Amanda Terkel

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Politics Managing Editor @NBCNews / amanda.terkel@nbcuni.com /

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1	Jan 13, '24	Ramaswamy's wife asked voters what they're hearing about why they're not supporting Vivek. One response: "I couldn’t even remember who said it to me, but they mentioned his dark sk	182×	2.3M	3.3k	635	377
2	Jul 1, '24	NEW — Biden's campaign manager held a tense call with top donors today, outlining what would happen to the campaign infrastructure should Biden step aside. (In short, the war chest	168×	2.1M	7.1k	1.3k	764
3	Sep 8, '23	NEW -- Vivek Ramaswamy is saying that if elected president, he'll deport American-born children of undocumented immigrants (even though they're U.S. citizens) by @AlexanderTabet @k	166×	2.1M	1.6k	889	125
4	Mar 5, '24	EXCLUSIVE — Administration officials watered down Kamala Harris' Gaza speech before delivery The original draft was harsher on Israel about the dire humanitarian situation and the	103×	1.3M	1.5k	419	263
5	Jul 11, '24	Several of Biden’s closest allies, including 3 people directly involved in re-election efforts, told @jonallendc @natashakorecki @carolelee they now see his chances of winning as z	86.5×	1.1M	3.5k	705	346
6	Aug 6, '23	Vivek Ramaswamy says Juneteenth is a “useless” holiday - 2 months after posting a tweet celebrating it by @AlexanderTabet @kekoretski	56.2×	719k	1.2k	399	33
7	Mar 15, '22	Georgia GOP Senate candidate Herschel Walker casts doubt on evolution: "At one time, science said man came from apes, did it not? ... If that is true, why are there still apes? Thi	54.2×	0	5.6k	1.3k	324
8	May 8, '23	SCOOP from @Mdixon55 @jonallendc -- Florida Democratic donors are hoping to recruit NBA legends Dwayne Wade and Grant Hill to run for Senate against Rick Scott in 2024	53.4×	684k	602	105	41
9	May 16, '23	In an incredible update to this... one of the women on both the DeSantis and Trump endorsement lists has now come out and said she's 100% with Trump and not DeSantis. What is happe	49.5×	633k	647	238	8
10	Apr 12, '23	SCOOP from @Mdixon55 -- Ron DeSantis' political team is calling up the Florida congressional delegation, trying to make sure more of them don't endorse Trump	46.1×	589k	621	181	34
11	Jan 6, '23	.@NBCNews has confirmed the Daily Beast story about Matt Schlapp allegedly groping a male staffer on Herschel Walker's campaign in October. More details here from @jonallendc	38.8×	496k	2.1k	1k	39
12	Dec 13, '22	"To cut costs, Twitter has not paid rent for its San Francisco headquarters or any of its global offices for weeks, three people close to the company said."	37.2×	0	7.7k	1.9k	208
13	Jul 30, '25	NEW scoop from @NBCNews — Hegseth has privately discussed the idea of running for office next year in Tennessee, according to two people who have spoken directly with him about it.	35.5×	454k	861	279	157
14	Feb 18, '25	BREAKING — USDA says it accidentally fired officials working to combat bird flu and says it’s trying to rehire them by @akarl_smith	33.7×	430k	685	483	107
15	Nov 3, '25	.@NBCNews talked to a Trump voter whose daughter gets SNAP benefits. She said said she's furious about how little he's fixing the economy and regrets her vote -- said the ballroom	32.8×	419k	2.8k	833	218
16	Jul 10, '24	At his rally just now, Trump challenged Biden to another debate this week. Says it will be no moderator, "man to man," "no holds barred." Also challenged him to an 18-hole golf mat	30.9×	396k	394	50	24
17	Nov 8, '23	Rick Santorum says when you put "very sexy things" like marijuana and abortion on the ballot, it brings all the young people to the yard	30.9×	395k	2.1k	320	75
18	Oct 11, '23	NEW — Four former Ohio State wrestlers who have accused Rep. Jim Jordan of failing to protect them from a sexual predator when he was the team’s assistant coach are speaking out to	28.7×	367k	3.3k	1.3k	54
