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Washington Post:
How Trump, infighting and flawed candidates limited Republican gains — The GOP's historic tail winds collided with the fractious reality of a political party in the midst of a generational molting — Florida Sen. Rick Scott made a plea to about 35 of his colleagues during lunch …
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Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller, Erick Erickson Show Notes, Daily Kos, National Review and Breitbart
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Sohrab Ahmari / New York Times:
Why the Red Wave Didn't Materialize — A week before the midterms, a video circulated online of a Starbucks barista crying while explaining the need for a union: “I'm a full-time student. I get scheduled for 25 hours a week, and on weekends they schedule me the entire day — open to close.”
Oriana Gonzalez / Axios:
Republicans' abortion silence backfires in midterms — The blame game has begun around what led to Republicans' disappointing results in the midterms, with some outside groups zeroing in on the party's lack of an abortion message. … - The group said in a memo that to “win in competitive races …
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New York Times and Washington Examiner
Wall Street Journal:
The GOP's Midterm Failure — The party wasted a great opportunity, but at least we may get gridlock in Washington. — By The Editorial Board — WSJ Opinion: The Midterms Highlight the GOP's Trump Liability for 2024 — YOU MAY ALSO LIKE — Created with sketchtool. — 1x
New York Times:
Trump Under Fire From Within G.O.P. After Midterms — “Republicans have followed Donald Trump off the side of a cliff,” a longtime adviser said. — Donald J. Trump faced unusual public attacks from across the Republican Party on Wednesday after a string of midterm losses by candidates …
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Insider, New York Post, IJR, Mediaite, The Hill, Daily Kos, CNN, Raw Story, Politico, National Review, Vanity Fair, New York Magazine and Political Wire
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Is the Republican Party's Biggest Loser — He has now flopped in 2018, 2020, 2021 and 2022. — By The Editorial Board — WSJ Opinion: The Midterms Highlight the GOP's Trump Liability for 2024 — YOU MAY ALSO LIKE — Created with sketchtool.
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
On Donald Trump and the Democrats' Not-So-Awful Election — If not for the former President, the midterms could have turned out very differently. — The day after the midterm election of 2022 that both parties had agreed was the most consequential ever—except for the previous election …
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Washington Post:
Trump called a protest. No one showed. Why GOP efforts to cry foul fizzled this time.
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Outside the Beltway, Raw Story, Bangor Daily News, Mercury News and New York Post
David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Republicans fret over Trump — but will the former president be dethroned?
Bess Levin / Vanity Fair:
Report: Donald Trump Is Blaming Everyone but Himself for the Midterms. And, Yes, That Includes Melania.
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The Daily Wire, The Daily Beast, Mediaite, New York Post, Raw Story and Mercury News
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Republican Elite Makes Its Move Against Trump
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CNN, CBS News, The Right Scoop, No More Mister Nice Blog, Fox News, Vanity Fair and RedState
E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
The GOP offered rage and Trump. The country said no.
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Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Insider, Los Angeles Times, Political Wire, VICE, Cognoscenti, Raw Story and The Daily Beast
Wall Street Journal:
Democrats Hold Off Steep Losses by Driving Turnout and Winning Independent Voters — In key races, some Americans seeking change didn't like what Republicans offered — Voters this fall were in the kind of sour mood that usually signals they are ready for change in Washington and state capitals.
