memeorandum: John Bel Edwards beats David Vitter to become Louisiana's next governor (Julia O'Donoghue/New Orleans Times …)

11:25 AM ET, November 22, 2015

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Jordyn Phelps / ABC News:

Donald Trump Isn't Ruling Out Independent Run

Discussion: Washington Post and National Review

John Nolte / Breitbart:

Cancel the Debate! CNN Caught Selectively-Editing Trump's ‘Muslim’ Comments — Left-wing cable news network CNN has been caught red-handed selectively editing Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump's comments about a “Muslim registry,” and doing so in order to make it sound as though he is agreeing to this registry.

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ABC News:

‘This Week’ Transcript: Donald Trump — THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT FOR NOVEMBER 22, 2015 and it will be updated. ANNOUNCER: THIS WEEK, global threat: the capital of Europe on lockdown after an unprecedented terror warning. The streets emptied, businesses closed, why officials say an attack is imminent.

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Bradford Richardson / The Hill:

Trump refuses to rule out third-party run — Donald Trump is refusing to rule out an independent White House run if he fails to win the Republican presidential nomination. — “Well, I'm going to have to see what happens,” Trump said on ABC's “This Week” on Sunday. “I will see what happens.

ABC News:
Donald Trump Says He Would Bring Back Waterboarding

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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Trump leads, Carson second as GOP voters favor change over experience

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Mike Flynn / Breitbart:
Majority of Americans Feel Like ‘Stranger in Own Country’

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Tim Murphy / Mother Jones:

Louisiana Just Voted to Give a Quarter of a Million People Health Care — Republican Sen. David Vitter lost his bid to be the next governor of Louisiana on Saturday, and it wasn't even close. The two-term senator lost the runoff election to Democratic state Rep. John Bel Edwards by double digits …

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Julia O'Donoghue / New Orleans Times-Picayune:

John Bel Edwards beats David Vitter to become Louisiana's next governor — State Rep. John Bel Edwards, a relatively unknown Democrat from a rural Amite, will be the state's next governor after toppling Republican U.S. Sen. David Vitter, R-La., in one of the biggest political upsets in the state's history.

Discussion: Vox, Washington Post, Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times, Booman Tribune and The Daily Beast

Campbell Robertson / New York Times:

John Bel Edwards, Democrat, Defeats David Vitter in Louisiana Governor's Race — NEW ORLEANS — With a victory that defied political geography and near universal predictions from just months earlier, a previously little-known Democrat, State Representative John Bel Edwards …

Discussion: New Orleans Times-Picayune, Hot Air and Outside the Beltway

Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Edwards beats Vitter in Louisiana governor's race

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Carol Robinson / al.com:

Black protester attacked at Donald Trump rally called ‘monkey’ and other racial slurs, he says — The Black Lives Matter protester attacked during Donald's Trump's Birmingham rally said he was punched, kicked and called “n****r” while a group of eight or nine people were on top of him.

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CNN:
Trump: ‘I want surveillance of certain mosques’

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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Donald Trump Calls for Surveillance of ‘Certain Mosques’ and a Syrian Refugee Database

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Bradford Richardson / The Hill:

Buchanan: Terror attacks bringing ‘retreat of liberalism’ — Political commentator Pat Buchanan says the recent string of terrorist attacks are bringing about a “retreat of liberalism.” — “I think we are seeing a general retreat of liberalism in the United States and in Europe …

Discussion: Politico

Jordyn Phelps / ABC News:

Donald Trump Again Says He Saw Cheering in New Jersey on 9/11

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Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:

Obama: GOP attacks on refugees help ISIL — ISIL's still not the varsity team, President Barack Obama said Sunday, but if Republicans running for president and in Congress continue to respond to attacks by playing off fears, they're doing the terrorists' work for them.

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit

Arthur C. Brooks / New York Times:

Choose to Be Grateful. It Will Make You Happier. — TWENTY-FOUR years ago this month, my wife and I married in Barcelona, Spain. Two weeks after our wedding, flush with international idealism, I had the bright idea of sharing a bit of American culture with my Spanish in-laws by cooking a full Thanksgiving dinner.