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Nicholas Riccardi / Associated Press:
Takeaways from Tuesday's elections: Bad omens for Democrats — The off-year elections for governor in Virginia and New Jersey tend to receive outsize attention, and the results are mined for deeper meaning about what they portend for the midterm elections the following year that determine which party controls Congress.
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Virginia Election Results — Former Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a longtime fixture in the national Democratic Party, is seeking a new term in a race widely viewed as a bellwether for the midterm elections. His opponent, Glenn Youngkin, a former private equity executive, has made hot-button cultural issues central to his campaign.
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Matt Friedman / Politico:
Shocker in New Jersey: Governor's race a nail-biter — New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy and Republican challenger Jack Ciattarelli were locked in a neck-and-neck battle Tuesday night, with the outcome too close to call in a race Democrats had long been confident about.
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Let the Democratic freakout begin — DRIVING THE DAY — THE NAIL BITER — New Jersey's gubernatorial race is still too close to call as you wake up this morning. With 88% of the expected vote in, incumbent PHIL MURPHY is trailing Republican JACK CIATTARELLI by just over 1,000 votes.
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Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Trump gloats as Virginia results come in — Former President Trump is gloating over Republican Glenn Youngkin's lead in the Virginia governor's race as results continue to trickle in. — In a statement Tuesday night, Trump said he didn't even have to rally for Youngkin in the Virginia governor's race …
Jim Swift / The Bulwark:
How McAuliffe Lost Virginia — An uninspiring candidate with no big ideas and terrible messaging. — Going into the 2021 gubernatorial election in Virginia, a state that Joe Biden won by ten points, former governor Terry McAuliffe likely reasoned that he had a good chance of repeating his remarkable feat from eight years earlier:
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Zachary D. Carter / The Atlantic:
What the Republican Win in Virginia Means for the Country — Republican Glenn Youngkin's victory in Tuesday's Virginia gubernatorial election was about schools. It wasn't about Donald Trump, or inflation, or defunding the police, or Medicare for All, or President Joe Biden's infrastructure agenda.
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Lisa Lerer / New York Times:
What Youngkin's Win in the Virginia Governor Race Means for Democrats — Less than a year after taking power in Washington, the party faces a grim immediate future, struggling to energize voters without a presidential foil and losing messaging wars to Republicans.
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Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
Virginia Results: Giving Up on Rural America Is Proving a Nightmare for Democrats
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Samantha Putterman / PolitiFact:
Virginia Democratic party, McAuliffe campaign not involved in white supremacist stunt
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Domenico Montanaro / NPR:
5 takeaways from Republicans' big win in Virginia and the shocker in New Jersey
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Allahpundit / HotAir:
Newt Gingrich: If it's close in Virginia, Democrats will steal it
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Kevin T. Dugan / Curbed:
We Staked Out Eric Adams's House in Brooklyn And he came home. Twice! — Photo-Illustration: Curbed; Photos: Getty Images, Kevin Dugan, Willy Blackmore — Where the hell does Eric Adams live? For anyone trying to get a grip on the notoriously hard-to-pin-down Democratic candidate …
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Thomas Barrabi / Fox News:
NYC mayoral election: Democrat Eric Adams soundly defeats Republican Curtis Sliwa — Adams, the current Brooklyn borough president, was overwhelmingly favored to win the election — We aren't as vigilant as we should be: Curtis Sliwa — Democratic candidate Eric Adams won …
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Emma G. Fitzsimmons / New York Times:
Curtis Sliwa tried to bring his cat to vote. It got weirder from there.
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Henry J. Gomez / NBC News:
Cincinnati elects its first Asian American mayor, Aftab Pureval — Aftab Pureval won Cincinnati's race for mayor on Tuesday, according to unofficial results, making the 39-year-old lawyer the first Asian American elected to lead the city. — Pureval defeated David Mann …
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Steve Leblanc / Associated Press:
Boston elects Wu, first woman and Asian American as mayor
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David French / Common Sense with Bari Weiss:
The Threat From the Anti-Woke Right — America is confronting two powerful illiberal movements. Where you stand on their relative threats depends on where you live. … Late last week, my friends Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt published an important piece in the online journal Persuasion that contained a startling statistic.
