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Mona Charen / The Bulwark:
Virtually Normal — The morning after the election, the Democratic candidate concedes and wishes his opponent well. The Republicans keep pushing conspiracy theories. — Isn't it interesting that Democrats appear to have forgotten how to manipulate voting machines, stuff ballot boxes …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Democrats Need to Face Up to Their Public School Problem Education should be helping Democrats, not hurting. What happened? — Election reaction statements by politicians and interest groups may be the most robotic genre in the messaging business. Every outcome proves everybody was right all along.
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Washington Post, The Liberal Patriot, Washington Examiner and INQUIRE
Bobby Lewis / Media Matters for America:
Professional conservatives find a path to victory with ginned-up outrage over critical race theory — Right-wing operatives birth an astroturf campaign, right-wing media whips up a national frenzy, and another conservative is elected on the back of professional outrage
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Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
How the Democrats Lost Virginia — The pollster Sean Trende believes that the outcome of the gubernatorial election has less to do with debates about critical race theory than with the economy and the typical disadvantages of the party in power. — On Tuesday, the Republican businessman Glenn Youngkin won …
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Brad Polumbo / Washington Examiner:
No, Glenn Youngkin won't be the ‘most homophobic’ governor ‘in Virginia history’
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Astead W. Herndon / New York Times:
Black voters in Virginia refuse to be blamed for a major Democratic defeat.
Dan Pfeiffer / The Message Box:
Early Thoughts on a Very Tough Night
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Zachary D. Carter / The Atlantic:
The Democratic Unraveling Began With Schools
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Robby Soave / Reason:
Glenn Youngkin Defeated Terry McAuliffe Because Democrats Betrayed Parents
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Jared Yates Sexton / Dispatches From A …:
A Completely Predictable Disaster: Virginia and the Need for Courage
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
A sobering reality hits Democrats after election losses
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Ja'han Jones / MSNBC:
Glenn Youngkin's victory proves white ignorance is a powerful weapon
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Margaret Talev / Axios:
Voters punish Democrats amid left drift
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Chris Cillizza / CNN:
5 reasons why Democrats should start panicking about 2022
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Matthew Stanmyre / New Jersey Online:
How a truck driver spent $153 on his N.J. election campaign to likely dethrone a political kingpin — 1,143 — The man who is poised to topple one of New Jersey's most feared political kingpins has never held public office, he has been a commercial truck driver for 25 years and he claims …
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Matt Friedman / Politico:
Meet Ed Durr, the candidate who might knock Steve Sweeney out of the Senate — Meet Edward Durr, giant slayer. Maybe. — Durr, a truck driver for the furniture store Raymour & Flanigan, held a roughly 2,000-vote advantage Wednesday morning over Senate President Steve Sweeney …
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New York Times:
Philip Murphy Wins Narrowly in New Jersey Governor's Race — The victory over Jack Ciattarelli, which ended Democrats' 44-year re-election losing streak in the state, was far tighter than polls and Democratic strategists predicted. — Philip D. Murphy, a New Jersey Democrat whose aggressive approach …
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Amanda Hoover / New Jersey Online:
N.J. governor's race fallout could claim Senate President Sweeney as Democrats trail key legislative races
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David Wildstein / New Jersey Globe:
Sweeney trailing in re-election bid; Polistina, Stanfied win; Pappas leads Zwicker
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The Daily Caller, The Western Journal, The Right Scoop and National Review
Ryan Grim / The Intercept:
Internal Emails Show How a Lincoln Project Tiki Torch Stunt Went Wrong — When Lauren Windsor, a Democratic operative working with the Lincoln Project, sent five young people dressed in khakis, white shirts, and sunglasses to hold tiki torches in front of Glenn Youngkin's campaign bus …
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Washington Examiner, National Review, Power Line, Mediaite and Twitchy
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Senate Republicans block debate on a third major voting rights bill — Republican senators on Wednesday voted to block debate on the third major voting rights bill that congressional Democrats have sought to pass this year in response to the state-level GOP push to restrict ballot access …
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Clare Foran / CNN:
Senate Republicans block John Lewis voting rights bill in key vote
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Schumer hints at filibuster reform after GOP blocks voting rights bill
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Supreme Court appears likely to void New York's gun permit law — The Supreme Court appears inclined to wipe out a series of gun control measures that require firearm owners to show a particular, unusual need to get a permit to carry a gun outside the home.
