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Politico:
‘They completely f—ked up’: How the GOP lost its grip on the Senate majority — Rick Scott has no regrets about his Senate Republican campaign arm's hands-off approach to primaries this year — a move that anointed a motley crew of nominees, some of whom cost the GOP dearly.
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Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Rift in Trump's inner circle over 2024 presidential campaign announcement — With the ex-president facing heat for the GOP's midterm washout, there is conflict on if he should hold off next week's event — Donald Trump's top political staffers at Mar-a-Lago are pressing him to move forward …
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Fox News, New York Post, Georgia Recorder, National Review, Washington Times and The Hill
Darragh Roche / Newsweek:
Democrats' Chances of a Senate Majority Just Got Brighter — Democrats' chances of retaining control of the Senate seemed brighter on Friday morning as key races in Arizona and Nevada appeared poised to deliver victories for President Joe Biden's party. — Fifty-one seats are needed to form …
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Reason, Mediaite, The Guardian, Deseret News and Reuters
Zachary Petrizzo / The Daily Beast:
Trump Is ‘Ready for War’ With 2024 Presidential Announcement — His advisers may be questioning his decision, but Trump seems dead set on announcing his candidacy Tuesday. And prospective GOP candidates may want to tune in... Despite a worse-than-expected Election Day, a Georgia runoff …
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Why Some States Went in Different Directions in Midterms
Why Some States Went in Different Directions in Midterms
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Split Ticket and Washington Post
Politico:
Republicans redirect hopes for Senate majority on Georgia runoff
Republicans redirect hopes for Senate majority on Georgia runoff
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Occupy Democrats, New Republic, CBS News, Washington Post, NewsNation, Fox News, New York Times and The Farm
Jonathan Martin / Politico:
Rick Scott Was Prepared to Take On McConnell — Until Tuesday
Rick Scott Was Prepared to Take On McConnell — Until Tuesday
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Salena Zito / New York Post:
Trump voters are ‘done’ with ex-president: ‘He needs to disappear’ — The chickens have come home to roost for Donald Trump in Pennsylvania. After he stuck his nose in the state's Republican primary process last May against the guidance of his most loyal advisors, many of his once-devoted followers …
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Steven Shepard / Politico:
The path to 218: Why Democrats aren't out of the race for the House yet — Republicans still have a wider path to the House majority than Democrats — but it's narrowed a lot over the past 24 hours. — As the vote count continues, particularly in mail-heavy Western states …
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David Weigel / Semafor:
Americana — with David Weigel — In this post-election edition, we look at key counties to explain why the red wave crashed, preview the next round of GOP infighting, and talk to a winning Democratic candidate in New York who recognized the party's weaknesses there early.
Krystal Ball / The Lever:
The REAL Reason For Dems' Rust Belt Revival
The REAL Reason For Dems' Rust Belt Revival
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Jacobin, New York Times, Politico, The Daily Caller, Just The News, NBC News and Politico
Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
Maybe Republicans Will Finally Learn
Maybe Republicans Will Finally Learn
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Bloomberg, Raw Story and Richmond Times-Dispatch
Chandelis Duster / CNN:
Boebert expresses optimism but casts blame on her party with her reelection bid still too close to call
Boebert expresses optimism but casts blame on her party with her reelection bid still too close to call
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: The incredible shrinking GOP majority
POLITICO Playbook: The incredible shrinking GOP majority
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Sean Golonka / The Nevada Independent:
Nevada's three vulnerable House Democrats survive re-election challenges
Nevada's three vulnerable House Democrats survive re-election challenges
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Breitbart, Nevada Current and Political Wire
New York Times:
Two Weeks of Chaos: Inside Elon Musk's Takeover of Twitter — Mr. Musk ordered immediate layoffs, fired executives by email, laid down product deadlines and has transformed the company. — SAN FRANCISCO — Elon Musk had a demand. — On Oct. 28, hours after completing his $44 billion buyout …
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Casey Newton / Platformer:
Inside the Twitter meltdown — Elon is speaking. VPs are resigning. Is bankruptcy next? — and Zoë Schiffer — Everything went from bad to worse at Twitter on Thursday. Today let's talk about a truly chaotic 24 hours at the company, and the mounting fears over what it means …
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Bloomberg:
Musk Warns Twitter Bankruptcy Possible as Senior Executives Exit
Musk Warns Twitter Bankruptcy Possible as Senior Executives Exit
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The GOP Revolt Against Trump Is More Serious Than You Think … I've been telling people for most of the year that I consider Ron DeSantis to be the odds-on favorite — not a guarantee, not a prohibitive favorite, but the favorite — to win the Republican presidential nomination.
