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Scott Bixby

Scott Bixby is the former White House reporter for The Daily Beast. You can follow him on Twitter at @ScottBix.

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FULL TERM INITIATED

Mark Kelly Rockets Past Billionaire’s Boy Blake Masters

Sen. Mark Kelly contrasted himself as a commonsense moderate opposed to corporate and out-of-state interests controlling the state’s political future.

Scott Bixby

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GOES WITHOUT SAYING?

Biden Barely Mentions What Saved Democrats in the Midterms

Biden mentioned abortion only a single time at his press conference, in a promise to veto any Republican attempts at a national ban.

Scott Bixby

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BETO LUCK NEXT TIME

Beto Lets Down Dems Again as Greg Abbott Is Re-Elected

Beto O’Rourke never really captured the energy he once had in Texas. Greg Abbott won easily.

Scott Bixby

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UPSET AVERTED

Michael Bennet Lives to Fight Another O’Dea in Colorado

The race between Sen. Michael Bennet and Republican Joe O’Dea was surprisingly competitive in Colorado, which has trended blue in recent election cycles.

Scott Bixby

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NEXT ACT

Ex-Trump Flack Sarah Huckabee Sanders Is Next Arkansas Guv

Huckabee Sanders is the second White House press secretary in history to win elected office.

Scott Bixby

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CLOSING MESSAGE TO SELF

Biden’s Closing Message Is Vital to Biden—but Not to Voters

“He thought the fever would break. And for a million reasons, from Fox News to Twitter to Kevin McCarthy, it hasn’t,” said one person close to the president.

Scott Bixby

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BLAME GAME?

Biden Avoids the Elephant in the Room on Pelosi Attack

The president has so far avoided directly tying the attack to the Republican Party’s increasing embrace of conspiracy theories and violent rhetoric.

Scott Bixby

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WRONG TRACK

How Biden’s Railroad Unions Victory Could Be Derailed

President Joe Biden seemed to have secured a last-minute deal between railroad unions and train companies. But now a rail strike is once again looming.

Scott Bixby

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‘SCREW UP’

The U.S. Blunder That Could Hand Putin Victory in Ukraine

Just as the momentum had shifted in Ukraine’s favor, Putin is now smelling blood.

Scott Bixby

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‘FREE JOE TIME’

Joe Biden Has Become Increasingly Loose in Front of Donors

The U.S. president has been traveling across the country to luxurious locations where he’s telling the well-heeled what he really thinks.

Scott Bixby

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