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Garrett Haake retweeted
Feels like GOP learned wrong lesson from the success of the Trump They/Them ad. Point was Harris was focused on cultural issues when you’re worried about the economy. GOP flooding the zone with these type ads and voters could start asking why they’re talking about this instead of gas, groceries, housing or the war
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Garrett Haake retweeted
Another nearly $1 billion “pocket rescission” by Trump. Democrats & @SenatorCollins won’t like it.
If Democrats win House and/or Senate, 2027 is going to be a big showdown (again) over spending
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If you’re in Austin, join us at 9:30 at St. David’s where I’ll be interviewing former Senator, governor and presidential candidate Lamar Alexander about all things Washington, now and across his remarkable career. #tribfest26
I’m looking forward to my conversation this Friday at the Texas Tribune Festival (@TexasTribune) with Garrett Haake (@GarrettHaake), NBC News Chief White House Correspondent, as we discuss how Republicans should learn to work with the President.
I'll also be signing copies of my new memoir, THE EDUCATION OF A SENATOR: FROM JFK TO TRUMP, following the discussion at the STATION Austin in the Omni Austin Hotel Downtown.
TribFest brings together the state’s boldest leaders, thinkers and innovators for an up-close look at the issues affecting your life. From education and the economy to energy, healthcare, technology, public safety, culture and the arts, discover conversations you won’t find anywhere else. Explore the ideas and actions transforming our state and join in candid, on-the-record conversations with real accountability.
You can learn more about the event here: festival.texastribune.org/?u…
In THE EDUCATION OF A SENATOR: FROM JFK TO TRUMP, I paint portraits of the presidents I worked with, tell stories about what I saw behind the scenes, and recount the lessons I learned about American politics and our country’s future.
THE EDUCATION OF A SENATOR is out now from @PostHillPress.
You can use this link to order: simonandschuster.com/.../Lam…
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As Paxton’s allies carpet bomb Texas with TV ads, Talarico tries to corner his GOP opponent into actually debating him, with this offer at #tribfest26 to basically go anywhere for a 1-on-1.
.@jamestalarico: "Today, I’m challenging Ken Paxton to a debate on Fox News."
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There’s a GOP jailbreak beginning around the country as Republican candidates try to put some distance between themselves and Trump’s slipping approval- especially on Iran & affordability.
At least a dozen Republicans in competitive midterm races have either publicly distances themselves from key Trump policies, or attempted a website rebrand
WH says there is no distance between Trump and Republicans. It quickly sent us LOTS of videos of Republicans praising Trump, many from the RNC midterm convention
w/@jonallendc @GarrettHaake
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Garrett Haake retweeted
At least a dozen Republicans in competitive midterm races have either publicly distances themselves from key Trump policies, or attempted a website rebrand
WH says there is no distance between Trump and Republicans. It quickly sent us LOTS of videos of Republicans praising Trump, many from the RNC midterm convention
w/@jonallendc @GarrettHaake
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Garrett Haake retweeted
I’m looking forward to my conversation this Friday at the Texas Tribune Festival (@TexasTribune) with Garrett Haake (@GarrettHaake), NBC News Chief White House Correspondent, as we discuss how Republicans should learn to work with the President.
I'll also be signing copies of my new memoir, THE EDUCATION OF A SENATOR: FROM JFK TO TRUMP, following the discussion at the STATION Austin in the Omni Austin Hotel Downtown.
TribFest brings together the state’s boldest leaders, thinkers and innovators for an up-close look at the issues affecting your life. From education and the economy to energy, healthcare, technology, public safety, culture and the arts, discover conversations you won’t find anywhere else. Explore the ideas and actions transforming our state and join in candid, on-the-record conversations with real accountability.
You can learn more about the event here: festival.texastribune.org/?u…
In THE EDUCATION OF A SENATOR: FROM JFK TO TRUMP, I paint portraits of the presidents I worked with, tell stories about what I saw behind the scenes, and recount the lessons I learned about American politics and our country’s future.
THE EDUCATION OF A SENATOR is out now from @PostHillPress.
