Beyond The Bubble

From @McClatchyDC, @KLR_Editor and @alex_roarty host a weekly look at what's happening inside the political bubble—and what it means for battleground states.

[Francesca Chambers @fran_chambers]

Reminded this morning of the piece that @Alex_Roarty & I wrote a few days ago about why President Biden is having a harder time getting Republican support for his Covid-relief package than he anticipated.

https://t.co/gvjDkn8Xev

[Bryan Lowry @BryanLowry3]

And yet, he hasn't asked for any corrections or disputed any facts of our reporting. We also aren't the ones facing fact checks from national and local outlets related to our comments this month... https://t.co/0v8KA1N5QG https://t.co/dNPLPrwGG6

[Bryan Lowry @BryanLowry3]

Pompeo's new gig at a foreign policy-focused think tank seems to affirm what I said in December that he isn't interested in heading to Topeka to deal with headaches about the school finance formula. Cross him off your potential govs list. https://t.co/kl0m29W1D5 #ksleg

[Bryan Lowry @BryanLowry3]

.@HawleyMO's favorability in Missouri has dropped significantly since November, but it's improved among GOP voters nationally since the riot. h/t @eyokley https://t.co/sUJn9JLEcy

[Francesca Chambers @fran_chambers]

NEW: President Joe Biden wants most schools to open in his first 100 days.

Experts say it would take a dramatic expansion of COVID testing — 300 million tests for students & teachers a month.

That's not even close to the number available nationwide.

https://t.co/ZJTgXFZoWm

[Francesca Chambers @fran_chambers]

A few of my favorite Trump press corps memories:
-When the president called on "Fabian of The Hill" aka @Jordanfabian.

-When Trump asked @justinsink if he knew the price of oil that day and he replied, "I do. Do you know the price of oil?"

[Bryan Lowry @BryanLowry3]

In a guest column, former Kansas Gov and Obama’s HHS Sec @Sebelius calls on Kansas AG and the 4 members of the congressional delegation to step down for backing efforts to overturn the presidential election

[Miami Herald @MiamiHerald]

JUST IN: The pro-Trump mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol last week aimed to “capture and assassinate elected officials,” federal prosecutors said in court documents. https://t.co/YaOhCSdQkx

[Bryan Lowry @BryanLowry3]

I’m torn between calling today’s impeachment vote unprecedented because no president has been impeached twice and calling it precedented because this president has already been impeached. So I’ll call it an unprecedented precedent for the president.

[Bryan Lowry @BryanLowry3]

Missouri, Kansas R's oppose impeachment, saying it would be divisive at a time when we need unity-- days after voting to exclude PA and AZ's electoral votes. https://t.co/oOreQSQUv3

[Brian Murphy @MurphinNC]

On Dec. 21, Cawthorn told young conservatives: “Call your congressman and feel free, you can lightly threaten them and say, you know what, if you don’t start supporting election integrity, I’m coming after you, Madison Cawthorn is coming after you." https://t.co/bpUWp3IVsd #ncpol

[Francesca Chambers @fran_chambers]

Democrats are charging ahead with a plan to impeach Donald Trump over the Capitol Hill riot, even though it is unlikely he’ll be removed from office before Biden’s inauguration.

The goal for some lawmakers: keep Trump from holding office ever again

https://t.co/jfM7WeDVku

[Sammy Fretwell @sfretwell83]

Good hustle by ⁦@jmonkatthestate⁩ and ⁦@jamiemself⁩ on an important story about the recent Capitol riot.

https://t.co/Tj8w2R2VOy

[Bryan Lowry @BryanLowry3]

I really need to go bed, but I'm still contemplating the fact that 4 out of 6 Kansas lawmakers voted to throw out Pennsylvania's voters b/c it adopted the mail voting law Kansas has used since 1996 and was used in record numbers this year by Kansans https://t.co/4vXascvyeZ

[Francesca Chambers @fran_chambers]

Pelosi: "Yesterday, Leader Schumer and I placed a call with Vice President Pence, and we still hope to hear from him as soon as possible with a positive answer as to whether he and the Cabinet will honor their oath to the Constitution and the American people."

[Bryan Lowry @BryanLowry3]

A police officer died to ensure that the votes of the 81 million Americans who voted for the other candidate would still matter. Officer Sicknick stood up for democracy. https://t.co/iYvfi7GUZY

[Francesca Chambers @fran_chambers]

“I think that Donald Trump in five years is going to be like the Iraq wars now, where you really can’t find anybody who was for it anymore.”

https://t.co/DuYOUWq4e0

[David Smiley @NewsbySmiley]

The Miami Herald Editorial Board calls for Trump’s removal under the 25th Amendment
https://t.co/NYQNCFUeeq

[Francesca Chambers @fran_chambers]

Pence in a letter to Congress: "As a student of history who loves the Constitution and reveres its Framers, I do not believe that the Founders of our country intended to invest the Vice President with unilateral authority to decide which electoral votes should be counted..."

[Francesca Chambers @fran_chambers]

Mood on the eve of the Georgia runoff election: Giuliani stating on a podcast that Kemp "should join another political party," calling him a "disgrace" and Raffensperger a "liar."

"I can't say yet that he's a crook but he's certainly a big liar," Giuliani added.