Jennifer Salter

Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway - Eleanor Roosevelt

[Jennifer Salter @jsalt44]

@neeratanden great job tonight. I agree with the hypocrisy surrounding Republicans but the example now should be with their support of Paxton. He is currently running. Let’s hold their feet to the fire!!

[Acyn @Acyn]

Meijer: Jenny Racicot and Lyndsey Fifield both said this guy is a creep. Do not trust him.

Tanden: There are 13 women who said they were assaulted by Trump.

Meijer: We've been talking about Donald Trump for the past ten years.

Tanden: You do not get to throw stones at a Democratic Party when you have stood by.

[Nataniel @TomNataniel]

@merica People who can’t tell a difference between liberals and leftists should not talk about politics.

[Jennifer Salter @jsalt44]

Nope. Not liberals. Try again.

[Dan Merica @merica]

Liberals elevated Graham Platner.

Now they want influence if he drops out.

Today’s Early Brief on the idealogical fight playing out in Maine as Platner’s campaign barely hangs on: https://t.co/w0bQraBUWq

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

The Nazi tattoo should have been enough.

[Neera Tanden🌻 @neeratanden]

Maybe the consultants who knew about all of this and lied to all of us that there was nothing more should not dictate terms.

[Jaime Harrison @harrisonjaime]

I’m tired of this lazy “establishment” bullshit.

It’s become a substitute for making an actual argument. If someone has experience, they’re “establishment.” If they’ve built relationships, they’re “establishment.” If they’ve won elections, passed legislation, or know how government actually works, they’re “establishment.”

No. They’re Democrats who have put in the work.

You don’t build a stronger party by treating experience like a liability or pretending everyone who came before you is the enemy. You build it by respecting those who’ve laid the foundation while welcoming new leaders who are ready to add to it.

Everything shiny and new ain’t gold.

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

Clarence Thomas argued the 14th Amendment was written narrowly for former enslaved people and doesn't apply broadly today. Using that same logic, the 2nd Amendment was written for muskets and doesn't apply to AR-15's, but somehow, he's never made that argument.

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

It's tough to make your primaries all about bashing Democratic Party donors and then turn around and ask them to give you money.

https://t.co/nhrVm5b4xn

[Jennifer Salter @jsalt44]

@cmclymer I would have thought this too if this book came out AFTER the mid-terms or AFTER he left office. Still a money grab - but at least it is relevant for right now.

[Michael A. Cohen (NOT TRUMP’S FORMER FIXER) @speechboy71]

The problem with the Tea Party analogy is that the actual GOP Tea Party was knocking off establishment candidates in competitive races and swing states/districts, costing the Republicans winnable seats (Angle, Buck, O'Donnell, Mourdock, etc).

That simply isn't happening (so far) this cycle with Democrats. The anti-establishment revolt is largely restricted to safe blue districts (Maine is the obvious exception with Platner and Dunlap). I believe Goldman and Espaillait are the first two incumbent House Democrats to lose renomination this cycle.

Indeed, few people are gonna talk about the fact that the DCCC's preferred candidate, Cait Conley, easily won the Democratic nomination in NY-17 to face off against Mike Lawler -- giving Dems a great chance to flip that seat.

[Jennifer Salter @jsalt44]

As a liberal Dem, I agree. I’m also not fine with the antisemitism flowing in these races. You can be against Netanyahu without saying “from the river to the sea..” That will lose me every time. This is not ok and should be called out.

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

As a liberal progressive, I would be fine with the party moving left if these wins were about Medicare for all, reproductive rights, universal childcare, taxing billionaires, and creating affordable housing, But they weren’t.

[Joe Scarborough @ScarboroughNow]

This from the MAGA GOP?
This nonsense will be repeated all day, obsessing on NYC while ignoring Upstate NY, where D’s picked an Army special ops vet deployed 6 times in Iraq & Afghanistan, & awarded three Bronze Stars; or perhaps the South Carolina Navy Admiral fired by Hegseth.

[Jennifer Salter @jsalt44]

This right here👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 NYC is not the rest of the country.

[Joe Scarborough @ScarboroughNow]

NYC picked Mamdani then a CIA vet to win the governorship in Virginia and a military vet to win it in New Jersey.

[David Opie @DavidOpie]

You don’t understand the stranglehold this Nescafé Gold Blend advert had on the UK because of Anthony Head (long before he was in Buffy)

[Jennifer Salter @jsalt44]

This just makes me so sad. 😩😩

[Variety @Variety]

Anthony Head, the British actor best known for his roles in “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Ted Lasso,” has died at 72.

His daughters shared in a statement that he “passed away peacefully of complications due to pneumonia, surrounded by his family.”

https://t.co/TOTGKcKLzx

[Michael A. Cohen (NOT TRUMP’S FORMER FIXER) @speechboy71]

This is a good reminder of what a despicable person Bernie Sanders is … rather than acknowledge that people, like for example Jews, could have a problem with a Senate candidate who has a Nazi tattoo, Sanders makes the same tired, demagogic and dishonest argument that anyone who opposes Platner is a millionaire or billionaire.

[Rhonda Elaine Foxx @RhonnieF]

This is why the Democratic Party is collapsing. It makes excuses for white, male candidates - no one else. He cheated - so? He has bigoted tattoos - so?

But that lady candidate laughs too weirdly. That Black candidate doesn't smile enough. Fuck'em.

[Magdi Jacobs @magi_jay]

Platner supporters always act like every new story in a string of negative stories is the end of the overall story. With every new revelation, over the course of several months, they're like, "Well that's it!" Maybe a "drip, drip, drip" entails there could be something more?

[Jennifer Salter @jsalt44]

👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

[Ethan Wolf 🇺🇸 @ethanmwolf]

Hasan Piker and Graham Platner are in the tent but Elissa Slotkin, Catherine Cortez-Masto, Ruben Gallego, Maggie Hassan, Mark Kelly, Jon Ossoff and others are out. Make it make sense.

[Magdi Jacobs @magi_jay]

I repeatedly told people to understand the meaning of "red flag" as a surface-level indicator of something potentially worse. There will be more stories re: women. I'm glad the WSJ cares enough about journalism to report now, rather than post-primary. The GOP has a different plan