Andy Barr

@PeterHamby Is it a poll of previous Nithya Raman voters?

There is no way 33 percent of LA voters even know who Nithya Raman is yet

@mattyglesias I'm a professional Democratic operative and this isn't a real conversation among anyone with critical thinking skills...which is why it's such a great Axios piece.

This is political party brain death. Democrats have many successful swing state politicians who are black (Warnock), hispanic (Gallego), female (Slotkin, Whitmer, Hobbs), and Jewish (Ossoff, Shapiro) — nominate good politicians who take smart positions.

@adamwren @RahmEmanuel The most relatable thing about him

How @RahmEmanuel eats a salad. politico.com/news/magazine/…

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@downi75 Surely they refused to play the Poptarts Bowl in observance of their Catholic faith?

CBS acts like a basketball player honoring Ramadan is a story Imagine a story on what Notre Dame players gave up for lent. You can’t

@brithume @SeanTrende It was also extremely predictable because he's a garbage human being and does stuff like this all the time.

This is the kind of stuff Trump does that makes people not just oppose him but hate him. There was no need to say anything.

Monday - Send more troops Tuesday - Say we’re ending war Wednesday - Send more troops Thursday - Say ending war Friday - Send more troops Saturday - Golf Sunday - Golf

James Talarico on listening to real Texans about border policy, not the groups in DC who say they represent them.

@lxeagle17 Yes...but...not by a lot...and that might be the more shocking thing

Color me shocked that the Very Online Candidate with no experience and no real campaign strategy beyond "get likes on the internet" ended up losing a Democratic primary to the incumbent mayor of Evanston, Illinois.

Reporter: If you could say something to Trump, what would it be? PA voter: You’re a worthless pile of sh*t. Reporter: How many times did you vote for him? PA voter: 3 times. That was my bad. Apparently I’m an idiot.

Democrats: hmmm, you can't use that photo in a fundraising email. If you squint you can see the member's pin. Republicans: You want to use the dignified transfer of remains photo from a war that started 2 weeks ago as a hook? Approved.

"400 years ago it never would've occurred to anybody to be introspective" we gotta open the schools

Jeff Bezos fired possibly the best remaining roster of foreign correspondents so that he could replace them with conservative pundits like this who don’t how to read legislation

1. Great take by @JohnBJudis 2. Having a ton of random shit named after Trump for years after his actual empire crumbles almost immediately seems right

@AriFleischer How'd Afghanistan turn out again?

Today’s media cheer against the US, overstate enemy abilities, understate ours and paint a picture that the US is losing, while we’re winning. It’s more true today as they cheer against Trump in Iran. Within 10 days weeks of this 2001 NYT doozy saying our military efforts in Afghanistan were bogged down, the key city of Mazar e Sharif fell to the US and our ally the Northern Alliance, and Kabul fell days later. This story was written a mere three weeks after our counter-offensive against Al Qaeda began. But that didn’t stop the NYT from saying we were already in a quagmire. The media are doing the same thing today in Iran. From a military point of view, Operation Epic Fury has been a huge success. We don’t know yet about who will run Iran, but the press will always see America’s cup as 1/10th empty. If today’s press covered WW II, they would have written mostly about civilian casualties, friendly fire, and failed missions, downplaying the overwhelming allied victories against the Nazis.

There are two stages for most candidates. 1) The pre-campaign, when you get asked in every interview if you’ll run for president. 2) The campaign, when you get asked in every interview why you’re not catching fire and whether you’ll drop out.

Great reporting on the Washington Post’s conundrum in the last 15 months. TLDR: - we have to follow the data - we have to follow the data - “Mr Bezos, the data says that single-handedly canceling a political endorsement will be catastrophic for the business” - “I don’t care” - [three seconds later] we have to follow the data

“But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time!”

@kirk_bado Other than people dunking on it in group texts for amusement it's gonna have zero impact

If anyone sees a Democrat litigating this book after June 3 DM me

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