[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #476 Waves and tsunamis

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Leaked email: NC GOP worried about losing control of Statehouse after Pa. special election (The Hill)

An email leaked from the North Carolina GOP shows Republicans in the state are worried about their prospects for 2018 after the surprise results of the Pennsylvania special election this week.

In an email obtained by the Raleigh News & Observer, North Carolina GOP House Caucus political director Matt Bales warned congressional Republicans in vulnerable seats of a possible wave of Democratic support that could potentially cost the GOP its majority in the state House and Senate come the 2018 midterm elections.

Pennsylvania Democrat Conor Lamb looks poised to win what was thought to be a safe Republican district, where President Trump won by nearly 20 points in 2016.

"The outcome is yet another example of the Democratic base being fired up and the Republicans not turning out their voters," Bales said in the email. "The momentum on the Democratic side is real."

The email singled out 23 incumbent Republicans districts where Trump also won by similar margins, but that could face what many Democrats hope to be a referendum against the president.

North Carolina Democratic Party spokesman Robert Howard wrote that the email "shows just how terrified Republicans are of the upcoming election," according to the News & Observer.

The Pennsylvania district fell despite a visit by Trump himself and Vice President Pence, as well as more than $10 million in extra funding by GOP affiliated groups. House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) tried to assure Republicans this week that the special election was not the norm and that the national party's majorities would be safe going into this year's midterm elections.

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Donald Trump and John Kelly Reach Truce (WSJ)
White House chief of staff had made cryptic comments suggesting he may have been the next senior adviser to step down

WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump and White House chief of staff John Kelly have settled on a truce, at least temporarily, as the latest round of staff tumult continues to ripple through the West Wing, according to people familiar with the discussions.

Jarred by the treatment of former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, whom the president fired by tweet on Tuesday morning, Mr. Kelly suggested to colleagues that he may be the next to be pushed out of the White House. Mr. Kelly’s cryptic comments left several White House staffers with the impression that Mr. Kelly would force the issue with the president, and that they should start looking for new jobs, too.

The internal drama heightened when Mr. Kelly flew with the president to California on Tuesday, but returned alone and was working in his West Wing office on Wednesday morning. Mr. Kelly’s allies in the White House, however, said the chief of staff had always planned on flying the 4,500-mile round-trip between Washington and San Diego in less than a day.

But on Thursday, Messrs. Trump and Kelly had a productive meeting that left both men reassured. Mr. Trump told advisers afterward that Mr. Kelly was “100% safe.” Mr. Kelly told his associates that, at least for the moment, he and the president had patched things up. “I’m in,” Mr. Kelly told staff.

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Pompeo’s elevation represents a historical breakthrough. Never in American history has a secretary of state so firmly espoused the worldview of the American right. In no previous Republican administration—not even George W. Bush’s—has the moderate GOP foreign policy elite lost its hold over even Foggy Bottom.

They may never get it back. If Tillerson’s departure heralds the demise of one Republican foreign-policy establishment, Pompeo’s ascension may herald the rise of another. Pompeo’s legitimacy does not only derive from the job he will now hold. It also derives from his credentials. Like Cotton, Pompeo had a distinguished military career. Like Cotton and Cruz, he graduated from Harvard. While his worldview overlaps heavily with those of Steve Bannon, Sebastian Gorka, and Mike Flynn, Pompeo enjoys a prestige they never did. His rise offers a glimpse into a Trumpism that can outlast Trump, and gives new respectability to a strain of foreign-policy thinking that has generally lacked it in the past.

Rex Tillerson was one of the least consequential secretaries of state in modern American history. Mike Pompeo, for better or worse, may prove to be one of the most.

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nowthisnews twitterde op vrijdag 16-03-2018 om 02:03:00 Everything wrong with Fox News in one video https://t.co/MhnApiQ3pG reageer retweet

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Fox News personality Pete Hegseth, a conservative voice on veterans’ policy, has emerged as a leading candidate to replace embattled Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin, who has fallen from favor with the Trump administration, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

Hegseth, 37, is co-host of “Fox & Friends Weekend,” a platform he has used to push his vision of a health-care system with a drastically smaller government footprint and a larger share of private care. He has railed against Shulkin and members of Congress in both political parties for their moderate approach to offering veterans access to private doctors.

Hegseth is an Iraq War veteran who was previously executive director of the conservative advocacy groups Vets for Freedom and Concerned Veterans for America, which is backed by the billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch.

