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<em>The Atlantic</em> Politics Daily: Elizabeth Warren Doesn’t Talk About Her Republican Past

Should she? Plus: What the other, <em>other</em> Rhodes-Scholar Mayor thinks now of his decision not to get into the 2020 presidential race.

It’s Friday, January 10. After a fruitless three-week standoff, Nancy Pelosi said she’d send the articles of impeachment to the Senate. Expect a trial sometime after the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.

In today’s newsletter: Elizabeth Warren’s political conversion. Plus: Is Eric Garcetti, Rhodes Scholar, mayor, and one-time 2020 hopeful, just “kicking himself” now?

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She used to be a Republican—a staunch one.

Now she’s … Elizabeth Warren, one

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