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‘Our primary focus is not to get out the vote’
Election Day 2024 is still 11 weeks away, which might seem like a long while, but early voting in some states will begin in less than a month. Common sense suggests the major party presidential nominees would be laser focused right now on get-out-the-vote strategies and pursuing as many votes as possible. Indeed, it’s how…
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Tim Walz exudes Midwestern dad energy in the best way
I like to joke that I’ve only ever lived in the colon of the country. From Texas to South Dakota to Minnesota, now Iowa — the states where people say they are from but rarely ever move to. When I tell people where I live, after getting Iowa confused with Ohio, they ask me why…
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My dad taught me to love the DNC. Trump has me terrified for its future.
Join Luke, Rachel Maddow and many others on Saturday, Sept. 7, in Brooklyn, New York, for “MSNBC Live: Democracy 2024,” a first-of-its-kind live event. Buy tickets here. “Guess where I am?” It was the summer of 1992, and I could barely make out my father’s question. “Where?” “I’m on the third baseline of the Astrodome. On…
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What parents of neurodivergent kids can learn from Tim and Gwen Walz
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s open acknowledgement that he and his wife used fertility treatments to conceive their two children and his candid discussions about that generated one of the most moving moments during a rally in Glendale, Arizona, when people chanted the name of his firstborn daughter, Hope. The positive reaction to the candidate’s discussion…
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Oprah Winfrey’s DNC speech proved she’s America’s healer-in-chief
Who better to bring home the meaning of E Pluribus Unum than Oprah? The one-name wonder is her own economic force, a woman who can move company stock prices simply by placing car keys under chairs or mentioning a book title or creating a Christmas list. At the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday night, back…
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Tim Walz’s DNC speech was powerfully patriotic and sincere
“We’re all here tonight for one beautiful, simple reason — we love this country,” said Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz at the beginning of his convention speech Wednesday night. He clearly means it — it turns out you can be a skilled politician carrying out a strategy to win an election and also be sincere. In…
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Kamala Harris made me feel seen when no one else looked
My wife Diana and I met Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff in the summer of 2015, when Harris and I were both preparing to run for Senate. And by preparing to run, I mean traveling the country fundraising, because the amount of money it takes to run for the U.S. Senate requires you to spend…
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DNC speakers like Hadley Duvall shouldn’t have to parade their pain
From a rousing, passing-of-the-torch speech from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, to a career-defining address from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, it was women — both the child-free and the moms — who mostly defined Day 1 of the Democratic National Convention. President Joe Biden’s keynote notwithstanding, it wasn’t a seasoned politician, former party leader or…
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Doug Emhoff kids Cole and Ella call Kamala Harris mom. That matters.
When I became a stepmom in 2017 to a precocious 6-year-old, I had no idea where to look for role models. I searched high and low, but I was disheartened by what I found. Stepmothers still struggle to outrun the negative stigma of being “the other,” a perception reinforced by fairy tales and, more recently,…
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Michelle Obama understands the stakes in November. And she’s done pulling punches.
The woman who so many people wanted to draft to run for president — the author and speaker who enchanted a whole generation of women and helped us understand where we belong in modern society — began her speech Tuesday night at the Democratic National Convention talking about feelings. Former first lady Michelle Obama spoke…