Concerned Veterans has proved to be an influential force in the administration. But Hegseth’s views on reforming the troubled agency are considered extreme even by some Republicans in Congress, and it is unclear if he could win Senate confirmation if President Trump decides to fire Shulkin.

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Op vrijdag 16 maart 2018 17:31 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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nowthisnews twitterde op vrijdag 16-03-2018 om 02:03:00 Everything wrong with Fox News in one video https://t.co/MhnApiQ3pG reageer retweet

Filmpje in tweet geeft mooi de hypocrisie weer van Fox News en hun republikeinse cheerleaders.

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Op vrijdag 16 maart 2018 17:31 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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nowthisnews twitterde op vrijdag 16-03-2018 om 02:03:00 Everything wrong with Fox News in one video https://t.co/MhnApiQ3pG reageer retweet

Filmpje in tweet geeft mooi de hypocrisie weer van Fox News en hun republikeinse cheerleaders.

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Op vrijdag 16 maart 2018 17:31 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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nowthisnews twitterde op vrijdag 16-03-2018 om 02:03:00 Everything wrong with Fox News in one video https://t.co/MhnApiQ3pG reageer retweet

Filmpje in tweet geeft mooi de hypocrisie weer van Fox News en hun republikeinse cheerleaders.

Jimmy Kimmel’s Shocking Discovery About Trump Merchandise

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Op vrijdag 16 maart 2018 15:53 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:

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friday evening massacre?

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JaxAlemany twitterde op vrijdag 16-03-2018 om 18:05:16 Source close to the President says Corey Lewandoski is also being eyed by Trump as Kelly’s replacement. Trump is expected to see Corey in New Hampshire on Monday. https://t.co/7mp2pQOe4m reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 16 maart 2018 18:44 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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JaxAlemany twitterde op vrijdag 16-03-2018 om 18:05:16 Source close to the President says Corey Lewandoski is also being eyed by Trump as Kelly’s replacement. Trump is expected to see Corey in New Hampshire on Monday. https://t.co/7mp2pQOe4m reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 16 maart 2018 18:53 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Mjah, Kelly heeft zijn doel bereikt. Banon en de andere dwazen zijn weggejaagd uit het Witte Huis door de generaal. Net als Scaramucci Reince de deur uit kreeg.

Ik vind het helemaal niet zo'n gek idee om voor andere doelstellingen van staff te wisselen.

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Op vrijdag 16 maart 2018 18:21 schreef Vis1980 het volgende:

(ik kan niet goed meer tweets jatten van Twitter, wss ben ik een beetje dom, maar het lukt mij niet meer.)

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Op vrijdag 16 maart 2018 19:15 schreef Monolith het volgende:
De EU heeft een lijst met sancties ingeleverd bij de WTO:
https://www.politico.eu/a(...)alling-e6-4-billion/

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]Kelly acknowledged to the reporters it’s likely that Trump is talking to people outside the White House and that reporters are then talking to those people. Kelly cast Trump’s own conversations as a significant contributing factor to stories about the staff changes. (Kelly was making the point that he’s not around for a lot of Trump’s conversations so can’t be sure what he’s telling people over the phone.)

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Op vrijdag 16 maart 2018 20:05 schreef Szura het volgende:
Merkel heeft haar vertrouweling Altmaier (minister van Economische Zaken) naar Washington gestuurd voor gesprekken.

En Der Spiegel meldt dat dit de mogelijkheden zijn tot compromissen:
https://nos.nl/artikel/22(...)al-en-aluminium.html

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Toen Trump twee weken geleden voor het eerst sprak over heffingen in een meeting met staalbedrijven, bezigden Europese leiders klare taal. Zij zouden hem met gelijke munt terugbetalen. Toen de Amerikaanse president eenmaal zijn handtekening had gezet onder het omstreden besluit, met daarin ook wat uitzonderingen, klonk in Europa steeds meer de roep om dialoog.

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Op vrijdag 16 maart 2018 15:57 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Gerucht ging dat McMaster vervangen zou worden met Bolton, maar dat is al ontkracht.

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Op vrijdag 16 maart 2018 19:23 schreef Szura het volgende:
Saai dagje maar tot nu toe, nog steeds niemand ontslagen

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Op vrijdag 16 maart 2018 20:09 schreef Q. het volgende:

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Dat wordt dus dinsdag. Bolton is echt een hawk van de ergste soort.