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Ronald Brownstein

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Ronald Brownstein

@RonBrownstein

Brownstein, a 2-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist, senior CNN political analyst & author of NYT best-seller Rock Me on the Water

Los Angeles, CA

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Joined August 2012

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Ronald Brownstein
@RonBrownstein
Mar 28, 2021
#RockMeOnTheWater: how @JacksonBrowne, Linda Ronstadt, the Eagles; Beatty, Nicholson, @Janefonda, Spielberg, Altman; @TheNormanLear Carroll O'Connor, James L. Brooks, Mary Tyler Moore, Jerry Brown & more transformed music, movies, TV & politics in 1974 LA harpercollins.com/products/rock-…
Ronald Brownstein
@RonBrownstein
Jul 18, 2019
If 20 high school students chanted this at a classmate how many would be expelled? If 20 employees yelled this at a colleague how many would be fired? If 20 Army soldiers aimed this at a platoon mate how many would be discharged? How much of US will accept this as a new standard?
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
Jul 17, 2019
Replying to @atrupar
Trump fans eventually break out in "send her back!" chants directed toward Ilhan Omar, a Somali refugee who serves in Congress who Trump viciously smeared.
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Ronald Brownstein
@RonBrownstein
Jul 6, 2022
One bloodstained toddler found orphaned; another thrust into a garbage bin for safety by his father. By now it's clear those opposing assault weapon & large magazine bans are explicitly choosing to accept such horrors on a regular basis so that gun ownership won't be restricted
Ronald Brownstein
@RonBrownstein
Nov 19, 2020
Attorneys file ethics complaint against Graham over Georgia ballots
ajc.com
Attorneys file ethics complaint against Graham over Georgia ballots
Three attorneys have filed an ethics complaint against U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham.
Ronald Brownstein
@RonBrownstein
Sep 27, 2018
It's reasonable to ask how does #Kavanaugh continue serving as a federal judge, much less on #SCOTUS after delivering such an openly partisan attack and identifying so unequivocally as an opponent of the Dem Party? He has validated those who see him as a GOP operative in a robe
Ronald Brownstein
@RonBrownstein
Jan 13, 2021
Clear words to me from former Trump DHS official Elizabeth Neumann on growing white nationalist threat: "The biggest thing that could help...is for the bulk of Republicans to come out & say the election was not stolen, Donald Trump lied, I was complicit in that lie & I apologize"
Ronald Brownstein
@RonBrownstein
Oct 11, 2020
Denying a vote on Merrick Garland for almost a full year while rushing in a nominee closer to a presidential election than ever before in American history would qualify as what if not "court packing"?
The Hill
@thehill
Oct 11, 2020
VP Mike Pence: "Joe Biden and Kamala Harris want to pack the court -- but we're not going to let it happen."
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Ronald Brownstein
@RonBrownstein
Apr 7, 2025
From the Sotomayor dissent: "The implication of the Government’s position is that not only noncitizens but also United States citizens could be taken off the streets, forced onto planes, and confined to foreign prisons with no opportunity for redress if judicial review is denied
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Ronald Brownstein
@RonBrownstein
Jan 20, 2022
Despite the outraged sugarcoating from @MittRomney @SenatorCollins @LeaderMcConnell @SenatorSinema @Sen_JoeManchin I think historians would agree the filibuster was used today to advance its most consistent purpose thru history: to block equal rights for Blacks & other minorities
Ronald Brownstein
@RonBrownstein
Mar 27, 2020
Dr. Birx seconds Trump's insistence that hospital supplies are adequate & Americans can be confident they'll get a bed or ventilator: "As she spoke, medical staff in New York continued to say colleagues and patients are dying because they lack equipment in overtaxed hospitals."
Ronald Brownstein
@RonBrownstein
Apr 1, 2020
The fact that so many GOP big state governors-in TX, FL & GA-all tightened statewide restrictions immediately after Trump finally let his advisers frame the full risk from the WH podium underscores how much his earlier minimizing contributed to the critical delays in those states
Ronald Brownstein
@RonBrownstein
Aug 2, 2020
“Dad was a Republican. He watched Fox News, and he had voted for Ducey and Trump. When they told him not to live in fear, that very few people would catch the disease, that its effects weren’t serious, he believed them.”
Perspective | Governor, my father’s death is on your hands
From washingtonpost.com
Ronald Brownstein
@RonBrownstein
May 6, 2020
Succinct director of Harvard Global Health institute: “People who are dying of this virus are not dying to protect the American way of life. They’re dying because their government has had a completely ineffective response to this infectious disease."
Trump calls Americans 'warriors' in fight to open the economy
From latimes.com
Ronald Brownstein
@RonBrownstein
Nov 7, 2020
These images everywhere, unprecedented for a presidential call in my experience, look like what you'd see in a country that has overthrown a dictator or won a war, which in blue America may be exactly what it feels like, given that Trump has treated it as a foreign adversary.
Sarah Boxer
@Sarah_Boxer
Nov 7, 2020
Huge Philly crowd singing and chanting, heading from Independence Hall to City Hall, with jubilant supporters along the way.
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