Gail Collins
Goodbye, George Santos. Hello, Politics Quiz.
Hey, happy holidays, everybody! It’s almost time to turn the calendar to 2024 and, oh my Lord, the presidential election is coming. But before we start girding for battle, let’s see how much you remember about what we’ve been doing/observing/enduring in 2023.
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During the traditional ceremony pardoning the White House Thanksgiving turkeys, Joe Biden...
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Donald Trump opened up the holiday season by calling his political opponents
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When a photograph of Biden wearing a bathing suit on the beach by his Delaware home popped up, Trump commented …
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As Trump prepares for another general election campaign, this time he’s going to be juggling …
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Taking note of Ron DeSantis’s penchant for wearing cowboy boots, some commentators speculated that the presidential candidate is trying to look …
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After a recent Republican presidential debate, Senator Tim Scott …
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Meanwhile, in Congress, the new Republican speaker of the House is …
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The Senate voted to formalize its dress code after John Fetterman of Pennsylvania took to showing up in …
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In a phone interview with The Times’s Grace Ashford, the soon-to-be-ex-congressman George Santos gave what might become an excellent intro to an autobiography, when he said …
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Santos also described himself recently as the …
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Representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks, Republican of Iowa, reported getting death threats from Jim Jordan’s fans after she voted against the super-hard-right Jordan for speaker of the House. She told Iowans that if any of her opponents thought they could intimidate her, they should …
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Rudy Giuliani finally found a lawyer willing to represent him, despite his apparent shortage of money. L. Allyn Stockton Jr. said that representing Giuliani in various cases of election subversion and racketeering makes him feel like …
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Representative Tim Burchett of Tennessee was talking with an NPR reporter in a Capitol hallway when the former House speaker Kevin McCarthy passed. Burchett was one of the Republicans who’d voted to oust McCarthy from his old job. He said that McCarthy gave him …
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At a Senate committee hearing, Markwayne Mullin, Republican of Oklahoma, got into an argument with Sean O’Brien, the president of the Teamsters union. When O’Brien acknowledged he’d once expressed a willingness to take the senator on in a physical fight, Mullin responded …
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At a House committee hearing, James Comer, Republican of Kentucky, clashed with Jared Moskowitz, Democrat of Florida, who compared a Biden family loan issue with one involving Comer’s personal finances. We won’t go into the details, except that an irate Comer claimed Moskowitz looked like …
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In her new book, Liz Cheney writes about Kevin McCarthy’s visit to make nice with Donald Trump just after Trump cheered on the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Cheney wrote that when she saw McCarthy, who was then the House Republican leader, grinning next to Trump, she thought the picture was fake because …
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In their Fox News debate, Gov. Gavin Newsom of California said there was one thing that he and Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida had in common …