Douglas Heye

North Carolinian. Former Capitol Hill, RNC, campaign flack. Ex-CNN’er, Harvard IOP fellow. Tar Heels, Yankees, Sinatra, Springsteen, Lexington BBQ fan.

[Douglas Heye @DougHeye]

"Tastes, smells and sounds are transporting. Shutting off the news, hovering over the stove and having playlists meant escaping the 'Do I need pants today?' stress we’ve all encountered." https://t.co/2g64RzZyCp

[Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome]

The questions surrounding Nvidia/Huang, China, the Commerce Department (Lutnick), & Trump are one of many reasons why the US government shouldn't have a financial stake - a cut of overseas sales, equity stakes, etc - in the same firms it regulates.

Today it has DOZENS.

[Keith Urbahn @keithurbahn]

There will be business-school and crisis-communications courses taught on the catastrophic failure of crisis management that contributed to billions upon billions of dollars in lost market value here.

A few basic lessons:

- Never let a CEO’s personal crisis take precedence over the interests of the company and its shareholders.
- The board must speak with its own voice. It cannot outsource its institutional credibility to the CEO.
- Get ahead of the story. Silence, evasions and reactive statements only deepen the damage.
- Don’t confuse protecting the CEO with protecting the company. They are not the same thing.

This is a generational case study in how not to manage a crisis.

[Douglas Heye @DougHeye]

As I have consistently said: don't trust people who do the try-too-hard leather jacket/t-shirt combo.

[Douglas Heye @DougHeye]

The more they oppose Trump, the more they act like him.

[Maj. (Ret.) Richard Ojeda @Ojeda4America]

The 120th Congress will impeach Pete Hegseth. Tick tock asshole.

[Douglas Heye @DougHeye]

As I have consistently said: don't trust people who do the try-too-hard leather jacket/t-shirt combo.

[Financial Times @FT]

Breaking news: Nvidia’s chief executive Jensen Huang has admitted having an affair two days after the FT reported his alleged romantic relationship with a woman the US intelligence community believes was working as a spy for China. https://t.co/ZPhczOyHgk

[Douglas Heye @DougHeye]

@DanManatt I wear pocket squares, sir!

[Douglas Heye @DougHeye]

When your main qualifications are patriotic pocket squares and tattoos, this is inevitable.

[Aaron Blake @AaronBlake]

Video shows soldier reprimanding Hegseth and advisers after some in the group laughed and talked at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

https://t.co/HIDoNfUVnI

[Douglas Heye @DougHeye]

Thune should've been listened to more!

[Wall Street Journal Opinion @WSJopinion]

From @WSJFreeEx: Republicans took a drubbing in the midterms, and the search for a scapegoat continues. For some in the party’s activist class, a leading candidate is soon-to-be Senate Minority Leader John Thune, writes @zach_kessel
https://t.co/LDwS4MqIRR

[Douglas Heye @DougHeye]

Republicans: listen to Dave Joyce!

[Manu Raju @mkraju]

Asked GOP Rep. David Joyce about Rs/WH signaling they’re doubling down on MAGA agenda and taking steps to show they are ready to fight.

“We can't double down on stupid,” he old me. “What happened to us was a message clear and very loud that people don't like the way we're been moving in the wrong direction, and you can't lie to people about the things that they feel.

“They feel it at the pump. They feel it at the grocery store. They feel it in their kids' education, in the potential for losing their jobs to AI. And we haven't done anything to address those, and so that's something that to look forward to trying to address and create a plan and action to move forward. “

[Douglas Heye @DougHeye]

Anyone who didn't see from a mile away that Ramaswamy was a disaster just didn't want to.

[The Hill @thehill]

Republican Turner says Ramaswamy ad sunk his re-election in Ohio
https://t.co/hxrUHevIVi

[Douglas Heye @DougHeye]

Free the cheese!

[USA TODAY @USATODAY]

Cheesemakers on both sides of the U.S.-Canada border say the trade war between the two countries has raised costs, killed sales and caused a stink among friends. https://t.co/DfpwVlPeHw

📸: Jasper Colt/USA TODAY

[Douglas Heye @DougHeye]

This soldier shows real character. DOD political appointees should learn from him.

[Douglas Heye @DougHeye]

The loss of Addams Family Republicans is not a loss.

[Roger Sollenberger @SollenbergerRC]

Weird scooplet: On his way out the door after a bajillion scandals, Rep. Cory Mills will hold a congressional hearing about a pipeline project in Syria—where he went several times, mostly without revealing funding—and one of his expert witnesses is *a woman Cory has been seeing*

[Douglas Heye @DougHeye]

This is universal, and so important now.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Today idols arise and demand our worship: success at any cost, money, an obsession with appearance, popularity, or the unrestrained pursuit of pleasure. Sometimes, in order to win the approval of others, we may go so far as to lie, betray, or humiliate someone on social media. Do not bow down before anything that cannot give you life. And if you have ever fallen, get back up. Do not allow anything or anyone to take away the freedom God has given you. #ApostolicJourney #Argentina

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Today idols arise and demand our worship: success at any cost, money, an obsession with appearance, popularity, or the unrestrained pursuit of pleasure. Sometimes, in order to win the approval of others, we may go so far as to lie, betray, or humiliate someone on social media. Do not bow down before anything that cannot give you life. And if you have ever fallen, get back up. Do not allow anything or anyone to take away the freedom God has given you. #ApostolicJourney #Argentina

[Douglas Heye @DougHeye]

@davidgoldiner South Carolina, too.

[Douglas Heye @DougHeye]

Foresight can also be 20/20 - it was easy to see this happen!

[Dave Wasserman @Redistrict]

Hindsight is 20/20: NC Republicans could have easily drawn a 9R-5D or even a 10R-4D map that would have withstood a blue tsunami (by drawing one more safe Dem seat in the Triad). Instead, by trying for a 11R-3D map, they're on track to end up in a 11D-3R hole.

[Douglas Heye @DougHeye]

For 10 years we've said Trump is unlike any politician we've seen, and now we want to lump him in with every other president? That's a mistake.

The next President-elect will want someone standing next to Trump up until noon on January 20, 2029.

Diminished? Yes. Lame duck? No.

[Steven Law @LawAmericanX]

.@LeaderJohnThune worked tirelessly to save the Senate majority from a lethal political riptide that was not of his making. Every credible pre-/post-election poll will tell you that what the pay-to-play fake journos are spinning is garbage.

[Zach Kessel @zach_kessel]

My latest at @WSJFreeEx: For some in the GOP's activist class, John Thune is the reason why the party got trounced in the midterms. They're wrong. The midterms weren't his fault, and the soon-to-be Senate Minority Leader is a valuable steady hand at a chaotic time.

[Douglas Heye @DougHeye]

For 10 years we've said Trump is unlike any politician we've seen, and now we want to lump him in with every other president? That's a mistake.

The next President-elect will want someone standing next to Trump up until noon on January 20, 2029.

Diminished? Yes. Lame duck? No.

[Jonathan Lemire @JonLemire]

"Donald Trump is now or will be within months a lame-duck president"

"It’s a sinking ship, and the rats are gonna jump. A lot of them will say, I don’t need the criminal jeopardy. I don’t need civil exposure. I’m out of here" https://t.co/VciTQSoPUe