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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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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.”
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Tim Alberta / The Atlantic:
Trumpism Is Toxic — The Republican Party swaggered into Tuesday's midterm elections with full confidence that it would clobber President Joe Biden and his Democratic Party, capitalizing on voters' concerns over inflation and the economy to retake majorities in both chambers of Congress.
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The Hill, The States, Tangle, New Republic, The Daily Beast and The Guardian
Politico:
Congress paralyzed by unresolved midterm races — Welcome to government in limbo. — Control of both chambers of Congress is uncalled, and House Democrats' long-simmering leadership reckoning is temporarily on hold. Two pivotal Senate races are being tabulated with molasses-like speed.
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Washington Post, The 19th, Voice of America, Leave the Gun …, Al Jazeera, The Philadelphia Inquirer, WND and Roll Call
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
David Shor's (Premature) Autopsy of the 2022 Midterm Elections — The Democratic Party entered the 2022 midterms saddled with a historically unpopular president and an inflationary economy. And yet, the party is exiting them as the election's clear winner.
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Vox, Raw Story, The American Conservative, Kevin Drum and Slate
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, Jezebel, HotAir and Daily Kos
Ross Barkan / Political Currents:
Where Democrats Lost — The fast-rising Asian vote slips away — What a fascinating night it was.
Peter Wehner / The Atlantic:
More MAGA Than Ever — Heading into Tuesday, the conditions that traditionally shape midterm …
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New York Times, UPI, Daily Kos, Raw Story, IJR, Vanity Fair, The Moderate Voice, The Hill and Poynter, more at Mediagazer »
New York Times:
Midterms Live Updates: Congress Remains in Play as Georgia Senate Race Heads for Runoff
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The Atlantic, Fox News, NPR, Streams of Crunchiness, The Daily Caller, TIME, The Guardian, Washington Times, NaturalNews.com, Raw Story, The Hill, CNN, New York Post, Barron's Online, Las Vegas Review-Journal, WND, HuffPost, TASS and IJR
Wall Street Journal:
The GOP's Midterm Failure
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Telegraph, Daily Kos, The Liberal Patriot, Raw Story, KTAR.com and Political Wire
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
Biden Is No Sure Thing for 2024. What About Buttigieg? Harris? Even Whitmer?
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HotAir, Fox News and Washington Post
Washington Post:
Nearly every election-denying secretary of state candidate lost
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The Moderate Voice, Persuasion and Mother Jones
The City:
Democrats in Southern Brooklyn: 'Our Party Didn't Even Put Up a Fight'
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City & State New York
Michael Grunwald / The Atlantic:
The Democratic Party's Broccoli Politics
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The Daily Caller, Rolling Stone and Althouse
Washington Post:
Twitter's content moderation head quits as a wave of departures alarms the FTC — Yoel Roth had become the public face of Twitter's efforts to reassure users and advertisers the service would not become a ‘hellscape’ — BREAKING: Twitter's head of safety and integrity, Yoel Roth …
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NBC News, The Hill, Reuters, TechCrunch, The Wrap, The Verge, One America News Network, The San Francisco Standard and DemCast, more at Techmeme »
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New York Times:
‘Economic Picture Ahead Is Dire,’ Elon Musk Tells Twitter Employees — In his first communications with Twitter's staff, the company's new owner painted a bleak picture as more employees resigned. — SAN FRANCISCO — Two weeks after closing a $44 billion deal to buy Twitter …
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Bloomberg, The Hill, Quartz, Metro.co.uk, TechCrunch, The San Francisco Standard, The Verge, Al Jazeera and Boing Boing, more at Mediagazer »
Alex Heath / The Verge:
Elon Musk is putting Twitter at risk of billions in fines, warns company lawyer — Meanwhile, Musk's personal lawyer is telling people, 'Elon puts rockets into space, he's not afraid of the FTC.' — Twitter's privacy and security teams are in turmoil after Elon Musk's changes …
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CNBC, CNN, Variety, The Hill, Daily Kos, Politico, 6abc, The Daily Wire, Occupy Democrats, Techdirt, TechCrunch and The Register, more at Techmeme »
Curtis Bunn / NBC News:
Black Georgia voters say the Walker-Warnock runoff leaves them with a burden to ‘save the Senate’ again — “This is disappointing because one candidate is a qualified senator. The other is Herschel Walker,” said Aaron Jones, 47, an auto body repair supervisor in Atlanta.
