Rebecca Kaplan

Rebecca Kaplan @RebeccaRKaplan

“The voters should pick the president, and the president should pick the justice for the Senate to consider,” Biden says. — PolitiTweet.org

Rebecca Kaplan @RebeccaRKaplan

“Ruth Bader Ginsburg stood for all of us,” @JoeBiden says in Wilmington tonight after returning from a trip to Minnesota. He recalls presiding over her confirmation hearing in 1993. “She was fierce and unflinching in her pursuit of civil and legal rights for everyone.” — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @stevenportnoy: TRUMP'S FIRST REMARKS: "She just died? Wow. I didn't know that. She led an amazing life. What else can you say? sh… — PolitiTweet.org

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.⁦@senatemajldr⁩ speaks: “President Trump’s nominee will receive a vote on the floor of the United States Senate.” https://t.co/S4xnMhwg0b — PolitiTweet.org

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Also per @alanhe, here’s what @ChuckGrassley told @thehill in August: “In the abstract,” he emphasized, “I would do the same thing in 2020 that I would in 2016.” Now we will find out what happens when the details are no longer abstract. https://t.co/WImV9teOhH — PolitiTweet.org

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“... If we now say that months prior to the election is OK when nine months was not, that is a double standard and I don’t believe we should do it.” (2/2) — PolitiTweet.org

Rebecca Kaplan @RebeccaRKaplan

Per @alanhe, here’s what @lisamurkowski had to say in August: “When Republicans held off Merrick Garland it was because nine months prior to the election was too close, we needed to let people decide. And I agreed to do that...” (1/2) — PolitiTweet.org

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He hasn’t weighed in yet in the brief moments since Ginsburg’s death was announced but he has talked about this before. — PolitiTweet.org

Rebecca Kaplan @RebeccaRKaplan

Per @nancycordes, @senatemajldr has repeatedly said that he would move swiftly to fill any vacancy on the Supreme Court, even though refused to take up Merrick Garland’s nomination during the last year of Obama’s term. The difference? Same party in the WH and Senate now. — PolitiTweet.org

Rebecca Kaplan @RebeccaRKaplan

RT @lruskin: Alaska's @lisamurkowski said today she won't confirm a new SCOTUS justice until after the inauguration day. Fair is fair, she… — PolitiTweet.org

Rebecca Kaplan @RebeccaRKaplan

RT @DaviSusan: BREAKING NEWS from @NPR : Ruth Bader Ginsburg died Friday at age 87 from complications of cancer.   In a statement dictated… — PolitiTweet.org

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A huge shock tonight - on the eve of Rosh Hashanah - as the Supreme Court announces Ruth Bader Ginsburg died today at the age of 87 due to complications of pancreatic cancer —> https://t.co/2pcBXasuMZ — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @CBSThisMorning: Americans have become more politically divided in recent decades. @TonyDokoupil tested just how far we’ve grown apart.… — PolitiTweet.org

Rebecca Kaplan @RebeccaRKaplan

How do I register to vote? How do I get a ballot in the mail? What are the deadlines? All of this information and more for all 50 states and D.C., courtesy of the amazing @CBSPolitics team, with an extra heavy lift from @CaraKorte and @aaronlarnavarro --> https://t.co/oNT1c1EKzC — PolitiTweet.org

Rebecca Kaplan @RebeccaRKaplan

Biden asked about how he would reduce regulatory burdens on small farmers (he disputed the questioner on whether he embraces the Green New Deal). He didn't pledge to lift regs, but instead talked about creating new industries that help fight climate change in rural communities . — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ddale8: Biden wrongly quoted the media as saying he "would be the first person without an Ivy League degree to be elected president." H… — PolitiTweet.org

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Glad to see @andersoncooper follow up to ask Biden if he was trying to have it both ways on a fracking ban. "Fracking has to continue because we need a transition…there’s no rationale right now to eliminate fracking," @JoeBiden says. — PolitiTweet.org

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"What the hell makes you think I have to have an Ivy League degree to be president?" he sayd. "We are as good as anybody else and guys like Trump who inherited everything and squandered what they inherited are who I have a problem with." — PolitiTweet.org

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Asked whether he has benefitted from white privilege, @JoeBiden says yes but then pivots to talking about discrimination against working class people, citing his Scranton roots. He's clearly irked by those who have noted he would be the 1st president w/out an Ivy League degree. — PolitiTweet.org

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.@JoeBiden responding to this tonight at the CNN town hall: "If the president had even remote confidence he would win the election he wouldn’t be doing this." — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @FoxReports: These stories: a teacher with MS who is scared to return to school unless students are vaccinated, a cancer advocate who is… — PolitiTweet.org

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A teacher with a compromised immune system asked Biden whether he would mandate vaccines for kids to go to school. Biden eventually said, "it depends on the state of the vaccine," but later added he wouldn't mandate it until there's better testing re: vaccine effects on kids. — PolitiTweet.org

Rebecca Kaplan @RebeccaRKaplan

We've come full circle from the promise of a 3-month mask mandate earlier in the summer. — PolitiTweet.org

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Correction - statement below is from Lt. Gen. Keith Kellog, Pence's national security advisor (and Troye's boss, he says). As @benstracy notes, "disgruntled" is one of the most-used adjectives by the administration to former employees who have been critical after leaving the WH. — PolitiTweet.org

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The White House has responded with a statement from a spokesman calling her a "disgruntled former detailee" who wasn't in private meetings with Trump, and said her "assertions have no basis in reality and are flat out inaccurate." — PolitiTweet.org

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Pretty stunning new ad from @RVAT2020 featuring Olivia Troye, VP Pence's lead staffer on the COVID task force, who says she's now voting for Biden after her experience working on the response to the virus: https://t.co/DdGS67xPVm — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @heatherscope: “My conviction is to actually do my goddamn job and come up with a solution for the American people,” Rep. Abigail Spanbe… — PolitiTweet.org

Rebecca Kaplan @RebeccaRKaplan

An aggressive new attack today as Biden speaks on the California wildfires from his hometown of Wilmington. Trump is in CA for a briefing today; Harris heads there tonight. — PolitiTweet.org

Rebecca Kaplan @RebeccaRKaplan

A great look at the presidential race in Arizona and what is motivating voters there from @nancycordes @ThisAlexTin and Chris Weicher —> — PolitiTweet.org

Rebecca Kaplan @RebeccaRKaplan

Trump “knowingly and willingly lied about the threat it posed to the country for months...he failed to do his job on purpose,” @JoeBiden says in response to news that Trump told Bob Woodward COVID-19 was “deadly” while downplaying the severity to the public. — PolitiTweet.org