19	Jul 1, '24	To be clear, Julie Chavez Rodriguez stressed that Biden has no intention of not running. Campaign Chair Jen O'Malley Dillon is also set to hold a call with a larger group of donors	26.9×	345k	934	153	75
20	Jul 2, '24	NEW — Four days after the debate, Biden still had not called Schumer or Jeffries to shore up support, though Zients was making calls. A Dem lawmaker said there's growing frustratio	26.5×	339k	882	152	103
21	Jun 27, '23	Scoop from @kate_santaliz -- Pelosi is headlining a fundraiser for Ruben Gallego, the Democrat seeking Sen. Sinema's seat	23.3×	299k	5.2k	838	16
22	Nov 12, '25	DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT	22.8×	292k	2.4k	159	442
23	Sep 20, '23	SCOOP -- Ron DeSantis' top crime talking point is that crime is at a 50-year low in Florida. But @Mdixon55 reports that top FL officials were warned by staffers that the number is	20.6×	263k	2.4k	595	38
24	Jul 28, '22	Susan Collins tells @JNicholsonInDC that same-sex marriage bill may be doomed now bc of what Dems did on the inflation reduction bill	20.5×	0	1.5k	594	105
25	Jul 28, '23	NEW -- Most of the members of the Florida work group that put together the new Black history standards did not want "personal benefit" of slavery language included. One member said	19×	242k	1k	482	54
26	Mar 1, '24	NEW -- Smaller events, not letting the press and the public know about events ahead of time, an outside firm to vet attendees: How Biden aides are trying to shield the president fr	18.4×	236k	299	137	61
27	Apr 4, '24	NEW — RFK Jr. campaign out with a fundraising email saying Jan. 6 "activists" have been "stripped of their Constitutional liberties" by @aseitzwald @ryanjreilly Read @ryanjreilly's	17.9×	229k	282	170	30
28	Nov 7, '23	Here's how Dem strategists described the Biden campaign to @NBCNews: A “five-alarm fire.” Cardiac case in need of a “defibrillator.” Lemming on course to “slowly march into the sea	16.7×	213k	330	71	45
29	Feb 26, '25	VA official says it's "absolute chaos" there. Even Trump appointees are afraid to act out of fear of angering the public or the WH. "It's leading to paralysis, and nothing is getti	16.2×	207k	1.6k	512	144
30	Jun 14, '23	@akarl_smith @katiadoyl @Mdixon55 @natashakorecki A recent call between about 15 GOP operatives that was supposed to be about Hunter Biden and going after Dems turned into constern	16×	205k	303	86	10
31	Jun 18, '23	In Nevada at the Basque Fry, @natashakorecki found that a lot of Republicans said they were drawn to DeSantis because they liked his response to COVID	15.6×	199k	328	78	7
32	Jun 22, '22	Herschel Walker said in an interview that there are 52 states. There are 50.	15×	0	3.1k	592	41
33	Aug 8, '22	If Dems win back the Senate in November, GOP Sen. Tim Scott claims Dems will grant abortions up to 52 weeks. Human pregnancies last about 40 weeks.	14.9×	0	3.3k	832	42
34	Jan 6, '23	NEW -- Here's audio of the Matt Schlapp accuser. He recorded his account of the alleged groping right after it happened and shared with @jonallendc	14.3×	183k	373	186	27
35	Oct 7, '24	Scoop from @Mdixon55 -- Ron DeSantis is refusing to take Harris' call on Hurricane Helene, saying it "seemed political" "Kamala was trying to reach out, and we didn’t answer," a De	14.1×	181k	352	199	43
36	Jun 16, '23	NEW -- Justin Jones and Justin J. Pearson, the 2 Democratic state lawmakers in Tennessee who were expelled by Republicans for their gun protests, won primaries for their old seats	13.2×	169k	3k	547	12
37	Apr 12, '23	A Fox Corp. investor has sued Rupert Murdoch, Lachlan Murdoch and other Fox Corp. board members over "stolen election claims" by @janestreet	11.2×	144k	1.2k	376	26
