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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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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 »
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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 …
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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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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.
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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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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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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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Gabriel Debenedetti / New York Magazine:
The Next Democratic Reckoning — Ten months into Joe Biden's presidency, it's hard to avoid the conclusion that we are living in a new political era — and that we have been for half a decade. — Tuesday's numbers, especially in Virginia and New Jersey, made the new pattern clear …
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Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Trump: Youngkin ‘would have lost by 15 points without MAGA’
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Robby Soave / Reason:
Glenn Youngkin Defeated Terry McAuliffe Because Democrats Betrayed Parents
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Washington Post:
Exit poll results from the 2021 election for Virginia governor
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Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Who is Glenn Youngkin and How Did He Win the Virginia Governor's Race?
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Charles Sykes / Politico:
Terry McAuliffe Bet on Voters Hating Trump. Turns Out They Dislike Democrats More.
Charlie Sykes / Morning Shots:
Why Can't You Beat These Guys? — Plus: 5 remarkable election results
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The Daily Beast:
Democrats Started Knifing Each Other Even Before Virginia Defeat Was Official
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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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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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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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Buffalo News:
Byron Brown claims victory in Buffalo mayor's race; write-in ballots swamp India Walton
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Jerry Zremski / Buffalo News:
Walton failed to broaden support beyond her primary base
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Gregory Krieg / CNN:
Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown declares victory over socialist challenger
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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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Matt Friedman / Politico:
Shocker in New Jersey: Governor's race a nail-biter
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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.
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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
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Amanda L Gordon / Bloomberg:
Eric Adams Hangs With CEOs, Rappers in NoHo After Win — Handler, Novogratz, Ja Rule parties with Adams at private club — Mayor-elect promises ‘reset’ with city's business community — After a dance troupe performed and bartenders served $14 mixed drinks (cash only) …
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David Freedlander / New York Magazine:
Eric Adams's Victory Tour Is Underway
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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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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Republicans Schooled the Left in Virginia
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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.
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FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul:
Minneapolis police ballot question rejected by voters — Minneapolis voters reject Question 2, choose not to replace police department — MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - Minneapolis voters struck down a proposed charter amendment that would have eliminated the city's police department and replaced it with a public safety agency.
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Chandelis Duster / CNN:
Winsome Sears will become Virginia lieutenant governor, CNN projects, becoming first female and woman of color in the office — (CNN)Winsome Sears, a conservative Republican, will be Virginia's next lieutenant governor, breaking barriers as the first female and the first woman of color …
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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:
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Wall Street Journal:
Military Coups in Africa at Highest Level Since End of Colonialism — Attempted or successful coups in Africa are occurring more frequently as democratic states buckle under pressure from Covid-19 — On the day before launching the coup that halted Sudan's democratic transition last month …
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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 …
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David Wildstein / New Jersey Globe:
Sweeney trailing in re-election bid; Polistina, Stanfied win; Pappas leads Zwicker — Senate President Steve Sweeney, the longest-serving legislative leader in New Jersey history, is on the verge of losing his own State Senate seat in what could be a stunning political upset.
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