution.”

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What Mitt Romney Saw in the Senate

In an exclusive excerpt from my biography of the senator, Romney: A Reckoning, he reveals what drove him to retire.

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One thing about Lou Dobbs is that—unlike pretty much everyone else in the MAGA media—he seems genuinely to believe the election was stolen. It's why he's so perplexed/enraged that every Republican he interviews is treating this like a game.

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Lou Dobbs suggests Republicans should just say "we're not going to accept the results of this election"

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Cleaning up after young kids means constantly having to guess whether stuff like this is garbage or the single most important possession that your 5-year-old daughter owns at this moment.

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7.5 million cases, 200K deaths, and a presidential hospitalization later, and we're back to "it's just the flu." Incredible.

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Two hundred years ago, a purported opening of the heavens in upstate New York launched one of the most peculiar and enduring religious movements in American history—one that I belong to. On faith, identity, and what the Mormon story says about America:

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The Most American Religion

Perpetual outsiders, Mormons spent 200 years assimilating to a certain national ideal—only to find their country in an identity crisis. What will the third century of the faith look like?

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One of the more dangerous legacies of January 6th is that so many elected Republicans now treat Trump's post-election behavior as the new transfer-of-power baseline. "All he did was refuse to concede the election, lean on some state officials to tamper with vote totals, try to

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I still can’t believe this happened. When Jamie Weinstein said that Trump “tried to maintain power” after losing the 2020 election, Rep. Dan Crenshaw shot back with this excuse: “I’m not sure how hard he tried.” He then went on to add that Trump only tried by using “words and

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Gonna need to see some polling before I can offer a take on Scott Baio's chances against Mitt Romney in Utah

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"Mitt Romney lost by 5 million votes in 2012 and sparked a 100-page RNC autopsy report. Donald Trump lost by 7 million and there isn’t a peep."

‘Everything’s great’: GOP ditches election post-mortems

Mitt Romney lost by 5 million votes in 2012 and sparked a 100-page RNC autopsy report. Donald Trump lost by 7 million and there isn’t a peep.

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3 years

Romney statement: “We gather today due to a selfish man’s injured pride and the outrage of his supporters whom he has deliberately misinformed for the past two months and stirred to action this very morning. What happened here today was an insurrection, incited by the President“

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"Do you think your tweets turn people off?" "THIS LINE OF QUESTIONING IS OUTRAGEOUS, I WILL NOT DIGNIFY IT ANY LONGER WITH MY PRESENCE"

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4 months

Thinking tonight about all those Republican officials and strategists who told me in January 2023 that they really didn't want Trump to be their nominee again and that their main strategy for beating him was "hope he somehow doesn't become the nominee."

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Republicans’ 2024 Magical Thinking

Lots of Republicans want Donald Trump to disappear from politics. Their main strategy is hope.

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4 years

Pro-Trump poll-watchers are set to fan out across battleground states in the coming days—smartphones in hand—to hunt for evidence of voter fraud. Brace for a blizzard of misleading, out-of-context videos. My final story before the election:

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The Trump Campaign’s Chaotic Closing Strategy

Its “election-security operation” has the potential to wreak havoc next week.

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What’s so jarring about this isn’t even the mendacity, it’s the confidence that he can get away with it just *months* after the riot took place. We literally all saw it on TV! Not that long ago!

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I asked Mitt Romney about Trump’s conviction. Here’s what he said:

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I mean, the questions were fine. But this was not some kind of wildly hostile grilling that should have triggered a presidential fight-or-flight response.

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I obtained a recording of a private meeting Trump had with religious right leaders in 2016. It's pretty revealing (especially when considering that, per Pew, most rank-and-file white evangelicals believe Trump is a religious man).

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Mormons are encouraged to do this every month, except they donate the money to people in need instead of, um, political candidates in need.

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Arizona Senator @MarthaMcSally , who is down five points in the polls vs @CaptMarkKelly , suggests to her supporters that they “fast a meal” and give her campaign the money that they saved from fasting.

