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
“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 in
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