Alex Roarty

Alex Roarty @Alex_Roarty

also, and most importantly, I'm pretty sure Obama slipped in an "it" into Joe Biden's slogan (Build *it* back better vs Build Back Better) and I gotta say, it's the kind of decisive, necessary action that led him to becoming president in the first place — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @davidmaraniss: When Barack Obama flicked his nose after reciting the horrors that earlier generations had endured yet kept believing in… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @emilyelarsen: Thought about no of live audience for these speeches: It would have helped Kamala Harris's acceptance feel more celebrato… — PolitiTweet.org

Alex Roarty @Alex_Roarty

- By standards of a national convention, I think Dems have done a pretty good job reconceiving how this should work amid a pandemic. I'm curious if Rs will have as much pre-packaged material ready to go - Harris, Clinton, and Obama all talked directly about making a plan to vote — PolitiTweet.org

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- Strategically, the goal of Obama's speech felt similar to Bernie's on Monday -- aim directly at party voters and tell them everything is on the line so they must vote. Though BO's reach cuts a little more deeply into the middle of the electorate than Bernie's — PolitiTweet.org

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- The next five Dem conventions might just be Michelle and Barack Obama giving the best speeches and everyone else in the party just trying to keep up - Ds not mincing words when they talk about threat Trump poses to democracy. True all three days but especially tonight with BO — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @BeschlossDC: No former President has ever attacked his incumbent successor at a convention like Barack Obama tonight, or even come clos… — PolitiTweet.org

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@HotlineJosh you're hitting on the reason BO went on night 3 and not night 4 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @alexburnsNYT: the president's rebuttal to obama's argument that he is fundamentally unserious and incapable of doing his job https://t.… — PolitiTweet.org

Alex Roarty @Alex_Roarty

most notable thing to me in the first hour was how it reminded that on many cultural issues Dems were once skittish about - immigration, guns, climate change - they've become far more confrontational about over the course of the Trump era — PolitiTweet.org

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The 10 p.m. hour arrives, and the DNC programming starts talking about the pandemic and the economy — PolitiTweet.org

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@AdamWollner @ZachMontellaro uhh, hello. I'm genX. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mikememoli: Convention organizers say @GabbyGiffords worked intensely to be able to deliver these remarks. It's quite something to see — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @davecatanese: . @MariaTCardona: "He may not wow you from here to the moon, you may not feel chills every time he speaks, But you are r… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @BrendanBuck: Ye olde re-up, from six weeks ago: https://t.co/o6xsr9fGgS https://t.co/LDbrr9cVTV — PolitiTweet.org

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One Alex simply isn't enough for the listeners — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @scottdetrow: Charlie Dent, a popular former moderate GOP congressman from PA: “To me, it’s about right or wrong, stability versus insta… — PolitiTweet.org

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"A candidate can jump up somewhere between 15 to 20 points in the group’s internal polling when voters learn of a Trump Twitter endorsement, he said." https://t.co/etUT52YzBx — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @PoliticoScott: Smart @allymutnick reporting: Win or lose in November, Trump's GOP is here to stay, with Trump devotees replacing more o… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @tobyzakaria: ‘This is about the country, not the candidate’: Democrats push values over policy at convention @davecatanese https://t.co… — PolitiTweet.org

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@swin24 @lachlan An earlier version of this tweet should have noted that @samstein was also an author of the story. McClatchy regrets the error. — PolitiTweet.org

Alex Roarty @Alex_Roarty

"During his 2016 run, Trump had decried the “hedge fund people” for paying so little in taxes. In 2020, that patina is gone, supplanted by a heavier focus on a capital gains tax cut." @swin24 and @lachlan, on DT dropping the populist facade https://t.co/Fuh90O2OYz — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @kirk_bado: The NRCC exec director told me VBM is "absolutely" a secure way to cast a ballot, House Republicans won't run as a check on… — PolitiTweet.org

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“I just want to assure the reporter on the Zoom that there's a lot of gentle ribbing going on but we're all going to vote for Joe Biden and we're all good Democrats.” https://t.co/x6m985xu04 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @benpershing: A convention must-read from @KThomasDC and @elizacollins1 on what Biden's nomination means for the Democratic Party and th… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ShaneGoldmacher: .@adamnagourney and I chatted about what mattered on night 2 of the convention https://t.co/4Ojw52oYNJ — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @davecatanese: My #DemConvention halftime report is on the @McClatchyDC scoreboard. Now I will drink a Miller Lite as a hat tip to Milw… — PolitiTweet.org

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@bricey16 it had its section, and certainly more than last night. Just curious if it gets worked in more consistently as a theme moving forward — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MurphinDC: Pulled together some of the tweets about @cozzie4hsc that popped up after she announced North Carolina's delegates for Joe B… — PolitiTweet.org

Alex Roarty @Alex_Roarty

and so far health care seems less a focus of the messaging than calling Donald Trump a mortal threat to democracy and having Republicans testify about Biden's good character — PolitiTweet.org