Shane Goldmacher
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New York Times national political correspondent
NEWS: The DNC is killing off its 2024 autopsy. DNC Chairman Ken Martin has decided not to publish a public report, believing that a backward-looking document would be counterproductive as the party has started winning.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
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The D.N.C. Is Killing Its Autopsy of What Went Wrong in 2024
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/us/politics/dnc-2024-autopsy-democrats-ken-martin.html
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More than $500 million of secret money donations to the leading nonprofit that helped Harris/Biden in 2024 came from just 10 donations. One contribution was $97.5 million. Donor unknown.
@teddyschleifer.bsky.social
has the tax filings —>
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
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Nearly $900 Million Flowed in Secret to Help Harris and Trump in 2024
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/us/politics/harris-trump-dark-money-democrats-republicans.html
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NEW: I wrote a profile of Kamala Harris at a pivot point. She wants to be heard but it is not clear what she wants to say. • Her 2028 thoughts • Her texts with Gavin • The $$ in her new PAC • The calls she's been making (Zohran etc) Lots more 🎁 —>
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
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Kamala Harris Isn’t Ready to Be Written Off
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/us/politics/kamala-harris-interview-107-days-book-2028.html?unlocked_article_code=1.7U8.Mooz.ZZgCzeoCpAfI&smid=url-share
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NEWS: Barack Obama called Zohran Mamdani today, praising the campaign he's run and offering to be a “sounding board” into the future. “Your campaign has been impressive to watch,” Obama said told him. More details on the 30-minute call in the NYT —>
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/n...
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Obama Calls Mamdani to Praise His Campaign, Offers to Be Sounding Board
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/nyregion/zohran-mamdani-barack-obama-election.html?unlocked_article_code=1.x08.8S3m.-MN-7C3LLcIF&smid=url-share
2 months ago
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Shane Goldmacher
Christine Zhang
2 months ago
Teamed up with
@shanegoldmacher.bsky.social
to take a look at the NJ governor’s race & what its results could tell us about the durability of Trump’s 2024 gains/“realignments”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/u...
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What New Jersey Could Reveal About the Rightward Shift of Hispanic Voters
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/us/politics/republicans-hispanics-new-jersey.html
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NEW: "Redistricting has always been in her blood" An inside look at Nancy Pelosi's role in CA redistricting battle — after a career fighting gerrymandering wars. From tandem $$ calls with Newsom at gov's mansion to her fascinating history. A thread...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/u...
4 months ago
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I distinctively remember interviewing Burton early in my career. Every line had an expletive. I asked if he might consider rephrasing a line or two because otherwise I wouldn't be able to use his quotes. "Who's f—ing problem is that?" he replied. RIP.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/u...
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John Burton, 92, Dies; California Political Boss Who Staged a Comeback
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/us/politics/john-burton-dead.html
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NEW: Kamala Harris and the DNC struck a handshake deal for the party to pay leftover 2024 bills. They've amounted to $20.5 million. Harris has promised to raise $$$ to cover those costs. But small donors making the donations have been left in dark.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/u...
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In Private Deal, the D.N.C. Covered $20 Million in Harris Bills Post-Election
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/us/politics/kamala-harris-dnc-fundraising.html
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NEW at NYT: The Democratic Party is facing a voter registration crisis in red, blue and battleground states alike — losing ground to the GOP everywhere. My deep dive into the numbers and what it reveals about the party's brand. Thread —>
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/u...
4 months ago
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SFGiants
6 months ago
Patrick Bailey: the first catcher in 99 YEARS to hit a walk-off inside-the-park home run 🤯
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Would it dong? (again)
6 months ago
Patrick Bailey vs Jordan Romano 😈 IT'S AN ANTI-UNICORN ❌ [Inside-The-Park] Home Run (2) 💣 Exit velo: 103.4 mph Launch angle: 29 deg Projected distance: 414 ft This would have been a home run in every MLB ballpark except Oracle Park PHI @ SF 🔻 9th
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Baseball generates such fun weirdo stats/records/occurrences. Like from last night: the Giants' Patrick Bailey became the first catcher in 99 years to hit a walk-off inside-the-park home run. Utterly meaningless! Fun!
