memeorandum: Why Did Trump Win? These Dems Have Discovered a Very Disturbing Answer (Greg Sargent/New Republic)

4:15 PM ET, November 9, 2024

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Lulu Garcia-Navarro / New York Times:

Nancy Pelosi Insists the Election Was Not a Rebuke of the Democrats — Devin Oktar Yalkin for The New York Times — Perhaps no Democratic politician has been a greater antagonist to Donald Trump than Nancy Pelosi. As the House minority leader and then speaker of the House during Trump's first term …

Discussion: HuffPost, Washington Examiner, Mediaite, The Independent, New York Post and Raw Story

The New York Review of Books:

All Bets Are Off — In Joseph O'Neill's first essay in our pages, he warned readers that “the Republican Party enjoyed a mystifying presumption of legitimacy,” contrasted with “the curious timidity of Democrats.” In that instance, he was describing the 2000 presidential election fiasco in Florida …

Zachary B. Wolf / CNN:
Trump's win was real but not a landslide. Here's where it ranks

Discussion: Raw Story, The Dispatch, Lawyers, Guns & Money, KGW-TV, Alpha News, USA Today and The Colorado Sun

Alexandra Hutzler / ABC News:
Trump's political comeback is complete. What it says about American voters

Discussion: USA Today

USA Today:
Trump's second presidency sparks fear of ‘scary’ time ahead among some immigrants

Discussion: Raw Story, New York Times, NBC News and The Guardian

Oliver Hall / The Guardian:

I spent hours trying to persuade US voters to choose Harris not Trump. I know why she lost — As a phone bank volunteer, I hoped to counter the Republican attacks and half-truths, but people really believed them — It has been an extraordinary week for US politics …

Discussion: Raw Story

Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Why Did Trump Win? These Dems Have Discovered a Very Disturbing Answer

Discussion: Balloon Juice

Politico: Election autopsy: 5 POLITICO reporters weigh in on what mattered

Ken Bensinger / New York Times:

Trump Holds Up Transition Process Over Ethics Code — President-elect Donald J. Trump has not submitted a required ethics plan stating he will avoid conflicts of interest. — President-elect Donald J. Trump has not yet submitted a legally required ethics pledge stating that he will avoid conflicts …

Discussion: NPR and Raw Story

Politico:

Playbook: The ‘deep state’ prepares to get Trumped — With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine — DRIVING THE DAY — CALLED OVERNIGHT — DONALD TRUMP wins Nevada. Sen. JACKY ROSEN (D-Nev.) wins reelection, as do Reps. DON BACON (R-Neb.) and ANDREA SALINAS (D-Ore.).

Discussion: The Independent

New York Times:
With Ready Orders and an Energy Czar, Trump Plots Pivot to Fossil Fuels

Discussion: Financial Times, Associated Press and E&E News

Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:

Justice Dept. to focus on ‘most egregious’ Jan. 6 cases until Trump is inaugurated — President-elect Donald Trump has said he would “absolutely” consider pardoning every Capitol rioter and has called them political prisoners and “hostages.” — WASHINGTON — The Justice Department plans …

Discussion: RedState, Washington Times, Forbes, CBS News, Talking Points Memo, NPR and ABC News

Politico:

How blue states are plotting to thwart Trump — They're prepping lawsuits and legislation to stymie the incoming administration. — Donald Trump pledged in one of his final campaign speeches to work with Democratic mayors and governors if reelected. But just hours after the former president …

Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo

Dustin Gardiner / Politico:
Gavin Newsom's quest to ‘Trump-proof’ California enrages incoming president

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Thomas Frank / New York Times:

The Elites Had It Coming — Everyone has a moment when they first realized that Donald Trump might well return, and here is mine. It was back in March, during a visit to the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, when I happened to read the explanatory text beside an old painting.

Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog and Lawyers, Guns & Money

Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Democrats' election reckoning pits liberals against centrists

Discussion: The Guardian and New York Times

Brian Bennett / Time:

Trump, Who Was Charged with Mishandling Secrets, Will Get Classified Briefings Again — Two years ago, the FBI raided Donald Trump's home to retrieve government records he had refused to return, including hundreds containing classified information. The indictment that followed alleged …

New York Times:

Smile, Flatter and Barter: How the World Is Prepping for Trump Part II — Foreign leaders have rushed to ingratiate themselves with Donald J. Trump in recent days, nervously recalling the clashes, insults and feuds of his first presidency. — When Prime Minister Keir Starmer met Donald J …

Discussion: Raw Story

Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:

November 8, 2024 — Social media has been flooded today with stories of Trump voters who are shocked to learn that tariffs will raise consumer prices as reporters are covering that information. Daniel Laguna of LevelUp warned that Trump's proposed 60% tariff on Chinese imports could raise …

Discussion: El País and Breitbart

Rebecca Solnit / The Guardian:

Authoritarians like Trump love fear, defeatism, surrender. Do not give them what they want — We must lay up our supplies - of love, care, trust, community and resolve - so we may resist the storm — Here we are in a crisis in which almost everything we love is going to be under siege …

Sarah Varney / NPR:

They split the ticket. Meet the abortion rights voters who also went for Trump — Voters in three states — Arizona, Missouri, and Nevada — chose on Tuesday to advance protections for abortion rights in their state constitutions. Donald Trump, meanwhile, is likely to win all three states in his victorious bid for the White House.

Discussion: Slate

Associated Press:

Democratic US Sen. Jacky Rosen is reelected in Nevada, securing battleground seat — Nevada Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen won reelection, beating Republican Sam Brown in a tight but unusually quiet race for the battleground state. Rosen, a first-term senator, campaigned on abortion rights …

Discussion: The Guardian, Associated Press, Mother Jones, Washington Times, Daily Caller News Foundation, Washington Examiner, Nevada Current, NOTUS, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Fox News, Washington Post and HuffPost

Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen wins re-election in Nevada

Discussion: Washington Post, Associated Press and New York Times

Leif Le Mahieu / The Daily Wire:

EXCLUSIVE: FEMA Official Ordered Relief Workers To Skip Houses With Trump Signs — Whistleblower: 'It's almost unbelievable to think that somebody in the federal government would think that's okay' — A federal disaster relief official ordered workers to bypass the homes of Donald Trump's supporters …

Juliann Ventura / The Hill:

Cuban implies Trump's tariff threat having negative impact ‘right now’ — Billionaire and former Harris campaign surrogate Mark Cuban warned of the negative impact of President-elect Trump's tariff plans, which include a general tariff on imported goods and an additional tariff specific …

Discussion: Mediaite, Fox News, NBC News, CNBC, CBS News, Associated Press and The National Pulse

New York Times:

Should Alito and Thomas Be Pushed to Retire? Conservatives Are Divided. — Coaxing aging Supreme Court justices to give up their power and status during a window of political opportunity can be a delicate endeavor. — With Republicans set to regain control of the White House and the Senate …

Discussion: Raw Story, The Western Journal, Washington Post, The Hill, RedState, E&E News and NBC News

Andrew Mills / Reuters:

Qatar to pull out of Gaza ceasefire mediation, source says — Qatar will stop trying to mediate a Gaza ceasefire deal until Hamas and Israel show a “sincere willingness” to return to the negotiating table, an official briefed on the matter told Reuters on Saturday, in the biggest setback to efforts to reach a truce since the war began.