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Jen 'now @jenrubin9' Rubin retweeted
In a bleak election cycle for Democrats, Rep. @RubenGallego defeated Kari Lake in the Arizona Senate race, outpacing Kamala Harris by roughly four points and by nine points among Latino men, @JRubinBlogger writes.
Democrats want to know how he did it: wapo.st/3ZGtCXb
Jen 'now @jenrubin9' Rubin retweeted
I’m running to serve as Virginia’s next Governor, because I want to get things done on the issues that unite us: our schools, the safety of our kids, and the future of our fundamental rights.
In Congress, I have a record of bringing people together. I’ll do the same in Richmond.
"If she can persuade voters sick of politics to listen to her common-sense appeal, Spanberger stands a good chance to win," @JRubinBlogger writes. wapo.st/3V4SdmM
Jen 'now @jenrubin9' Rubin retweeted
Since Biden began considering an amnesty for people at risk of retribution from Trump and his FBI pick (who has an enemies list), myth-spinning about pardons have spread, @JRubinBlogger writes.
Biden should pay attention to history and case law: wapo.st/4gAqgMb
Jen 'now @jenrubin9' Rubin retweeted
Biden must ignore pardon myths and protect Patel’s and Trump’s targets, @JRubinBlogger writes. wapo.st/49HJnS1
Jen 'now @jenrubin9' Rubin retweeted
.@JRubinBlogger on Kash Patel, "It's not merely because he has a hit list ... It's that he is completely incapable of carrying out the very serious duties of the FBI ... Do Republicans really want to put in someone who is a nut and patently incompetent?"
Jen 'now @jenrubin9' Rubin retweeted
ACDS deepened work examining election integrity by hosting a pre-election panel on the challenges & opportunities to protect election administration & systems w experts @JRubinBlogger, @EKamarck, @BenLGinsberg, & Ezra Rosenberg from @LawyersComm 4/7
brookings.edu/events/making-…
Jen 'now @jenrubin9' Rubin retweeted
Biden’s $1 trillion investment is a model for economic growth, @JRubinBlogger writes. wapo.st/41ipGOQ
Jen 'now @jenrubin9' Rubin retweeted
“You can get people to vote away their democracy… as long as you create a false world for them to believe in.” - @HC_Richardson on how fear and disinformation helped shape this election. #TheWeeklyShow #JonStewart #Trump #Economy
Jen 'now @jenrubin9' Rubin retweeted
I am normally a Pelosi fan but this is unfair. If there had been a primary the sitting VP would have won. The risk in that scenario was another 2016 Clinton v Bernie faction split.
IMO, knowing what we know now, no Democrat was going to win, no matter how they were selected.
Nancy Pelosi to the NYT: “had the president [Biden] gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race.”
“The anticipation was that, if the president were to step aside, that there would be an open primary. “
“And as I say, Kamala may have, I think she would have done well in that and been stronger going forward. But we don’t know that. That didn’t happen. We live with what happened. And because the president endorsed Kamala Harris immediately, that really made it almost impossible to have a primary at that time. If it had been much earlier, it would have been different”
Jen 'now @jenrubin9' Rubin retweeted
Democrats don’t have a messaging problem. They have a distribution problem.
Liberals need to get innovative about how they’ll push out the truth amid this information ecosystem dominated by a powerful right-wing disinformation machine.
Jen 'now @jenrubin9' Rubin retweeted
"The problem is most people simply do not absorb quality information. Instead, increasing numbers have a media diet that is mostly a bunch of lies, conspiracy theories, and irrelevant diatribes that right-wing propagandists use to deceive people." salon.com/2024/11/08/america…
Jen 'now @jenrubin9' Rubin retweeted
The Harris campaign — and the Biden presidency — have been in both word & action the most aggressively pro-worker efforts of their kind in American history. So, genuinely, respectfully: what the fuck is he talking about?
Bernie Sanders: “It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them. First, it was the white working class, and now it is Latino and Black workers as well. While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they’re right.”
Jen 'now @jenrubin9' Rubin retweeted
We are already seeing the rationalizing of how we got here and the blaming of the political party that, though flawed, actually reflects multiracial democracy. We must resist this. Voters knew exactly who Trump was and chose him anyway. This is not about the so-called excesses of the left. As the NYT editorial board writes, Trump ran the "most racist, sexist, and xenophobic campaign in modern history." As NYT reporter Lisa Lerer wrote today, "This was a conquering of the nation not by force but with a permission slip. Now, America stands on the precipice of an authoritarian style of governance never before seen in its 248-year history." This is the unsparing truth that we must confront.
Jen 'now @jenrubin9' Rubin retweeted
There will be a lot of finger pointing & analyzing every data point. But let’s not miss the forest for the trees here- this is an embrace of nationalism. It’s not complicated or unique.The roots of this organizing principle are in fact the foundational organizing principles of 🇺🇸
Jen 'now @jenrubin9' Rubin retweeted
Our nation’s democratic system functioned last night and we have a new President-elect. All Americans are bound, whether we like the outcome or not, to accept the results of our elections. We now have a special responsibility, as citizens of the greatest nation on earth, to do everything we can to support and defend our Constitution, preserve the rule of law, and ensure that our institutions hold over these coming four years. Citizens across this country, our courts, members of the press and those serving in our federal, state and local governments must now be the guardrails of democracy.
Jen 'now @jenrubin9' Rubin retweeted
Watch "JD Vance you just f'ed up in a way I've never seen in my pollical life and I worked for Sarah Palin" - Nicole Wallace
JD Vance just called Kamala Harris TRASH at his final rally in Atlanta, Georgia.
Jen 'now @jenrubin9' Rubin retweeted
If Democrats win NC and WI, Anderson and @benwikler deserve massive amounts of credit & ought to become models for how we build the party.
Jen 'now @jenrubin9' Rubin retweeted
"@tbonier, a senior adviser at market research firm TargetSmart, has identified a few trends suggesting that a female backlash against Trump is already underway."
More in Opinion by @JRubinBlogger in @washingtonpost ⬇️
To put it plainly, Trump’s thrashing at the hands of a smart, strong Black woman — who ridicules his crowd size and calls him a loser — has utterly unnerved him. He practically foams at the mouth talking about her, no doubt unhinged by the prospect that he could very well lose the White House, this time to a woman, and face renewed prosecution.
wapo.st/3UEF2ZQ
Jen 'now @jenrubin9' Rubin retweeted
BREAKING: New exit poll tracking just found early voters who identified as Latino in Pennsylvania moved 9 points toward Kamala Harris in the week following Donald Trump’s disastrous MSG rally. This is huge.
Jen 'now @jenrubin9' Rubin retweeted
What a long, strange trip it’s been–and who knows if it’s over? ALL-NEW @TalkingFedsPod with none other than @davidfrum, @JRubinBlogger & @stuartpstevens to size up both closing arguments, the role of Elon Musk & the prospects for trouble ahead. Link at bit.ly/FuhrerTF
