Speaking out against the Pentagon raised Mark Kelly’s profile. It also came with a cost | CNN Politics
Prison or the White House. Mark Kelly is having to consider whether either place is a realistic possibility.
“What happens if we have a close election in ‘28? What is he going to do? He’s going to say, ‘Hey, this was stolen from me in 2020, I’m not going to allow this to happen again.’ And then who knows what he does?” - Mark Kelly on Trump www.cnn.com/2026/01/21/p...
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Here's the note that Elissa Slotkin got in the middle of a Novemer briefing on Venezuela:
Mark Kelly on peeking at it: “I’m like, ‘Oh shit. .. Five minutes later, she comes back in, she looks at me and she goes, ‘Well, he called for your execution too.’” www.cnn.com/2026/01/21/p...
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“I feel this obligation more so than anything I’ve ever done in my life, Kelly told me about why he's fighting Hegseth.
Will that lead to a 2028 presidential run?
“I still think it needs to be the right person for the moment, and we don’t know what that moment is yet."
21.01.2026 14:20 — 👍 25 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Speaking out against the Pentagon raised Mark Kelly’s profile. It also came with a cost | CNN Politics
Prison or the White House. Mark Kelly is having to consider whether either place is a realistic possibility.
Prison? White House? In Georgia, Mark Kelly told me he's been thinking about both possibilities:
“I’m a fucking US senator. I have, in theory — in theory — supercharged First Amendment speech rights under the speech and debate clause, and they’re trampling on that.” www.cnn.com/2026/01/21/p...
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Where we’re at: questions in a recent Ipsos poll on Jewish conspiracies and whether people would kill over them
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Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro launches his reelection bid with bigger plans in mind | CNN Politics
For Josh Shapiro, it’s all about being able to win in Pennsylvania.
NEW from me:
For Josh Shapiro, it’s all about being able to win in Pennsylvania.
That starts Thursday as Shapiro launches his campaign for a second term as governor with rallies in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia
www.cnn.com/2026/01/08/p...
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“As governor, I have incredible security around me,” Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear told me. “I know I’m going to be OK. I worry about others.”
Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly told me he only sits in restaurants when he can see the door: “I don’t get rattled easily, but I am aware.”
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With one week to go before he's sworn in as mayor, the positions Mamdani hasn't filled include commissioners of:
Aging
Buildings
Citywide Admin Services
Corrections
Cultural Affairs
Emergency Management
Finance
Health
Homeless Services
Parks
Sanitation
Transportation
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On Thursday, the Trump administration said it changed the name of the Kennedy Center without the Act of Congress to do so legally—then put up new signs anyway.
On Friday, the Trump administration did not release all the Epstein files, despite the law signed by Trump to do it.
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Trump talks about neuroses, purchasing chairs and his wife’s underwear drawer in latest affordability speech | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump came to North Carolina on Friday to talk about the economy.
President Donald Trump came to North Carolina on Friday to talk about the economy.
He ended up explaining how his wife organizes her lingerie drawer.
“I think she steams them,” he offered at one point
www.cnn.com/2025/12/19/p...
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Capsule of the moment: PA Gov. Josh Shapiro and Utah Gov. Spencer Cox’s event at the National Cathedral about disagreeing better was interrupted by four different people shouting at them until they were removed
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New York lawmakers aim to move 2028 primaries up to Super Tuesday | CNN Politics
The voters who chose Zohran Mamdani might be about to get a bigger voice in picking Democrats’ next presidential nominee.
NEW from me - NY state senator @jamesskoufis.bsky.social is introducing a bill, w/already wide support, to move New York’s 2028 presidential primaries up to Super Tuesday.
“As large as we are, as important as our Dem electorate is, that will weed out the wannabes” www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/p...
03.12.2025 13:00 — 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
With the Tennessee results, now the internal Democratic debate looking for lessons into 2026 will be about whether a more traditionally “better” candidate than Behn would have won or a more traditionally “better” candidate wouldn’t have been able to make it as much of a race
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Jim McGreevey goes the way of Cuomo -- a New Jersey and New York governor both once talked about for bigger things in the Democratic Party, both resigned in very different sexually-tinged scandals, both tried comebacks to be mayor, both losing big to much lesser known candidates
03.12.2025 02:31 — 👍 18 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Trump has said in the past he barely watches Seth Meyers, but yesterday he was posting about watching the show for the second time in the last few weeks — and it was a rerun:
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