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Lindsay Ellis / Chronicle of Higher Education:
U. of Florida Doctor Says Administrators Blocked Him From Participating in Lawsuits About Masking — A fourth University of Florida professor says administrators rejected his request to testify in litigation against state leaders this year, and denied him the opportunity to share his expertise …
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Rolling Stone:
On the Ground With the QAnon Believers Who Flocked to Dallas for the Grand Return of JFK Jr. — Though the Kennedy scion failed to appear at Dealey Plaza this afternoon, some are hopeful he might make an appearance at a Rolling Stones concert later — DALLAS — QAnon true believers gathered en masse …
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Philip Klein / National Review:
The Absurd Twitter Suspension of Quin Hillyer — In any ranking of dumb Twitter suspensions, Quin Hillyer's has to land pretty high up there. Full disclosure, Quin is a former colleague of mine at the Washington Examiner as well as a former National Review author. He recounts his story:
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Bess Levin / Vanity Fair:
Trump's Odds of Escaping Criminal Charges in Georgia Do Not Look Good — Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger confirms the ex-president threatened him over the 2020 election results while demanding he magically come up with enough votes to beat Biden.
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump urges judge to slow down Jan. 6 investigators' access to records — Former President Donald Trump is pleading with a federal judge in Washington to slow down the Jan. 6 committee's effort to obtain his White House records, instead asking her to order a document-by-document review that could take months.
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Star Tribune:
Minneapolis voters reject plan to replace Police Department — Nearly 18 months after George Floyd was filmed pleading for breath under an officer's knee, community groups remain divided on how to change the system. — TEXT SIZE — MORE — Minneapolis voters on Tuesday rejected …
Mike Carter / The Seattle Times:
Republican Ann Davison leads police abolitionist Nicole Thomas-Kennedy in Seattle City Attorney race — Republican Ann Davison held a strong 58% to 41% lead in the race for Seattle City Attorney, with returns Tuesday showing voters rejecting the brash language of her police abolitionist opponent …
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CNBC:
Trump ally Rudy Giuliani seeks to block feds from getting 3 items of thousands seized under search warrant — Rudy Giuliani is seeking to prevent prosecutors from seeing just three items out of the more than 2,000 items contained on electronic devices seized from him as part of a criminal probe, a court filing revealed.
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Glenn Greenwald:
To Protect Fauci, The Washington Post is Preparing a Hit Piece on the Group Denouncing Gruesome Dog Experimentations — For years, the White Coat Waste Project was heralded by The Post as what they are: an activist success story uniting right and left. But now its work imperils a liberal icon.
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Jonah E. Bromwich / New York Times:
Alvin Bragg Wins, Becoming First Black D.A. in Manhattan — A former federal prosecutor, Mr. Bragg will take over an office that has brought charges against the family business of former president Donald J. Trump. — Alvin Bragg was elected Manhattan district attorney on Tuesday and will become …
Allahpundit / HotAir:
Hot new idea for Dems' reconciliation bill: A huge tax cut for the very rich; Update: “Beyond unacceptable” — They said if Republicans voted for Trump in 2020, America would end up with an administration devoted to lining the pockets of rich people. — And they were right!
Jason Stanley / Rolling Stone:
Tucker Carlson's ‘Patriot Purge’ Is Too Crazy to Believe — and Too Dangerous to Ignore — The Fox News host's series on the Jan. 6 insurrection is a piece of fascist propaganda that wouldn't be out of place in 1930s Berlin — Patriot Purge, Tucker Carlson's new three-part series …
Allahpundit / HotAir:
How journalism abandoned the working class — The recent obsession with identity has allowed these journalists to pretend—indeed to believe—they are still speaking truth to power, still fighting on behalf of the little guy, even after they have themselves ascended to the ranks of the powerful …
Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
Josh Hawley blocks confirmation of several State Dept. nominees — Sen. Josh Hawley on Tuesday blocked swift confirmation of several State Department nominees, in a continuation of the unprecedented GOP-led campaign to slow-walk most of President Joe Biden's picks for top foreign policy posts.
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Washington Post:
About 400 D.C. jail inmates will be transferred to a federal penitentiary in Pennsylvania because of unacceptable conditions, officials say — The U.S. Marshal's Service plans to move about 400 inmates out of the D.C. jail after a recent surprise inspection found evidence of “systemic” …
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