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I told the NY Times that “my principles don’t change with the job I’m in” and I think that’s proven to be true over the last 20 yrs. It hasn’t been a perfect career — but I’ve tried hard to live my values. Thanks to everyone for the support. Onward.
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"He has so much to apologize for, not just racist stop & frisk but his comments about women... There's already a right-wing, racist, misogynist billionaire in the White House, why swap him for another one?"
Me on Mike Bloomberg's candidacy on @CNN with @jaketapper earlier today:
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New episode of Another Way: I am joined by @andrewperezdc who shares his journalism secrets. We discuss his biggest scoops, why money can be so hard to track, and the state of journalism. My only regret is that we couldn't talk about his dog Foley.
A reminder that @IsaacDovere has spent the entire campaign trashing Bernie and lauding Bloomberg — while his media outlet has been bankrolled by Bloomberg
Bernie has highest favs & largest percentage of voters who say they'd consider voting for him
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NEW at @EXPOSEDbyCMD: Over the last decade, Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg used his vast wealth to help elect GOP candidates.
His huge spending helped Republicans take and maintain control of the Senate.
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NEW: Bernie Sanders is now the leading Democratic presidential candidate among Texas voters, according to our latest poll.
Bernie Sanders: 24%
Joe Biden: 22%
Elizabeth Warren: 15%
Michael Bloomberg: 10%
Pete Buttigieg: 7%
MORE: https://bit.ly/2OTGg1h #tx2020
For 20 years in politics and as an investigative journalist, naysayers who hate my politics and hate my principles have been trying to call the manager on me. You can feel free to keep doing that, but rest assured: I’m used to it. Onward.
Just wanna state the obvious: the people who call me “toxic” or “vicious” dont actually think that. They simply don’t like the facts I present in a civil way on my Twitter feed. They don’t like my politics. They don’t like my ideology. Which is fine. But let’s stop pretending.
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Hmm yes fair but have you considered: millionaire cable news anchors and Beltway think tank dullards have only ever had to deal with one of these things
Helping fossil fuel donors intensify a climate crisis that threatens all life on the planet is more toxic and vicious than snarky animated gifs
Stopping and frisking hundreds of thousands of people is more toxic and vicious than some critical tweets
If you eagerly helped pundit America into a war that killed hundreds of thousands of people and questioned the patriotism of war opponents, you should sit out a few plays in the discussion about “toxicity.”
The fact that this even needs to be said or explained is genuinely sad. This basic rudimentary truism should be absolutely self-evident on every level.
Tweeting a link to the Congressional Record transcript of a Senate floor speech promoting Social Security cuts is not “toxic” or “vicious” or “bullying.” It’s democracy. It’s literally why we have a Congressional Record — so that we can discuss & debate what lawmakers are doing.
It’s certainly true that people tweet some awful, grotesque and unacceptable stuff, and that’s really not cool (I’ve faced a lot of it). But conflating that toxicity with civil, factual, healthy discourse is really absurd.
The best people on this website are those who somehow insist with a straight face that it is “vicious” and “toxic” to tweet some links to C-Span videos and the Congressional Record
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Citing high demand for tickets, @BernieSanders campaign moves this weekend’s rally in downtown Denver to bigger venue, more than twice the capacity. Colorado voters are receiving mail ballots for #SuperTuesday primary this week. #copolitics
NEW POLLS: Data show @BernieSanders is the candidate who is best positioned to expand a winning coalition in the primary and general election
The handpicked candidate of Electability Expert @JamesCarville received less than 1,000 votes in New Hampshire
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“I don't understand how Bernie's considered a front runner”- @chucktodd, NBC News, 16 hours ago https://www.thedailybeast.com/msnbcs-chuck-todd-says-i-dont-understand-how-bernies-considered-a-frontrunner …
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In other words and in the context of Bloomberg, Biden is holding a fundraiser for small dollar donors.
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NEW: Joe Biden is set to host over 250 Wall Street and big money donors tonight in New York. A guest list, first obtained by CNBC, shows names like former Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack and Snap Chairman Michael Lynton.
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NEW: @MorningConsult has the first post-NH national poll, and Bernie is leading by 10 pts.
Sanders 29% (+4)
Biden 19% (-3)
Bloomberg 18% (+1)
More from @eyokley: https://morningconsult.com/2020/02/13/sanders-cements-front-runner-status-after-new-hampshire-win/ …
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Let’s see how history remembers this: Law was so bad it got Warren to enter politics, CAP shut down ThinkProgress to silence lefties, Sirota works for Bernie and helped defeat Biden, and the Dems who criticized Sirota for daring to question them like Artur Davis flipped to GOP.
