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David Axelrod
@davidaxelrod
Director, . Senior Political Commentator . Author, Believer: My Forty Years in Politics. Host of The Axe Files podcast.
S-a alăturat în ianuarie 2011
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U.S. local newspapers are dying at a rate of 2 per week. By 2025, a third of them will be gone. If you’re not convinced that’s a doomsday-level threat to democracy, read this state-by-state list of what local reporters uncovered in 2022. It’s a sample of what we stand to lose.
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She broke in May that Trump had approved of Hang Pence chant; in Jan that he explored seizing voting machines & in July revealed emails detailing "fake" elector plan
Story after story, it's hard to think of anyone who has exposed more damning facts
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Like her mentor, she'll never acknowledge the truth. She lost.
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The striking thing about the 1/6 committee report, beyond the copious telling of the chilling story, is just how many Trump apparatchiks/WH aides were seized by a sudden bout of forgetfulness when they testified.
Kudos to those who honored their oaths!
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Hilarious!
Message: Don't wake the sports guy up in the middle of the night to cover lousy weather!
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All in all, has had a hell of a legislative run--sometimes by laying back and allowing Ds and Rs on the Hill to work through good faith compromises and sometimes by pushing hard from his end of PA Avenue.
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Wow, someone has a pretty inflated sense of self!
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Lake said AZ Democrats stole and cheat. But ... "It was the Republicans who took this from us ... They ran a campaign to stop one of the most -- I am not saying this in a boastful way -- one of the most popular candidates we have ever seen in this state." #azgov (2)
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Trump improbably blames Pelosi for failing to prevent the 1/6 insurrection--though he's suggested that he would grant a blanket pardon for all those convicted of participating in it!
The folks he called "very special" on the day it all went down.
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Democrats were stunned to hear that McConnell is "more of a Democrat than a Republican."
And as to who has been "an absolute disaster" for the Republicans? Well...🤔
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A haggard-looking Trump issues a video today: “Mitch McConnell is an absolute disaster .. He’s more of a Democrat than a Republican. What he is doing to this party is incredible.”
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By my math, women and minorities will be 20% of the House GOP conference in 2023 - the highest share ever - and up from just 10% two years ago.
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FWIW, all the other presidents mentioned voluntarily released their tax returns. And why should you HAVE to request something that's already mandatory?
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Putin’s Press Secretary: “The President of Ukraine showed up at the WH dressed like the manager of a strip club and started to demand money. Amazingly, no one threw him out.”
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Discussing U.S. aid, Zelensky pointedly notes it is "not charity but an investment in global security and democracy that we handle in the most responsible way."
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Shrewd for Zelensky to weave Iran into the narrative, as he seeks to shore up support in Congress for new and future aid.
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How moving to hear this ovation for Zelensky, fresh from the battlefield, for him and, presumably, the valiant Ukrianian people!
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. may not have 's experience. But he does bring a rapier-like ability to communicate which, when you're in the minority, is a pretty valuable tool. Here he sums up the 's current morass pretty deftly.
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One small benefit of this long dreadful siege for Ukraine's courageous wartime leader: no more suits.
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The question is, why did the leaders of the IRS balk at auditing Trump when he was POTUS, as required by law? Is there an innocent explanation? Or were they were pressured to stand down?
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Make that 40-120 in 62!
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For those pleading the case for the long suffering @Mets fans, I was rooting for them when they were 40-122--still the worst record in history.
Seven years later, they swept the World Series with a team of young kids and old castoffs.
Memories you just can't buy!
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For those pleading the case for the long suffering fans, I was rooting for them when they were 40-122--still the worst record in history.
Seven years later, they swept the World Series with a team of young kids and old castoffs.
Memories you just can't buy!
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On the #AxeFiles, I asked Dr. Fauci about the pace of school re-openings during the pandemic. "Could we have done that better? Yes, of course...We didn't do it perfectly. Some things we did very well and some things we could have done better."
Pod👉link.chtbl.com/YgBT21YE
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Recounts should ba automatic if the margin falls within a small, contestable increment.
But when candidates or initiatives win by insurmountable margins--in these cases nearly 20 points!--those who demand recounts should pay the FULL cost of conducting them, not taxpayers.
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Opponents of early voting and abortion rights demanded hand recounts in MI of two initiatives that passed on 11/7 with overwhelming majorities.
A relative handful of votes changed.
What a waste of time and money! bridgemi.com/michigan-gover
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As a kid growing up in NYC, I loved the because they were plucky underdogs. Now they're the team anyone who loves baseball should root against, with a disreputable owner who is so blatantly trying to buy a title that you have to hope he fails.
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Opponents of early voting and abortion rights demanded hand recounts in MI of two initiatives that passed on 11/7 with overwhelming majorities.
A relative handful of votes changed.
What a waste of time and money!
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Year end , in which we hand out the coveted Hacky Awards for the best and worst in politics in '22 (Trump excluded because it was too obvious) and look ahead to '23!
Hacky holidays to one and all!
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Trump is the only president since Nixon who has refused to release his tax returns.
Presidents should be required by law to disclose their full returns.
(By the way, that more than his legal liabilties or even bad polls might give Trump pause about running again.)
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Under the compromise budget currently before Congress, Republicans blocked additinal funding for future pandemic preparedness. On the #AxeFiles, Dr. Fauci warns that this omission could put America "behind the eight ball" again.
Pod: link.chtbl.com/YgBT21YE
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On #AxeFiles, Dr. Fauci talks about leaving the NIH this month after half a century. "I have to say, it's bittersweet. I'm grateful for the opportunities I've had but I'm also sad about leaving so many people and so many memories."
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Given the rebuke of election deniers in the November election, Republicans need to consider how vigorously they want to contest the findings of the 1/6 committee, which were thorough and damning.
How many blows do they want to take for Trump?
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Whatever happens from here, whether Trump is criminally charged or not, he can't escape the stain of his disgraceful role in this horrendous chapter in American history.
It will be his epitaph.
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"Donald Trump knowingly and corruptly repeated election fraud lies."
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Nothing new. But strung together, a damning record.
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We know how Trump & his amen corner will react to today's hearing.
But amid all the cries of partisanship, it should be noted: the House GOP, prodded by Trump, turned down a proposal for a bipartisan 9/11-style commission to review the insurrection and events leading up to it.
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As a result of his leadership during the pandemic, Dr. Fauci & his family became the targets of constant trolling and threats, requiring security that will continue even when he leaves his post this month. On #AxeFiles, he talks about his "outrage."
Pod👉link.chtbl.com/YgBT21YE
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