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Walter Shapiro
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Covering my 12th presidential campaign for the New Republic. Columnist for Roll Call and teach at Yale. New Yorker whose idea of adventure travel is crossing West 86th Street against the light. And Twitter refugee.
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FDR was almost killed by an assassin before he took office in March 1933.

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Only cold takes from me for a while. And nothing that has not been and confirmed again by the mainstream news media.

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amplify this not unverified reports until we know more

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Another brutally honest assessment in the subject line of a DNC fund-raising email: "You deserve an explanation." Boy, do I ever.

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My Roll Call column: "For all the hyper-partisanship of the Reagan era, a GOP president was not a threat to democracy. This is not a moment to say — as the Democrats did in the 1980s — that Mondale and Dukakis are laudable public figures, and we cannot abandon them." rollcall.com/2024/07/09/t...

The sad folly of Biden’s defiance - Roll Call
The sad folly of Biden’s defiance - Roll Call

The most successful intervention in modern political history took place a half-century ago on Aug. 7, 1974. After the Supreme Court ordered the release of the Watergate “smoking gun” tape, three leadi...

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I cannot stress how important being vetted is in a presidential candidate. No surprises with Harris unlike every other would-be.

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Love that detail.

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The greatest scene in any film. Once again, I teared up watching it. I hope and pray that never changes. Viva La France on a day like today.

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My mental health strategy for the rest of the weekend (if I can manage it) : Hidin from Biden.

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Walter Shapiro
@mrwaltershapiro.bsky.social
Covering my 12th presidential campaign for the New Republic. Columnist for Roll Call and teach at Yale. New Yorker whose idea of adventure travel is crossing West 86th Street against the light. And Twitter refugee.
1.8k followers386 following645 posts