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| THE LEDE Hello from Davos, where Donald Trump — unpopular and impeached as he is — showed why Democrats are worried about November. He ignored inconvenient realities, exaggerated wildly, and focused on the economic growth and low unemployment that America has enjoyed.Climate politics: One thing that was clear this week is how the opposition to action on climate has shifted. The Davos crowd and House Republicans now acknowledge the problem, and have found a politically easy (if inadequate) solution in planting trees. Trump even said, in response to my question, that he doesn’t think climate change is a “hoax” anymore. But he warned that Democrats’ plans would disrupt Americans’ lives, and his bet is that Americans aren’t up for that. READ RECEIPTS Rashida Tlaib Rashida Tlaib is the firebrand, charismatic Congress member from Michigan who achieved immortality (and spoke for many Democrats) when she demanded that Congress “impeach the motherfucker.” She’s a proud member of the Democratic Socialists of America and a committed Bernie Sanders supporter, headed to Iowa next week to do her part for him. We texted about all those things, and about her Palestinian roots, which came into politics recently when the Israeli government said it would deny her a visa. ON THE TRAIL WITH BUZZFEED NEWS
Katherine spent time with Andrew Yang and found his brand of politics more in line with a rising political set than the rest of the 2020 field.
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