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New York Times:
Warnock Claims Momentum in Georgia, as Walker Banks on Election Day Turnout — On the eve of Georgia's Senate runoff, Raphael Warnock, a Democrat, warned his supporters about being overconfident. Herschel Walker urged Republicans to flood the polls on Tuesday.
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Bryan Schott / Salt Lake Tribune:
Mike Lee, Burgess Owens are raising money for Herschel Walker's Senate campaign — and keeping half of the cash — The Utah politicians join other Republicans, including Donald Trump, who are using Walker's campaign to boost their own campaign coffers. — Utah Sen. Mike Lee and Rep. Burgess Owens …
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Isaac Schorr / Mediaite:
‘A Bunch of Vultures and Hyenas’ Have Hamstrung the Herschel Walker Campaign
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New York Times
New York Times:
Ukraine Targets Bases Deep in Russia, Showing Expanded Reach — Launching drones at air bases 300 miles from its own territory, Ukraine changed the geography of the war. It said it had developed drones with a range of over 600 miles. — KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine executed its most brazen attack …
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Max Boot / Washington Post:
We can win a battle of production lines with Russia. But there's a better way.
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Joe Gould / Defense News:
Army plans ‘dramatic’ ammo production boost as Ukraine drains stocks
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Task & Purpose and Big League Politics
Claire Parker / Washington Post:
Support slipping for indefinite U.S. aid to Ukraine, poll finds
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Chicago Council …, The Hill and Big League Politics
CNN:
Trump's slow 2024 start worries allies — Back in 2015, Donald Trump's first campaign rally in Iowa as a contender for the Republican presidential nomination came just 10 hours after he declared his candidacy in New York. The following day, he was across the country in New Hampshire …
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Associated Press:
Youngkin's early shine faces test as he eyes White House bid — Glenn Youngkin swept into office as a Republican sensation with a fresh formula for victory as the GOP contemplated its future beyond Donald Trump. But one year after Youngkin became the first Republican in more than a decade …
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Washington Examiner
Ronald Brownstein / CNN:
How Trump's legacy became ‘pure poison’ for independents — The highly touted red wave in last month's midterm election failed to develop largely because it hit a wall of resistance among independent voters, especially across the key battleground states. And that presents difficult questions for Republicans looking forward to 2024.
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CNN:
Kevin McCarthy faces debt-limit dilemma as House GOP ratchets up demands amid speaker bid — House Republicans are plotting tactics for their new majority and weighing how to use their leverage to enact a laundry list of demands, with many zeroing in on an issue with enormous economic implications: Raising the nation's borrowing limit.
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: McCarthy puts McConnell on notice — Presented by With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross — DRIVING THE DAY — ELECTION DAY IN GEORGIA — Polls open at 7 a.m. and close at 7 p.m. in the Senate runoff between incumbent Democrat RAPHAEL WARNOCK and Republican HERSCHEL WALKER.
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The Hill, Washington Examiner and PoliticusUSA
Washington Post:
For Trump, the Constitution is malleable — “A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution. Our great ‘founders’ did not want, and would not condone, False and Fraudulent elections!”
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Quin Hillyer / Washington Examiner:
The Constitution is more important than any former president
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pjmedia.com, Raw Story, Los Angeles Times and The Hill
Deirdre Walsh / NPR:
Capitol Police chief: Jan. 6 failures ‘largely’ fixed but extremism threat persists — Congressional leaders will bestow their highest honor — the Congressional gold medal — to the United States Capitol Police and Washington, D.C.'s Metropolitan Police Department for defending …
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Jill Lawrence / The Bulwark:
Hypocrisy, Thy Name Is GOP — Herschel Walker, Bill Bennett, and Donald Trump's legacy. — Reagan-era Education Secretary William Bennett had a moment last week: On November 29, Simon & Schuster released a thirtieth-anniversary updated edition of his 1993 bestseller, The Book of Virtues.
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Morning Shots
CNN:
House January 6 committee has decided to make criminal referrals, chairman says — The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol has decided to make criminal referrals to the Department of Justice, the panel's chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson, told reporters Tuesday.
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Washington Examiner, The Guardian and CBS News
Sui-Lee Wee / New York Times:
In Sweeping Legal Overhaul, Indonesia Outlaws Sex Outside Marriage — Parliament also approved a law that criminalizes criticism of the government, delivering a blow to the country's progressive reputation. — Indonesia has long been known as a widely tolerant nation at the forefront …
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Associated Press and The Daily Caller
Ana Swanson / New York Times:
Global Car Supply Chains Entangled With Abuses in Xinjiang, Report Says — A new report on the auto industry cites extensive links to Xinjiang, where the U.S. government now presumes goods are made with forced labor. — The global auto industry remains heavily exposed to the Xinjiang region …
Joan Biskupic / CNN:
How William Rehnquist led to the new monumental challenge to presidential election rules — When Chief Justice William Rehnquist helped decide the 2000 presidential election, his radical legal theory failed to gain a majority. But today's conservative court is giving it another chance …
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Raw Story
Jordain Carney / Politico:
GOP senators tune out House conservatives' impeachment calls — House conservatives want their party to go big on impeachment next year. Across the Capitol, Senate Republicans on their would-be jury are not ready to convict. — While House GOP leaders feel intense pressure …
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Raw Story
Jarrell Dillard / Bloomberg:
Senators Seek Deal to End Cocaine Sentencing Disparity Before Year-End — A group of senators is working to lessen the disparity in federal sentencing between drug offenses involving crack and powder cocaine by attaching it to an annual defense bill, according to people familiar with the negotiations.
Kimberly Wehle / The Bulwark:
Court Implodes Trump's Mar-a-Lago Defense (and the Errant Judge Who Bought It) — The timeline makes clear how careful and even deferential prosecutors were. — On Thursday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit finally put to rest the special master nonsense that Donald Trump set …
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Raw Story, USA Today, The Daily Caller and Reason
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Lindsay Beyerstein / The Editorial Board:
House Republicans poised to launder Russian disinfo again — A skeptic's guide to “Hunter Biden's Laptop.” — We've been warned. — When the Republicans take control of the House, it's going to be all Hunter's laptop, all the time. — Despite haughty GOP denials …
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American Greatness, New Republic and New York Post
Barbie Latza Nadeau / The Daily Beast:
U.S. Government Told Spy to Stay Home From British Teen Death Trial — Anne Sacoolas will be sentenced Thursday after admitting she drove her Volvo down the wrong side of the road when she hit teenage motorcyclist Harry Dunn, killing him. — Correspondent-At-Large
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Bloomberg
Anders Hagstrom / Fox News:
Biden defends skipping border visit while in Arizona, says there are ‘more important things’ — White House officials have dismissed a border visit as a ‘political stunt’ — Biden tells Peter Doocy ‘more important things’ than border crisis — President Biden defended his decision …
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Washington Examiner, New York Post, Washington Times, The Daily Caller and Mediaite
Shelby Talcott / Semafor:
Top evangelicals are backing away from Donald Trump — Call it a crisis of faith. Despite appointing the conservative judges who ultimately overturned Roe v. Wade — and fervently courting the religious right during his presidency — prominent evangelicals are beginning to shy away …
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Raw Story, OnlySky Media, The Daily Beast and HuffPost
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
The Empty Gestures of Disillusioned Evangelicals
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