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Axios, Associated Press, The American Independent, Fox News, Politico, Raw Story, Daily Montanan, Insider, FiveThirtyEight, Vox, Los Angeles Times, Mother Jones and The Free Press
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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
How Warnock became the last Democrat standing in Georgia's top 2022 races
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Washington Free Beacon, Associated Press and NPR
Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
Georgia Senate runoff: Walker hauls in $3.3 million on first day of new campaign
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The Hill, DSCC, The Daily Caller, Balloon Juice, RedState, Wall Street Journal and PoliticusUSA
Conrad Swanson / Denver Post:
Lauren Boebert takes slim lead over Adam Frisch, thousands of ballots still remain in Pueblo County — Eyes across the country are now watching Colorado's CD3 race, which was far tighter than most expected — Early in the third day of of the 2022 midterm election, incumbent U.S …
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Vox, Colorado Public Radio, The Colorado Sun, Pueblo Chiefton, CBS News, Mercury News, Raw Story, The Daily Caller and RedState
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NBC News:
Kevin McCarthy's bid to be House speaker is in jeopardy — WASHINGTON — In 2015, bomb-throwers in the House Freedom Caucus derailed Kevin McCarthy's quest to become speaker. — Seven years later, members of the ultraconservative, Trump-aligned group are once again causing major headaches …
Elizabeth Williamson / New York Times:
With New Ruling, Sandy Hook Families Win Over $1.4 Billion From Alex Jones — A judge added $473 million in fees to the award Mr. Jones must pay in a Connecticut case and ordered him not to move his personal assets outside the United States. — The Infowars conspiracy broadcaster Alex Jones must pay …
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Laurel Brubaker Calkins / Bloomberg:
Alex Jones's Assets Are Frozen by Judge in Sandy Hook Case
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Associated Press, Al Jazeera, Law & Crime, The Daily Caller and Forbes
Wall Street Journal:
FTX Tapped Into Customer Accounts to Fund Risky Bets, Setting Up Its Downfall — FTX's chief executive told investors this week that an affiliated trading firm owes the crypto exchange about $10 billion — What's Next For Crypto? — YOU MAY ALSO LIKE — Created with sketchtool.
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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CBS News, Gizmodo, Quartz, TheBlaze, New York Post, Mediaite, Sputnik News, KTLA, TMZ.com, Raw Story, Metro.co.uk, Semafor, The Verge, NBC4 Washington, Haaretz, Boing Boing, Bloomberg and The Times of Israel
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Murdoch's news outlets extend their criticism of Trump. — For a second consecutive day, the recriminations about Republicans' unexpectedly weak Election Day performance played a prominent role on the pages and over the airwaves of Rupert Murdoch's media properties.
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Bloomberg, Daily Mail, The Moderate Voice, The Hill, Slate, The Wrap, Occupy Democrats, The Guardian, Mediaite and HuffPost
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New York Times:
Trump Under Fire From Within G.O.P. After Midterms
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The Daily Beast, Insider, The Daily Caller, VICE, Mediaite, Vanity Fair, HotAir, PoliticusUSA, Deseret News, IJR, The Hill, Boing Boing, The Daily Wire, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, New York Post, Commentary Magazine, Fox News, CNN, HuffPost, Washington Post, Raw Story, Washington Examiner, NewsNation, Outside the Beltway, The Triad, TheBlaze, National Review, The Guardian, Politico, Daily Kos and Cafe Hayek
Wall Street Journal:
South Korea to Sell Arms to U.S. for Ukrainian Forces Fighting Russia — Artillery units are to be supplied for at least several weeks of intensive combat — South Korea will for the first time sell artillery shells destined for Ukrainian forces through a confidential arms deal between Seoul …
Molly Beck / JSOnline:
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos signals he will seek to modify state abortion ban, calls for GOP to move on from Donald Trump — MADISON - Assembly Speaker Robin Vos wants to pursue measures in the next legislative session that would make changes to the state's abortion ban in order to neutralize …
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Political Wire and BuzzFeed News
Kevin Drum:
Betting markets lost big on Tuesday — Everyone agrees that Donald Trump was the big loser last night. The candidates he endorsed lost. The candidates he attacked won. The secretaries of states who were big election deniers mostly lost. As early as midnight, a tsunami …
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Reason, The Mahablog, Political Wire and WND
Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Kris Kobach, voter fraud crusader, wins Kansas attorney general race — WASHINGTON — Republican Kris Kobach has won the race to serve as Kansas's attorney general, NBC News projected Thursday. — With 97% of the expected vote in, Kobach defeated Democrat Chris Mann 51% to 49%.
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