Drew

Proud Illinoisan

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

The version of socialism where there’s also going to be no taxes is interesting

[Drew @afsoukup]

Why are we even flirting with running this guy in a swing state?

1. Majority of left right and center hate defund the police
2. He simply lies all the time (a red flag with Platner too)
3. We should not be worrying about Michigan in this election cycle!

Pointless risk

[Andrew Kaczynski @KFILE]

NEW: Abdul El-Sayed has insisted he “never, never called for defunding” police and said deleted tweets were taken out of context. But new audio hows that in 2020 he defended the idea in interviews saying, “I believe that we do need to defund the police.”
https://t.co/l4lmZiKPjg

[Drew @afsoukup]

I think there’s a whole group of Democrats who are rightfully upset that Trump won again and want to do something drastically different. But different doesn’t mean better (Fetterman, Abdul, Darializa). We have a wide slate of good, virtuous, normal people… let’s run them!

[Drew @afsoukup]

Coming back from a long twitter hiatus to say that this guy was always bad news. I’ve been losing my mind this year because we are running obviously flawed candidates… for what purpose? I’m still not understanding the argument for some of these dopes

[Uncrewed @Uncrewed]

DuPage County was an absolute disaster for the GOP last night. Out of the 49 contested races, they lost 48 of them. The only reason there's still GOP officeholders left is because those candidates went uncontested!

All in all, the era of GOP local dominance in DuPage is dead.

[Sean Casten @SeanCasten]

Thomas Paine warned us about this. Wright, Trump and their grifting enablers are hostile to the very idea of America.
https://t.co/SMGhfjDsZF

[. @GregTSargent]

SCOOP --> Trump's State Department quietly terminated a contract that was in the process of transferring evidence of Russian abductions of Ukrainian kids to European law enforcement, two sources familiar with the situation tell me.

Details here:
https://t.co/2GKR8OYyJ5

[Governor JB Pritzker @GovPritzker]

There's one thing teachers from around Illinois cite as an impediment to classroom learning: cell phones.

That's why this session, I'm moving forward with legislation requiring all our school districts to adopt a cell phone policy that bans their usage during in the classroom.

[BuccoCapital Bloke @buccocapital]

The plan? Require weekly mandatory paperwork to increase government efficiency

[Blake Allen @Blake_Allen13]

A Democratic Party that does not tackle governmental inefficiency and bottlenecks is a Democratic Party without a platform. The next time we control government, if this is not dealt with it’ll be a lost opportunity. We have to govern, and we have to govern effectively

[Sam Stein @samstein]

Wanna talk about heart wrenching.

Here is a leading pediatric cancer group TWO days ago celebrating the coming passage of the Gabriella Miller Kids act funding extension. It was just cut out of the CR after Elon/Trump demanded cuts

[Armand Domalewski @ArmandDoma]

I need every Democratic elected official in America to read this paragraph by @ezraklein

[Garrett Haake @GarrettHaake]

Buried in Oz announcement is this line which suggests cuts to Medicare may be on the table:

“He will also cut waste and fraud within our Country’s most expensive Government Agency, which is a third of our Nation’s Healthcare spend, and a quarter of our entire National Budget.”

[Pat Ryan 🇺🇸 @PatRyanUC]

It’s going to take time to sort through what happened Tuesday. But I've read a lot of takes the past few days (some good, many bad), and I've had a lot of people ask how I won one of the toughest districts in the country by over 13%.

Here are some thoughts: 🧵

[Patrick Flynn @patrickjfl]

Hard to overstate just how rapid the changes in US party coalitions have been.

The Democrats are now the party of high education *and* high income voters. Just 12 years ago, the inverse was true.

On these terms, the Trump coalition was closer to Obama 2008 than the Harris one!

[Lakshya Jain @lxeagle17]

I get the urge to be angry, but it's probably worth noting that Biden literally walked a picket line and bent over backwards to rescue pensions for unions like Teamsters. It did not help their electoral fortunes at all.

The party is likely to move *right* after this, not left

[Chris Hayes @chrislhayes]

Continues to be a strong trend that Trumpy candidates not named Trump struggle in battleground races but Trump overperforms.

[sam @sam_d_1995]

seriously, let this map sink in.

Trump gained ground *everywhere*

running to the left or picking Shapiro wouldn’t have saved Kamala.

a majority of voters bought what Trump is selling, and he outperformed Republican congressional candidates everywhere.

[Armand Domalewski @ArmandDoma]

thinking about how the 2020 Democratic primary was a slog fest about whose Medicare for All plan was ambitious enough. man

[Lauren Hitt @LaurenHitt]

New ad from the Harris campaign on reproductive freedom, ahead of the VP's speech in Texas on Friday. This is a very tough one to watch, but it's incredibly important to. Thank you so much to Ondrea and Ceasar for trusting us to share their story.