memeorandum: Sawyer, Stephanopoulos and Muir Take on New Roles Leading ABC News Programming (ABC News)

10:50 AM ET, June 25, 2014

Top Items:

Anna Palmer / Politico:

Defiant Chris McDaniel declines to concede in speech to supporters — HATTIESBURG, MISS. — A defiant Chris McDaniel walked up to the podium at his election night headquarters here after the Republican runoff was called for his opponent Sen. Thad Cochran — and then he didn't concede.

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Firedoglake, The Hill, msnbc.com, Daily Kos, Washington Post, Political Insider blog, DownWithTyranny!, Talking Points Memo, Wall Street Journal and New York Times

The Clarion-Ledger:

Last Slide — Cochran had trailed McDaniel in the June 3 primary by less than 1,500 votes, but forced a runoff when neither received more than 50 percent. Cochran had since sought to “expand the electorate,” including pulling in independent and Democratic voters.

Discussion: Daily Kos and Election Law Blog

Matthew Boyle / BREITBART.COM:

CHRIS MCDANIEL TO CHALLENGE ELECTION RESULTS — HATTIESBURG, Mississippi — State Sen. Chris McDaniel will challenge the results of the Tuesday runoff election where 41-year incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran won by about 6,400 votes, he announced to a room of supporters here at his victory party …

Discussion: alicublog, Hot Air and Patterico's Pontifications

Josh Kraushaar / NationalJournal.com:

Cochran's Secret Weapon: Democratic Voters — Higher African-American turnout likely prevented tea party favorite from winning the Mississippi Senate race. — Sen. Thad Cochran(Liz Lynch) — Sen. Thad Cochran's narrow victory over Chris McDaniel in the Mississippi Senate runoff deprives Democrats …

Discussion: Politico, Slate, New York Times, No More Mister Nice Blog, Weasel Zippers, Hot Air, Guardian, Outside the Beltway and Talking Points Memo

Nate Cohn / New York Times:

Big Jump in Turnout Is Key in Thad Cochran's Victory — Turnout hadn't increased in a Senate runoff primary election in 30 years until Tuesday night, when a momentous surge of voters allowed Senator Thad Cochran to defeat Chris McDaniel, a Tea Party-backed state senator, in Mississippi's Republican Senate runoff.

Discussion: ThinkProgress, The Week, Gawker and Democratic Strategist

Washington Post:
Cochran beats McDaniel in nail-biter in Mississippi

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, BuzzFeed, The PJ Tatler, Patterico's Pontifications and New York Times

James Hohmann / Politico:
Takeaways from a wild primary night

Discussion: Washington Post and Outside the Beltway

CNN:
Spotlight on Cochran, Rangel

Discussion: Balloon Juice and The Raw Story

Daniel Strauss / Talking Points Memo: Judge Dismisses McDaniel Supporter's Lawsuit To Prevent Crossover Voting

ABC News:

Sawyer, Stephanopoulos and Muir Take on New Roles Leading ABC News Programming — Diane Sawyer to Lead New ABC News Programming Tackling Big Issues and Extraordinary Interviews — George Stephanopoulos Promoted to Chief Anchor of ABC News Handling Special Reports and Breaking News

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Mashable, Poynter, The Huffington Post and Associated Press, more at Mediagazer »

Jill Lawrence / The Week:

Hillary Clinton's elitism problem — Of course Clinton is out of touch with the everywoman she desperately wants to be. She just needs to accept it. — We're not in 2008 anymore. — H — illary Clinton was in full-throttle Everywoman mode the night she won the 2008 Ohio primary.

