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Welcome back to The Best & The Brightest. I’m Peter
Hamby.
Tonight, some thoughts on Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’s holiday party performances in D.C.—and the intriguing results of our new poll, in partnership with Echelon Insights, which reveals a few openings for Democrats as they lick their wounds and plot ways to fight back against Donald Trump’s incoming administration.
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- 🎧 Pollsters on notice & ABC News’s $15 settlement: Our resident legal expert Eriq Gardner joined me on The Powers That Be this morning to break down Trump’s head-spinning lawsuit against the renowned Iowa pollster Ann Selzer—and how other pollsters might respond to this alarming development. We also discussed Disney’s $15 million decision to settle the Stephanopoulos defamation lawsuit.
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- Will CNN be sold?: Last week, in the aftermath of WBD’s perhaps inevitable decision to separate...
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Congress can help keep teens safe online today by putting parents in charge of teen app
downloads.
Congress has the opportunity to establish a national standard requiring app store parental consent and age verification for teens.
This puts parents in charge of which apps teens download, making it easier for them to help keep teens safe. That's why 3 out of 4 parents agree: teens under 16 shouldn't be able to download apps without parental
approval.
Tell lawmakers: support a national standard requiring app store parental consent and age verification for teens.
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As Harris postures for her next political opportunity, exclusive
data from Echelon Insights suggests a future angle for Democrats: Trump’s appointees don’t poll all that great, tariffs are unpopular, and Elon and Vivek have some explaining to do.
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For Democrats in Washington, this year’s holiday party circuit
isn’t exactly merry and bright. In just over a month, Republicans are set to take over not just the White House, but every lever of power in the city. Donald Trump is returning to office with more public goodwill than ever. Democrats, meanwhile, are going on television reciting talking points about how they didn’t lose as badly as they could have. It’s depressing, but what else is there to say? At least it’s the holidays. ’Tis the season for banal pleasantries,
beef tenderloin, drone sightings, and belts of champagne to dull the pain.
At a holiday reception for the Democratic National Committee on Sunday night at the Willard, just steps from the White House, President Biden acknowledged...
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Puck senior political correspondent Tara Palmeri grapples with the aftermath of what may be the most chaotic and
consequential presidential election cycle of our lifetime. With 15 years covering politics, Tara speaks with the smartest political minds to discuss what’s happening behind the scenes in Washington, D.C., from the campaign trail to the Capitol.
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