Amanda Becker

Amanda Becker @AmandaBecker

Just resorted to a 10-min nap with alarm. — PolitiTweet.org

Amanda Becker @AmandaBecker

Suburban White women are a coveted voting bloc. There have been soccer moms, security moms, Wal-Mart moms and Panera moms. This year? "COVID moms" and "COVID parents" who want a greater say in public education. https://t.co/9fbVcN8uMz via @19thnews — PolitiTweet.org

Amanda Becker @AmandaBecker

I'm having feelings about the use of 'clap back' in a professional context, like to describe say, SCOTUS hearings. — PolitiTweet.org

Amanda Becker @AmandaBecker

@AlisonBrody What is that saying, "talent recognizes genius"? ;-) — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @shefalil: Idaho is the first state to pass a Texas-inspired 6-week abortion ban. It takes effect in 30 days and will end access befor… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @nytpolitics: At her Supreme Court confirmation hearing Wednesday, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson said she would recuse herself from a marq… — PolitiTweet.org

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2 vetoes in 24 hours: Governors’ decisions on anti-transgender bills signal Republican unease https://t.co/7KrZl6gpdm via @19thnews @i_oriion — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @CNN: The Supreme Court has rejected a GOP request to upend a congressional map adopted by the Wisconsin Supreme Court that was preferre… — PolitiTweet.org

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I dare say this is one of his best. Really like it. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @emarvelous: The pandemic has opened a new chapter in the long-standing racially and gender charged political culture wars, where much o… — PolitiTweet.org

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A Democratic mom in Cleveland told me she agrees with the party on "almost everything" but now feels more aligned with independents now on some issues. The COVID-19 school debate has "really taken the wind out of my [political] sails," she told me. https://t.co/9gfRfkwKLS — PolitiTweet.org

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School closures/mask mandates have a created a fissure between some Dem base voters and another core party constituency: teachers unions. In Virginia and elsewhere, unions did not want to return to in-person learning once prioritized for vaccination: https://t.co/9gfRfkwKLS — PolitiTweet.org

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“My big picture takeaway is that [VA voters] were open — there wasn’t a single one who regretted their vote for Biden. However, there is a deep level of frustration ... that I think is going to cause a lot of backsliding in 2022," @SarahLongwell25 told me. https://t.co/9gfRfkwKLS — PolitiTweet.org

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A Grinnell College poll this week showed: 64% of all adults believe public schools are on the “wrong track," 71% of White adults said it was essential to “teach respect for people of different races" but 52% did not trust schools to do it. https://t.co/9gfRfkwKLS — PolitiTweet.org

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@SarahLongwell25 Virginia focus groups conducted by Biden's polling firm concluded: “School closures + COVID policy were a bigger factor than CRT” but the latter “taps into these voters’ frustrations.” Swing voters knew Virginia did not teach CRT. https://t.co/9gfRfkwKLS — PolitiTweet.org

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@SarahLongwell25 While teaching issues like CRT and gender identity might fire up the GOP base, school districts’ varying responses to COVID-19 have created another group of parents feeling voiceless in their children’s education — COVID moms. https://t.co/9gfRfkwKLS — PolitiTweet.org

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Suburban White women are a coveted voting bloc & wooing them almost always centers around moms. There have soccer moms, security moms, Wal-Mart moms, and Panera moms. This year, @SarahLongwell25 told me she's tracking "COVID moms" and parents: https://t.co/9gfRfkwKLS — PolitiTweet.org

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Republicans, meanwhile, see an opening. Their midterms msg is that the GOP is the party of parents’ rights — and they'll tailor it to both energize the base & win over independent parents exhausted by pandemic-related school disruptions and learning delays https://t.co/9gfRfkwKLS — PolitiTweet.org

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McAuliffe 2 pt loss to Youngkin was just a year after Biden beat Trump in Virginia by 10 points. Strategists, seeing it as an ominous sign for Democrats in the midterms, have tried to figure out why: https://t.co/9gfRfkwKLS — PolitiTweet.org

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Burke said McAuliffe's comment [unintentionally] sent the message that “parents weren’t important, that these high and mighty people think they knew better than parents, so therefore parents need to butt out and let the government take care of things." https://t.co/9gfRfkwKLS — PolitiTweet.org

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When Terry McAuliffe said in Virginia's final gubernatorial debate that he didn't "think parents should be telling schools what they should teach," Fairfax voter Marianne Burke, a Democrat, said she knew at that moment that Glenn Youngkin would likely win: https://t.co/9gfRfkwKLS — PolitiTweet.org

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A 🧵 on how Republicans see schools as 2022 political battleground — From exhausted ‘COVID moms’ to furor over critical race theory, the GOP see schools as a way to both energize their base and pick up frustrated swing voters (1/?) https://t.co/9gfRfkwKLS — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @eramshaw: From exhausted ‘COVID moms’ to furor over critical race theory, the GOP see schools as a way to both energize their base and… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @CNNPolitics: BREAKING: Madeleine Albright, the first female US secretary of state, who helped steer Western foreign policy after the Co… — PolitiTweet.org

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@jamesoliphant not very sexy imo — PolitiTweet.org

Amanda Becker @AmandaBecker

RT @nytimes: Ukrainian forces mounted counteroffensives on multiple fronts and retook a town outside of Kyiv. In Russia, President Vladim… — PolitiTweet.org

Amanda Becker @AmandaBecker

I commit to a two-hour Ben Affleck thriller and don’t even find out why he’s obsessed with snails and slugs? — PolitiTweet.org

Amanda Becker @AmandaBecker

I commit to a two-your Affleck thriller and don’t even find out why he’s obsessed with snails and slugs? — PolitiTweet.org

Amanda Becker @AmandaBecker

I commit to a two-your Affleck thrilled and don’t even find out why he’s obsessed with snails and slugs? — PolitiTweet.org

Amanda Becker @AmandaBecker

Oklahoma's House passes a near-total abortion ban https://t.co/hdEq19YBov via @19thnews @marielpadilla_ — PolitiTweet.org