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Mon Aug 03 18:58:28 +0000 2020

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Even administrations that genuinely prefer to avoid personnel continuity with the previous same-party administration tend to end up with a lot of it, and obviously Biden isn't going to prefer that anyway. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 3, 2020 Hibernated

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

For better or worse, I think when Barack Obama's Vice President handily defeated a large field of rivals by explicitly promising continuity with the Obama years we pretty much locked-in personnel continuity with the Obama administration. — PolitiTweet.org

Zach Carter @zachdcarter

For all the talk about how Biden's policy ideas have moved left, white papers are empty without personnel. And on t… https://t.co/AkKkHU1dJj

Posted Aug. 3, 2020 Hibernated

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

That said, I don't think you should think of this as a shell game. Read @ella_nilsen's great reporting and you'll see — the issue is that a lot of aughts and even 90s-era Democrats have become more left-wing in part because of the pandemic. https://t.co/rdV2FnU6zg — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 3, 2020 Hibernated

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