Eric Koch
@EricDKoch
Founder of Downfield, a global firm specializing in political, strategic and crisis communications | Likes Underdogs| Fighting for the Democracies | 🇺🇸🇬🇷
Been off Twitter a few days (including during my birthday) visiting Lviv, Ukraine for a client work trip. What follows here is a thread of what we saw, the work being done and what they need.

This is the same Mike Lawler who caved to Trump the minute he asked to rip away New Yorkers’ health care. Of course he doesn’t have the spine to face me.
Breaking News: Representative Mike Lawler, Republican of New York, plans to seek re-election next year rather than run for governor. nyti.ms/3IFT8aa
Bookmark this chart for the next time @SecDuffy threatens to cut funding from mass transit in NYC because of how dangerous it is. (Sawyer County WI is where Duffy is from) bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
NEWS: Mike Cortese announces he’s raised more than $100,000 in his first week in the race for #TN05 That’s more than GOP gadfly @AndyOgles has raised all year.
much-hyped nrcc recruit is ready to post his w’s just as soon as his website starts working
much-hyped nrcc recruit is ready to post his w’s just as soon as his website starts working
Families are hurting, and we need to step up. I’m teaming up with the Archdiocese of Los Angeles to help families impacted by recent ICE raids. I’m donating $50,000 and matching every dollar up to another $50,000. This support goes straight to families who’ve had a loved one…
There it is
Exclusive: The Justice Department told President Trump in May that his name is among many in the Epstein files on.wsj.com/4mcTIKV
Statement from @BattlegroundNY on Mike Lawler’s dreams being crushed : (

You are going to get absoutly smoked by Hochul
When I first called @KathyHochul the Worst Governor in America, it stuck because it’s true. Under Kathy Hochul’s failed Far Left Democrat rule, a radical Communist Defund-the-Police Antisemite may be elected Mayor of New York City, a CBP officer was just brutally shot in the…
It’s really memory holed that Trump also claimed there was voter fraud 2016 (an election he won) - he emplaned a whole commission and everything
Trump coaches Republicans to say “Obama cheated on the election” every time they’re asked about Epstein
NEW: We uncovered multiple photos of Jeffrey Epstein at Donald Trump‘s wedding. Photos of the pair together earlier that year at an event. And video of Epstein and Trump at the 1999 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. cnn.com/2025/07/22/pol…
Poor Mike got bullied out of his dream of losing to Kathy Hochul by Trump and Stefanik : (
BREAKING 🚨Congressman Mike Lawler (NY-17) has made a decision about whether or not to run for New York Governor. I will have an exclusive interview in the morning on News 12. Stay tuned… @News12 @RepMikeLawler @lawler4ny
Today, I’m announcing my Growing Virginia Plan — my agenda to grow Virginia’s economy and put our Commonwealth on a path towards reclaiming our place as “America’s Top State for Business.”
The even year elections is just not a good idea - New York City’s municipal elections deserve a cycle of their own
Mayor Adams’ Charter Revision Commission approved five questions for the ballot this November. And a majority of the City Council is NOT happy.
Trump is no Patriot. He's a coward. The American people put their faith in him. He's betrayed us ALL, including our veterans. Join me in fighting back.
I’m honored to have the endorsement of 14 labor unions representing more than 180,000 Minnesotans, over 50 elected officials and leaders including DFL Congressional Chairs and Vice Chairs from every single district around our great state. Check out the full list here:…
They played Hans Zimmer’s Interstellar soundtrack in Cologne Cathedral. Surreal.
Trump is driving our friends into the arms of our foes
China and Vietnam plan to hold their first joint army training exercise this month, a sign of deepening military ties as the two countries grapple with US tariff policies bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Rep. Torres: "Trump promised to end the war in Ukraine and so far has failed. He promised to release the Epstein Files, so far has failed. He said he would never touch Medicaid, he's cutting it by a trillion dollars. His economic policy has wreaked havoc on the American economy."
Thanks @LateNightSeth for highlighting what has to be the most insane Epstein response of the week. @SecDuffy and his friends might take connecting flights through Epstein Island, but I certainly did not!