Dan Geldon

Strategic Consultant. Former Chief of Staff for @ewarren.

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

My dear friend Brady Williamson was always clear-eyed on our goal of rescuing families that were hanging onto the middle class by their fingernails. He understood that even if we changed only one person’s life, the fight would be worth it. I will miss his gentle reminders.

[Dan Geldon @dan_geldon]

@tonywest tried to appeal to working-class swing voters through the lens of what elite swing voters want - deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It took up space that should be left to those who know better, and all it served was building his business connections.

[Dan Geldon @dan_geldon]

It's actually even worse than that because ad funding becomes a pretense people like @tonywest use for coddling monopolists and bringing them into the fold of the campaign, undermining populist messaging that would meet the American people where they are.

[Adam Carlson @admcrlsn]

This is very far from my area of expertise, but moving forward I hope we have a serious conversation about at what point bombarding voters with incessant TV ads (as a kind of campaign arms race) & text messages has diminishing returns, or can even alienate some gettable voters.

[Dan Geldon @dan_geldon]

The campaign's earned media strategy down the stretch was supposedly to get R crossovers (eg, Cheney, Cuban). Then they got the same R support as Biden 2020 while hemorrhaging support from the base. Fundamentally though, the strategy was really just about placating the powerful.

[Dan Geldon @dan_geldon]

It was obvious to many of us on the outside that @tonywest was sabotaging @kamalaharris's campaign -- constantly lavishing billionaires and executives with access, sucking up to Silicon Valley, and pushing their agenda -- but to see it in print is still revealing and upsetting.

[Dan Geldon @dan_geldon]

It was obvious to many of us on the outside that @tonywest was sabotaging @kamalaharris's campaign -- constantly lavishing billionaires and executives with access, sucking up to Silicon Valley, and pushing their agenda -- but to see it in print is still revealing and upsetting.

[Yoni Appelbaum @YAppelbaum]

One bit regret in Biden world? That Harris abandoned the anti-big-business populism of the campaign, reports @FranklinFoer https://t.co/0p35r6kX5A

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

Feels like maybe Kamala Harris should embrace Elizabeth Warren’s Ultra-Millionaire Tax and barnstorm on that for the next ten days.

[Squawk Box @SquawkCNBC]

A federal judge blocked a merger which would have combined $CPRI's Jimmy Choo and Versace brands with $TPR's Coach and Kate Spade. "It's a big day for the FTC," says Former FTC Commissioner William Kovacic.

[Dan Geldon @dan_geldon]

If you haven't had a chance, you might want to read a recent take from the Department of Justice on whether your point holds water. https://t.co/jJ0N5OtI2j

[Herbert hovenkamp @Sherman1890]

@dan_geldon CTIC takes unconditioned $ from all kinds of donors, left, right, and center. You're not referring to the bd of directors of GAI, but the bd of advisors, or people willing to debate. As all good Universities, Penn does not permit donors to attach strings and nothing comes to me.

[Dan Geldon @dan_geldon]

You are a "primary faculty member" of a law school center (CTIC) that takes funding from Google, Meta, and Amazon. And you were on the board of the Global Antitrust Institute, which takes funding from Facebook, Google, and Amazon, for almost 20 years. https://t.co/WQt8FVTRzc

[Herbert hovenkamp @Sherman1890]

@dan_geldon thats not me. Not on any boards and not taking any corporate money from anyone. You're making stuff up.

[Dan Geldon @dan_geldon]

In other words, only pay attention to "neutral" polls that don't bother to ask about corporate monopolies, says "neutral" antitrust professor who has taken funding from Big Tech and sits on boards funded by Big Tech and never discloses such in any of his "neutral" pontificating.

[Herbert hovenkamp @Sherman1890]

@dan_geldon the questions in this poll were loaded with anti-business rhetoric that virtually guarantee the responses. When you see a neutral poll, such as Gallup's "most important problem" polls, conducted regularly, high costs/prices dominates and big business does not even appear.

[Dan Geldon @dan_geldon]

Another day, another data point that the big donors swarming the Harris operation to shut down antitrust enforcement have been doing a huge disservice to the party at a critical time in its fight against Trump.

[Bloomberg Politics @bpolitics]

Antitrust actions by the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission are viewed favorably by voters in some key 2024 battlegrounds, who see too much corporate power as a major problem https://t.co/b6pn7bDa2y

[Demand Progress @demandprogress]

The DOJ has called for sanctions against Google's search monopoly but there's an unaddressed elephant in the room: Google must be forced to spin off YouTube into an independent entity.

Read our new piece in @theslingutah https://t.co/qPRkSTw0wN

[Massachusetts Democratic Party @MassDems]

In tonight's debate, @ewarren called out @JohnEDeaton1 for saying online he would vote for Trump over Biden last year. Deaton responded, "Prove that, Senator. Prove that. I'll drop out of the race today." We have the proof. (1/2)

[Dan Geldon @dan_geldon]

The stakes of surrendering on Biden-era enforcement are high. Read my oped about why. https://t.co/23Ush70NOn

[Adam Green @AdamGreen]

I channeled my grief for the loss of my former boss -- Sen. Tim Johnson (South Dakota) -- into this tribute in the @RCJournal. It includes some political lessons about "bipartisanship" from Johnson's epic 2002 race that today's Democrats could heed. https://t.co/M4X7KvcOse

[Lindsay Owens @owenslindsay1]

So cool. Obviously I’m biased bc I’m an alum & she’s the best boss a girl could dream of but it’s not surprising that this audience is going wild for the woman who has single-handedly put the party on a path to standing up for workers over corporations. A sea change. Respect.

[rebecca pearcey @itspearcey]

I’m excited for ⁦@KamalaHarris⁩ and ⁦@Tim_Walz⁩, but am *beyond proud* to have worked for ⁦@ewarren⁩. What an incredible moment. 🗽

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Elizabeth Warren gets emotional as she gets a huge round of applause at the DNC 🥹

[Dan Geldon @dan_geldon]

I wrote a Medium piece about the split screen happening in tech policy right now. Despite the bravado coursing through Big Tech lobbying and PR right now, they are... losing. https://t.co/iH1elvo1Ea

[Dan Geldon @dan_geldon]

I felt a deep connection to @AdyBarkan because of what we had in common before his diagnosis, but if our fates had been reversed, I couldn't have persevered with his courage, grace, dignity and resolve. He was a source of light, including in very dark times, and will be missed.