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New Republic, The Bulwark, Forbes, Puck and Deseret News
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Ewan Palmer / Newsweek:
Donald Trump Says He ‘Sent in the FBI’ To Stop Ron DeSantis Losing Election
Donald Trump Says He ‘Sent in the FBI’ To Stop Ron DeSantis Losing Election
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Washington Post, Daily Mail, Just The News, The Daily Caller, Mediaite, CNN, Political Wire and The Capitolist
Eileen Sullivan / New York Times:
Top Border Official Says He Was Asked to Resign — The commissioner, Chris Magnus, has refused to step down amid criticism over his agency's lack of accountability. — WASHINGTON — The Customs and Border Protection commissioner said Friday that he had been asked to step down but was refusing to do so …
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Hamed Aleaziz / Los Angeles Times:
Top border official Magnus say he's been asked to resign but refuses
Top border official Magnus say he's been asked to resign but refuses
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Bloomberg:
Bankman-Fried's Assets Plummet From $16 Billion to Zero in Days — The entire $16 billion fortune of former FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried has been wiped out, one of history's greatest-ever destructions of wealth. — The downfall of his crypto empire — which filed for bankruptcy …
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Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
Inside the Justice Department's decision on whether to charge Trump in Mar-a-Lago case — In February, a week before the National Archives warned the Justice Department that former President Donald Trump had kept Top Secret documents at his Florida compound, Asia Janay Lavarello was sentenced to three months in prison.
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Washington Examiner, PolitiFact, Raw Story and Washington Post
The New York Times Company:
Jonathan Swan Joins The New York Times — The political reporter is joining the Politics team at The Times. Read more in this note from Politics Editor David Halbfinger and Washington Bureau Chief Elisabeth Bumiller. — Our insightful, authoritative and addictive coverage of the election …
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The Hill, The Wrap and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
Kate Bennett / CNN:
Tiffany Trump's wedding assembles a family divided over its patriarch's political future — Watch: Why Trump's possible 2024 election bid is causing division in the family Would Kari Lake accept a loss? Reporter who tracked her campaign answers GOP governor who won in blue state has a message …
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Vanity Fair, The Guardian, Mercury News, Raw Story and Page Six
Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post:
We got Twitter ‘verified’ in minutes posing as a comedian and a senator — Twitter has been selling blue check marks to any account for $8, including our test imposter accounts for Blaire Erskine and Sen. Ed Markey. That makes it mostly worthless. — There are now two Blaire Erskines on Twitter.
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Gizmodo, The Verge, Bloomberg, NBC Boston, Mashable, Media Matters for America, Variety, Techdirt and TechCrunch, more at Mediagazer »
CNN:
Kevin McCarthy faces rocky road to speakership as hardliners emboldened by GOP's election showing — Members of the pro-Trump House Freedom Caucus are withholding their support for House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy's speakership bid and have begun to lay out their list of demands …
Mary Ellen Klas / Miami Herald:
Florida legislative leaders say they will discuss further restrictions on abortions — Supercharged by a super-majority in the House and Senate, Florida legislative leaders broke their silence Wednesday and confirmed they are prepared to discuss further abortion restrictions in Florida in the next year.