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ICYMI: Per @TimAlberta , RNC chair Ronna McDaniel privately told "multiple confidants that she doubted there was any scalable voter fraud in Michigan." But she said she had to parrot Trump's narrative to prove she was willing to "fight."

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Once, years ago, Melania informed Trump that their son was at a playdate with a Jewish girl from his school. “Great,” Trump said to Michael Cohen, who is Jewish. “I’m going to lose another one of my kids to your people.”

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Trump Secretly Mocks His Christian Supporters

Former aides say that in private, the president has spoken with cynicism and contempt about believers.

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When we start seeing each other in person again, I'm going to be deeply resentful—and slightly suspicious—of anyone who didn't get fatter during this pandemic.

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@AsteadWesley Increasingly convinced that millennials will be the most embarrassing parent generation of all time.

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After a day of effort, I’m sad to report that the odds of me not constantly touching my face going forward are extremely low.

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The thing about the M&M story is that every single part of it is funny. The original news is funny, the backlash is funny, the people smugly making fun of the backlash are funny, the fact that we are about to enter day 3 of the discourse is funny. It's all just so deeply stupid!

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Donald Trump has published his review of my book, ROMNEY: A RECKONING (in stores tomorrow!)

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Incredible: 64% of Republicans say Donald Trump is a "person of faith." Only 34% say Mitt Romney is.

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Today is my 7yo son's first day of going to school without a mask. He and his friend made a plan to keep their masks on until they get to their class, then rip them off and reveal their faces to each other at the same time.

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Went in to say goodnight to my 10yo daughter and found seven (7) glasses in her room. When I chided her, she got super excited. “Dad, go look at the paper on my desk!” It said, “I bet $1 million that dad will yell at me about how many glasses are in my room - January 19, 2024”

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A fascinating (and kind of hilarious) finding in this Pew survey: Mormons are among the least popular religious groups in America. They are also the only group that expresses a net favorable opinion of *every other group,* including Muslims and atheists.

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One former Trump adviser told me he seems to feel a kind of kinship with certain prosperity gospel preachers:

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I’ll be honest, “the Trump campaign runs out of money” was not on my radar for October 2020 storylines.

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NEW: It’s not just Iowa and Ohio. Trump also has scaled back TV ads significantly in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota — signaling a retreat from the Midwest.

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5yo son: "I want to have your job when I grow up." Me [beaming with pride]: "You do?" 5yo: "Yeah, because it seems really easy."

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Trump “has just signaled to the Kremlin that if elected, he would not only refuse to defend Europe, but he would gladly support Vladimir Putin during World War III and even encourage him to do as he pleases to America’s allies.”

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Trump Encourages Putin to Attack NATO Members

At a rally on Saturday, the former president announced he would tell the Russians “to do whatever the hell they want” to states delinquent in their bills.

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Asked if she was coloring on the walls, our 2yo stared at my wife blank-faced, said "I don't want to tell you," and then snapped her crayons in half without breaking eye contact.

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Let us pause to reflect on the number of prominent Republican politicians who watched Mike Pence's trajectory over the last 8 years and thought, "Yes I want that, sign me up."

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NEW: Trump VP list is winnowing down to Gov Burgum, Sens Rubio, Vance + Scott. They will appear w/donors at RNC retreat in Palm Beach this weekend. No formal meetings with Trump yet to talk about the job (tho he speaks to all of them regularly):

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This profile of General Milley by @JeffreyGoldberg is, among other things, deeply disquieting. It's hard to pick out just one anecdote. Make time for the whole thing:

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How General Mark Milley protected the Constitution from Donald Trump

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Incredible. Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler says she's "not familiar" with the Access Hollywood tape.

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Sen. Loeffler: 'Not familiar' with Access Hollywood tape

Sen. Kelly Loeffler said Wednesday that she will "always" defend President Donald Trump.

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For what it's worth, Romney has explicitly rejected this scenario—both to me and, as I report in my recent biography, to Manchin—because he's worried that a third-party ticket will help reelect Trump.

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“What do you say to Americans that are scared?” NBC’s @PeterAlexander asks. “I say you’re a terrible reporter,” Trump snaps.

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