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Zachary D. Carter / The Atlantic:
The Democratic Unraveling Began With Schools  —  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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Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
Virginia Results: Giving Up on Rural America Is Proving a Nightmare for Democrats  —  Margins matter.  —  About a year ago I wrote about the big “trade” that had taken place in our politics.  Democrats were picking up former Republican “red dogs” who live in the suburbs.
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.
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.
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
A sobering reality hits Democrats after Tuesday's elections losses  —  Democrats awoke Wednesday to a sobering reality.  A year after celebrating victory in the 2020 elections, their slender congressional majorities are now even more at risk than they feared, and it is not clear that President Biden …
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:
Philip Murphy / New York Times:
New Jersey Election Results  —  In New Jersey, the headline matchup is between Gov. Phil Murphy, a Democrat, and his Republican challenger, Jack Ciattarelli, a former state assemblyman.  The entire State Legislature is also up for election, and there are two ballot questions.  Read more »
Discussion: HotAir, The Daily Caller and RedState
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Trump gloats as Virginia results come in
New York Times:
Virginia Election Results
Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
With Terry McAuliffe's defeat in Virginia, the Clinton brand means basically nothing now
Daniel Greenfield / Front Page Magazine:
Another American Revolution in Virginia
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 …
Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Dem disaster: Did they lose ... *New Jersey*?  —  Joe Biden won New Jersey by sixteen points one year ago.  Polls had incumbent Democrat governor Phil Murphy ahead outside the margin of error.  Challenger Jack Ciattarelli jumped out to a lead in early vote counting, but everyone knew Murphy …
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Amitai Ziv / Reuters:
U.S. Blacklists Israeli Cyberarms Firms NSO, Candiru for Harming ‘National Security and Interests’  —  NSO Group and Candiru developed and supplied spyware ‘to maliciously target government officials, journalists, businesspeople, activists, academics, and embassy workers,’ the U.S. Commerce Department said in a statement
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.
Discussion: The Dispatch
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Republicans Schooled the Left in Virginia
Discussion: Reason and New Republic
Meryl Kornfield / Washington Post:
Why hundreds of QAnon supporters showed up in Dallas, expecting JFK Jr.'s return  —  In rainy Dallas with temperatures dipping into the low 60s, hundreds huddled with umbrellas, flags and signs to wait for history to be made on Tuesday.  Some even brought folding chairs.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi:
Dear Colleague on Moving the Build Back Better Act Forward  —  Last Thursday, House Democrats proudly put forth our Build Back Better legislation.  While it was a reduction in dollars from the original $3.5 trillion package, it was not a reduction in values.
Discussion: The Hill, Insider and POLITICUSUSA
Zach Williams / City & State New York:
Byron Brown's write-in gambit apparently worked  —  The former state Democratic Party chair worked with the GOP to seemingly defeat socialist India Walton.  —  Byron Brown at his election night party on Nov. 2.  —  When India Walton won the June Democratic mayoral primary for Buffalo mayor …
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American Greatness:
Democrats Need to Start Losing Elections—For Their Own Sake
Discussion: BuzzFeed News
David Freedlander / New York Magazine:
Eric Adams's Victory Tour Is Underway  —  The last day of a 15-month long race for mayor of New York was not boring, even the outcome of the contest was not in doubt.  Eric Adams, the Democratic nominee, made his final public appearance on a radio show — in this case, one hosted …
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Jazz Shaw / HotAir:
Incoming pro-cop NYC Mayor promises a more “business-friendly environment”
Andrew Jacobs / New York Times:
Widespread Coronavirus Infection Found in Iowa Deer, New Study Says  —  The analysis by Penn State and Iowa researchers strongly indicates that deer are getting the virus from humans, worrying experts about a deep wild reservoir for the virus.  —  A new study of hundreds of white-tailed deer infected …
Discussion: bioRxiv and New York Post
U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon:
Merkley Statement on Rahm Emanuel Nomination  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. - Oregon's U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement regarding the nomination of former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to serve as U.S. Ambassador to Japan:
Discussion: Washington Post and Mediaite
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.
Politico:
The end of Manchema  —  Are they Sinemanch or Manchema?  The debate can probably cease.  —  The centrist Democratic senators from Arizona and West Virginia, once united on shaving down the cost of a party-line social spending bill that started at $3.5 trillion, are now going their own …
Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
Supreme Court hears arguments on scope of Second Amendment and gun control laws  —  (CNN)Two days after hearing a major abortion case, the Supreme Court will take the bench again on Wednesday to discuss another topic that bitterly divides the country: gun rights.
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 …
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 …
 
 
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Matthew Loh / Insider:
Lauren Boebert said she delivered one of her children in her truck, bringing it up as a supporting point against extended parental leave
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Carl Campanile / New York Post:
Bail reform backlash spurs Republican Election Day red wave in Long Island
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
Kill the Bill  —  Why should Democrats pursue a multitrillion-dollar bill designed to alienate …
Discussion: HotAir
Politico:
Pa. voting official sues Trump, Giuliani, others over 2020 allegations
Discussion: Raw Story
Ella Nilsen / CNN:
First on CNN: Rep. Hoyer will introduce $9 billion bill to meet Biden's COP26 deforestation pledge
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Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal:
Biden Administration to Order Federal Agencies to Fix Hundreds of Cyber Flaws
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Daniel Beekman / The Seattle Times:
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Mike Carter / The Seattle Times:
Republican Ann Davison leads police abolitionist Nicole Thomas-Kennedy in Seattle City Attorney race
Glenn Greenwald:
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