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Jake Lahut

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Jake Lahut

@JakeLahut

Reporter covering Trump, the tech right & the 2026 midterms | Scoops in @NYMag, @WIRED, @CJR | Upstate New Yorker, emergency backup hockey writer | FR/EN 🇫🇷

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Jake Lahut
@JakeLahut
Feb 2
Replying to @JakeLahut
A number of scoops & new details in here, including Mace having staffers make booze runs for her after midnight earlier in her career. She also made the staff clean her Airbnbs. But that all pales in comparison to what my sources see in public lately.
Nancy Mace Is Not Okay
From nymag.com
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Jake Lahut
@JakeLahut
Mar 25, 2020
Interesting: Schumer notes on Morning Joe that @SenWarren played a major role in rewriting the stimulus bill on the anti-corruption front.
Jake Lahut
@JakeLahut
Oct 30, 2024
SCOOP: Workers Say They Were Tricked and Threatened as Part of Elon Musk’s Get-Out-the-Vote Effort Paid canvassers in Michigan were hauled into a U-Haul van with no rear seating, threatened with money being withheld for their motel rooms & more @WIRED
Workers Say They Were Tricked and Threatened as Part of Elon Musk’s Get-Out-the-Vote Effort
From wired.com
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Jake Lahut
@JakeLahut
Feb 9, 2021
what is going on
Jake Lahut
@JakeLahut
Nov 3, 2024
NEW — Another scoop and an interesting update on the Elon Musk's voter turnout operation in Michigan. The entire group of Black, mostly out-of-state door knockers got fired with hours of the @WIRED U-Haul article dropping on Wednesday. New story includes: - One of the door
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Jake Lahut
@JakeLahut
Mar 29, 2023
Replying to @ellorysmith
trees are a union shop, algae only grow in right to work states. it's a whole thing going back to the teamsters
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Jake Lahut
@JakeLahut
Jan 14, 2022
New/scooplet: The day after Jan. 6, phone calls came into Nancy Pelosi's office from rioters who left items behind and were inquiring whether the speaker had a "lost and found," Rep. Raskin tells me. Police were more than happy to jot down their info.
Capitol rioters called Nancy Pelosi's office looking for a 'lost and found' for items they left...
From businessinsider.com
Jake Lahut
@JakeLahut
May 6, 2022
Unlike the boos accompanying Dr. Oz, Mike Lindell gets a huge ovation
Jake Lahut
@JakeLahut
Nov 5, 2020
Chris Wallace says the Fox Decision Desk is sticking with their AZ call, and that Biden picking up Nevada would put him at 270 under their tally.
Jake Lahut
@JakeLahut
May 28, 2025
Scoop: Nancy Mace's fmr staff tell me they were assigned to create burner accounts to bolster their boss online. “We were congressional staff, and there were actual things we could be doing to help the constituents," one said. 1/ wired.com/story/nancy-ma…
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Jake Lahut
@JakeLahut
Oct 26, 2024
This exchange, somehow, really happened: Trump goes on this tangent about the Lincoln bedroom about 8 minutes into the Joe Rogan interview, and at one point Rogan has to cut in to say he has no idea who Trump is talking about (after comparing Abe Lincoln and Robert E Lee to
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Jake Lahut
@JakeLahut
Oct 30, 2024
Another notable aspect of this Elon U-Haul story in Michigan: These are mostly Black, out-of-state door knockers who were being hauled around in this literal U-Haul with no seats or seatbelts. They were told transportation would be provided, this is what they got.
Jake Lahut
@JakeLahut
Oct 30, 2024
SCOOP: Workers Say They Were Tricked and Threatened as Part of Elon Musk’s Get-Out-the-Vote Effort Paid canvassers in Michigan were hauled into a U-Haul van with no rear seating, threatened with money being withheld for their motel rooms & more @WIRED wired.com/story/elon-mus…
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Jake Lahut
@JakeLahut
Mar 8, 2024
NEW on the private GOP freakout brewing over Katie Britt's State of the Union response: “Everyone’s fucking losing it. It’s one of our biggest disasters ever.” Being likened to the Rubio water bottle moment and Bobby Jindal's infamous 2009 SOTU response.
thedailybeast.com
Official GOP Response to SOTU Has Republicans ‘Losing It’
Sen. Katie Britt of Alabama gave the GOP response to President Biden’s annual address—and got panned for it by some in her own party.
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Jake Lahut
@JakeLahut
Mar 16, 2023
Replying to @JakeLahut
The pudding incident, which former DeSantis staffers describe as a common instance of him not reading the room (in this case, a very intimate flight cabin): thedailybeast.com/the-republican…
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