Partner @ The Messina Group. Views are my own.

Washington, DC
Joined June 2010
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Proud of what we built as The Messina Group. Even more excited about what comes next. Introducing Fortius Global. bit.ly/4zAghA4
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So excited to be back at TMG to lead our Creator Strategy work (10 years after I started as an intern!). Creators are where trust lives now, and it's fascinating and humbling. I'm grateful and fired up to meet the moment with @Messina2012 and his amazing team!
Big news at TMG: Excited to welcome back @annnnienewman as Vice President, Creator Strategy. She’s spent her career at the intersection of creators, campaigns, and public pressure. Now she’s building our new Creator Strategy practice.
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House Democrats hold 18.9M TikTok followers to Republicans' 1.9M. The Senate Democratic caucus: 10.9M to 1.1M. Nearly every Democratic governor is on the platform. Two Republicans are.
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since becoming president again, Trump has promised: -$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend" -$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend" -$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies -$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms no checks have been issued
Trump: "If the Republicans win the House of Representatives and the United States Senate...I will issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States of America for $5,000."
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In 2012, I managed Pres. Obama's campaign against a GOP that preached states' rights like scripture. That party is gone. Today's Republicans are the most aggressive centralizers of federal power in memory & red states pay the price. My op-ed in @USATODAY: usatoday.com/story/opinion/2…
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Look at the date of this tweet Dan nailed it
We haven’t seen any public data since Marquette’s July 22-27 poll: Hong 46 Barnes 21 Crowley 11 That’s before Hong went on a media tour exposing her most unelectable qualities. Before Barnes dropped out. Before 10 days of Crowley blitzing the state with Governor Evers. Before the huge polling miss in Michigan that undercounted rural older voters and black voters as a share of the electorate. Assume Hong has gone down, even modestly, from 46. Assume Crowley consolidates Barnes support and is at least in the 30s. Assume even a slight miss in polling for Hong given similar dynamics to AES support. Assume that now groups come in for Crowley having seen that polling miss. I don’t think this is locked for Hong by a long shot.
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This week someone targeted my family for harm with a false report. We’re physically OK, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t harmed. I am beyond furious. Whatever your politics, this is awful, wrong, and can never become normal. substack.com/home/post/p-203…
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I really agree with the underlying and subconscious assertion from Vance that’s it’s wild the Trump admin on the daily gets away with more brazen corruption and criminality than a President who had to resign in disgrace for engaging in espionage against his political enemies and lying to congress about it
JD Vance: "I think Nixon's historical legacy is enjoying a bit of a renaissance, and deservedly so. I joked that if Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12 hours news story. The idea that it took down a presidency is crazy."
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JD Vance: "I think Nixon's historical legacy is enjoying a bit of a renaissance, and deservedly so. I joked that if Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12 hours news story. The idea that it took down a presidency is crazy."
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here's Barack Obama's entire speech commemorating the Obama Presidential Center. He reflected on his administration's successes and failures, critiqued the moral rot of contemporary America, and outlined a positive vision of the future -- all without ever mentioning Trump
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NEW Crystal Ball Senate Rating Changes Alaska Leans R to Toss-up NC Toss-up to Leans D Ohio Leans R to Toss-up GOP still favored because they only need one of the four Toss-ups, while Ds need all four
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Wow - Cassidy signs onto brief stating, in part: "The Anti-Weaponization Fund presents an immediate and dire threat to our constitutional order and the authority of Congress. Indeed, among other purposes, the Fund is designed to compensate the insurrectionists who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6th. The existence of the Fund strikes at the core of Congressional authority and our Constitutional order"
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You could start by walking down the hall. See why your boss keeps pardoning people convicted of money laundering, wire fraud, tax evasion, and securities fraud.
Vance: There is a simple principle I have: If you are committing fraud against the American people you ought to go to prison. If you are a public official not fighting against fraud, you ought to have your money taken away because you should not be able to steal from all of you and give it to fraudsters.
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HMF is proud to have been the largest backer of the “YES” campaign—contributing nearly $40 million—and working closely with @FairnessProject and @FairElectionsVA to combat the tens of millions the GOP put in to mislead voters. We're taking back the House in November
This victory will have a lot of fathers but lion’s share goes to Jeffries and HMP, which put more than $38M to the “Yes” campaign
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CRYSTAL BALL HOUSE RATING CHANGES IN VIRGINIA Four R seats move into the Dem column House topline now 217 Safe/Likely/Leans Democratic, 205 Safe/Likely/Leans Republican, and 13 Toss-ups There is still the possibility that the VA Supreme Court will intervene on process grounds
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Joe Kernen comes close to having a coronary on air as Pete Buttigieg dogwalks him all over the Squawk Box studio about Trump's economic mismanagement and inflation
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🚨New poll in Alaska shows Mary Pelota up 5 points. 🚨
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Been talking to anyone who will listen to me about what happened with young men in 2024. Trump was +5 with men ages 18-45 in '24. Today? Net approval is -19. On cost of living, Trump was +10 with men of all ages in '24. Net approval now -30. BIG econ anvil for GOP in November.
Trump won in 2024 because of men. They are abandoning him right now. He won men by 13 pt in 2024, but his net approval is now -7 pt with them. Men under 45: Trump won by 5 pt in 2024. Now he's 19 pt underwater with them. On cost living, he's now 30 pt underwater with men!
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