McKay Coppins

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

"A man near the steps called for people to gather around. 'I’m going to get my weapons, and I’m coming back,' he told them." https://t.co/LStSJ1ZgFb — PolitiTweet.org

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

It doesn't need to be religion, of course. (And many people don't get to choose the thing that makes them different.) But for all the discomfort of growing up with this weird, important thing that I believed in, I'm grateful for that experience. — PolitiTweet.org

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

For my recent essay on Mormonism, I talked to Mitt Romney about how he feels his faith prepared him for his political moment. Been thinking a lot about the value of learning early in life to be "different in ways that are important to you." https://t.co/u9LSR7JSTO https://t.co/erxp57Bdj9 — PolitiTweet.org

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(And thanks @jestei!) — PolitiTweet.org

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ICYMI: https://t.co/dHybon1l0d — PolitiTweet.org

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

Romney told me last night that he would try to remind his colleagues that their vote today could determine how history remembers them: — PolitiTweet.org

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Mitt Romney: The best way we can show respect to voters who are upset is by telling them the truth. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JeffreyGoldberg: "The conflation of Trump and Jesus was a common theme at the rally. “Give it up if you believe in Jesus!” a man yelled… — PolitiTweet.org

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Romney statement: “We gather today due to a selfish man’s injured pride and the outrage of his supporters whom he has deliberately misinformed for the past two months and stirred to action this very morning. What happened here today was an insurrection, incited by the President“ https://t.co/A0XedP3QbV — PolitiTweet.org

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The revisionism is already beginning. By tomorrow it will be conventional wisdom in the MAGA media that these were all undercover Antifa agitators. — PolitiTweet.org

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

"Trump poses a danger each day he remains in office, wrapped in solipsistic self-pity, heedless of the damage he inflicts on his supporters, and on the country." @YAppelbaum makes the case for impeaching Trump again: https://t.co/M4AO2pJx1l — PolitiTweet.org

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@toddrjones I don't know. Probably not. — PolitiTweet.org

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

Take note of the leaders who enabled, propelled, or rationalized this disgraceful, thuggish display so that you know how to react next time they claim to be "patriots." — PolitiTweet.org

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Which part of the message do you think they're going to hear louder? — PolitiTweet.org

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The president just released a video reminding members of the violent pro-Trump mob storming the Capitol that the election was "stolen from us" in an unprecedented way—and then told them to go home. — PolitiTweet.org

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In combustible moments like this one, Mitt Romney told me last night, “You can either be a fire extinguisher or a flamethrower. And President Trump has been a flamethrower.” https://t.co/dHybon1l0d — PolitiTweet.org

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Thinking about what Romney told me just last night as the chaos at the Capitol unfolds now — PolitiTweet.org

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What happens when a political party spends years indulging its base's worst impulses over and over and over again: https://t.co/tCyNuQLfJA — PolitiTweet.org

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@PatMcWelch wow rude — PolitiTweet.org

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“Sometimes it’s your job to tell your constituents they’re all wet,” Jeff Flake told me. “There’s been very little willingness to do that.” https://t.co/dHybon1l0d — PolitiTweet.org

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Massie opposes the Electoral College challenge on constitutional grounds, but says many of his constituents won't be happy: "I’m going to have a lot of explaining to do.” https://t.co/dHybon1l0d — PolitiTweet.org

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GOP Rep. Thomas Massie was candid about why his colleagues are going along with this: “Trump has a 94% approval rating among my Republican electorate—I’ve actually polled it twice. Those are people that vote in the primaries in Kentucky’s Fourth District." https://t.co/dHybon1l0d — PolitiTweet.org

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Ben Sasse on the ploy to challenge electoral votes: “If politicians use a tactic once, they’ll use it again. If these votes become a cost-free way to signal dissatisfaction with the outcome of an election, this is going to be a tradition every 4 years.” https://t.co/dHyboniVRL — PolitiTweet.org

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Romney has some personal experience with debunking voter-fraud claims: https://t.co/dHybon1l0d https://t.co/uh0fe64lCt — PolitiTweet.org

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Romney says he worries a future Trump-style power grab could succeed: "Instead of being represented by Larry, Moe, and Rudy, a future presidential candidate may have highly competent counsel. There may be state election officials with less backbone." https://t.co/dHybon1l0d — PolitiTweet.org

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In a Senate floor speech today, Romney will try to appeal to his colleagues' sense of their own legacies: https://t.co/dHybon1l0d https://t.co/7RffGwaDy6 — PolitiTweet.org

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“The president was right that there was an effort to corrupt the election," Romney told me, "but it was not by Joe Biden. It was by President Trump.” https://t.co/dHybon1l0d — PolitiTweet.org

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I spoke to (a fairly sanguine) Romney last night a few hours after he was harassed by Trump supporters in an airport. “A huge portion of the American public has been misled by the president about the outcome of the election," he told me. https://t.co/dHybon1l0d — PolitiTweet.org

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

As the Trump era draws to a close, the Republican Party is fractured, out of power, and bitterly fighting over core tenets of democracy. My story on the spectacle in Washington today, with quotes from Mitt Romney, Ben Sasse, Thomas Massie, and more: https://t.co/dHybon1l0d — PolitiTweet.org

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None of these writers were particularly Trumpy to begin with, but I do think the pile-on is going to help force the conversation Republicans largely avoided in November. https://t.co/RmGEd3l2XG — PolitiTweet.org