Addisu Demissie

I do politics. Husband to @jehabig & Dad to Nico. Fmr CM @CoryBooker & @GavinNewsom. @ShannonSharpe once called me a heavy hitter. He/him.

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

BREAKING on MS NOW: Democrat Scott Colom's lead in the Mississippi Senate race just now increased to 4,404 votes.

[Addisu Demissie @ASDem]

Democracy in action, transparently, you love to see it.

[Ross Adams @radamsWAPT]

BREAKING: For more than an hour the Hinds county resolution board has been opening and processing 817 affidavit ballots and a technician is feeding the papers through a counting machine.

[Addisu Demissie @ASDem]

@BharatRamamurti @amandalitman Writing is hard tho

[Addisu Demissie @ASDem]

If I had a Substack (don’t and won’t) I’d write something about how all these red state Democrats who won statewide last week have the ability to define what a “X state Democrat” is for a generation and that is among their most important political tasks for the next 4-6 years.

[Addisu Demissie @ASDem]

@JordanAckerMI Gotta take em where you can get em

[Addisu Demissie @ASDem]

Like Christmas Eve over here.

[Ross Adams @radamsWAPT]

BREAKING: The Hinds county resolution board is about to open envelopes with the remaining 884 affidavit ballots inside to begin the final count.

[Addisu Demissie @ASDem]

@yeselson Still got it, yes. Even the super red counties are only giving Hyde-Smith like a dozen votes here and there at most, Hinds dump should be Assad numbers for Scott at which point they will call I gotta think.

[Addisu Demissie @ASDem]

@adamconner Adam lol

[Addisu Demissie @ASDem]

@yeselson It's a total fucking travesty and with the spotlight that Senator Colom with possess alongside our gubernatorial and SOS nominees next year we can hopefully at least make issue of it enough to avoid the same next year and eventually change the laws.

[Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan]

I will always remember who I’m working for - just like my hero Paul Wellstone did.

See you soon, Minnesota!

[Patrick Svitek @PatrickSvitek]

84% of vote now in in #AKSEN:

Mary Peltola (D): 49.0% / 118,926 votes
Dan S. Sullivan (R) (inc.): 47.2% / 114,676 votes
Gerald Heikes (R): 2.2% / 5,318 votes
Dan J. Sullivan: 1.7% / 4,027 votes

[Jen Cox @Jen_E_Cox]

Congrats on nearly 20 years to these two.

In honor of Mark and Gabby Day a 🧵

[Addisu Demissie @ASDem]

Not now Monica the grownups are talking

[CATargetBot0001 @CATargetBot0001]

NEW 2028 FEC F2
Monica De La Cruz (REP)
#TX15 (D-Pulido)
https://t.co/kNt7DI28rG

[Addisu Demissie @ASDem]

@LindThomasLab

[Addisu Demissie @ASDem]

There’s gotta be a German word for this

[Dave Wasserman @Redistrict]

Hindsight is 20/20: NC Republicans could have easily drawn a 9R-5D or even a 10R-4D map that would have withstood a blue tsunami (by drawing one more safe Dem seat in the Triad). Instead, by trying for a 11R-3D map, they're on track to end up in a 11D-3R hole.

[Addisu Demissie @ASDem]

@EricMGarcia I hate it but we’ve made the stupidest possible system given the constitutional rules that the Court has set from Buckley to Citizens United to NRSC v. FEC. In fact it keeps getting dumber.

[Addisu Demissie @ASDem]

@EricMGarcia I will also state for the record that I will, without compunction or hesitation, continue to play by the rules are they are until further notice.

[Addisu Demissie @ASDem]

@EricMGarcia Both unsexy and unpopular, with a dash of not immediate either: repealing McCain-Feingold soft money ban and hard side contribution limits. Until we get a constitutional amendment that money isn’t speech I think big money is better spent on the hard side than in the c4 shadows.

[Addisu Demissie @ASDem]

I will be making no further comment at this time lol just let me get these jokes off okay?!?

[Addisu Demissie @ASDem]

tfw three of your former bosses are on the all but certain list

[Adam Carlson @admcrlsn]

Ok about time for an update on this, with subjective categories:

All but certain:
🔵 Andy Beshear
🔵 Cory Booker
🔵 Pete Buttigieg
🔵 Rahm Emanuel
🔵 Ro Khanna
🔵 Gavin Newsom
🔵 JB Pritzker
🔵 Josh Shapiro

Seems pretty likely:
🔵 Mark Kelly
🔵 Wes Moore

Clearly considering:
🔵 Ruben Gallego
🔵 Kamala Harris
🔵 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
🔵 Elissa Slotkin
🔵 Chris Van Hollen
🔵 Raphael Warnock

Says they’re not considering running but no one really believes them:
🔵 Jon Ossoff

Wouldn’t be surprised, and get well soon:
🔵 Chris Murphy

Haven’t closed the door, but unlikely:
🔵 Gretchen Whitmer

People will speculate that they will run but it’s very difficult to imagine they will turn around and run a national campaign after being Senator or Governor for only like 3-6 months, everyone settle down:
🔵 Abdul El-Sayed
🔵 Rob Sand
🔵 James Talarico

Potential lefty choice if AOC doesn’t run:
🔵 Shawn Fain
🔵 Sara Nelson
🔵 Jimmy Williams

Potential celebrity vanity run:
🔵 Don Lemon
🔵 Jasmine Crockett

Resist Lib fantasy:
🔵 Jon Stewart