38	Jul 28, '23	NEW — Sen. Tim Scott rebukes Ron DeSantis over the Florida Black history standards: "As a country founded upon freedom, the greatest deprivation of freedom was slavery. There is no	11.2×	143k	576	125	5
39	Jul 1, '23	"Never apologize": @NBCNews sat in on a Moms for Liberty media training, where members were taught how to spin the press as the group gains greater national prominence by @gabeguti	10.8×	139k	405	330	40
40	Apr 12, '23	BREAKING -- Fox News has been sanctioned in the Dominion defamation case for withholding evidence w/ @janestreet	10.4×	133k	834	300	13
41	Jul 16, '23	BREAKING -- Ron DeSantis fires roughly a dozen staffers as his campaign burns through $$ and struggles to catch up to Trump by @Mdixon55 @akarl_smith @jonallendc	10.3×	132k	283	106	9
42	Jul 12, '22	NEW from @jbendery -- The White House is privately signaling that it's moving forward with Chad Meredith, the anti-abortion court pick in Kentucky, despite the backlash	10.3×	0	1.1k	574	85
43	Dec 5, '23	Totally forgot that FL GOP chair Christian Ziegler — who is accused of rape and refusing to resign despite pressure — ran the Moms for Liberty media training in July. This was his	9.9×	126k	742	390	23
44	May 10, '24	Trump was asked about Barron Trump's convention role this summer in a new interview: "He’s pretty young, I will say. He’s 17. But if they can do that, I’m all for it." Barron is 18	9.8×	125k	750	226	36
45	May 11, '22	NEW — Charles Herbster, the Trump-backed candidate who is accused of groping 8 women, has lost the GOP primary race for Nebraska governor	9.5×	0	3.2k	406	16
46	Nov 3, '23	Nikki Haley earned between $100,000 and $1M for each of 12speaking engagements in 2022-2023. She met with bankers, firms that do business with China, pro-Israel groups. Her campaig	9.3×	119k	376	203	15
47	Mar 26, '24	At a time when IVF is in the news... @aseitzwald notes that Shanahan has advocated against supporting IVF research	9.3×	119k	302	130	6
48	Feb 16, '23	NEW from @janestreet -- Kari Lake's lawyers hit with bar complaints	8.5×	109k	733	156	5
49	Jul 7, '22	Sen. Dianne Feinstein, long a filibuster defender, said she's support a carve-out to get rid of it to codify abortion rights	8.1×	0	2.6k	481	14
50	Mar 5, '25	Trump says he has stopped "government censorship" and "free speech is back." Meanwhile, he has banned the AP from covering many White House events bc he doesn't like a term they us	7.8×	100k	2.6k	771	51
51	Mar 29, '23	NEW -- Fox has a fact-checking operation called the "Brain Room" that looked into Dominion election-rigging claims in Nov. 2020. Found them to be false. Fox ran with them anyway.	7.7×	98k	327	153	16
52	Feb 21, '24	EXCLUSIVE -- Amy Brown, wife of Nevada GOP Senate candidate Sam Brown, opens up about her abortion publicly for the first time ever. Sam Brown also says he will not back any federa	7.6×	97k	264	101	33
53	Mar 10, '23	Two separate court filings today by Dominion and a trio of media outlets saying that Fox News blacked-out too much in the documents that were made public by @janestreet	7.3×	93k	270	84	2
54	May 20, '22	A Trump-endorsed candidate in Michigan says she would vote to ban all birth control if it comes up for a vote, bc “sex ought to be between one man and one woman in the confines of	7.2×	0	909	455	50
55	Dec 13, '22	"Twitter’s leaders have also discussed the consequences of denying severance payments to thousands of people who have been laid off since the takeover, two people familiar with the	6.8×	0	2.1k	368	19
56	Apr 14, '23	We made a tool to show you some of what Fox News wanted to keep redacted in the Dominion case. (The judge agreed that Fox had blacked out too much initially and allowed more inform	6.7×	86k	357	167	27
57	Jul 25, '23	Very excited for this can’t wait to see all the great work we keep doing! Best team!	6.6×	85k	459	26	3
