@isaacdovere.bsky.social
Senior reporter, CNN. Author, Battle for the Soul. Photographer, lots of animal pictures.
“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...
22.01.2026 13:38 — 👍 29 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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...
“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."
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...
NEW from me: Walz was **also** asked about being an agent of a foreign country in his VP vetting.
For him, it was about China, given the trips he took there before being elected to Congress.
new context for the questions Shapiro got about Israel ties: www.cnn.com/2026/01/19/p...
Where we’re at: questions in a recent Ipsos poll on Jewish conspiracies and whether people would kill over them
11.01.2026 19:47 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 2
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...
“I’ve changed how I think about what I do,” said JB Pritzker, who was seated at a dinner with Hortman the night before she was killed. “Occasionally I have wanted to go without protection in the past, and it has not been a problem. But it is now.” www.cnn.com/2026/01/07/p...
07.01.2026 22:11 — 👍 34 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 1“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.”
NEW from me: threat concerns are already shaping the 2028 (and midterm) campaigns, with many candidates saying they have scrapped outdoor events, having to spend more money on security and tearing up at thinking how running may put families in danger www.cnn.com/2026/01/07/p...
07.01.2026 12:58 — 👍 20 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 0With 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
“NPR identified more than a dozen files released by the DOJ on Friday that are no longer available Saturday afternoon, including one that shows President Trump's photo on a desk among several other photographs” www.npr.org/2025/12/20/n...
21.12.2025 15:57 — 👍 25 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 0On 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.
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...
With under two weeks to go before he’s sworn in, Zohran Mamdani has not announced many hires for his administration. One of the few that he has announced was forced to almost immediately resign Thursday after her past antisemitic tweets came to light. www.cnn.com/2025/12/18/p...
19.12.2025 01:02 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Breaking new photos from Epstein estate
www.cnn.com/2025/12/12/p...
among specific questions Mamdani and his aides did not answer for this story:
-how will he go about ordering Netanyahu's arrest if he comes to New York?
-how will he implement BDS policy throughout city govt?
-will he actually end NYPD work w/Israel? www.cnn.com/2025/12/11/p...
“In 1654, Peter Stuyvesant tried & failed to stop the first Jews who ever sailed into our harbor from coming ashore. Since then,pretty much every elected mayor of NY had longstanding warm relations w/the city’s Jewish communities. So we are in some uncharted waters here.” www.cnn.com/2025/12/11/p...
11.12.2025 18:29 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0
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
10.12.2025 01:28 — 👍 80 🔁 12 💬 3 📌 0
Jasmine Crockett to me on those already hitting her for talking about jumping into the TX Senate race by tomorrow:
“maybe normal people are like, ‘Oh, I’m being attacked, so maybe I don’t do this, maybe I run away.’ But I’m like, ‘I eat attacks for breakfast.’” www.cnn.com/2025/12/07/p...
NEW: I talked to Jasmine Crockett at length about her down-to-the-wire decision on running for Senate in Texas w/tomorrow’s deadline.
“I’m not crazy. It’s weird that people believe that I could win the races that I won and I’m just like out here willy-nilly.” www.cnn.com/2025/12/07/p...
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...
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
03.12.2025 02:46 — 👍 18 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0Jim 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
NEW - I spent yesterday with Ro Khanna, as *his bill* passed for the Epstein files release. He explained how he did it, and what that means:
“On one of the biggest things, which is getting MAGA on board, it’s not just ideas. I’m able to get things done.” www.cnn.com/2025/11/19/p...
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:
16.11.2025 16:08 — 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
.@govpritzker.illinois.gov when I asked him if he considers Schumer a leader of the future of Democrats:
“That’s an interesting question … he’s a reasonable amount older than I am. So it’s hard to say about somebody —what is he, in his 70s? — ‘leader of the future.’” www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/p...
NEW from me and @mkraju.bsky.social: How Schumer is reacting to the trouble he knows he’s facing in DC as leader and back home in New York when he’s up in 2028.
“It’s his last term, and he may be the only one on Earth unaware of it,” one House Dem from NY told me. www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/p...
FIFA, which faced allegations of corruption for awarding the World Cup to Russia and Qatar, is now going to have its own peace prize—which the FIFA president is teasing may be awarded to Trump in December: apnews.com/article/fifa...
06.11.2025 16:27 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 5 📌 2
