memeorandum: Britain opens the door to climate change reparations for poorer nations (Emma Gatten/Telegraph)

8:55 PM ET, November 7, 2022

Top Items:

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 …

Discussion: Split Ticket, Fox News, Mediaite, The Hill, Erick Erickson Show Notes, Instapundit, Raw Story and The Nevada Independent

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 …

Discussion: The Guardian, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Talking Points Memo, Sputnik News, New York Times, Raw Story, One America News Network and TASS

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

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 …

Discussion: New York Times, Bridge Michigan, New York Times, New Republic, Forbes, CNN, Washington Post, The Hill, Reason, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Politico

Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
The 3 Big Questions I Still Have About Election Day

Discussion: Sacramento Bee, Washington Examiner, New York Magazine and Politics with Pete

Shelby Talcott / Semafor:
Trump is considering moving up his presidential announcement (again)

Discussion: The Hill, WND, Mediaite, Washington Examiner, New York Post and Oliver Willis Explains

Ruby Cramer / Washington Post: Beto O'Rourke's third campaign in 6 years embodies Democrats' unrealized gains

Scott Dworkin / Newsweek:
Democracy Is on the Ballot. The Democrats Are the Only Choice

Discussion: WND, Associated Press, Bloomberg, Common Dreams, The New Arab, Politico, WGN-TV and The Guardian

Henry Olsen / Washington Post:
Midterm election prediction: The Great Republican Resurgence is coming

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 …

Lori Rozsa / Washington Post:

Black voters in Florida express fear, confusion as DeSantis election laws kick in — HOBE SOUND, Fla. — Geraldine Harriel usually helps her elderly parents vote by taking their mail-in ballots to the elections office for them. But new voting laws in Florida and Gov. Ron DeSantis's elections police force …

Discussion: Raw Story and NPR

Jack Nissen / WJBK-TV:
Detroit judge dismisses Karamo lawsuit, calls it ‘false flag of election law violations and corruption’

Discussion: Fox News, Detroit Free Press, Talking Points Memo, MLive.com, Raw Story and PoliticusUSA

Washington Post:
Election officials fear counting delays will help fuel claims of fraud

Discussion: Vox, Mailchimp, ABC News, Media Matters for America, Fox News, Brookings, Washington Times, Axios, The Hill, Associated Press, Outspoken with Dr Naomi Wolf, Sacramento Bee, CNN, VICE, Raw Story and New York Magazine

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 …

Discussion: Insider, Axios, Washington Times, Associated Press, UPI, Talking Points Memo, The Guardian, New York Post, CBS News, Wall Street Journal, Occupy Democrats, New York Times, Al Jazeera, PoliticusUSA, The Hill and WGN-TV, more at Techmeme »

Pjotr Sauer / The Guardian:

Putin ally Yevgeny Prigozhin admits interfering in US elections — Russian businessman and founder of Wagner Group says interference will continue as midterms loom — The powerful Russian businessman and a close Vladimir Putin ally Yevgeny Prigozhin has admitted to interfering in US elections …

Discussion: Politico

Reuters:
Russia's Prigozhin admits interfering in U.S. elections

Discussion: The Daily Beast, Semafor, Mediaite and Raw Story

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 …

Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
Elon Musk Says the Quiet Part Out Loud, Tells His Minions to Vote GOP

Discussion: Associated Press, RedState, Occupy Democrats, The Daily Caller, Fortune, The Daily Wire, Louder With Crowder, American Greatness, Insider, Twitchy, Big League Politics, The Post Millennial and IJR

Ben Makuch / VICE:

Michigan Democrat Says Election Threat Might Make State Unsafe for Her If She Loses — Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel's opponent, a MAGA darling who denies the 2020 election results, has said he wanted to jail her if he wins. — Ben Makuch — In the wake of the attack …

Discussion: Detroit News, Insider, Raw Story and Occupy Democrats

Eileen Grench / The Daily Beast:

MAGA Candidate Slapped With Cease-and-Desist Over ‘Racist’ TV Spot — Saheed Vassell was shot and killed by the NYPD four years ago—and somehow is being used as a symbol of New York's new governor being soft on crime. — In 2018, officers from the New York City Police Department shot …

Discussion: Occupy Democrats and Raw Story

Ariane de Vogue / CNN:

Ketanji Brown Jackson issues her first written opinion as a Supreme Court justice — a dissent — Ketanji Brown Jackson, in her first written opinion as a Supreme Court justice, said she would have sided with an inmate who argued that Ohio suppressed evidence that might have helped him at trial.

Discussion: Common Dreams, Reason, UPI, SCOTUSblog and HuffPost

Associated Press:
Jackson, in dissent, issues first Supreme Court opinion

Discussion: Raw Story, NBC News, Washington Examiner, CBS News and The Hill

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 …

Discussion: New York Times, Right Wing Lefty, Raw Story, HotAir, The Mahablog, The Daily Wire, HuffPost, Balloon Juice and National Review

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.

Discussion: Washington Post, Bloomberg, The Gateway Pundit, Fox News, Common Dreams, Gizmodo, WFLA-TV, MLive.com, Raw Story, Politico, Michigan Advance, CNBC, NBC News, The Texas Tribune, The Daily Signal and Courthouse News Service

David Weigel / Semafor:

Republicans hope Michigan is proof-of-concept for an LGBT backlash — Despite a tough year, Michigan Democrats are still favored to win the governor's race and pass an amendment codifying abortion rights. Republicans believe a debate over transgender rights could spark an upset. — THE FACTS

Discussion: National Review and The Daily Wire

Clare Foran / CNN:

‘I never thought it would be Paul’: Nancy Pelosi reveals how she first heard her husband had been attacked — Exclusive: Pelosi recounts moment she learned that her husband was attacked John King: These midterms are the most complicated of my lifetime Kevin McCarthy asked about impeaching Biden if GOP wins House.

Discussion: Politico, Associated Press, The Guardian, The Hill, Insider, TheBlaze, Washington Post, Raw Story, CBS News, HuffPost, Fox News, USA Today, MSNBC and Mediaite

NBC News:

How the NBC News Decision Desk calls races on midterm election night 2022 — Here's how NBC News calls races on election night, the steps it takes to verify results and the answers to some frequently asked questions. — How does NBC News project the outcomes of races?

Discussion: Washington Post, New York Times and Sacramento Bee

Jonathan Allen / Reuters:

U.S. judge suspends many of New York's new gun restrictions — A federal judge in New York temporarily suspended many parts of the state's new gun restrictions on Monday to allow members of a gun-owners' rights group to continue their lawsuit challenging the new law as unconstitutional.

Discussion: The Hill

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.

Discussion: TechCrunch, The National Interest, Occupy Democrats, Raw Story, Insider and Gizmodo, more at Techmeme »

Wall Street Journal:

Arizona's GOP Senate Candidate Masters is Noncommittal on Supporting McConnell as Leader — PHOENIX— Blake Masters, the Republican candidate for Senate in Arizona, remains noncommittal on Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's leadership. Mr. Masters, an ally of venture capitalist Peter Thiel …

Discussion: Washington Examiner, Insider and Reason

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

Discussion: Adweek, The Hill and Variety

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 …