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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Republicans Barely Won the House. Now Can They Run It? — A thin margin, ideological differences and competing pressures could make managing the “people's House” virtually impossible. But the G.O.P. majority, however slim, will still be a challenge for President Biden.
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Benjamin Hart / New York Magazine:
The Pollster Who Predicted a Red Wave Explains Himself — In 2016 and 2020, Trafalgar Group did what many more other pollsters could not: come close to accurately portraying America's support for Donald Trump. In 2022, the company's polls once again showed a picture of Republican strength …
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The Daily Caller and Fortune
Kurt Bardella / The Atlantic:
Benghazi Times Infinity — When the Tea Party wave swept Republicans into the House majority in 2010, they had one objective: to effectively end the presidency of Barack Obama by inundating his administration with investigations and subpoenas. Representative Darrell Issa of California …
Yuval Levin / New York Times:
Democrats Lost the Midterms, Too — The surprising results of the midterm elections were understandably received by Democrats with an elated mix of relief and vindication. A president's party normally does much worse in his first midterms, and polls suggested this time would be no different.
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E&E, New York Magazine and Euractiv
CNN:
Inside the White House's months of prep-work for a GOP investigative onslaught — More than four months before voters handed Republicans control of the House of Representatives, top White House and Department of Homeland Security officials huddled in the Roosevelt Room to prepare for that very scenario.
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Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
Molly Jong-Fast / Vanity Fair:
House of Horrors: The Marjorie Taylor Greene Congress Is Upon Us — Democrats beat midterms expectations, but still fell short of keeping the House. The chamber under Kevin McCarthy, and with an emboldened right flank, may “exist exclusively as a vessel state of MAGA nation,” Rep. Eric Swalwell tells Vanity Fair.
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Washington Post, The Guardian, Democrats, Politico, Raw Story, HuffPost and Talking Points Memo
New York Times:
Key Allies Are Inching Away From Trump
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Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump sets off GOP identity crisis heading into 2024
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New York Times:
Nonprofits With Ties to Democrats Plan Counteroffensive Against Congressional Investigations
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Just The News and The Daily Caller
Washington Post:
Republicans narrowly win House, ending full Democratic control of Congress
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Shawna Mizelle / CNN:
GOP Arkansas governor says he's ‘very seriously’ considering 2024 presidential bid
Christina Wilkie / CNBC:
Trump tax return fight would be dropped by Republicans vying for key House committee chair
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Raw Story
Washington Post:
Trump's early 2024 launch fails to rally GOP around him
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New York Times, HuffPost, The Texas Tribune, New York Post, Raw Story, The Hill, PoliticusUSA, Bloomberg and National Review
Scott Wong / NBC News:
House Republicans plan investigations and possible impeachments with new majority
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Daily Kos, The Federalist, emptywheel and Talking Points Memo
Brian Murphy / Washington Post:
Michael Gerson, Post columnist and Bush speechwriter on 9/11, dies at 58 — Mr. Gerson helped shape President George W. Bush's messaging after the 9/11 attacks and then moved to The Washington Post, where he wrote about politics and faith — Michael Gerson, a speechwriter for President George W. Bush …
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Washington Post:
Saying goodbye to my child, the youngster — Michael Gerson, 58, died on Thursday. For 15 years beginning in 2007, he wrote a twice-weekly column for The Post — including this beautiful meditation, originally published on Aug. 19, 2013, on what it felt like to drop off his son at college.
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The Triad
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Michael Gerson followed his faith — and America was better for it — One of the biblical injunctions sometimes cited by Michael Gerson, who died Thursday at the age of 58 after a long battle with cancer, comes from the New Testament book of Colossians: “Let your conversation be always full of grace …
Tara Palmeri / Puck:
Nancy Pelosi, Speaker Emeritus? — The longtime Democratic leader, a fixture of the House for decades, will step back into a chairman-like role in the minority rather than retire immediately, giving her time to manage her succession and ensure the stability of her caucus through the forthcoming McCarthy era.
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The White House:
Statement by President Joe Biden On Speaker Nancy Pelosi Stepping Down from Democratic Leadership in the House of Representatives — When I think of Nancy Pelosi, I think of dignity. — History will note she is the most consequential Speaker of the House of Representatives in our history.
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NBC News:
Nancy Pelosi, the first female speaker of the House, says she'll step down as Democratic leader — Pelosi, 82, has been the Democratic leader for two decades. She is expected to remain a member of the House, at least temporarily. — WASHINGTON — Nancy Pelosi, the first female speaker of the House …
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Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
John Mearsheimer on Putin's Ambitions After Nine Months of War — The realist political scientist explains why Russia's move to annex four Ukrainian provinces isn't imperialism. — Back in February, a few days after Russia launched its war in Ukraine, I spoke with the political scientist John Mearsheimer.
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National Review
Tyler Kingkade / NBC News:
Moms for Liberty-backed school board members fire superintendent, ban critical race theory — The Berkeley County, South Carolina, school board made several big moves in its first meeting after the election. The board's former chair said it was a “political witch hunt.”
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Twitchy, HotAir and Louder With Crowder
Ankush Khardori / New York Times:
Trump Faces Five Major Investigations. He Has Dozens of Ways Out. — Mr. Khardori is a lawyer and legal analyst. He spent several years as a prosecutor at the Department of Justice. Before he joined the federal government, he defended corporate clients against charges of fraud and other crimes.
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Tierney Sneed / CNN:
Trump's running for president again. Does that get him off the legal hook?
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The Guardian, Los Angeles Times and Chicago Sun-Times
Andy Sullivan / Reuters:
Pence says he will not testify before U.S. House Jan. 6 panel — Former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said he would not testify before the House of Representatives panel probing the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol because Congress “has no right to my testimony.”
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CNN, Mother Jones, Mediaite and The Daily Caller
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Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
Cheney hits back as Pence says January 6 committee has ‘no right’ to testimony
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HotAir, USA Today, Washington Examiner, New Republic, The Hill, New York Post, Insider, Washington Times, Forbes and Chicago Sun-Times
Andrew Weissmann / Just Security:
Mar-a-Lago Model Prosecution Memo — This model prosecution memorandum (or “pros memo") assesses the potential charges against former President Donald Trump emanating from his handling of classified documents and other government records since leaving office on January 20, 2021.
FIRE:
VICTORY: After FIRE lawsuit, court halts enforcement of key provisions of the Stop WOKE Act limiting how Florida professors can teach about race, sex — Today a federal court halted enforcement of key parts of Florida's “Stop WOKE Act” in the state's public universities …
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WFLA-TV, Common Dreams and Reason
Yale Law School:
Dean Gerken: Why Yale Law School Is Leaving the U.S. News & World Report Rankings — Yale Law School Dean Heather K. Gerken has issued the following statement on U.S. News & World Report rankings: — For three decades, U.S. News & World Report, a for-profit magazine …
Wall Street Journal:
FTX's Collapse Leaves Employees Sick With Anger — Many say they learned of crypto exchange's deteriorating situation through media and lost access to their funds — How FTX Went Bankrupt: What Went Wrong — Created with sketchtool. … One FTX executive vomited when he learned …
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