SPOTTED: Speaker Johnson, on his phone and checking out the Drudge Report during Trump’s speech last night. The website’s headline at the time was about … the stock market crash
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Alex Roarty
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Alex Roarty
@Alex_Roarty
Washington, DC
Joined March 2009
- i think if you're a dem incumbent tonight you don't want to overreact to a mayoral race in NYC but you also maybe want to think a littttle harder about making sure your dem constituents don't view you as some kind of useless appendage for a ineffective party
- if it wasn't obvious before, it should be now that the debate over the transgender community in this country has moved on from their participation in scholastic sports to whether they should exist in mainstream society at allIt's time to have an honest conversation about what happens when we "affirm" and coddle mental illness in this country. We can no longer tip-toe around this issue.
00:00 - Two sources familiar tell @reesejgorman and I that Tillis considered resigning immediately, though he ultimately opted to serve the remainder of his term through '26New: Sen. Thom Tillis Announces His Retirement After Opposing Trump’s Bill Abrupt decision leaves GOP scrambling to run a replacement in state, already the Dems' top target for '26. A R operative tho says they've been considered Tillis alts for months notus.org/senate/thom-ti…
- New internal poll from Jared Golden shows him leading LePage by a single point. It also shows Golden’s possible primary opponent, State Auditor Matt Dunlap, trailing LePage by 10 points
- New: Spokesman for Sherrod Brown pushes back on report he is not considering running for Senate. “The Politico story is untrue, Sherrod is considering all his options and hasn’t ruled anything out.”
- No, the DNC doesn’t have any regrets over the “cuck chair photo” it posted about a top White House official — it’s all part of a new approach from the committee’s social media team My story on the DNC (shit)posting through it
- A good summation of the danger of tightening Medicaid access, from a Republican pollster who has spent a lot of time studying working-class voters who backed the GOP in '24. On paper, they say they back spending cuts. And then you start getting into specifics and ...
- New: Sen. Thom Tillis Announces His Retirement After Opposing Trump’s Bill Abrupt decision leaves GOP scrambling to run a replacement in state, already the Dems' top target for '26. A R operative tho says they've been considered Tillis alts for months
- New: Day after Golden opted for re-election, a new Republican poll shows him trailing LePage in #ME02 matchup — with some evident discontent in the Dem base weighing him down
- new pope an OG twitter user
- Democrats are desperate to recruit North Carolina’s Cooper, Maine’s Mills and Ohio’s Brown to run for Senate seats next year, believing the trio would help their party as no other candidates could. They’re just not sure any of them will actually run.
- New: House Democrats are turning to a tried and true strategy in 2026 ---> recruiting and running military veterans my story with @JohnSewardDC on the candidates already lining up to run next year
- Don't rule out a Janet Mills campaign for Senate just yet A source familiar w/the Maine governor's thinking says though she has not yet made a decision, she might yet to decide to run against Susan Collins, adding she has til end of year to make decision