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Related, I need more sports on here to keep coming back.
add a skeleton here at some point
6 months ago
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Love Justin Verlander as a competitor. Less love for the 0-7 record headed into the All Star break.
6 months ago
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NEW: inside Ken Martin’s rocky start. Top DNC officials have discussed whether they might need to borrow money this year to keep paying the bills. Lots more w/ Reid Epstein
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/u...
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Inside the Chaos Swirling Through a D.N.C. Desperate for Cash
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/us/politics/dnc-ken-martin.html
7 months ago
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NEWS: Lee Saunders, head of AFSCME, also out at DNC
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/u...
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Two Top Union Leaders Quit D.N.C. Posts in Dispute With Chairman
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/us/politics/randi-weingarten-dnc-ken-martin.html
7 months ago
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NEWS: Randi Weingarten is out at DNC, citing disagreements with Ken Martin in a resignation letter. "I appear to be out of step with the leadership you are forging." She had been on DNC since 2002. MORE From me and Reid Epstein —>
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/u...
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Randi Weingarten Quits D.N.C. Post in Dispute With Chairman
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/us/politics/randi-weingarten-dnc-ken-martin.html
7 months ago
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NEW: These two maps help tell the story of America's political realignment in the Trump era. They show every county the two parties have continuously improved in over the 2016, 2020 and 2024 elections. It's a stark map.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
7 months ago
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Wilmer Flores is the MLB’s RBI leader, just as everyone expected
8 months ago
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NEW: A fundamental reordering of the GOP big money world is underway. Trump’s super PAC/nonprofit have raised $400 million w/ plans to play in 2026. Plus, Trump vets taking senior roles at SLF and CLF, once independent fiefdoms.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/u...
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Trump, Raking In Cash, Expands His Power in the G.O.P. Money World
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/us/politics/trump-republicans-money-super-pacs.html
8 months ago
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NEW: A member of the board that oversees the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum wrote a blistering letter to the board condemning the institution's silence and invoking the lead-up to the Holocaust. It has sparked a flurry of responses. W/
@katieglueck.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...
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Holocaust Museum Board Member Condemns Silence on Trump Firings
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/us/politics/holocaust-museum-trump-biden-firings.html
8 months ago
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Do people do sports here? Because this is a tense Warriors game
8 months ago
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The decision to send deportees to Libya was striking. The country is racked with conflict, and human rights groups have called conditions in its network of migrant detention centers “horrific” and “deplorable.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/u...
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Trump Administration Plans to Send Migrants to Libya on a Military Flight
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/us/politics/trump-libya-migrants.html
8 months ago
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An uplifting little story
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/u...
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Edwin Kneedler, a ‘Citizen Lawyer,’ Gets a Standing Ovation at the Supreme Court
In a remarkable scene, the justices applauded Edwin S. Kneedler, a government lawyer with a reputation for candor, care and integrity.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/us/politics/supreme-court-lawyer-standing-ovation.html
8 months ago
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Pretty remarkable finish to tonight's 60 Minutes episode
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8 months ago
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Peter Baker
8 months ago
Voters believe Trump is overreaching with aggressive efforts to expand executive power and have deep doubts about signature pieces of his agenda, per
@nytimes.com
@sienaresearch.bsky.social
poll.
@shanegoldmacher.bsky.social
Ruth Igielnik
@camillebaker.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...
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Voters See Trump’s Use of Power as Overreaching, Times/Siena Poll Finds
Skepticism has grown of his efforts to expand his authority and of his handling of issues long seen as strengths for him, including the economy and immigration.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/us/politics/trump-poll-approval.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c&pvid=13CB16EE-6238-4A16-B50C-8A4D514A30FC
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Trump’s complete and total endorsement was not so exclusively complete and total.
9 months ago
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NEWS: David Hogg, Now a Top DNC Official, is Plotting to Take Down Party Incumbents in Primaries in 2026 Lots more in here on an effort that threatens to fracture the party leadership —>
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/u...
