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Sabato's Crystal Ball:
Final Ratings for the 2022 Election — KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — Our final Senate pick is 51-49 Republican, or a net Republican gain of 1 seat. — Our final House pick is 237-198 Republican, or a net Republican gain of 24 seats. — Our projected gubernatorial picture …
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Steven Shepard / Politico:
POLITICO's final Election Forecast: Senate up for grabs, GOP on brink of House majority — Republicans have a grip on the House majority. But the Senate is firmly up for grabs. — That's the topline of the final updates before Tuesday's vote to POLITICO's Election Forecast …
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
The 3 Big Questions I Still Have About Election Day — With less than 24 hours to go until we freeze our model,1 we're probably not going to see a lot more changes in the topline forecast. Republicans have a 54 percent chance of winning the Senate and an 83 percent chance in the House, according to our Deluxe forecast.
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Scott Dworkin / Newsweek:
Democracy Is on the Ballot. The Democrats Are the Only Choice
Democracy Is on the Ballot. The Democrats Are the Only Choice
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Blake Hounshell / New York Times:
Biden tries to shore up support for Hochul in the homestretch.
Biden tries to shore up support for Hochul in the homestretch.
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Raw Story
Margot Cleveland / The Federalist:
Democracy Isn't At Risk, Democrats Are
Democracy Isn't At Risk, Democrats Are
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Twitchy and Washington Post
Ruby Cramer / Washington Post:
Beto O'Rourke's third campaign in 6 years embodies Democrats' unrealized gains
Third Way:
Overcoming the Democratic Party Brand
Overcoming the Democratic Party Brand
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The Hill, Insider, Mediaite, Christine's Newsletter, The Daily Caller, The Daily Wire, New Republic and The Dispatch
New York Times:
Confidence, Anxiety and a Scramble for Votes Two Days Before the Midterms
Confidence, Anxiety and a Scramble for Votes Two Days Before the Midterms
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MLive.com, Washington Post, Abril's Newsletter, Politico, Poynter, NewsNation and Vox, more at Mediagazer »
The Daily Beast:
Pollsters Have 'No F*cking Idea What's Going to Happen' This Election
Pollsters Have 'No F*cking Idea What's Going to Happen' This Election
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Washington Times and The Warning by Steve Schmidt
Washington Post:
Republicans sue to disqualify thousands of mail ballots in swing states — The lawsuits coincide with a systemic effort by GOP leaders to persuade voters to cast ballots in person, not absentee — Republican officials and candidates in at least three battleground states are pushing …
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Jack Nissen / WJBK-TV:
Detroit judge dismisses Karamo lawsuit, calls it ‘false flag of election law violations and corruption’ — Detroit NAACP blasts Kristina Karamo's claims of voter fraud in city — DETROIT (FOX 2) - A Detroit judge has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to prevent the city's absentee ballots …
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Washington Post:
Trump spooks GOP with talk of presidential launch on eve of vote — Top Republicans spent the day before the election trying to talk Trump out of announcing before the midterms for fear of mobilizing Democrats — Former president Donald Trump set off a scramble Monday in the Republican Party …
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Shelby Talcott / Semafor:
Trump is considering moving up his presidential announcement (again) — Shelby is a Political Reporter for Semafor, joining us from the Daily Caller. Morgan is a Political and National Security Reporter for Semafor, joining us from The Hill. Sign up for the daily Principals newsletter to get our insider's guide to American power.
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The Hill, Washington Examiner, New York Post, Mediaite and Oliver Willis Explains
Wall Street Journal:
GOP Gaining Support Among Black and Latino Voters, WSJ Poll Finds — Republicans appear to be in a better position with both groups heading into the midterms than they were in 2020 or 2018. — A Seismic Shift: Why Latino Voters Could Decide Key Races in 2022 — YOU MAY ALSO LIKE
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Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
How a GOP Congress Could Roll Back Freedoms Nationwide
How a GOP Congress Could Roll Back Freedoms Nationwide
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Associated Press:
'Putin's chef' admits to interfering in U.S. elections — Yevgeny Prigozhin, an entrepreneur known as “Putin's chef” because of his catering contracts with the Kremlin, on Monday admitted he had interfered in U.S. elections and said he would continue to do so — for the first time confirming …
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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling / The Daily Beast:
Musk Shares a Nazi Meme and Then Tells Twitter to Vote Republican — The new Twitter boss was having another totally normal one on Monday morning. — Breaking News Intern — Life comes at you fast. Six months ago, Elon Musk wrote, “For Twitter to deserve public trust …
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Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
Elon Musk Says the Quiet Part Out Loud, Tells His Minions to Vote GOP — Twitter's new owner has been indulging conservative commentators all year — IN A TWEET that shocked absolutely no one, Elon Musk instructed his sycophants to vote Republican in the midterm elections.
Associated Press:
Jackson, in dissent, issues first Supreme Court opinion — New Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has issued her first Supreme Court opinion, a short dissent Monday in support of a death row inmate from Ohio. Jackson wrote that she would have thrown out lower court rulings in the case of inmate Davel Chinn …
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Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
Ketanji Brown Jackson issues her first written opinion as a Supreme Court justice — a dissent
Ketanji Brown Jackson issues her first written opinion as a Supreme Court justice — a dissent
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Reason, SCOTUSblog, UPI and HuffPost
U.S. Department of Justice:
Justice Department to Monitor Polls in 24 States for Compliance with Federal Voting Rights Laws — The Justice Department announced today its plans to monitor compliance with federal voting rights laws in 64 jurisdictions in 24 states for the Nov. 8, 2022 general election.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The Trump-DeSantis feud just got worse. A hidden factor is driving it. — When Donald Trump starts belittling you with a sandbox nickname, you know you're in real trouble — especially if you're a Republican with ambitions for higher office. — The Florida governor's allies …
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
A Bottomless Pinocchio for Biden — and other recent gaffes — President Biden is a self-described “gaffe machine.” That's no excuse, of course, for a president making false or misleading statements. Readers have asked for fact checks of a variety of recent Biden statements …
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
A Few More Biden Lies about the Debt Before Election Day
A Few More Biden Lies about the Debt Before Election Day
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Brad Dress / The Hill:
Nikki Haley says Warnock should be deported at Walker rally — Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) on Sunday said that Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) should be deported as she rallied for Georgia's Republican Senate nominee, Herschel Walker. — “Legal immigrants are more patriotic …
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Eric Geller / Politico:
6 election security threats to watch for on Election Day — The midterms face a bevy of digital threats, from stolen Twitter accounts to hacked election websites, that could spark chaos, confusion and unrest that last long after the polls close. — The 2020 presidential election was rife …
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HotAir, RedState, The Daily Wire, Newsbusters, TechCrunch, The Federalist, Human Events, The Register and Twitchy
Washington Post:
Trump once reconsidered sticking with Truth Social. Now he's stuck. — The former president has told his allies that he can't leave his Twitter clone because he's propping it up, and he doesn't want a site so closely associated with his brand to collapse.
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David Troy / Byline Times:
'Musk's Twitter Buy Makes No Sense - Unless It's Part of Something Bigger' — Brexit and Trump were initially seen as jokes, but the new owner of the social media giant could pose a serious threat to democracy - and a boon for Vladimir Putin, writes David Troy