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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Put Musk on Phone With Zelensky During Call — Elon Musk was with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago when the president-elect spoke with Ukraine's leader. It is not clear if they discussed any change in U.S. policy toward Ukraine. — President-elect Donald J. Trump spoke on Wednesday …
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Barak Ravid / Axios:
Scoop: Elon Musk joined Trump's call with Zelensky … - The Biden administration is now looking for ways to get as much military assistance as possible to Ukraine ahead of Jan. 20, when Trump could turn off the spigot. — But the private conversations Trump and his team have had with Zelensky …
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Annie Karni / New York Times:
A Red-District Conqueror Wants Fellow Democrats to Look in the Mirror — Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, who is on track to win re-election in a rural Washington district, says her party needs to stop demonizing others and change the candidates it supports. — It's not always fun to say I told you so.
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Axios:
Behind the Curtain: Deep Democratic depression … Come January, they'll have scant power in the federal government, and shriveling clout in the courts and states. — The traditional media structure sympathetic to their views, and hostile to Trump's, was shattered.
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Chuck Todd / NBC News:
This Democratic defeat — and the rise of Trump 2.0 — was a decade in the making — Analysis: Biden's age and inability to sell his record or convince that he was fighting inflation were problems. Longer-term Democratic weaknesses also came due. — There's something about an election …
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren / Time:
Here's the Plan to Fight Back — To everyone who feels like their heart has been ripped out of their chest, I feel the same. To everyone who is afraid of what happens next, I share your fears. But what we do next is important, and I need you in this fight with me.
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Jeffries takes charge of the Democratic resistance
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Domenico Montanaro / NPR:
Why Trump won — 9 takeaways from the 2024 election
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Filip Timotija / The Hill:
Axelrod: Democrats becoming ‘smarty-pants, suburban, college-educated party’
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Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
America's political discordance: The Trump voters who want progressivism — Trump voters backed abortion, minimum wage and family leave — but don't get that Project 2025 would take it away — Perhaps out of fear of insulting their audiences, the pundits, journalists …
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Michael Tomasky / New Republic:
Why Does No One Understand the Real Reason Trump Won? … I've had a lot of conversations since Tuesday revolving around the question of why Donald Trump won. The economy and inflation. Kamala Harris didn't do this or that. Sexism and racism. The border. That trans-inmate ad that ran a jillion times.
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Dan Froomkin / Press Watch:
I blame the media — I am horrified and I am terrified and I am angry. — And I blame the media. — Yes, I am aware that some large number of people who voted for Trump did so fully aware that he will rule as a racist, a chaos agent, and a strongman. That's what they want. Noted.
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Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Pelosi Laments Biden's Late Exit and the Lack of an ‘Open Primary’ — “Had the president gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race,” the former House speaker said in an interview with The New York Times, suggesting she had anticipated an “open primary.”
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Alex Thompson / Axios:
Harris, Biden camps blame each other for loss … - In response to Trump's decisive victory, aides in both camps are blaming the other for being more responsible, according to interviews with more than a dozen people in the White House and Harris' campaign.
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Lauren Peller / ABC News:
Pelosi blames Harris' loss on Biden's late exit and no open Democratic primary
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Gabe Kaminsky / Washington Examiner:
How Kamala Harris plowed through $1 billion
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US Department of Justice:
Justice Department Announces Murder-For-Hire and Related Charges Against IRGC Asset and Two Local Operatives — For Immediate Release — Iranian Asset Farhad Shakeri Employed Multiple Associates in the New York City Area to Surveil and Murder a U.S. Citizen of Iranian Origin Who Has Publicly Opposed the Iranian Government
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New York Times:
Wave of Racist Texts After Election Prompts F.B.I.'s Scrutiny — Offensive messages were reported across the South and from New York to California. — A wave of racist text messages summoning Black people to report for slavery showed up on phones across the United States …
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Zach Schonfeld / The Hill:
McCormick sues to challenge provisional ballots in Philadelphia — Pennsylvania Republican Senate candidate David McCormick filed two lawsuits challenging provisional ballots in Philadelphia, signaling he is prepared to take his fight to the Supreme Court. — McCormick declared victory …
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Mike Corder / Associated Press:
Israeli soccer fans were attacked in Amsterdam. The violence was condemned as antisemitic — Israeli fans were assaulted after a soccer game in Amsterdam by hordes of young people apparently riled up by calls on social media to target Jewish people, Dutch authorities said Friday.
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James Liddell / The Independent:
Ted Cruz's daughter caught wincing and telling her mom 'don't clap' as senator praises Trump on stage — Caroline Cruz, 16, was left scowling at her mother on stage as the Texas senator prayed for a Trump win — Your support helps us to tell the story — From reproductive rights …
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David Sirota / The Lever:
Handbook For The Politically Deceased — Your guide to what the hell just happened in the election and what's ahead. … But one word it should not evoke is this: surprising. In a downwardly mobile country, Democrats' rejection of working-class politics — and the party's open hostility …
Timothy Noah / New Republic:
Dump Twitter — The oligarchs won. When the markets closed November 6—the day Donald Trump was declared winner of the presidential election—the combined wealth of the world's 10 richest people, nine of whom live in the United States, had surged by a combined $63.5 billion.
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Katherine Koretski / NBC News:
Trump wins Nevada, capturing a state he lost in both 2016 and 2020 — NBC News projects Trump will carry the state's six electoral votes. It's the first time since 2004 that a Republican has won Nevada. — President-elect Donald Trump has carried Nevada over Vice President Kamala Harris in the presidential race, NBC News projects.
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Charlie Mahtesian / Politico:
The 14 Places That Explain Trump's Victory
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CNN:
Biden administration to allow American military contractors to deploy to Ukraine for first time since Russia's invasion — The Biden administration has lifted a de facto ban on American military contractors deploying to Ukraine to help the country's military maintain and repair US-provided weapons systems …
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Politico:
Pentagon officials anxious Trump may fire the military's top general — The president-elect has railed against “woke” generals and others who have pushed for diversity initiatives in the ranks. — Defense officials are getting anxious about the possibility of the incoming Trump administration firing …
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Politico:
Playbook: Dems agonize over Sotomayor — With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine — DRIVING THE DAY — THE LATEST RACE CALLS — Republican DAVE McCORMICK defeats Democratic Sen. BOB CASEY in Pennsylvania. ... Reps. DON DAVIS (D-N.C.), YOUNG KIM (R-Calif.), JULIA BROWNLEY …
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Saul Elbein / The Hill:
Texas Democratic Party Chair to step down after brutal defeats — In the aftermath of his party's brutal shellacking in the 2024 elections, Texas Democratic Party chair Gilberto Hinojosa has announced he will step down in March. — Over his 12-year tenure, Hinojosa has faced fierce criticism …
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Financial Times:
Donald Trump asks arch protectionist Robert Lighthizer to run US trade policy — Tariff hawk's potential reappointment to top economy role likely to alarm trading partners — Robert Lighthizer, who was US trade representative when Donald Trump launched his trade war with China …
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Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
The wreckage Merrick Garland leaves behind — His failures left American democracy ripe for the picking. … ✍️ — It has often been said that Donald Trump was running for president to keep himself out of prison. Mission accomplished. — But the fact that Trump wasn't …
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