Discussion: naked capitalism, Hot Air and CNN

David Catanese / U.S. News:
'She'd Probably Get Shot At The State Line'

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Mediaite and Shakesville

Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
Arkansas GOPer: Saying Hillary Would ‘Get Shot’ Wasn't Meant As A Threat

Discussion: The Daily Banter

Amie Parnes / The Hill:
President Clinton: ‘Dead broke’ comments were ‘factually true’

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Mediaite, Washington Post, NewsBusters, Weasel Zippers and Bloomberg

Colin Campbell / Business Insider:
Arkansas GOP Official Says He Was ‘Taken Way Out Of Context’ When He Predicted Hillary Clinton Would Get Shot

Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog and Mediaite

Mario Trujillo / The Hill:

Cheney: Next attack ‘likely’ deadlier than 9/11 — Former Vice President Dick Cheney on Tuesday predicted the United States would not make it out of the next decade without another terrorist attack, likely much bigger than 9/11. — Cheney, who has made a similar warning a number of times before …

Discussion: Shakesville

Hugh Hewitt / The Hugh Hewitt Show:
Vice President Cheney On The Collapse Of The Obama Foreign Policy

Discussion: CBS DC, Washington Post and New York Times

Rush Limbaugh:
Vice President Cheney and Liz Cheney on the Dangers Facing America

Discussion: Politico, emptywheel and PoliticusUSA

Erick Erickson / RedState:

The Marionettes Remain Uncut — “At some point there will be more people with knives out to cut the strings than there will be puppeteers with checkbooks.” — Having been an elected Republican and someone who routinely takes the position of supporting conservatives in primaries and Republicans …

Discussion: Booman Tribune, Balloon Juice and protein wisdom

Denver Post:

BOB BEAUPREZ WINS GOP GUBERNATORIAL PRIMARY — After weeks of calling John Hickenlooper's term as governor “failed leadership,” Republican nominee Bob Beauprez said Tuesday his campaign to unseat the incumbent ramps up Wednesday. — “We've got a lot of work to do from this point forward,” he said.

Discussion: The Federalist, The Hill, KDVR.com, Guardian and The Daily Caller

Denver Post:

IN BOB BEAUPREZ, COLORADO GOP GOES WITH MAINSTREAM CONTENDER — Faced with the choice of a far-right candidate or a more moderate mainstream pick, Colorado Republicans chose the latter Tuesday, selecting former Congressman Bob Beauprez as the party's gubernatorial nominee.

Discussion: ThinkProgress

Robert Berkvist / New York Times:

Eli Wallach, Multifaceted Actor, Dies at 98 — Eli Wallach, who was one of his generation's most prominent and prolific character actors in film, onstage and on television for more than 60 years, died on Tuesday. He was 98. — His death was confirmed by his daughter Katherine.

Discussion: Guardian

Justin Sink / The Hill:

‘Zero tolerance’ for corruption at Ex-Im bank, says White House — President Obama will have “zero tolerance” for fraud and corruption at the embattled U.S. Export-Import Bank, the White House said Tuesday, amid reports that the bank has suspended or removed four officials over alleged kickbacks.

Discussion: Business Insider, Guardian and The Daily Signal

Russell Berman / The Hill:
No Ex-Im lifeline from Boehner

Discussion: Wall Street Journal

Markos Moulitsas / The Hill:

Koch owned and operated — If you want to know who each of our two major parties represent, simply look at their donors. — According to data compiled by OpenSecrets.org, Democratic Party committees, on both the federal and state levels, have dramatically outraised their Republican counterparts …

Discussion: The Atlantic Online and Prairie Weather

Wall Street Journal:

U.S. rules to loosen four-decade ban on oil exports — The Obama administration quietly cleared the way for the first exports of unrefined American oil in four decades.

Discussion: Politico, Bloomberg View, Fox News and Business Insider

Michael Laris / Washington Post:

House committee votes to give Chinese Embassy new address: No. 1 Liu Xiaobo Plaza — The House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday voted to rename the stretch of road in front of the Chinese Embassy “Liu Xiaobo Plaza,” a symbolic nod to the Nobel Prize-winning dissident and a slap at the human rights record of officials in Beijing.

Discussion: Guardian and Telegraph