Kamala Harris releases a statement more extensive than her usual criticisms of Trump:
"Let me be clear: I am opposed to a regime-change war in Iran, and our troops are being put in harm’s way for the sake of Trump’s war of choice."
"10-20 years from we'll look back and say, 'What a catastrophic mistake this was,'" Biden said last night in South Carolina, as he decried Trump. "But we don't have to wait 10 years. We know what a grave mistake it is right now." www.cnn.com/2026/02/27/p...
quietly, Biden has been reaching out to wide range of up & coming Dems. He called Spanberger before & after her State of the Union response. He called Padilla before his. A bunch of calls w/Newsom. A long meeting, among several conversations, with AOC. www.cnn.com/2026/02/27/p...
NEW from me: Biden returns to South Carolina tonight on the anniversary of the primary romp that led to his presidency--but after a hard year of his strange post-presidency.
In private he's been saying:
“You think we can actually come back from this?” www.cnn.com/2026/02/27/p...
The administration is buying tailored suits for Secret Service agents:
www.cnn.com/2026/02/20/p...
After the Supreme Court ruling, @JBPritzker writes a letter to Trump asking him to pay back the costs of the tariffs to people in his state:
"On behalf of the people of Illinois, I demand a refund of $1,700 for every family in Illinois."
Includes a mock invoice:
Two months after launching her Senate campaign and under a month until the primary, Jasmine Crockett today added an issues section to her campaign site.
Among the mental health proposals:
“Write out your bullet points here. Anything from a sentence to a paragraph works.”
“Conservatives build permanent organizing infrastructure. Progressives have historically built machines that dismantle after Election Day. Headquarters is the end of that cycle,” the new social media presence off of Harris's account promises: www.cnn.com/2026/02/05/p...
“What happens if we have a close election in ‘28? What is he going to do? He’s going to say, ‘Hey, this was stolen from me in 2020, I’m not going to allow this to happen again.’ And then who knows what he does?” - Mark Kelly on Trump www.cnn.com/2026/01/21/p...
Here's the note that Elissa Slotkin got in the middle of a Novemer briefing on Venezuela:
Mark Kelly on peeking at it: “I’m like, ‘Oh shit. .. Five minutes later, she comes back in, she looks at me and she goes, ‘Well, he called for your execution too.’” www.cnn.com/2026/01/21/p...
“I feel this obligation more so than anything I’ve ever done in my life, Kelly told me about why he's fighting Hegseth.
Will that lead to a 2028 presidential run?
“I still think it needs to be the right person for the moment, and we don’t know what that moment is yet."
Prison? White House? In Georgia, Mark Kelly told me he's been thinking about both possibilities:
“I’m a fucking US senator. I have, in theory — in theory — supercharged First Amendment speech rights under the speech and debate clause, and they’re trampling on that.” www.cnn.com/2026/01/21/p...
NEW from me: Walz was **also** asked about being an agent of a foreign country in his VP vetting.
For him, it was about China, given the trips he took there before being elected to Congress.
new context for the questions Shapiro got about Israel ties: www.cnn.com/2026/01/19/p...
Where we’re at: questions in a recent Ipsos poll on Jewish conspiracies and whether people would kill over them
NEW from me:
For Josh Shapiro, it’s all about being able to win in Pennsylvania.
That starts Thursday as Shapiro launches his campaign for a second term as governor with rallies in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia
www.cnn.com/2026/01/08/p...
“I’ve changed how I think about what I do,” said JB Pritzker, who was seated at a dinner with Hortman the night before she was killed. “Occasionally I have wanted to go without protection in the past, and it has not been a problem. But it is now.” www.cnn.com/2026/01/07/p...
“As governor, I have incredible security around me,” Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear told me. “I know I’m going to be OK. I worry about others.”
Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly told me he only sits in restaurants when he can see the door: “I don’t get rattled easily, but I am aware.”
NEW from me: threat concerns are already shaping the 2028 (and midterm) campaigns, with many candidates saying they have scrapped outdoor events, having to spend more money on security and tearing up at thinking how running may put families in danger www.cnn.com/2026/01/07/p...
With one week to go before he's sworn in as mayor, the positions Mamdani hasn't filled include commissioners of:
Aging
Buildings
Citywide Admin Services
Corrections
Cultural Affairs
Emergency Management
Finance
Health
Homeless Services
Parks
Sanitation
Transportation
“NPR identified more than a dozen files released by the DOJ on Friday that are no longer available Saturday afternoon, including one that shows President Trump's photo on a desk among several other photographs” www.npr.org/2025/12/20/n...
On Thursday, the Trump administration said it changed the name of the Kennedy Center without the Act of Congress to do so legally—then put up new signs anyway.
On Friday, the Trump administration did not release all the Epstein files, despite the law signed by Trump to do it.
President Donald Trump came to North Carolina on Friday to talk about the economy.
He ended up explaining how his wife organizes her lingerie drawer.
“I think she steams them,” he offered at one point
www.cnn.com/2025/12/19/p...
With under two weeks to go before he’s sworn in, Zohran Mamdani has not announced many hires for his administration. One of the few that he has announced was forced to almost immediately resign Thursday after her past antisemitic tweets came to light. www.cnn.com/2025/12/18/p...
Breaking new photos from Epstein estate
www.cnn.com/2025/12/12/p...
among specific questions Mamdani and his aides did not answer for this story:
-how will he go about ordering Netanyahu's arrest if he comes to New York?
-how will he implement BDS policy throughout city govt?
-will he actually end NYPD work w/Israel? www.cnn.com/2025/12/11/p...
“In 1654, Peter Stuyvesant tried & failed to stop the first Jews who ever sailed into our harbor from coming ashore. Since then,pretty much every elected mayor of NY had longstanding warm relations w/the city’s Jewish communities. So we are in some uncharted waters here.” www.cnn.com/2025/12/11/p...
Capsule of the moment: PA Gov. Josh Shapiro and Utah Gov. Spencer Cox’s event at the National Cathedral about disagreeing better was interrupted by four different people shouting at them until they were removed
Jasmine Crockett to me on those already hitting her for talking about jumping into the TX Senate race by tomorrow:
“maybe normal people are like, ‘Oh, I’m being attacked, so maybe I don’t do this, maybe I run away.’ But I’m like, ‘I eat attacks for breakfast.’” www.cnn.com/2025/12/07/p...
NEW: I talked to Jasmine Crockett at length about her down-to-the-wire decision on running for Senate in Texas w/tomorrow’s deadline.
“I’m not crazy. It’s weird that people believe that I could win the races that I won and I’m just like out here willy-nilly.” www.cnn.com/2025/12/07/p...
