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.@petebuttigieg in New Hampshire: “We demand higher wages. They say, ‘Let’s do a gilded ballroom.’ We demand lower prices. Best they can do is give out Tom Cotton’s cell phone number.”
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.@MaggieG603: "The hour is late here at the Eleanor Roosevelt dinner, so I'm going to heed the Roosevelt family rule for public speaking, which is very simple: 'Be brief. Be sincere. Be seated.'"
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Buttigieg in N.H. tonight. “I subscribe to the belief that hope is the consequence of action just as much as its cause. And if you agree, then we're not going to wait around for some season of hope to descend upon us so that we can go out and take action.”
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Final jobs report before the midterm elections on Nov. 3:
Breaking: The U.S. added 29,000 jobs in September, far short of expectations. The unemployment rate rose to 4.2%. on.wsj.com/4ea9cO5
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Former second gentleman Doug Emhoff is headlining a re-election fundraiser for Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass next week in Beverly Hills:
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Classic @RobSandIA campaign anecdote here. Rob befriended the GOP tracker from a previous campaign and then invited him to attend a town hall meeting.
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South Korea Contests U.S. Claims of New $50 Billion Alaska Investment The Trump administration asserted this week that South Korea will fund an LNG pipeline, but Seoul denies any agreement wsj.com/world/asia/south-kor… via @WSJ
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NEWS — Ken Paxton trashed President Trump’s convention in leaked audio obtained by NYT. Paxton told donors and lobbyists last week that the convention hurt his polling numbers. Paxton was a huge part of the Dallas convention. Exclusive in NYT. nytimes.com/2026/09/30/us/po…
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Scoop w/ @tparti @mhackman: The Trump administration used Homeland Security funds to finance a set of controversial pro-Trump advertisements that recently began airing on television. The money came to fund the ads came specificially from CBP wsj.com/politics/policy/home… via @WSJ
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—> Former VP Kamala Harris is raising money Wednesday in CA for Rep. Shomari Figures, D-Ala., who is seeking re-election in the aftermath of mid-decade redistricting in Alabama.
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New: Fmr VP Kamala Harris is holding a CA fundraiser for David Crowley on Monday, per invite. #wisconsinGov
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NEW: Trump has rejected Iran’s proposal for a 7-day ceasefire and has told aides he expects to resume bombing Iran after the November midterms, U.S. officials said. Trump is skeptical Iran would meet his demands & has told staff he sees a renewed bombing campaign as likely
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Someone shouted: “You are under arrest by the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation.” It registered immediately that this wasn’t the police. These men were FSB, the successor to the Soviet-era KGB ... This wasn’t a misunderstanding. wsj.com/world/russia/evan-ge…
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A new NYT/Siena poll shows Collins ahead of Jackson by 3 pts in the US Senate race. 🟥Collins: 49% 🟦Jackson: 46% Additionally, Collins has positive favorability while Jackson's is negative 🟥Collins: +3 🟦Jackson: -8 #MEpolitics
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Includes Dow Jones - The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, MarketWatch, Dow Jones Newswires, and its other publications
An amicus brief defending our colleagues at CNN, MS NOW + Politico, signed by: Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, WHCA, Advance Publications, ABC, AP, the Atlantic, Axios, Bloomberg, the Boston Globe, CBS, Center for Investigative Reporting, Chicago Public Media ...
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"White House advisors and allies pitch ideas such as naming buildings after Trump to get on the president’s good side, a former official told @MSNOWNews. The president’s view, the official said: 'Why would I say no? Everybody’s trying to please me." ms.now/news/trump-fords-thea…
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“It’s very all or nothing,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez said. “If I were to run in this cycle, and not win, I would be done.” A fascinating inside look at the heavy decision she’s weighing to run for president or Senate in 2028, and being content with losing nytimes.com/2026/09/22/us/po…
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