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Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The NRA had a very good day in the Supreme Court
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Alison Durkee / Forbes:
Supreme Court Justices Signal They May Strike Down New York Restrictions On Concealed Carry Of Guns
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Washington Post:
Trump campaign payments for ‘command centers’ at D.C. hotels could undermine executive privilege claim in Jan. 6 investigation — It was a month after the 2020 presidential election, and Bernard Kerik was starting to panic. The former New York City police chief and his friend Rudolph W. Giuliani …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The case of Ron DeSantis and the muzzled professors takes another dubious turn — Last week, we learned that the University of Florida barred three professors from testifying as expert witnesses in a lawsuit challenging the voter suppression law that Gov. Ron DeSantis signed earlier this year.
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ACLU:
ACLU Comment on Biden Statement on Settlements for Family Separation — WASHINGTON — In response to a question posed to President Biden about family separation lawsuits brought by the American Civil Liberties Union and other lawyers, the president said a $450,000 settlement amount per child “is not going to happen.”
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Ed Cunningham / Time Out Worldwide:
9 cities that could be underwater by 2030 — With sea levels rising worldwide, several major metropolises are at risk of being submerged — Global warming can be difficult to properly visualise. If you're not directly threatened by rising sea levels, suffering water shortages or ravaged by wildfires …
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Christopher Mathias / HuffPost:
At Least 8 Republicans Who Were At The Jan. 6 Rally Just Got Elected To Office — And even more attendees of the rally that turned into the Capitol riot will likely be on the ballot in 2022. — At least eight Republicans who attended the Jan. 6 rally in Washington, D.C. …
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Fredreka Schouten / CNN:
Embattled election chief in Fulton County resigns — (CNN)Richard Barron, who oversees elections in Georgia's biggest Democratic county, is announcing his resignation Wednesday — following a tumultuous year that has included death threats against him and his staff and the potential takeover …
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Stephen Fowler / Georgia Public Broadcasting:
Fulton elections director Rick Barron to resign
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Hunter Walker / Rolling Stone:
Top Trump Allies Set Up A ‘Legal Fund’ For January 6 White House Rally Organizers — The fund will defend former Trump aides who were involved in planning his speech that day and have been subpoenaed by the House committee investigating the Capitol attack — Top allies of Donald Trump …
Politico:
Dems keep butting heads after Virginia shellacking — The winds in the Democratic Party have shifted overnight. Look no further than its rapidly changing plans on immigration. — House Democrats had nearly settled their plans to include immigration reform in President Joe Biden's social spending plan …
Megan Brenan / Gallup:
Americans More Optimistic About Pandemic's Trajectory — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans' outlook for the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S. has improved, as the summer surge brought on by the delta variant has waned in most parts of the country. The percentage of Americans …
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Brian M. Rosenthal / New York Times:
N.Y.C. Cabbies Win Millions More in Aid After Hunger Strike — The announcement was a victory for drivers who stopped eating to protest an earlier bailout plan they said did not go far enough. — New York officials said Wednesday they had struck a deal with the largest holder of taxi loans …
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Colorado Politics:
Voters shake up school boards in Colorado's biggest districts — School board races in Colorado were the ones to watch Tuesday night, as statewide ballot issues seemed settled in early returns. — Big spending and high passion yielded mixed results. — The slate of conservative-backed candidates …
Joshua Solomon / Albany Times Union:
State Democratic Party did not spend money on Props 1, 3, 4 — Democratic Chairman Jay Jacobs said they weren't asked to help — ALBANY — The state Democratic Party spent no money on the three ballot proposals that it unexpectedly lost Tuesday that were intended to expand voting access, according to Chairman Jay Jacobs.
Zach Everson / Forbes:
How Trump's D.C. Hotel Cashed In On The Jan. 6 Riot — Sky-high room rates. Record in-room service. Appearances from Trump family members. Here's a behind-the-scenes look at what was happening inside the Trump hotel on the days surrounding the storming of the Capitol.
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