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Bill Kristol on new polling, which suggests it’s growing likely Republicans will retake the House in 2022.

Jim Swift
May 13, 2021
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WILLIAM KRISTOL: New polling suggests it’s growing likely Republicans will retake the House in 2022.

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🚨OVERTIME 🚨

Get Vaccinated.

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Scott Seiss @ScottSeiss
“I’m not gonna get the vaccine”
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1:51 PM ∙ May 13, 2021
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Beyond parody.

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ALERT: New lawsuit also alleges Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-CO) allowed his son to live in a storage space in basement of US Capitol for weeks
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SCOOP: Former staffer sues Congressman, alleging "reckless" handling of COVID-19 in office, calling it "hoax" and requiring personal errands from employees https://t.co/R6ZDMBHPqe
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I don’t know much about the House storage spaces, but the ones in the Senate are like prison cells. Who would want to live like this? Couldn’t he have just slept in dad’s office? As President Bush said after Trump’s inaugural speech: “That was some weird shit.” So is this.

Speaking of weird shit. This NYT story about the plot to discredit H.R. McMaster is bonkers.

Let’s keep keeping it weird.

So nice of Rep. McCarthy to dress up to #BackTheBlue…

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1:05 PM ∙ May 13, 2021

What is the cost of lies?

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Unless the GOP changes its direction, this from @JVLast is likely correct. The lies surrounding the 2020 election were insane, easily-debunked nonsense, yet now dissenting from those lies carries a cost. Publicly disagreeing with the liar-in-chief is grounds for demotion.
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From Chernobyl:

What is the cost of lies? It's not that we'll mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, then we no longer recognize the truth at all. What can we do then? What else is left but to abandon even the hope of truth and content ourselves instead with stories? In these stories, it doesn't matter who the heroes are. All we want to know is: "Who is to blame?"

That’s where we are right now.

The J.D. Vance experiment is off to a great start… Buckeyes love Michigan. They really do.

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Henry J. Gomez @HenryJGomez
The J.D. Vance exploratory committee appears to be piggybacking off web templates leftover from John Inhulsen, a state rep candidate in Michigan. If you type /issues into the URL you’ll get a message every Ohio voter wants to see. ohiovaluesproject.com/issues/
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That’s it for me for today. We’ll see you tonight on TNB! Drop me a line at swift@thebulwark.com if you want to sound off.

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