Scott Berman

@AmericanU alum. Pragmatic Progressive. Environmentalist. Politics nerd. Indie music enthusiast.

[Scott Berman @Scott_Berman]

@PhilaFreedomGuy I actually did read your tweet. Many of these voters aren't fleeing the democrats, they're just moving from urban areas to suburbs. I responded to the misread. Insult my teachers & politics if you'd like, it probably isn't the way to be competitive again in suburban districts

[Scott Berman @Scott_Berman]

It's nice that this is one Republican's diagnosis:

Overlooks how rural areas strongly favorable to the GOP are losing population the most, and that college educated suburbia just isn't into what Republicans are selling.

Fine by me if they keep wanting to cede turf in Cranberry

[Guy Ciarrocchi @PhilaFreedomGuy]

A part of the explanation of the Dem pickup of a state house seat in Butler county.
The continuing ironic story. Folks flee failing Democrat-run cities and seek the “safe haven” of the Burbs and exurbs…then proceed to vote for the very Democrats whom they just fled from. 🤔🤷‍♂️

[Scott Berman @Scott_Berman]

@SarahLongwell25 @Noahpinion No need to guess Sarah... you were drawn to an apparatus that could tell you falsehoods knowingly and still convince you to join them.

Glad you've seen the light. We need not pretend character counted for Republicans pre Trump

[Carolina Forward @ForwardCarolina]

.@RoyCooperNC defeating @PatMcCroryNC in 2016 was one of the most important turning points in modern North Carolina political history.

Not only because it put an end to McCrory's spineless and confused leadership; but because Roy Cooper became a critical shield against corrupt MAGA-fied excess by the Republican gerrymandered state legislature in the Trump era.

Without Cooper, North Carolina could've turned into a Tennessee or Florida - or worse. Our state owes him an enormous debt.

[. @GregTSargent]

The Trump two-step:

1) transfer money from working/middle class consumers to the wealthy by using tariff revenues to fund tax cuts for rich

2) when tariffs hurt GOP constituencies, transfer our tax dollars to them with bailouts, effectively paying them off to keep voting GOP

[Mike Madrid @madrid_mike]

A great journalist whose integrity is above reproach. @lara_korte deserves a follow and amplify her voice as she holds power to account

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

Absolutely insane that not once has a Republican president actually cut federal spending in 60 years.

Party full of bullshitters and liars about their core issue, "fiscal conservatism"

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

A train derailed in Ohio during the Biden Administration and Joe Biden was expected to handle everything personally. A city in Indiana has been without power for ten days and has anyone asked Trump what he plans on doing about it?

[Scott Berman @Scott_Berman]

The irony is leftist progressives are rarely satisfied with what Dems do accomplish by simple majority.

Also ironic that a supermajority is what made the New Deal and Great Society possible, but expressing a desire to attain one again is considered elitist speak by Sirota

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

This is the kind of elite-speak that seems positive, but that's actually designed to move the goalposts and create a rationale for inaction. It roughly translates to: "Hey Democratic voters - don't you dare demand Dems actually do anything big if they win a simple majority."

[G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris]

New at FiftyPlusOne: Rural and suburban voters haven’t looked this Democratic since 2018

https://t.co/j2a9DV3WEv

[Scott Berman @Scott_Berman]

Obviously Daryl Metcalfe is still an insufferable asshat...

Also the lack of introspection from the GOP in realizing they gave away the high propensity voting pool when they went maga is hilarious

[Stephen Caruso @StephenJ_Caruso]

Daryl Metcalfe posted about his old seat flipping: Ds victory "does not have national implications as much as they believe it does! It should send a message to Republican voters! Nominate real Republican candidates with integrity, not RINOS, if you want to beat the communists!"

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

The FDA has lost more than 3,000 employees over the past year, including senior officials, amid the Trump administration’s HHS downsizing.

[Joey Politano 🏳️‍🌈 @JosephPolitano]

every 6 months the Trump administration realizes lowering tariffs will lower prices, applies this insight to one specific good, and then proceeds to never introspect beyond that. It’s honestly beautiful in its stupidity.

[Scott Berman @Scott_Berman]

@stevemorris__ Yes the press is broken. But it also reflects the broad swath of the American public, which has always focused on "who would you rather have a beer with" over policy

Naturally that arc would land all the way at a reality tv show presidency openly pursuing destructive policy

[Scott Berman @Scott_Berman]

@stevemorris__ Yes the press is broken. But it also reflects the broad swath of the American public, which has always focused on "who would you rather have a beer with" over policy

Naturally that arc would land all the way at a reality tv show presidency openly pursuing destructive policy

[David @davidslosttt]

Here's what TRUMP'S APPROVAL rating looks like on the congressional district level

It's so bad that it BREAKS most of the GOP Gerrymanders!!!

[sean kitchen @sean_kitchen89]

Here's a great example of Democrats getting back to and embracing their working class roots.

Pa Senate candidate Brian Wrightson, a former telecommunications worker and Red Cross director in NEPA, filmed this campaign ad from hanging off a communications tower.

[J.J. Abbott @jjabbott]

FLIP THE SENATE. EXPAND THE HOUSE.

[Scott Berman @Scott_Berman]

He's so so good at this

[Acyn @Acyn]

Ossoff: It’s been amazing to watch this White House melt down over this all week. And about Natalie Harp, these White House staffers are adults, public officials paid by the taxpayer, with immense power in positions of public trust. And whether it’s Natalie Harp printing out Donald Trump’s daily dose of delusion and flattery, or Peter Navarro steering taxpayer-funded loans to Trump family investments, or Pete Hegseth deluding the president daily into deepening this quagmire in the Middle East, no one cares about their feelings.

The sailors on the Lincoln are fighting his war, a war based on lies, while he plays with his new ballroom, flies around on a jet given to him by a foreign prince, and retreats into this circle of sycophantic aides who tell him every day what he wants to hear, not what he needs to hear.

This entire White House is responsible for lying the country into war, and for the rest of their careers, they will be known for having participated in this obscenity.

[Joe @electionsjoe]

In democratic states you have to vote for new maps, but red states can just dismantle democracy without giving the voters any say.