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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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Christopher Mathias / HuffPost:
At Least 6 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 six Republicans who attended the Jan. 6 rally in Washington, D.C. …
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.
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.
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.
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 »
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:
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 …
Robby Soave / Reason:
Glenn Youngkin Defeated Terry McAuliffe Because Democrats Betrayed Parents  —  While former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe's loss to Republican challenger Glenn Youngkin was cemented very late on election night, in practice the day that he forfeited the gubernatorial race was September 28.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Manchin says ‘unbelievable’ Virginia results validate concerns over spending package  —  Centrist Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), who has slowed down negotiations on a massive $1.75 trillion reconciliation package, says the “unbelievable” Republican victories in Virginia's statewide races Tuesday validate …
Discussion: Political Wire
Dan Pfeiffer / The Message Box:
Early Thoughts on a Very Tough Night  —  There is no other way to put it, last night was a disaster for the Democrats.  How we respond in the coming days and weeks will set the stage for 2022  —  One year ago, Joe Biden won Virginia by ten points.  Four years ago, Ralph Northan won it by nine.
Nicholas Riccardi / Associated Press:
Takeaways from Tuesday's elections: Bad omens for Democrats
Gabriel Debenedetti / New York Magazine:
The Next Democratic Reckoning
Charlie Sykes / Morning Shots:
Why Can't You Beat These Guys?  —  Plus: 5 remarkable election results
Discussion: Washington Post and BuzzFeed News
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Trump gloats as Virginia results come in
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 …
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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Jerry Zremski / Buffalo News:
Walton failed to broaden support beyond her primary base
Discussion: Jacobin
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.
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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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.
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
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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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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Brent Johnson / New Jersey Online:
N.J. election 2021: N.J. governor race still too close to call. Murphy, Ciattarelli waiting for all votes to be counted.
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: New Republic
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
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.
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
 
 
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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
Discussion: Mediaite
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
Kill the Bill  —  Why should Democrats pursue a multitrillion-dollar bill designed to alienate …
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Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
Supreme Court seems poised to expand Second Amendment rights and strike down NY handgun law
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Jason Stanley / Rolling Stone:
Tucker Carlson's ‘Patriot Purge’ Is Too Crazy to Believe — and Too Dangerous to Ignore
 

 
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