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David Hogg, Parkland Survivor and D.N.C. Vice Chair, Hopes to Unseat Democratic Incumbents
David Hogg, a young liberal activist and now a vice chair of the Democratic National Committee, is leading an effort to unseat the party’s older lawmakers in primaries.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/us/politics/david-hogg-dnc-leaders-we-deserve.html
9 months ago
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I wrote about the 23-year full-time student who just raised a whole bunch of money in those losing Florida special elections — and for his firm that got a 25% cut of "true profit" of what it brought in
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/u...
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Meet the 23-Year-Old Student Who Raised $25 Million in Democratic Losses
A law student in Florida has a lucrative side gig: fund-raising consultant. His firm earns a 25 percent cut of “profit” from donations, and critics have begun to pile up after two special elections.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/us/politics/democrats-fundraising-florida.html
9 months ago
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NEW: With Orders, Investigations and Innuendo, Trump and G.O.P. Aim to Cripple the Left
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/u...
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With Orders, Investigations and Innuendo, Trump and G.O.P. Aim to Cripple the Left
The president and his allies in Congress are targeting the financial, digital and legal machinery that powers the Democratic Party and much of the progressive political world.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/us/politics/trump-republicans-attack-democrats-actblue.html
10 months ago
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Andy Beshear Rips Gavin Newsom for Having Steve Bannon on Podcast
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/u...
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Andy Beshear Slams Gavin Newsom for Having Steve Bannon on Podcast
“I don’t think we should give him oxygen on any platform — ever, anywhere,” the Democratic governor of Kentucky said of President Trump’s former chief strategist.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/us/politics/beshear-newsom-bannon-podcast.html
10 months ago
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There is a lot happening inside ActBlue. Reid Epstein and I report on the “alarming pattern” of senior-level departures and an internal message from a lawyer — posted and deleted — saying they have “whistleblower protections for a reason.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/u...
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ActBlue, the Democratic Fund-Raising Powerhouse, Faces Internal Chaos
At least seven senior officials have left the group, setting off deep concerns about its future as it confronts scrutiny from congressional Republicans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/us/politics/actblue-democrat-fundraising-resignations.html
10 months ago
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This is a truly fascinating fundraising email from Mike Pence’s PAC
10 months ago
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“This can’t happen again” I wrote about a previously unreported effort to keep what is effectively the central nervous system of the Democratic Party afloat last year — and fears about the future of a data system owned by private equity.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...
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The Democratic Party Reconsiders a Huge, Vulnerable Database of Voter Information
The party’s storehouse of everything it knows about American voters required an extraordinary intervention to keep it running, people involved said. A meltdown could have crippled its campaigns nation...
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/us/politics/democrats-voter-data.html
10 months ago
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A quote from my piece on how Democrats are grappling with how to defend diversity amid Trump's attacks
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/u...
11 months ago
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NEW: The Democratic Party is having an identity crisis about identity politics. My piece on how Democrats are grappling with how to defend diversity and marginalized groups without being defined or marginalized by those fights.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/u...
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As Ground Shifts, ‘Flailing’ Democrats Struggle to Find Footing in Diversity Fight
President Trump’s aggressive moves against transgender rights and diversity, equity and inclusion programs have left the Democratic Party casting about for a strategy for how to respond.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/us/politics/democrats-dei-trump.html
11 months ago
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Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI) is getting into the acronym legislation game with the ELON MUSK Act
11 months ago
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A new Quinnipiac poll shows the Democratic Party at an all-time low (31 percent favorable) and the Republican Party at an all-time high (43 percent). The question has been polled since 2008
poll.qu.edu/poll-release...
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Trump Begins Second Term Stronger Than The First, 6 In 10 Voters Approve Of Sending U.S. Troops To Southern Border, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Majority Disapprove Of Elon Musk's Rol...
"The huge deployment of boots on the ground is not to a dicey, far away war theater, but to the American border. And a majority of voters are just fine with that," said Quinnipiac University Polling A...
https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3918
11 months ago
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Democrats can't even agree on how deep a hole they are in. My piece on the important divide that could affect everything about how the party goes about trying to claw its way back into power.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/u...
