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i’ve heard the same as @seungminkimhttps://twitter.com/seungminkim/status/1395806804551114758 …

bunch of spelling errors here. sorry.https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1395807308702175237 …

this statement says voters wont care if you’re nice to joe manchin This statement also says Dems should forget bipartisanship to forget bipartisanship, joe manchin is critical.https://twitter.com/emrwilkins/status/1395784077911990273 …

agree with @lloydblankfein’s first sentence here.https://twitter.com/annaknicolaou/status/1395766179503955971 …

Indeed.https://twitter.com/uwsgeezer/status/1395740198458126344 …

And he’s spoken publicly about reforming the filibuster, and acknowledges its being “abused.” Yet the 36-year-Senate veteran hasn't called for its outright end.

He’s called for a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines as the country has faced a wave of mass shootings, yet Biden knows there’s no way to get it through a 50-50 Senate.

Biden has been pressed by the left to expand the Supreme Court. He doesn’t like the idea, so what did he do? He named a commission to study it.

Within two weeks, Biden issued a new executive order -- the United States would accept 62,500 refugees in FY 2020, and 125,000 in 2021. It’s not clear if the administration can make this goal, but Biden defused a problem with his left.

But when Biden decided to keep in place a Trump administration cap of 15,000 refugees for the rest of this fiscal year, it led to an explosion of anger from immigration advocates, who screamed that he was going back on a campaign promise.

Biden initially won praise from immigration advocates for canceling former President Donald Trump’s border wall and canceling the travel ban. Biden has also introduced a broad immigration plan that includes a path to citizenship for undocmented immigrants.

Biden gave progressives nearly everything they wanted on the American Rescue Plan, and followed that up with even more in the American Jobs Plan and American Family Plan. But when @SenSchumer er (D-N.Y.) and @SenWarren pressed him to wipe out student loan debt, Biden said no.

→ The Swerve Man. We’ve been trying to come up with a description of Biden’s approach to big issues. He moves right, then left. He tacks back and forth. Mostly left, but not always. He takes it issue by issue, but in reality, Biden is a swerver.

In public, Biden tacitly pushed for a cease-fire, which irritated Rs. The US blocked any action by the U.N. Security Council against Israel, & admin officials -- including Biden & Blinken -- held hectic talks with Egyptian President Sisi and other regional allies on the crisis.

Despite growing pressure from Hill Democrats to publicly intervene, Biden dealt with it his way -- behind the scenes. In a half-dozen calls with @Netanyahu, Biden pressed the longtime Israeli leader to scale back the IDF military campaign in Gaza while pledging U.S. support

→ No saber rattling. We just watched Biden handle his first major foreign policy crisis: a bloody 11-day showdown between Israel and Hamas. There were no threats or demands issued from the Oval Office, no Twitter broadsides.