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Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
The day young voters lined up to keep the American republic for 2 more years — What a difference a day makes: 24 little hours. As the darkness descended across America on Tuesday, editors at the New York Times locked in their doom-for-Democrats front page while 3,000 miles west in Arizona …
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USA Today, New York Times, Washington Post, New Republic, National Review, Slate, CBS News, Opinion Today, Associated Press, The Daily Beast, Vox, Mother Jones, HuffPost and KTAR.com
Washington Post:
Trump team pushes to delay 2024 launch as DeSantis star rises in GOP — After a disappointing election night, Republicans are advising Trump to delay next week's “very big announcement” until after the Senate runoff in Georgia — Former president Donald Trump's standing as the dominant figure …
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Rolling Stone:
Trump Spreads Rumors, Threatens Allies in All-Out Attack on DeSantis — After an election night where Ron romped but Don dragged, the former president is doing his best to ratf—k a potential 2024 rival … Republicans rolled in Florida on Tuesday night, with DeSantis rolling to reelection …
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Fox News, CNN, Insider, Althouse, New York Post, Raw Story, Political Wire, IJR and The Daily Beast, more at Mediagazer »
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New York Times:
After Election, Cautious Optimism That Few False Narratives Took Hold — Researchers who study disinformation said most efforts to stoke doubt about results had failed to spread widely. — On the morning of Election Day, Charlie Kirk, the conservative talk show host from Arizona …
Alex Binley / BBC:
KFC apologises after German Kristallnacht promotion — KFC has apologised after sending a promotional message to customers in Germany, urging them to commemorate Kristallnacht with cheesy chicken. — The Nazi-led series of attacks in the country in 1938 left more than 90 people dead …
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Semafor, NBC4 Washington, Raw Story, Haaretz, Sputnik News, Bloomberg and The Times of Israel
Asha Rangappa / Just Security:
The Missing Review of FBI's January 6 Intelligence and Law Enforcement Failures — [Editor's Note: For a deeper dive into Rangappa's thoughts on the FBI's reaction to January 6th and the culture inside the Bureau, listen to her in conversation with former FBI Acting Director Andrew McCabe on the Just Security Podcast]
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Mercury News
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Joe Perticone / The Bulwark:
Two January 6th Participants Elected to Congress
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New York Times, Insider, Raw Story, Politico, The Hill and Associated Press
Sandra Sobieraj Westfall / People.com:
Michelle Obama Shares Her Tricks for Managing Self-Doubt, Fear and These Anxious Times: ‘Yes, I Struggle’ — The former first lady, in the first interview about her upcoming book, The Light We Carry, admits the pandemic, political division, racial injustice — and just plain aging — have been hard for her too
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Washington Post:
Kevin McCarthy almost has the reins of a House majority. Can he hold on? — As the minority leader inches closer to taking the speaker's gavel, the Republican leader will have to navigate a fractious conference with a likely slim majority — In the hours before polls closed Tuesday …
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Politico, Fox News, Raw Story, CBS News, New York Times, Washington Times, The Hill, HuffPost and E&E
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Jeanna Smialek / New York Times:
October Inflation Report — Price Pressures Show Signs of Cooling … Inflation moderated by more than expected in October.
Axios:
The perils of a narrow House Republican majority — House Republicans are coming to grips with the harsh reality of what a single-digit majority could look like — starting with a newly empowered far-right flank that could seriously threaten GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy's House speaker ambitions.
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Punchbowl News, The Daily Beast, Washington Examiner, Fox News, Breitbart, Raw Story, New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Political Wire
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Alex Heath / The Verge:
Twitter lawyer warns Elon Musk's rushed timelines put the company at risk for billions in privacy fines … Twitter's privacy and security team is in turmoil after Elon Musk's changes to the service bypassed the company's standard data governance processes. The company's chief privacy officer …
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TechCrunch, more at Techmeme »
Marc Caputo / NBC News:
GOP starts boosting Walker in runoff amid calls to keep Trump away from Georgia — Warnock, Walker advancing to runoff in Georgia Senate race — The head of the Senate Republican campaign committee pledged Wednesday to raise whatever money he can and begin an advertising blitz this week …
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Politico:
6 reasons why Trump's already bad legal troubles are about to get worse — Mounting legal threats to Donald Trump may have appeared ominous before the 2022 congressional elections. They're nothing compared to what comes next. — Some of the political protections that the former president was enjoying are effectively gone.
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Refuses Advanced Drones for Ukraine to Avoid Escalation With Russia — Request from Kyiv for Gray Eagles had been under consideration for months — A Rare Look at Ukraine's Himars on the Front Lines — Created with sketchtool. … WASHINGTON—The Biden administration …
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The Guardian, NaturalNews.com and TASS
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Associated Press:
Russia-Ukraine War — Russia Orders Withdrawal From Kherson City, in Potential Blow to War Effort
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