Alex Roarty

Alex Roarty @Alex_Roarty

It's like I've been saying all season, Giannis for MVP — PolitiTweet.org

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@TimAlberta @ShaneGoldmacher Well-known New York figure Kamala Harris — PolitiTweet.org

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He once tried to kill President Reagan. Now John Hinckley says he’s ‘happy as a clam’ https://t.co/1fe6n1yFsX — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ShaneGoldmacher: NEW: Beto and Bernie have (rightfully) grabbed headlines with their $6 million first 24-hour haul. But Kamala Harris'… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mattyglesias: I don’t really agree with these rankings in detail but it’s just insane how many good movies came out in 1999 before pres… — PolitiTweet.org

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Pretty fun to see my old colleague writing for https://t.co/Py0iF7baUN. Give him a follow! — PolitiTweet.org

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seriously tho, what was the last one in a competitive state. Pennsylvania '16, when McGinty, Sestak, and Fetterman faced off? — PolitiTweet.org

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Senate Dems still committed to avoiding primaries, apparently (though we still have to see how things shake out in… https://t.co/z4pMt4aE9B — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jmartNYT: Big Ariz news: @RubenGallego will NOT run for the Senate, all but assuring @ShuttleCDRKelly will be the Dem nominee A break… — PolitiTweet.org

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would really be a tremendous accomplishment if the Rockets could even keep this one close with injuries like these cc @AdamWollner — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @dnewhauser: Here’s a little news following on @allymutnick’s scoop on DCCC blacklisting aides who work on primaries: Prog Caucus co-ch… — PolitiTweet.org

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anyway, end of thread. i'll try to re-prioritize Harden MVP tweets from here on out. — PolitiTweet.org

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and that's where they've always applied their pressure, to issues. maybe there's also a recognition that influencing their own party's positions was always going to be easier than persuading Senate Rs to remove DT. But at its core these people just have a different view of world — PolitiTweet.org

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But also gets to a fundamental reaction among liberal activists to the Trump phenomenon that I think still gets a little missed. They hate him! But they actually care more about, in their view, correcting the issues that gave rise to him, i.e. income inequality — PolitiTweet.org

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this last week the stated reason was, basically, the Dem primary is underway, the 2020 election is in ~18 months, we're already moving on. Most said anything short of a smoking gun would likely keep impeachment a lesser-tier issue — PolitiTweet.org

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don't get me wrong -- they support impeachment and have since 2017. But they never made it a priority, and never pushed Dems to adopt it as a core issue the way they did on, say, Medicare for All or, more recently, the Green New Deal. — PolitiTweet.org

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but when i called around to activist leaders last week, I was once again surprised to find that, nah, they still didn't care. Most said as long as House Dems kept investigating (close to a given) they'd be fine if impeachment never became an issue. — PolitiTweet.org

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it made sense -- nearly every Democrat the last two years, when asked about impeachment, said they would wait for the Mueller report to come out before making a judgment. Stood to reason that they would face a lot more pressure to back it after it came out — PolitiTweet.org

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and it surprised me then! Some of these primaries had a half-dozen viable candidates, all of whom needed to distinguish themselves. And yet with rare exception none called for Trump's removal from office. I figured that might be set to change in 2019, after the MR comes out — PolitiTweet.org

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this lack of caring about impeachment has always been fascinating subject to me because A) it surprised me B) some other people kept incorrectly gauging the appetite for impeachment. I wrote last year how it never caught on among 2018 candidates https://t.co/3MCJSgCCQb — PolitiTweet.org

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So, among other things, the summary of yesterday's Mueller report likely ends all speculation that House Democrats will push for impeachment. Not least of all because the party's influential activist wing just never really cared about it -- even before Sunday — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ZachMontellaro: I also asked the DCCC about ActBlue, and if the policy would apply to the big fundraising machine. Was told it was a pl… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jmartNYT: Short-term politics: a Trump victory lap, Dem candidates can no longer do a wait-for-Mueller impeachment stall Longer-term:… — PolitiTweet.org

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@GuthrieGF @JoshNBCNews i'm the co-author of the story you cited, so I'm aware there are other views! Josh said he talked other Democrats who felt differently -- that happens! — PolitiTweet.org

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@GuthrieGF @JoshNBCNews Josh does plenty of great reporting! — PolitiTweet.org

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@daveweigel if Dems had had a disappointing midterm, you would have seen a lot of finger-pointing at the media for focusing on Russia/Mueller instead of health care (whether that's fair or not). People were complaining about it vociferously before the election occurred! — PolitiTweet.org

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one of which is that if the special counsel *had* found evidence it would have been potentially catastrophic for Trump's re-election campaign. But it's old hat by now for Ds to reiterate that their message will have nothing to do with Mueller or Russia https://t.co/Ji4PScx3ap — PolitiTweet.org

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@katieglueck anyway, this was the answer most Dems gave when we started asking around earlier this week, and it's the answer most Dems give now. The Mueller report apparently clearing Trump and his aides of colluding with Russia is an enormous deal for *many* reasons — PolitiTweet.org

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@katieglueck none of this will surprise those who paid attention in 2018. Democrats found a formula then that helped them gain 40 seats -- health care and taxes -- and the early view is they'll trot it back out in 2020 https://t.co/Ji4PScx3ap — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @katieglueck: NEW w/ @Alex_Roarty : most Dems were never planning to run on the Mueller report barring shocking revelations. today's dev… — PolitiTweet.org