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Dylan Wells

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Dylan Wells

@dylanewells

covering creators, until recently national political reporter @washingtonpost ✰ past lives @USAToday, @njhotline, @CNN, @UChiPolitics

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Joined July 2016

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Dylan Wells
@dylanewells
Feb 26
New beat alert! I’m still at the @washingtonpost, but expanding my coverage and launching a newsletter about the creator economy next month (powered by @beehiiv). Sign up for Verified here — and in the meantime send me your tips and gossip 💌 wpcreator.washingtonpost.com/subscribe
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Dylan Wells
@dylanewells
Jul 27, 2024
“Mr. Trump, I know you have so much trouble pronouncing her name. Here’s the good news — after the election, you can just call her Madam President,” says Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff in Stevens Point, WI.
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Dylan Wells
@dylanewells
Jul 17, 2024
The UNC flag frat bros are here at the RNC
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Dylan Wells
@dylanewells
Mar 19, 2021
Xiaojie Tan was killed the day before her 50th birthday, when she “would have gathered with her only child for a slice of strawberry fresh cream cake, her favorite. The mother and daughter were best friends.” So devastating.
Xiaojie Tan dreamed of traveling the world and celebrating her 50th birthday with her daughter....
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Dylan Wells
@dylanewells
Sep 9, 2024
“You’ve got a senate race you can win in Texas,” Tim Walz told attendees at a fundraiser in Dallas. “My God, just do it for all of America: replace Ted,” he added. #TXSen
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Dylan Wells
@dylanewells
Aug 19, 2024
Josh Shapiro pushed back on Trump’s claim that he wasn’t chosen as VP bc he is Jewish. Shapiro: “Trump is completely full of it & he's trying to use me & he's trying to use other Jews to divide Americans further…antisemitism played absolutely no role in my dialog with” the VP.
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Dylan Wells
@dylanewells
Sep 4, 2024
“You’re close sweetie,” Gov. Walz told a baby cow struggling to find a bottle during a stop by Maple Bottom Farm in Dawson, Pennsylvania. “I don’t want to make you work so hard. There you go, there you go, I was making you work too hard.”
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Dylan Wells
@dylanewells
Sep 4, 2024
Tim and Hope Walz picked out pumpkin and chocolate whoopie pies and apple cider donuts at Cherry Hill Orchards. “We’re pumpkin people,” said Hope Walz. “Look at me I have no problem picking out donuts,” Walz joked, an apparent reference to JD Vance’s recent campaign stop.
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Dylan Wells
@dylanewells
Jan 8, 2021
A horrifying personal account of yesterday inside the Capitol from Times photographer @erinschaff: nytimes.com/2021/01/07/us/…
Dylan Wells
@dylanewells
Dec 1, 2023
my claim to fame is that’s my phone and head
Gene Park, Obama’s Skull Face
@GenePark
Dec 1, 2023
this washington post photo went so hard. so much more iconic than trump’s mugshot
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Dylan Wells
@dylanewells
Mar 24, 2022
Sen. Ossoff says of Jackson, “She handled the attacks, many of which were cruel and unfair, with strength and poise and grace.”
Dylan Wells
@dylanewells
Nov 27, 2022
Sen. @ReverendWarnock waits in line to vote in Fulton County:
Dylan Wells
@dylanewells
Aug 6, 2024
The campaign is distributing attendees of the Philly Harris-Walz rally light up bracelets, like you’d find at a concert. They’re flashing red, white, and blue as the arena fills up.
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Dylan Wells
@dylanewells
Jun 28, 2024
Rep. Jim Clyburn said he plans to speak to Biden today and tell him to “stay the course.” He said “there’s no better Democrat” and directed nervous Democrats to “chill out.”
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