You can use this link to order: simonandschuster.com/.../Lam…
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This tracks with what one top GOP midterm strategist told me earlier this week: the Republican candidates who are losing right now are those who can’t separate their identity from Trump. Those who have a chance are those who have their own political identities (Collins)
Trouble for Democrats in Maine? Susan Collins is leading Troy Jackson by 3 points in a new NYT/Siena poll.
By contrast, the poll shows Democratic nominees leading by 5 points each in Michigan and New Hampshire.
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Garrett Haake retweeted
NEW: A GOP mini-jailbreak from Trump in Michigan, with Mike Rogers splitting on Iran war, AI & data centers.
Rogers campaign tells us he’d vote YES on a res to end Iran war in January.
+ other MI Rs breaking.
w/ @akarl_smith + @GarrettHaake @HenryJGomez nbcnews.com/politics/2026-el…
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Garrett Haake retweeted
New: Some Republicans are putting some distance between themselves and Trump
That’s pronounced in battleground Michigan, where candidates in swing contests have split on Iran, AI and data centers
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On Friday, President Trump spoke from the Oval Office on what the White House believes is his best-polling issue: lowering drug prices. But that message was lost in the tempest of the media ban he announced too. The zig-zag messaging tripping up GOP as the midterms near nbcnews.com/politics/donald-…
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In pointed floor speech, Senate Armed Services Chair Roger Wicker says that as Xi visits that Trump "should keep in mind that his guest is a brutal, unelected and oppressive dictator who seeks to dominate his neighbors and whose massive military arsenal is aimed directly" at the USA
Wicker says had Trump asked him he "would have suggested the president not invite [Xi] to Washington for such a lavish welcome here in the United States of America"
Says Trump should ask Xi about China military build-up, the thousands of Uighur people who "have been sent to concentration camps," political prisoners and China's "interference in the internal affairs of nations around the world"
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A new high water mark in terms of Congressional GOP pushing oversight of the President’s family’s dealings.
A toaster is a wedding gift. A private-island party paid for by a Putin-connected oligarch is something else. Republicans nearly wore out the subpoena machine investigating Hunter Biden’s foreign relationships. We should not unplug it now. ‘Trust us’ was not enough then, and it is not enough now.
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Garrett Haake retweeted
Judge schedules Wednesday hearing in White House media access case nbcnews.com/politics/trump-a…
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The President says that instead of buying Potash from Canadian suppliers, he's working on a deal to get it from Belarus, which is Russia's closest ally and currently subject to US sanctions.
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Garrett Haake retweeted
"The public has a vital interest in receiving accurate, independent information about its government. No administration should restrict a news organization because it objects to its reporting.” — White House television pool members: ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News Media, NBC News
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Garrett Haake retweeted
The print and radio pool also distribute their information to other outlets. Stills use their respective wire services to distribute images. WH has invited secondary and new media outlets into pool that do not have any responsibility to provide content beyond their own viewers/readers. Those outlets do not provide a collective product.
The 5 networks expend considerable resources for staff, equipment, travel costs to provide coverage of the president anywhere in the world and have an established infrastructure for how the images, audio and editorial information is distributed for use by other outlets. That is how the public receives this coverage.
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Garrett Haake retweeted
The 5 networks expend considerable resources for staff, equipment, travel costs to provide coverage of the president anywhere in the world and have an established infrastructure for how the images, audio and editorial information is distributed for use by other outlets. That is how the public receives this coverage.
The primary White House TV pool is made up of 5 networks: CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, and FOX. We take turns covering POTUS for pooled events and trips, and then share footage with the other 4 plus other outlets.
Today there is no tv pool, so Trump won’t have a crew with him at UNGA.
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Garrett Haake retweeted
New @NBCNews poll
Trump approval: 41%
Generic ballot: 50% D, 45% R
On handling the economy, voters prefer Ds by 1 point. (In Oct 2018 they preferred Rs on the economy by 15 pts.)
30% say they’re more likely to vote for Trump endorsee; 52% less likely.
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