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Powerless, Democrats Debate Just How Deep in the Wilderness They Are
Party leaders disagree sharply on how to interpret the losses that gave Republicans complete control of the federal government, with some calling for a reinvention and others a wait-and-see.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/us/politics/democratic-party-rebuild.html
11 months ago
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My latest: Trump is at once a president at the absolute peak of his powers yet also closer to a lame-duck period than any newly inaugurated predecessor in the modern era
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/u...
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Trump Is at the Peak of His Power. The Question Is for How Long.
Republicans are defined today more by a single man than perhaps either party has been in decades, even as the clock starts ticking on Donald Trump’s tenure.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/us/politics/trump-power-era.html
12 months ago
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Going to
www.whitehouse.gov
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The White House
President Donald J. Trump and Vice President JD Vance are committed to lowering costs for all Americans, securing our borders, unleashing American energy dominance, restoring peace through strength, a...
https://www.whitehouse.gov/
12 months ago
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Eric Lipton NYT
12 months ago
The Art of the Image: Trump as His Own Executive Producer. Imagery — and Mr. Trump’s mastery of it — played a vital role in powering his return to the White House. Excellent piece here by NYT
@shanegoldmacher.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/u...
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The Art of the Image: Trump as His Own Executive Producer
The once and soon-to-be president takes advantage of the blurry lines between appearance and perception, between reputation and reality.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/us/politics/trump-visual-imagery.html?smid=bs-share
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The Art of the Image: Trump as His Own Executive Producer
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/u...
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The Art of the Image: Trump as His Own Executive Producer
The once and soon-to-be president takes advantage of the blurry lines between appearance and perception, between reputation and reality.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/us/politics/trump-visual-imagery.html
12 months ago
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NEWS: Faiz Shakir, former Bernie Sanders campaign manager, makes late entry to DNC chair race after growing frustrated by lack of ambitious plans to restore Democratic brand with the working class. From me and Reid Epstein
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/u...
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Faiz Shakir, Ex-Bernie Sanders Campaign Chief, Joins Race for D.N.C. Chair
Mr. Shakir said his mission, should he win the post, would be to redefine the Democratic Party as the party of the working class.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/us/politics/faiz-shakir-dnc.html
12 months ago
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Still don’t know who to follow on here
about 1 year ago
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Departing Rep. Jamaal Bowman calls his primary defeat "a public execution for the country to see." “Democrats, you're going to allow this Black man to be attacked in this way, without any pushback, without any recourse?”
ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...
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Rep. Bowman reflects on his time in Congress, primary loss
In just a few weeks, Rep. Jamaal Bowman will say goodbye to Capitol Hill after completing four years in Congress.
https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2024/12/13/i-wish-i-didn-t-pull-that-damn-fire-alarm---rep--bowman-reflects-on-time-in-congress--primary-loss
about 1 year ago
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NEWS: Steven Law is stepping down as head of the Senate Leadership Fund after a decade
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/u...
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Senate G.O.P. Super PAC Chief Follows McConnell and Steps Down
Steven J. Law’s departure represents a changing of the guard for the super PAC and coincides with a new leader for Senate Republicans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/us/politics/senate-gop-super-pac.html
about 1 year ago
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Practically every presidential election brings about a technological leap or innovation in how campaigns target key voters. Meet the "streaming persuadables" of 2024 — and how Team Trump saved big $$$ targeting them *individually* with TV ads. My latest piece:
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/u...
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How Trump Targeted Undecided Voters Without Breaking the Bank
The Trump team had a huge financial disadvantage. It made up for it with a strategic innovation that allowed it to narrow the focus of its ad dollars.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/us/politics/trump-streaming-ads-strategy.html
about 1 year ago
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The election was exactly a month ago.
about 1 year ago
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Pete Hegseth’s Mother Accused Her Son of Mistreating Women for Years
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/u...
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Pete Hegseth’s Mother Accused Her Son of Mistreating Women for Years
Penelope Hegseth made the accusation in an email to her son in 2018, amid his contentious divorce. She said on Friday that she regretted the email and had apologized to him.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/us/politics/pete-hegseth-mother-email.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
about 1 year ago
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