Nikki McCann Ramírez

NEW: CBS News correspondent Scott MacFarlane just announced to the newsroom that he's leaving the network after 20 years.

Here's his goodbye note:

Court Square is the single largest daily global gathering of people who just learned how to walk

Catch me on The Weekend Primetime during the 8PM hour on MS NOW :) :)

the dumbest form of politics is yelling at voters after you lose. if you lose it is *always* your fault. every confounding factor in the universe is your job to overcome. if you take a position that is unpopular and don't adjust to learning that, you are bad at running for office.

I believe the phrase for this is “eating the seed corn.”

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MAGA seems to be tearing itself apart and Trump has fired his dog-killer-in-chief Kristi Noem. What a week, hey?! @nikkimcr.bsky.social, @jacobjarvis.bsky.social & @chrisjonesprod.bsky.social unpack it all
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Young Conservatives Are, Once Again, Being Racist in the Group Chat A Miami-Dade County Republican Party group chat was flooded with racist and antisemitic slurs in the weeks after it was created last fall.

“Vacationers have long known that Miami group chats can be a force for evil. Friendship-ruining, relationship-destroying, and, in the case of the Miami-Dade County’s Republican Party, a national scandal.” - @nikkimcr.bsky.social

Trump Fires Kristi Noem, Taps Oklahoma Senator to Lead DHS Donald Trump announced that he is removing Kristi Noem as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, and tapping Sen. Markwayne Mullin.

Trump Fires Kristi Noem, Taps Oklahoma Senator to Lead DHS

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NOEM FIRED

Trump taps Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin as replacement

Trump says he will make his Texas endorsement soon, and asks whoever doesn’t get it to drop out

So tired i had three sips of coffee and hurled 👍👍👍 love elections nights 👍👍👍

That trip was probably what convinced me that Texas could actually be flipped this year if a lot of "if"s are met

South Texas Hispanics Flipped for Trump. Some Have Buyer's Remorse Donald Trump's chaotic tariff policy and immigration crackdowns have wrought havoc on South Texas, where Hispanic voters swung right in 2024.

There's gonna be a lot of discourse about Hispanic voters. In January I ran around the RGV trying to figure out how voters we're feeling about Trump and Republicans and they had a lot to say!

www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/hispanic-voters-swung-trump-south-texas-1235499072/

If you worked on the Crockett campaign reach out to me on signal (Nikkimcr.70), would love to chat

?? I haven’t reported unfairly on her or gone out of my way to bash her. I think she genuinely ran a bad campaign that would not have stood a chance in the general, and is working off a model of politics that Dems need to be critical of after the 2024 collapse.

The Associated Press calls the Texas Senate Primary for James Talarico

Talarico now significantly over the 1 million vote threshold with ~80% of the vote in.

For context the 2024 D Senate primary drew about 970,000 votes. 2018 (Beto) drew 1,042,000.

Talarico: "This is proof that there is something happening in Texas tonight tonight, the people of our state gave this country a little bit of hope, and a little bit of hope is a dangerous thing."

He then walks off to Bad Bunny's "DTMF"

Talarico calls for "every vote" to be counted in Texas race

Crockett tells supporters "we're not going to have election results tonight, in my opinion"

"Dallas may not be enough"

my body cannot tell the difference between being chased by a pack of hyenas and getting my hopes even slightly up on an election night

One of the things I'm curious about is if/how the Iran sideshow may have shifted uncertain/ undecided voters at the last second in the Texas Republican primary.

MANDATORY STOP.

Come back! I changed it to the Spurs/Sixers game

Lol it’s a houston station that keeps throwing in segments on the election

monitoring the situation

And to be clear, I'm still not even sure Talarico can win in the general, his chances are marginal at best.

she ran the type of campaign that wins in a +25 D district, maybe a close primary, but not the kind that can win in a +14 Republican state.