58	Oct 19, '24	For the second time this week, one of Trump's rallies went off the rails. This time, he lost audio for about 17 minutes during a rally in Detroit Friday night. by @Mdixon55	6.5×	84k	617	131	13
59	Jul 27, '23	NEW -- Trump lawyers have been told to expect an indictment	6.5×	83k	315	75	0
60	Dec 22, '22	Reading through the Cassidy Hutchinson transcripts is chilling -- the fear she had as she came forward to speak about Trump. Read some of the highlights here:	6.1×	79k	418	115	10
61	Mar 8, '23	Hi! Are you the person who was texting Tucker Carlson when he said he hated Trump "passionately"? DM me!	6.1×	78k	562	117	0
62	Oct 11, '23	Another interesting backdrop to Jordan's speakership bid, should he win, is that he could get deposed. One of the former wrestlers with an ongoing lawsuit says he plans depose Jord	6.1×	78k	682	218	6
63	Apr 26, '22	Susan Collins says Elon Musk should let Trump back on Twitter. Other Republicans (Hawley) not so sure. Mitt Romney says he’s staying out of it. by @igorbobic @ArthurDelaneyHP	6.0×	0	469	186	38
64	Feb 22, '23	JUST IN -- NBC News projects that Jennifer McClellan has made history as the first Black woman elected to Congress from Virginia. Won the special election in the 4th Congressional	6.0×	77k	375	87	1
65	Jan 20, '24	DeSantis has canceled his appearance tomorrow on @MeetThePress. Also no longer expected to do his CNN appearance either.	⚡ 6.0×	2M	1k	327	38
66	Aug 20, '24	Convention fashion	5.9×	76k	2.6k	205	43
67	Nov 8, '23	BREAKING -- Issue 1 wins in Ohio @NBCNews projects	5.9×	76k	401	52	3
68	Jun 24, '22	This is why “vote for Democrats” is not sufficient as a response to the Supreme Court decision. From @Robillard	5.8×	0	1.3k	462	78
69	Jan 12, '23	Love that members of Congress are saying that they all embellish their resumes. Say more! My DMs are open!	5.6×	72k	797	105	3
70	Aug 3, '23	Republicans in an Arizona county decided they wanted to start hand-counting ballots. So they did a test run. And ends up, it's expensive — and inaccurate. So they dropped it. by @j	5.0×	64k	445	168	11
71	Oct 9, '23	Biden's nominee for U.S. ambassador to Israel is expected to get a Senate hearing next week by @albamonica @Petereporter @Abs_NBC @kate_santaliz	4.9×	63k	276	87	0
72	Jun 9, '25	White House struggles to find qualified people willing to work for Pete Hegseth by @glubold @ckubeNBC @katiadoyl	4.8×	61k	351	139	37
73	Jun 9, '22	NEW -- Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) tells @JNicholsonInDC that Carl Paladino was being taken out of context in his comments about Hitler. Not clear how it was taken out of context...	4.3×	0	874	299	39
74	Aug 9, '23	In all 7 states where abortion has been on the ballot since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade... abortion rights have won. And many of these states have been far from bright	4.1×	52k	350	95	12
75	Mar 20, '24	SCOOP -- Kennedy family is set to step up its efforts to boost Biden in the election by @mikememoli @PeterAlexander @KellyO	3.9×	50k	361	110	9
76	Oct 12, '22	NEW -- Herschel Walker has claimed that his mom told him that his grandmother was a "full-blood Cherokee." @jbendery talked to his mom, who had a different story	3.8×	0	701	273	21
77	Sep 18, '23	NEW from @Mdixon55 — Matt Gaetz is widely expected to run for governor of Florida in 2026. Four sources tell @NBCNews that at an event Sunday night, Gaetz strongly implied to peopl	⚡ 3.5×	716k	378	203	31
78	Jul 20, '24	Latest tactic by Biden allies to hit back on critics: Saying that “elites” are disenfranchising voters — esp Black and Latino voters — who want him to stay “Democrats lose the so-c	⚡ 3.3×	1M	297	58	51
79	Mar 5, '24	So a male voter in NC told @shaqbrewster that he doesn't like Nikki Haley bc he doesn't think a woman should be president bc she has no "balls to scratch." “All a woman’s good for	⚡ 2.7×	1.7M	429	166	60
