Once an outsider, AOC now has the entire dnc hall chanting her name.
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Daniel Marans
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Daniel Marans
@danielmarans
Assistant director of @NYSOCFS's public information office. Formerly City Hall deputy press secretary, HuffPost reporter.
Opinions my own, not my employer's.
- One big aspect of yesterday's FEC filings that seems to have gotten buried: A dark money group bankrolled by Elon Musk is behind the cynical super PAC trying to convince Arab-American voters Harris is to pro-Israel and Jewish voters she is too pro-Palestinian.
- New: Dan Osborn, the former independent Nebraska Senate candidate, launched a new hybrid PAC today, the Working Class Heroes Fund. It would support working-class candidates and causes, including aiding striking workers. Candidates who want an endorsement must refuse corporate
- .@PeterBeinart notes that while AIPAC and co. do not target congresspeople of color because of their identities, their targeted candidates skew non-white because "people who have a family history of oppression in the United States are more likely—not always, by any means—but, on
- New: I did a deep dive into @RubenGallego's Senate campaign where he outperformed Harris by about 8 points. He won Maricopa where Harris lost it and did better with Latino men than Latina women. I paid special attention to how he managed to push Kyrsten Sinema aside in a way
- New: It's not just the AIPAC money -- I took a deep dive into how Rep. Jamaal Bowman burned bridges with voters he needed in a seat where his standing was always tenuous. -- Latimer campaign polling showed Latimer ahead of Bowman by 10 *in January,* and with much higher net
- New: As some Democratic donors press Harris to drop FTC Chair Lina Khan, Khan continues to fight for her most expansive -- and arguably, most popular -- action: Banning non-compete agreements. Even Reid Hoffman has spoken favorably about it. In June, Khan told me she sees it as
- Replying to @danielmarans“I am here tonight because America has before us a rare and precious opportunity. In Kamala Harris, we have an opportunity to elect a president who is for the middle class because she is from the middle class.”
- Bernie Sanders with some shade at AIPAC and other super PACs that spend big in Dem primaries: "Billionaires in both parties should not be able to buy elections, including primary elections."
- Since Shapiro's college op-ed said he "volunteered in the Israeli army," I asked his team what it meant. "While he was in high school, Josh Shapiro was required to do a service project, which he and several classmates completed through a program that took them to a kibbutz inJosh Shapiro's article, with a reply. Shout out to the librarians.
- “What you see tonight is ‘the many’ — this is ‘the many’ of Westchester and the Bronx,” @LatimerforNY turning Bowman’s line around.
00:00 - New: Sen. Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) boasts of over 1,000 endorsements. Among those included: -- Someone covicted of voter fraud -- Someone doing prison time for bank fraud -- A bunch of current and former GOP legislators and candidates credibly accused of physical or sexual
- The Sikh clergyman giving the benediction is wearing a kaffiyeh.
00:00 - News in our write-up of @AOC speech: DNC approached her about it not the other way around. With @Robillard:
