Andrew Bates

Are you fucking kidding me? Today: DOGE staffer "once provided support to a cybercrime gang that bragged about trafficking in stolen data" www.reuters.com/world/us/dog... Last week: "Judge stops Musk's team from 'unbridled access' to Social Security private data" www.reuters.com/legal/us-jud...

Wrote in @FoxNews about how Democrats can go on offense - now. Trump and the GOP are violating their pledge to cut costs, instead raising the prices AND taxes working families pay - so billionaires get tax handouts. We should make this case everywhere. www.foxnews.com/opinion/andr...

"Health care resonates with voters across the political spectrum, and @roycoopernc.bsky.social is likely to tout his ability to work across the aisle," which expanded Medicaid. "Tillis said he would retire rather than...'betray the very promise' Trump made about not touching Medicaid."

Wrote for @foxnews.com.web.brid.gy about how 2/3 of Trump voters agree w/ Democrats that he should not take health care from millions. As polls get even worse for him, Trump should "admit he got this wrong, reach back out to Democrats and his own voters, and end his health care shutdown."

Trump in 2011: A shutdown is "a tremendously negative mark on the President of the United States. He's the one that has to get people together."

.@mediaite.com: "Ex-Biden Adviser Says Trump Crackdown ‘Disrespectful To Charlie Kirk’s Memory’" www.mediaite.com/online/ex-bi...

.@juddlegum.bsky.social shows Whatley's "smears" about the tragic murder of Iryna Zarutska are "objectively false." The killer was released because of a law passed by "the Republican-dominated North Carolina legislature and signed...by Governor Pat McCrory in July 2013."

Days ago Trump falsely said, "We have no inflation. Prices are down on just about everything." New numbers from his own administration prove he's wrong. @wsj.com: "Inflation Rose to 2.9% in August" "Americans paid more for essentials like food and housing." www.wsj.com/economy/cpi-...

"'If Republicans thought they could win on their record, they wouldn’t have opened the redistricting conversation in the first place,' Andrew Bates, a former senior staffer to President Joe Biden, told me."

Good talk

The White House believes creating chaos will make voters forget his tariffs and tax cuts for the rich. They're wrong. @axios: "Republicans fret about inflation's impact on 2026 midterms" Polling shows "costs as the single most important issue to voters" www.axios.com/2025/09/02/r...

Spoke with @garretthaake.bsky.social on @msnbc.com about how anti-vaccine scaremongering is ending research into cures for terminal diseases, like childhood cancers. The White House is speaking out of both sides of its mouth on this any many other issues - including Epstein and tariffs.

Trumpflation @wsj.com: "Higher Prices Are Coming for Household Staples" "Companies from Hormel to Ace Hardware forecast prices rising as the costs of Trump’s tariffs are passed on to consumers" www.wsj.com/business/ret...