Sahil Kapur

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur

RT @nytimes: With the Senate out of session, Senator Kyrsten Sinema, the moderate Arizona Democrat who has objected to the size and scope o… — PolitiTweet.org

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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A man armed with a bow fired arrows at shoppers in a small Norwegian town Wednesday, killing five people before he was arrested, authorities said. https://t.co/zYYvj79W2V — PolitiTweet.org

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@BenjySarlin I recall being in GA and struggling w this in the run-up. there was a chance it’d just keep Rs riled up and plugged in w/o hurting turnout. turns out a lot of them take DJT seriously & literally! — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @BenjySarlin: I thought voters would understand this as symbolic posturing and ignore it ahead of the Georgia runoffs in January. I was… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @smotus: "[Trump] could make the Republican Party something that nobody else I know can make it. He can make it bigger. He can make it s… — PolitiTweet.org

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Jeffrey Clark subpoenaed https://t.co/esyeepjEAU — PolitiTweet.org

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That's hardly an empty threat. The same fabricated claims of fraud arguably depressed GOP turnout in the Georgia runoffs and helped Democrats win the Senate. — PolitiTweet.org

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🤔 Trump just threatened to have Republican voters stay home in 2022 and 2024 unless the party is able to "solve" (by which he seems to mean overturn) the result of the last presidential election, which he lost. https://t.co/sHvXHrKZtH — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @bluestein: Senate candidate Herschel Walker cancels fundraiser with supporter who had swastika in her Twitter profile #gapol #gasen ht… — PolitiTweet.org

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A few years ago Kyrie Irving went through an extended phase where he insisted the earth is flat. One does not have to accept the spin that there's something deep or pioneering driving his rebellion against the vaccine. — PolitiTweet.org

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Dig into the numbers and Biden's approval has dropped with key parts of his base: Black voters, Hispanics, women. Yet his two big bills remain widely popular. One theory among Dem and GOP pollsters: His numbers are down because his agenda hasn't passed. https://t.co/nWWoRQxIwY — PolitiTweet.org

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New —> Biden's approval rating has fallen. Pollsters say there's one way to bounce back. https://t.co/nWWoRQxIwY — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Taniel: Yarmuth was the editor of an alt-weekly newspaper. That's all you ever heard about him when he first won in the 2006 wave, in… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @amyewalter: For all the olds out there like me, I covered the KY03 race for years. Dems always had this Louisville seat high on their t… — PolitiTweet.org

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@JoeBLynam @RepBrendanBoyle @RepJohnYarmuth nope. subject to the filibuster — PolitiTweet.org

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After a major fight, Congress has agreed to pay its bills for two months. Expect a bigger fight in two months about whether it should keep paying its bills or default. — PolitiTweet.org

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NEWS: House votes 219-206 to pass a two-month debt ceiling increase. This has passed the Senate. It now goes to @JoeBiden, who will sign it into law. Congress will face another—and likely more contentious—battle over paying America's bills in December. https://t.co/4LDvGFnHGG — PolitiTweet.org

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.@SpeakerPelosi on @LeaderMcConnell, in a House floor speech over the debt limit: "Mr. McConnell, at one point, was playing Russian roulette with the economy. Russian roulette from Moscow Mitch. Interesting." https://t.co/twGL7HLf0R — PolitiTweet.org

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CBS/YouGov poll: McAuliffe 50%, Youngkin 47% https://t.co/fEI9JdVmh0 — PolitiTweet.org

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ME: The fact that reconciliation is linked to Sinema’s infrastructure bill—how does that affect talks with her? YARMUTH: “I can’t put myself in her head. And don’t want to.” — PolitiTweet.org

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REPORTER: Do you have a clear sense now of what Sinema wants? JOHN YARMUTH, HOUSE BUDGET COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN: I have no sense of what Sinema wants. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MSNBC: .@sahilkapur: Republicans want the 2022 elections to be about President Biden, because putting Donald Trump in the spotlight rem… — PolitiTweet.org

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.@LeaderHoyer wants to end the debt ceiling. “We ought to not have a debt limit,” he tells reporters. “It’s absurd. It’s a phony issue.” — PolitiTweet.org

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@ElisaSDavis i mean subsidies are income-based. all parts of the system are subsidized to some degree — PolitiTweet.org

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The 2016 and 2020 Democratic primaries were about whether to continue building on this system (the Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden positions) or to junk it and put everyone in Medicare (the Bernie Sanders position). The incremental approach won both times. — PolitiTweet.org

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You have an employer-based system—built in a historical quirk from WWII—covering half the US. Medicare for seniors. Medicaid for low-income people. ACA for lowish/mid-income people. Optional extra Medicaid in some states. Now a proposed new federal plan for people in the gap. 🤯 — PolitiTweet.org

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The existence of the Medicaid coverage gap illustrates what a complicated maze the American health insurance system is. — PolitiTweet.org

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Here's a good rundown from @NPR on how Democrats want to address the Medicaid coverage gap. https://t.co/pzXxmCkIiJ — PolitiTweet.org

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Closing the Medicaid coverage gap is one goal of Biden and Democrats' economic and social policy bill. (It's the result of the Supreme Court making ACA's Medicaid expansion optional, and some states continuing to say no to it years later.) Here is who's in the gap: https://t.co/YydggzxAAM — PolitiTweet.org

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Keep an eye on this one. New Democrat Coalition, which pushed for the few-but-longer programs approach to shrinking the bill, has NOT put these Medicare benefits on its priority list. It calls for steering the money to ACA subsidies and closing the Medicaid coverage gap instead. — PolitiTweet.org