Gabriel Debenedetti

Gabriel Debenedetti @gdebenedetti

sorry folks, rules are rules — PolitiTweet.org

Gabriel Debenedetti @gdebenedetti

https://t.co/D5Zx1pUjJF — PolitiTweet.org

Gabriel Debenedetti @gdebenedetti

Just preemptively... your Tom Steyer tie tweets are an impeachable offense this time around. — PolitiTweet.org

Gabriel Debenedetti @gdebenedetti

@jonathanchait only the most vicious power grabs recur monthly — PolitiTweet.org

Gabriel Debenedetti @gdebenedetti

hey, that's me — PolitiTweet.org

Gabriel Debenedetti @gdebenedetti

RT @jeffzeleny: .@DevalPatrick is learning how hard it is to jump into the presidential race already in progress. He cancels event at @More… — PolitiTweet.org

Gabriel Debenedetti @gdebenedetti

RT @maxwellstrachan: my former boss calculated how many times each of the two rhodes scholars running for president have been cited as rhod… — PolitiTweet.org

Gabriel Debenedetti @gdebenedetti

Footage of Blankfein was featured in Trump's final ad of 2016... — PolitiTweet.org

Gabriel Debenedetti @gdebenedetti

RT @ec_schneider: The volunteers still organizing a big-donor network for Elizabeth Warren, even if she doesn't show up. Good read by @Mag… — PolitiTweet.org

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Obama—who got no heads-up on Bloomberg's entry and only found out about his friend Patrick's 2020 plans this week—was speaking to some of the party's top donors and operatives. The kinds of people whose freakout helped pave the way for Patrick and Bloomberg. — PolitiTweet.org

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Obama warned candidates not to veer too far left. He asked centrists to chill. But he also went way further than ever before in spelling out his view of the party today, and trying to define his role as 2020 matures. https://t.co/E1rd2OcutO — PolitiTweet.org

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"I don’t want people to just revert to what’s safe—I want them to push out+try more, alright? So we got the Affordable Care Act. It was a really good starter home, as I say" Obama said. "I don’t want people just standing pat, bc we still have millions of people who are uninsured" — PolitiTweet.org

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Obama also issues a reminder that all "voters, including Democrats, are not driven by the same views that are refle… https://t.co/FWtvWv7KAy — PolitiTweet.org

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"I don’t think we should be deluded into thinking that the resistance to certain approaches to things is simply because voters haven’t heard a bold enough proposal, and as soon as they hear a bold enough proposal, that’s going to activate them," Obama said. — PolitiTweet.org

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But, he says, "It is very important to all the candidates who are running at every level to pay some attention to where voters actually are and how they think about their lives." ... "Even as we push the envelope and are bold in our vision, we also have to be rooted in reality" — PolitiTweet.org

Gabriel Debenedetti @gdebenedetti

Obama is also addressing how candidates talk about him. An extended riff, but it includes: "I don't take it as a cr… https://t.co/Mmeh5CfRjk — PolitiTweet.org

Gabriel Debenedetti @gdebenedetti

It's absolutely no coincidence that Obama is saying this to a group of major donors/strategists/etc in DC. If anyone is freaking out about the field, it's this crowd. — PolitiTweet.org

Gabriel Debenedetti @gdebenedetti

"...and whoever emerges from the primary process I will work my tail off, to make sure they are the next president," Obama says. A few seconds later: "And to those who get stressed about robust primaries, I just have to remind you I had a very robust primary." — PolitiTweet.org

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A bit of a "calm down, folks" message from Obama, who's addressing a room of big donors in DC right now: "We have a field of very accomplished, very serious, and passionate, and smart people who’ve a history of public service..." — PolitiTweet.org

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this massive investment from Bloomberg is also pretty clearly an answer to Democrats who were concerned that his presidential ambitions might detract from his broader spending on the party/left's infrastructure — PolitiTweet.org

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it's sometimes hard to comprehend the level of wealth and spending that we're looking at here. this one digital ad campaign is equivalent to the entire amount Tom Steyer—also a billionaire!—has said he'll spend on his entire campaign. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @burgessev: Romney on Deval Patrick: “delusion runs deep in the veins of Massachusetts politicians thinking of running for President” — PolitiTweet.org

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Sanders' campaign has now replaced senior staffers in 3 of the 4 early states — PolitiTweet.org

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1. Mar a Lago neighbors — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @danprimack: Will have more on this in the newsletter, but Deval Patrick formally resigned from Bain Capital yesterday. — PolitiTweet.org

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weird thing happening right now where all of the campaign stories that pop up every 4 years are surfacing at the same exact same time: • hey, what about Mike Bloomberg? • should IA+NH be first?? • Leon Cooperman is mad — PolitiTweet.org

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obviously a ton and a half has changed since May 2018, but this old NH poll illustrates some of Patrick’s challenge. It’s not like he was widely known/supported there, and he’s been absent since, while the rest (especially Warren/Sanders) have had huge presences there... — PolitiTweet.org

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he’s the second New York City mayor raised in Boston in this race — PolitiTweet.org

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@daveweigel no no, can't just have *defended* private equity. needs to actually work at bain cap. — PolitiTweet.org

Gabriel Debenedetti @gdebenedetti

...and one more: it's now pretty unlikely Patrick gets the kind of blockbuster Day One news coverage a high-profile late entry like this might expect. There's, uh, other stuff happening today. — PolitiTweet.org