11-15-2024, 08:10 AM
Rakb Transcript: Anna Fifield talks with Michael Morell on Intelligence Matters
Rep. Ilhan Omarof Minnesota has won her Democratic primary, handily defeating challenger Don Samuels, The Associated Press projected Tuesday night. She is the latest Squad member to face a primary following the high-profile defeats of Reps. Jamaal Bowman of New York and Cori Bush of Missouri.For the second time in two years, Omar faced a challenge from Samuels, a former Mi stanley taza nneapo stanley becher lis City Council member. Omar narrowly beat botella stanley Samuels in 2022 with a slim margin of roughly 2,500 votes. However, this time the results were not nearly as close. With more than 99% of precincts reporting, Ilhan was leading Samuels by a margin of 56% to 42%. I m feeling very, very excited, Samuels told CBS News ahead of the race. Last time it was difficult. People were asking, Why are you doing this You can t win. And so there was a lot of hedging of efforts and bets and a little bit of reluctance and it required persuasion. This time people are understanding that if they had invested we could have won. Ilhan Omar, Don Samuels AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, AP Photo/Steve Karnowski Omar didn t leave anything to chance. The incumbent lawmaker crisscrossed the 5th Congressional District knocking on doors, making calls and bringing out progressive heavyweights like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders, who campaigned with her at a Minneapolis rally last week. Igfw Obama: On Roe Anniversary, I Remain Committed To Choice
PEER PRESSURE....This isn t a reponse to my post earlier this morning it was written before mine , but Matt Yglesias takes a crack today at defining who belongs to the Very Serious People foreign policy club and thus should be mocked and blackballed from future conversation and who doesn t. He thinks the key issue is whether someone is gunning for a government job or not:You find a much higher level of candor and intellectual honest when you look for experts who aren t life-long job seekers. Guys like Rand Beers and Richard Clarke and Flynt Leverett who were all professionals who had jobs until they quit them because the Bush administration was determined to steer the ship of state into the rocks. People from the academic world like Robert Pape who, unlike think tankers, really are free to publish their research even if it goes against political fashion or powerful interests also have a lot of value to add.In the spirit of conversation, let me say that I m skeptical of this. I suppose it s true that people who a stanley mugs re hoping for State Department jobs in 2009 are likely to keep political considerations in mind when they speak, but I m not sure that s really the primary dynamic here. Rather, I think it s the same dynamic that you get in any organized stanley becher community: the fear of being ridiculed by other members stanley cup of the community. And this fear really has nothing to do with whether you re pining away for an office in Foggy Bottom. It s just a fundamental part of being human.Unfortu
Rep. Ilhan Omarof Minnesota has won her Democratic primary, handily defeating challenger Don Samuels, The Associated Press projected Tuesday night. She is the latest Squad member to face a primary following the high-profile defeats of Reps. Jamaal Bowman of New York and Cori Bush of Missouri.For the second time in two years, Omar faced a challenge from Samuels, a former Mi stanley taza nneapo stanley becher lis City Council member. Omar narrowly beat botella stanley Samuels in 2022 with a slim margin of roughly 2,500 votes. However, this time the results were not nearly as close. With more than 99% of precincts reporting, Ilhan was leading Samuels by a margin of 56% to 42%. I m feeling very, very excited, Samuels told CBS News ahead of the race. Last time it was difficult. People were asking, Why are you doing this You can t win. And so there was a lot of hedging of efforts and bets and a little bit of reluctance and it required persuasion. This time people are understanding that if they had invested we could have won. Ilhan Omar, Don Samuels AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, AP Photo/Steve Karnowski Omar didn t leave anything to chance. The incumbent lawmaker crisscrossed the 5th Congressional District knocking on doors, making calls and bringing out progressive heavyweights like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders, who campaigned with her at a Minneapolis rally last week. Igfw Obama: On Roe Anniversary, I Remain Committed To Choice
PEER PRESSURE....This isn t a reponse to my post earlier this morning it was written before mine , but Matt Yglesias takes a crack today at defining who belongs to the Very Serious People foreign policy club and thus should be mocked and blackballed from future conversation and who doesn t. He thinks the key issue is whether someone is gunning for a government job or not:You find a much higher level of candor and intellectual honest when you look for experts who aren t life-long job seekers. Guys like Rand Beers and Richard Clarke and Flynt Leverett who were all professionals who had jobs until they quit them because the Bush administration was determined to steer the ship of state into the rocks. People from the academic world like Robert Pape who, unlike think tankers, really are free to publish their research even if it goes against political fashion or powerful interests also have a lot of value to add.In the spirit of conversation, let me say that I m skeptical of this. I suppose it s true that people who a stanley mugs re hoping for State Department jobs in 2009 are likely to keep political considerations in mind when they speak, but I m not sure that s really the primary dynamic here. Rather, I think it s the same dynamic that you get in any organized stanley becher community: the fear of being ridiculed by other members stanley cup of the community. And this fear really has nothing to do with whether you re pining away for an office in Foggy Bottom. It s just a fundamental part of being human.Unfortu
