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Anchor and Chief Congressional Correspondent, CNN. “Inside Politics Sunday with Manu Raju.” 8aET and 11aET Sunday. Rabid Chicago sports fan. Wisconsin Badger for life

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New — @insidepolitics 8aET and 11aET on @cnn
— Hakeem Jeffries sits down with me on the gerrymandering wars. His battle with a top MD Dem. And the huge sums they plan to spend in VA. How he sees his path to become speaker
— Noem latest
— Epstein fallout
— How long the DHS shutdown will last

15.02.2026 12:30 — 👍 14    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 0
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Newsy “Inside Politics Sunday” at 8aET and 11aET on @CNN
— My live interview with Rep Massie and his battle with Trump
— Fallout of Trump’s post on Obamas
— Shutdown week part 3
— New reporting on midterms
— What Sen Cassidy told me about his vote to convict after Jan 6
— Murkowksi on her future

08.02.2026 02:29 — 👍 10    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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New on “Inside Politics Sunday” on @cnn. 8aET/11aET

A dive into the critical Maine Senate race, a battle that could determine control of the Senate.

Headed to Portland and spoke with Gov. Mills - and also spoke with Graham Platner and Sen Collins.

A look at their vulnerabilities
Here’s a preview:

31.01.2026 23:14 — 👍 15    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 1
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GOP Sen. Thom Tillis, who has called on Trump to fire Secretary Noem and senior adviser Stephen Miller, on Trump calling him a “loser.”

“I am thrilled about that. That makes me qualified to be homeland security secretary and senior adviser to the president.”

29.01.2026 02:16 — 👍 54    🔁 17    💬 5    📌 2
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News on Inside Politics Sunday: 8aET/11aET
— New CNN poll: Which party has edge in race for House?
— Escalating tensions over Greenland, Europeans call emergency meeting
— Trump, MN and Insurrection Act
— DSCC Chair Gillibrand on battle for Senate
— Bill Cassidy’s job in peril
— Trump’s new pardons

18.01.2026 12:11 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
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It’s been (shall we say) an eventful year on Capitol Hill. Here’s a taste of it — when members in both parties don’t answer questions, which often are the most revealing moments.

28.12.2025 18:46 — 👍 16    🔁 5    💬 3    📌 0
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Lot of criticism from Rs on Trump attacking Rob Reiner in aftermath of his alleged murder.

“Classless,” Bacon said.

“Very disappointing,” Davidson said.

Kiley: “extremely distasteful”

Kennedy: “I think President Trump should have said nothing.”

GOP leaders have steered clear

17.12.2025 03:54 — 👍 23    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0
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Is Trump losing his grip on GOP after Indiana Rs delivered him a major rebuke amid his furious pressure campaign to gerrymander House district lines?

“Not at all,” Speaker Johnson tells me, denying it was even a pressure campaign

12.12.2025 02:48 — 👍 31    🔁 9    💬 6    📌 2
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GOP Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick sounds the alarm on health care, Ukraine, and GOP’s affordability agenda.
He’s one of 3 Rs in a Harris district.
On health care, he says of Rs: “They have never offered a better alternative.”
More Sunday on “Inside Politics Sunday” on @cnn. 8aET/11aET

06.12.2025 17:43 — 👍 20    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 1
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Defiant GOP congressman rejects push by party bosses to drop out of Texas primary, scrambling race for Senate majority | CNN Politics GOP leaders in Washington are ramping up pressure on Republican Rep. Wesley Hunt to drop out of the Texas Senate race, warning that his candidacy could cost their party tens of millions of dollars and...

New — Wesley Hunt and his plans to shake up race for Cornyn seat.

R leaders had hoped Hunt would bow out before filing deadline, but he tells us he “absolutely” will file this week.

Increases chances of costly runoff

All sides wooing Trump, who is staying out for now

www.cnn.com/2025/11/23/p...

24.11.2025 21:53 — 👍 13    🔁 6    💬 4    📌 0

The speaker later told reporters: “The words that the president chose are not the ones that I would use.”

"Obviously, I don't think that this is...these are crimes punishable by death or any of that.”

He went on to criticize the Dems’ comments.

20.11.2025 23:08 — 👍 15    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Asked Speaker Johnson about Trump’s post about Dems’ ‘seditious behavior’ and about that being ‘punishable by death,” Speaker Johnson takes no issue with Trump’s statements and criticizes Democrats’ rhetoric as “wildly inappropriate.”

20.11.2025 21:34 — 👍 35    🔁 12    💬 10    📌 2
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How the shutdown left Democrats questioning Chuck Schumer’s future more than ever | CNN Politics As eight senators in Chuck Schumer’s caucus broke ranks to side with Republicans and vote to end the government shutdown fight he had engineered, the New York Democrat was on the phone trying to make ...

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...

16.11.2025 14:02 — 👍 495    🔁 97    💬 17    📌 8
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Dem Sen. Andy Kim to me after Senate vote: “What just happened in the Senate chamber was an absolute disgrace. I can't stress it enough,” saying it’s “very profoundly disturbing” to see bill passed in chamber where McCain voted to block repeal. “I'm just really gutted right now.”

