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Michael Kruse
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Politics Correspondent, The New York Times. @POLITICO and @TB_Times and @DavidsonCollege alum. Love Lauren and the girls.

- “The best thing about Joe Biden is I don't have to think about Joe Biden,” says a North Carolina man who voted for Joe Biden. nbcnews.to/3tW7Nle
- Liz Cheney to @jaketapper: “It doesn’t matter what party someone belongs to. If they are running on the basis that they will, for example, refuse to certify legitimate election results in the future, they’ve got to be defeated.” bit.ly/3eOw220
- “He did, literally, the worst thing that an American president could ever do.” bit.ly/35ZeTeO
- Biden has the highest favorability among 18- to 29-year-old Americans of any first-term president over the 21 years the @HarvardIOP youth poll has been conducted. politi.co/3sMmm9D
- "When vaccine requirements are announced, whether in the military, a company, or a hospital, there is attention paid to the often dozen(s) who protest. Less attention is paid to the thousands who get vaccinated," says @ASlavitt. cnn.it/2Yj4DgS
- Republican close to the White House: “If the testing does not get sorted out as soon as possible, it will be another nail in an almost closed coffin.”
- We're not prepared for how bad stuff's gonna get.
- “Trump appears to be launching the biggest assault on the nation’s civil service system since the 1883 Pendleton Act ended the spoils system.” nyti.ms/2VdWDcV
- “What gives me pause when I look back at 1918 is I think about the second wave. People did social distancing and there was this sense of ‘that’s behind us and we can all move on’ and then the second wave hit and it was just devastating.” bit.ly/3c0u1ti
- “I do intend to bring her evidence of my daughter’s murder,” @fred_guttenberg tells @fineout. politi.co/39owJdd
- “You know what doesn’t work as well if you don’t have local news?” @AndrewYang says in his stump speech. “Democracy.”
- "DOGE was a complete failure. Complete failure. Nothing has been made more efficient." tinyurl.com/e22j2yec
- Former senior Trump administration official: “He was never interested in things that might happen. He’s totally focused on the stock market, the economy and always bashing his predecessor and giving him no credit.” politi.co/3aVbCNA



