Alex Roarty

Alex Roarty @Alex_Roarty

RT @AdamWollner: .@kateirby found just one Sanders delegate in CA who isn't voting for Biden https://t.co/JGA2UrygpU Gets to the point @Ale… — PolitiTweet.org

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@sahil_m she'll move the numbers of my heart — PolitiTweet.org

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- But far and away the part people will remember most is the speech from Michelle Obama, who every four years, for the foreseeable future, will deliver the Democratic convention's most anticipated speech — PolitiTweet.org

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- Bernie filled in some of policy details for Biden, after others had served as character witnesses (including Obama afterward). But the bigger pitch to the left was pretty plain -- we can't achieve a social democracy if we don't have a democracy first, and DT threatens that — PolitiTweet.org

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- The average viewer might experience a little cognitive dissonance watching Kasich assure people that Biden wouldn't be pushed around by the left, and then ~30 minutes later watch Bernie assure the Left that Biden was a champion of progressive initiatives — PolitiTweet.org

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Takeaways from the night: - Convention established early that racial justice and the pandemic will be front and center all four days, interwoven in just about everything - The regular voter testimony of former Republicans seemed to pop more than the speeches from ex-electeds — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @davecatanese: Snark aside, dealt a tough hand, #DemConvention night 1 was a success -- focused on ordinary people and the crisis of the… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @davecatanese: Bernie very neatly divided his speech into an indictment of Trump threatening Democratic norms and putting lives in jeopa… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Robillard: a good way to avoid all the intra-party policy fights is to just not mention policy at all — PolitiTweet.org

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it was a literal crossroads in Westerville, Ohio — PolitiTweet.org

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it's more likely to influence how a voter thinks than, i don't know, mike bloomberg joking in '16 that Trump wasn't a real billionnaire — PolitiTweet.org

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we can dismiss the convention's political implications all we want, but there's going to be a lot of this sort of testimony broadcast in primetime all four nights — PolitiTweet.org

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Seems clear at the outset here that the twin issues of racial justice and coronavirus response won't be one-day focuses (as we've seen w/topics in past conventions) but weaved throughout the proceedings — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @markzbarabak: One interesting departure from normal convention programming is the threading of Biden throughout. Traditionally, the nom… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @markzbarabak: Bruce Springsteen, a stable on the Democratic presidential campaign trail for more than a decade, surfaces at the virtual… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @scottdetrow: We are on the air in a moment with live special coverage. 2020 may have taken many things from our convention coverage, bu… — PolitiTweet.org

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@ZachMontellaro @AlxThomp i mean i know my MontyBlocker (tm) hasn't been activated — PolitiTweet.org

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@ZachMontellaro @AlxThomp see, I have this ability, but it wasn't designed for Alex's analysis ... — PolitiTweet.org

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weird to see an ad for a movie coming out later this month "only in theaters." see you ... on next year's On Demand menu, I guess? — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @DavidMDrucker: All things considered, I'd rather be in Milwaukee at a real convention. Same goes for Charlotte next week. — PolitiTweet.org

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@sachalouise @shripal734 for far, far too long — PolitiTweet.org

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@jamesoliphant we could debate the merits of John Travolta's performance in PC — PolitiTweet.org

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@sachalouise i'm glad that, if nothing else, my tweet created a permission structure for you to boo me — PolitiTweet.org

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@Bencjacobs @HenryJGomez @jaredleopold you have cracked the code. i'm off to buy some noah's mill — PolitiTweet.org

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of course Democrats, at this point, would probably prefer he throw $60 million into Texas to A) make Trump respond there, siphoning a huge part of the budget B) help the D's state House candidates — PolitiTweet.org

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Bloomberg's money was a big help to Dems crossing the finish line in '18 -- I remember watching the local news in suburban Chicago a week out and seeing not one but two pro-Lauren Underwood spots between commercial breaks. — PolitiTweet.org

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@nora_kelly my boss monitors these tweets — PolitiTweet.org

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key for Democrats this week: creating a permission structure for Joe Biden to win the 2020 election — PolitiTweet.org

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@TheProcessMD rapidly shift*ed* — PolitiTweet.org

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It's gotten lost amid a a pandemic, racial justice movements, and a rapidly shifting political climate ... ... but compared to start of the last DNC, there are far fewer signs of visible division within the Dem Party. My curtain raiser on the convention https://t.co/yjmVmfBhDN — PolitiTweet.org