11.11.2025 19:14 — 👍 217    🔁 64    💬 16    📌 6
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New — @InsidePolitics 8aET/11aET @cnn.com
- Intense final weekend before NJ/Va/NYC elections
- What early voting says
- Live intvw w GOP Rep. Van Drew as shutdown set to be longest ever
- Boat strikes in Caribbean and Trump’s military actions
— The feud over making Daylight Saving Time permanent

02.11.2025 12:52 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Plan B is Plan A, Thune says, as shutdown poised to be the second longest in history and likely to go much longer

21.10.2025 18:07 — 👍 21    🔁 5    💬 5    📌 1
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New — @insidepolitics: 8aET/11aET: @cnn

- Trump v. IL Dems as tensions boil in Chicago
- Shutdown news: Which side will blink first?
- Gaza talks: Live report from Israel
- SCOTUS: Momentous term set to begin.

05.10.2025 11:46 — 👍 12    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 1
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The current state of shutdown politics

02.10.2025 12:38 — 👍 106    🔁 39    💬 14    📌 6
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New @insidepolitics 8aET/11aET
-Trump hasn’t spoken with Schumer since Jan. 20 and hasn’t ever met with Jeffries. On Monday’s meeting ahead of shutdown
-Trump retribution tour latest
-My intvw with Rep Seth Moulton weighing a big primary challenge
-New CNN polling on swing voters

28.09.2025 11:44 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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New — Inside Politics Sunday 8aET, 11aET @cnn
— Mamdani and Dem divide
— ICE raids
— Trump’s economy
— New reporting on Epstein fight and Trump’s targeting of Massie
— Live interview with Baltimore’s mayor on Trump’s threats to send in troops
— Battle in Congress to set NIL rules on college sports

07.09.2025 11:02 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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New — @insidepolitics 8aET/11aET: @CNN

— Trump’s plans to expand military in US cities
— John Bolton latest
— Firing officials to stamp out dissent
— Interview with Dem vying to take on Susan Collins in marquee race
— Which party has edge in gerrymandering war
— Newsom’s strategy

24.08.2025 11:46 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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New — @InsidePolitics 8aET and 11aET
— Trump-Putin as world watches
— My interview with Rep. Zoe Lofgren, leading Dem charge to redraw House maps and knock off 5 California Rs
— RFK Jr’s vaccine moves and the commitments he made to Sen. Bill Cassidy

10.08.2025 10:53 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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What Sen. Cory Booker told me about his party.

More at 8aET and 11aET on CNN’s “Inside Politics Sunday”

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8kuCRya/

03.08.2025 11:12 — 👍 20    🔁 5    💬 14    📌 6
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GOP candidate for VA governor declines to answer questions why Trump has not endorsed her | CNN Politics CNN’s Manu Raju presses Lt. Governor (R) Winsome Earle-Sears, candidate for governor of Virginia, on why President Donald Trump hasn’t endorsed her and if she will take steps to further restrict abort...

My interview with Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, the GOP nominee for #vagov

- On why Trump hasn’t endorsed her
- Her position on DOGE cuts to federal workforce
- On how she’d handle abortion as governor

www.cnn.com/2025/08/01/p...

02.08.2025 12:52 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 1
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New on “Inside Politics Sunday:” 8aET and 11aET on @CNN

The batttle for the House and new reporting on the Dem counterattack as Trump pushes to redraw TX lines to gain five GOP seats in the midterms.

“They’re trying to cheat to win,” Jeffries says of GOP.
More tomorrow:

19.07.2025 22:32 — 👍 13    🔁 4    💬 7    📌 2
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When Senate passed big bill, Lisa Murkowski said: “This bill needs more work across chambers and is not ready for the president’s desk.” But House jammed it through.
Asked her if it was naive to think House would change it

“It was not naive to suggest that it could have happened.”

13.07.2025 15:52 — 👍 233    🔁 58    💬 76    📌 15
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New -- @insidepolitics Sunday
8aET and 11aET on @cnn
- Trump latest: Ramped-up trade war, deportation fallout and TX response
- New reporting one year after Butler from
- What Lisa Murkowski told me about her key vote
- Newsom’s moves
— MAGA world blowup over Epstein

13.07.2025 11:40 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 0
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News at the top of the hour

22.06.2025 14:47 — 👍 12    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 0
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New — “Inside Politics Sunday” 8aET and 11aET on CNN

— Crucial week in Senate as Trump agenda hangs in balance
— World awaits Trump’s two-week decision
— My interview with Senate Ds’ campaign chairwoman on the midterms
— The intense NY mayoral primary on Tuesday

21.06.2025 17:50 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The latest reporting from Washington, the campaign trail and around the world

“Inside Politics Sunday.” This Sunday and every Sunday. 8aEt and 11aET on @CNN

15.06.2025 13:42 — 👍 23    🔁 2    💬 6    📌 1