80	Jun 24, '22	Alito's opinion also chastises liberals for stoking "unfounded fear that our decision will imperil those other rights," including Griswold, Lawrence and Obergefell -- the same exac	2.6×	0	570	286	12
81	Jan 9, '23	NEW -- Damar Hamlin is released from the hospital	2.4×	31k	444	77	1
82	Feb 8, '23	"Republicans are quick to suggest that President Joe Biden has lost a step — but he proved nimble enough Tuesday night to box them in on Social Security and Medicare. And he did it	2.3×	30k	372	92	12
83	Sep 9, '22	NEW -- @svdate talked to Michael Fanone, an officer who was beaten defending the Capitol on Jan. 6, about the PA troopers posing with Trump: "Those two or three dozen Pennsylvania	2.2×	0	582	191	11
84	Jul 25, '23	NEW -- Ron DeSantis fires staffer who retweeted video with Nazi imagery by @akarl_smith	⚡ 2.2×	1.7M	325	105	43
85	Aug 31, '23	SCOOP -- Never Back Down, the pro-DeSantis super PAC, has ended its much-touted door-knocking operations in Nevada and Super Tuesday states by @akarl_smith @korecki	⚡ 2.2×	676k	339	95	23
86	Mar 13, '23	"Anyone who's ever received a text message from their father knows how important editing is. Editors do amazing things. Editors can turn 44,000 hours of violent insurrection footag	2.1×	26k	305	77	2
87	Jun 3, '22	At 7:48 p.m., Biden wrapped up his speech on gun violence in America. Just 3 minutes later, there was another shooting.	1.9×	0	365	212	9
88	Mar 24, '25	Looks like I'm changing my initials to DJT on Signal now. Hoping for some scoops!	1.8×	23k	388	12	9
89	Jul 28, '22	@JNicholsonInDC And note that in the story... Collins makes clear she still supports the bill. She just stating that it's going to be harder for her to get other Rs on board now (w	1.7×	0	535	48	3
90	Oct 28, '22	Some personal news: After 12 wonderful years at HuffPost, I'll be joining @NBCNews Digital on 11/14 as senior politics editor, overseeing campaign coverage and politics breaking ne	1.5×	0	542	20	5
91	Jun 28, '22	“Our own president betrayed us” — U.S. Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell tells @igorbobic he holds Trump personally responsible for the injuries he sustained on Jan. 6	1.5×	0	409	135	2
92	Oct 27, '22	A Jan. 6 rioter who dragged former D.C. Police Officer Michael Fanone into the crowd on the steps of the U.S. Capitol was sentenced to 7.5 years in federal prison on Thursday.	1.5×	0	438	109	1
93	Jun 24, '22	Alito: Liberals are are trying to "stoke unfounded fear" that we're now going to go after Griswold, Lawrence and Obergefell Thomas: "In future cases, we should reconsider...Griswol	1.3×	0	301	140	7
94	Jun 22, '22	In 2008, yes, Obama also misspoke and said 57 states. The right then used that as more proof of their birther conspiracy, saying he was talking about Islamic countries.	1.3×	0	404	23	1
95	Nov 13, '22	At his press conference, Schumer says that since Dems retained the Senate, there will be a “firewall” against a nationwide abortion ban that some Republicans have talked about	1.1×	0	382	55	6
96	Oct 12, '22	Biden has secured liberal priorities -- like student loans, climate, pot -- with little GOP pushback politically. Republicans are filing lawsuits against student loans, but they've	1.1×	0	269	91	5
97	May 25, '22	One thing I wasn’t prepared for when my kid started pre-K this year was that he would be doing active shooter drills where they hide in the library. He is 4.	1.0×	0	303	75	2
98	Dec 11, '22	There was a dominating narrative in the run-up to the midterms that Republicans were making gains with Latinos. But actually, Latinos stuck with Dems in the Southwest, cementing th	1.0×	0	288	75	5
99	Jun 21, '22	Biden Names Mohegan Tribe Member To Be First Native American U.S. Treasurer by @JNicholsonInDC	0.9×	0	283	69	1
100	Nov 9, '22	NBC projects Democrat Laura Kelly hangs on as governor in Kansas	0.8×	0	305	26	1

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