Aaron Blake

Senior political reporter at @CNN. Ex-@washingtonpost.

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[Vince Mpls @vincempls]

Front page of the Sunday @StarTribune, with the headline mistakenly covered by an ad graphic. This is what comes from moving the printing plant to Iowa, where people can't read.

[Aaron Blake @AaronBlake]

Yeah I think we should all heed the lessons of Wedgewood, folks.

[Taniel @Taniel]

A group no one had heard of just released 30 polls at once that are now making the rounds. What's least convincing to me is that nearly all of the 30 are in line with what you'd expect based on averages or, in the many rarely polled House races, conventional wisdom.

[Brian Stelter @brianstelter]

I know there’s a media tendency to minimize Trump’s tirades because we’ve read so many of them before. But his verbosity and melancholy about Bill Maher last night stood out so much that we filed an analysis here: https://t.co/ojXVBs5H8h

[Aaron Blake @AaronBlake]

Likely voters are about split on whether there would be more or less corruption if Democrats win, per a new CBS poll.

But if Republicans win, voters say nearly 2-to-1 -- 52% to 27% -- that it would lead to more corruption.

https://t.co/LTe6H81dEG

[Aaron Blake @AaronBlake]

Quite the character arc for the immigrant from Norway in the Trump era

[Natalie Korach @NatalieKorach]

New: Amid legal threats from Jared Kushner over explosive allegations published in a Vanity Fair excerpt, Simon & Schuster quietly expedited the release of Matthew Cole’s Princes and Thieves, with the book now available for purchase two days early

https://t.co/hrmjOvB9Hg

[Edward-Isaac Dovere @IsaacDovere]

Had a little chat with someone about her thoughts on 2026, 2028 and even 2032 — coming tomorrow morning on https://t.co/kawVrmXU23 ….

[Kaitlan Collins @kaitlancollins]

One Trump ally after his Nicki Minaj quote: “The closing here has been ass, both literally and figuratively.”

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

"The director won’t protect even our most respected analysts when they tell hard truths, so they stopped telling them and learned to avoid topics the White House didn’t want to hear,” newly retired CIA official tells @shaneharris https://t.co/BEKFgD5fLY

[ArtButMakeItSports @ArtButSports]

@tomnweston Figure of a Child Seated atop a Pig, 2nd–1st B.C, 📸 by @tomnweston

[Aaron Blake @AaronBlake]

Dems can’t be happy about this.

[State of the Union @CNNSOTU]

BASH: “You're still fully behind Abdul El-Sayed?”

STEVENS: “Look, I'm on the Democratic ticket. I can't say that I agree with everything that's gone on… I'm looking to be on the team to support my next governor Jocelyn Benson, and frankly these great Democrats who are working their tails off, who are going to make Hakeem Jeffries the first black Speaker of the House.”

BASH: “You didn't mention Abdul El-Sayed in that last answer.”

STEVENS: “Well, look, I would just say, you had asked me if I'm still on the team, I'm on the team.”

[Joe Sweeney @JoeSweeneyNH]

Bill Clinton, famously respectful of the White House.

[Aaron Blake @AaronBlake]

https://t.co/lvkY0Krmvm

[Aaron Blake @AaronBlake]

It keeps happening

[Tom Bonier @tbonier]

As turnout in Texas nears 3 million votes, Hispanic turnout is now exceeding presidential levels. More Hispanics have voted than did at this point in the 2024 presidential election. What's driving this huge increase? Young voters.

[Aaron Blake @AaronBlake]

https://t.co/68RfzxJZMl

[Aaron Blake @AaronBlake]

A great example of the logical somersaults the Vivek ad is making his allies do.

His own running mate basically concedes that, yes, the mother they used in their ad stayed with a man who sexually abused her daughter.

(Via @nytimes)

[Aaron Blake @AaronBlake]

👀

[Sen. Lisa Murkowski @lisamurkowski]

Alaskans don’t need any help voting for their preferred candidates, and the State of Alaska has already handled this by clearly distinguishing the candidates on this year’s ballot. The Department of Justice should never have filed this lawsuit.

https://t.co/88tGvV0P8O

[Jake Tapper 🦅 @jaketapper]

“Nobody knows anything,” Trump says about the Ramaswamy ad featuring Amy Acton’s estranged mother. Actually we know quite a bit about how that mom stuck by Acton’s accused pedophile rapist, thanks to court records and documents! cc @DonaldTrump

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Vivek Ramaswamy, the GOP nominee for Ohio governor, released an ad in which his opponent’s mother calls her “a liar.”

Democratic candidate Amy Acton hasn’t been in contact with her mother since 1978. These documents corroborate her childhood trauma story. https://t.co/vvuFkJpH9C