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9:40 AM ET, November 16, 2022

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Domenico Montanaro / NPR:
Donald Trump, who tried to overturn Biden's legitimate election, launches 2024 bid  —  Donald Trump, who tried to overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential election and inspired a deadly riot at the Capitol in a desperate attempt to keep himself in power, announced he is running again for president in 2024
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Axios:
Trump's low-energy reset  —  Advisers knew former President Trump, bleeding support among Republicans for his wild antics over the past week, needed a reset during last night's 2024 announcement.  So the text was deliberately low-key. … - The tightly scripted, staff-driven speech reflected Trump's weakened position post-midterms.
Semafor:
Good morning Washington!  Good morning Palm Beach!  —  President Trump wants to be President again and told us that he would “make America great and glorious again.”  Some hardcore Trump supporters were inspired, but as our Shelby Talcott reports, the main reaction was that the speech …
Discussion: Washington Post, Politico and Fox News
Axios:
Scoop: Stephen Schwarzman comes out against Trump in major defection  —  Stephen Schwarzman — chairman, CEO and co-founder of private-equity giant Blackstone — says in a statement to Axios that he's defecting from former President Trump for the 2024 presidential race.
National Review:
No.  —  To paraphrase Voltaire after he attended an orgy, once was an experiment, twice would be perverse.  —  A bruised Donald Trump announced a new presidential bid on Tuesday night, an invitation to double down on the outrages and failures of the last several years that Republicans should reject without hesitation or doubt.
NBC News:
Trump, whose lies about the 2020 election inspired an insurrection, announces third White House bid  —  PALM BEACH, Fla. — Donald Trump, the only president impeached twice, launched a campaign to reclaim the Oval Office on Tuesday, two years after voters ousted him and a week after they rejected …
George T. Conway III / Washington Post:
Trump is out for vengeance — and to protect himself from prosecution  —  He was always going to run.  Absent incarceration or interment, and perhaps only the latter, he inevitably would seek the presidency again.  His narcissism, his megalomania, his delicate yet illimitable ego, would have it no other way.
Discussion: HuffPost and Mediaite
Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
I would like to know Ron DeSantis' opinions on major policy issues
Discussion: Washington Post
Nate Cohn / New York Times:   Trump's Drag on Republicans Quantified: A Five-Point Penalty
Charles Sykes / MSNBC:
Trump's secret 2024 weapon? He's ready to burn it all down
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Democrats are openly rooting for another Trump presidential bid
Discussion: Just The News, Raw Story and Newsday
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Trump Reminds Republicans He's Not Going Away
Wall Street Journal:
Missile That Hit Poland Likely Launched by Ukraine in Air Defense, Western Officials Say  —  NATO meeting to assess fatal explosion that occurred amid Russian barrage across Ukraine  —  BRUSSELS—The missile that crashed in Poland on Tuesday, killing two people, was from a Ukrainian air-defense system …
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Associated Press:
Biden: ‘Unlikely’ missile that hit Poland fired from Russia  —  President Joe Biden said Wednesday it was “unlikely” that a missile that killed two in NATO-ally Poland was fired from Russia, but he pledged support for Poland's investigation into what it had called a “Russian-made” missile.
Colin Meyn / The Hill:
Poland calls NATO meeting after Russian-made missile kills two
Politico:
Western leaders on high alert after explosion in Poland kills 2
Associated Press:
Poland: Russian-made missile fell on our country, killing 2
Washington Post:
Musk issues ultimatum to staff: Commit to ‘hardcore’ Twitter or take severance  —  It comes as Musk's first major feature, Twitter Blue Verified, was halted while the company probes issues that arose from its launch  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Elon Musk issued an ultimatum to Twitter employees Wednesday morning …
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New York Times:
Elon Musk Fires Twitter Employees Who Criticized Him  —  Mr. Musk, who is rapidly transforming the social media company, also has cut its contractor work force.  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Elon Musk continued cutting Twitter's work force in his third week of owning the social media company …
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Senators float audit of Rick Scott's NRSC  —  The GOP's post-election finger-pointing intensified Tuesday, with two senators calling for an audit of the National Republican Senatorial Committee.  —  During a tense, three-hour-long meeting of the Senate GOP Conference, Sens. Marsha Blackburn …
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Tyler Olson / Fox News:
Rick Scott announces plan to unseat Mitch McConnell as the top Republican in the Senate
Mary Margaret Olohan / The Daily Signal:
Ron Johnson, Mike Braun Back Rick Scott to Unseat Mitch McConnell
Discussion: Breitbart and Slate
Selena Simmons-Duffin / NPR:
Her miscarriage left her bleeding profusely.  An Ohio ER sent her home to wait  —  Christina Zielke and her husband were excited when she got pregnant in July.  It was her first pregnancy at age 33 - everything was new.  But during the ultrasound at her initial prenatal appointment in Washington D.C., there was no heartbeat.
Discussion: Watch Night News and Jezebel
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Washington Post:
D.C. Council passes new criminal code, despite some objections  —  The bill will now go to Mayor Muriel E. Bowser, who has said she is concerned about some aspects of it  —  The D.C. Council unanimously approved a major overhaul of the city's criminal code Tuesday, despite objections …
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Ivanka Trump says she loves her father but does ‘not plan to be involved in politics’  —  Ivanka Trump does ‘not plan’ to continue being involved in politics despite her father's announced 2024 presidential run  —  Trump facing calls to delay ‘big announcement’ at Mar-a-Lago
Wall Street Journal:
Kari Lake's Loss Destroys ‘Stop the Steal’  —  Arizona candidates who took the Trump line on 2020 won fewer votes than a GOP state Treasurer.  —  By The Editorial Board  —  If anyone needs more evidence that “Stop the Steal” was a loser for the GOP this year, the party's Arizona wipeout is definitive.
Taylor Popielarz / Spectrum News 1 Ohio:
Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown will seek fourth term in 2024  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Fresh off his 70th birthday last week, Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown is keeping no secret his plans for the next election cycle.  —  What You Need To Know  — Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown tells Spectrum News he will run for reelection in 2024
Discussion: The Hill and Against the Grain
 
 
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Bloomberg:
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Politico:
White House's hopes for a lame-duck debt ceiling deal are fading fast
Discussion: Roll Call
Javier Espinoza / Financial Times:
Elon Musk's Twitter on ‘collision course’ with EU regulators
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Yair Rosenberg / The Atlantic:
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Miami Herald:
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Wall Street Journal:
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