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11:00 AM ET, November 10, 2024

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Don Moynihan / Can We Still Govern?:
Who is allowed to practice identity politics?  —  I don't really know why Kamala Harris lost.  The best explanation I've seen is that Harris ran into a buzzsaw of anti-incumbent post-pandemic disillusionment that has played out across the developed world.  You can add more strategic …
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Helen Lewis / The Atlantic:
The Democrats Need an Honest Conversation on Gender Identity  —  One of the mysteries of this election is how the Democrats approached polling day with a set of policies on gender identity that they were neither proud to champion—nor prepared to disown.  —  Although most Americans agree …
Discussion: USA Today and Fox News
New York Times:
Unions Bet Big on Harris.  Now They're Bracing for Consequences.  —  Government unions, service worker unions and industrial unions all face possible repercussions from Donald Trump's victory, but not necessarily all the same kind.  —  Besides the Harris campaign and its affiliated political …
Discussion: San Diego Union-Tribune and WPMT
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Noam Scheiber / New York Times:
Trump Is Expected to Upend Biden Labor Policies Favoring Unions  —  After gains by organized labor under President Biden, a second Trump administration is likely to change course on regulation and enforcement.  —  Joseph R. Biden Jr. promised to be the most pro-labor president in history.
Discussion: Marginal REVOLUTION
Jake Traylor / NBC News:
Trump wins Arizona, flipping a swing state Biden won in 2020  —  Donald Trump recaptured a longtime GOP state that he won in 2016 but lost in 2020, as it slipped away from Republicans since his political rise.  —  President-elect Donald Trump has won Arizona, NBC News projects …
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Zachary Basu / Axios:
Bernie vs. Nancy: Dems' working-class reckoning … - “While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. … - “Will the big money interests and well-paid consultants who control the Democratic Party learn any real lessons from this disastrous campaign?”
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Politico:
More Democrats fear the party's image isn't just damaged - it's broken  —  Everyone agrees they lost the working class, but they're deeply divided on where to place the blame — and what to do about it.  —  Democrats are having a full-blown identity crisis.
Discussion: Rolling Stone, UnHerd, Jacobin and MSNBC
Victor Hagan / USA Today:
Donald Trump says he won't ask Nikki Haley, Mike Pompeo to join his second administration  —  President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday he will not ask his former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley or his former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to serve in his incoming administration.
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Caroline Vakil / The Hill:
Gallego defeats Lake in Arizona Senate race  —  Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) is projected to beat Republican Kari Lake in a consequential race for Arizona Senate, dealing the former local news anchor her second straight electoral loss, according to Decision Desk HQ.
Natalie Fertig / Politico:
Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez wins Washington state rematch  —  The first-term Democrat will return to Congress after defeating Joe Kent for the second time.  —  Democratic Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez won a rematch with GOP challenger Joe Kent in Washington state, The Associated Press projected Saturday.
Alexandra Marquez / NBC News:
Sen. Bernie Sanders says he does not support urging Justice Sonia Sotomayor to step down  —  In an interview on “Meet the Press,” the senator said it would not be “sensible” to ask Sotomayor to step down while Biden is still in office.  —  Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., on Sunday defended …
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Neil Irwin / Axios:
Democrats' $1.9 trillion bet that blew up  —  Nearly four years ago, the Biden administration and Congressional Democrats made a $1.9 trillion bet in the form of the American Rescue Plan.  They lost, as it contributed to a surge in inflation that fueled massive voter discontent and Donald Trump's return to the White House.
Associated Press:
Trump on Day 1: Begin deportation push, pardon Jan. 6 rioters and make his criminal cases vanish  —  Donald Trump has said he wouldn't be a dictator — “except for Day 1.”  According to his own statements, he's got a lot to do on that first day in the White House.
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Scoop: Tom Cotton locks down the votes for Senate GOP's #3 job … - Cotton had been a serious contender for top positions in a Trump administration, but he decided to remain in the Senate, as Axios first reported.  — Cotton's expected win on Wednesday would box out Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) from leadership entirely.
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Matthew Kaminski / Politico:
Can Trump be the New Reagan?  —  A clear victory gives the president-elect a strength and credibility on the world stage that he lacked eight years ago.  —  Eight years ago, at a post-election breakfast party we threw in POLITICO's Brussels offices, I watched Donald Trump claim victory …
 
 
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Sandra McDonald / Los Angeles Times:
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Discussion: Associated Press
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Trump has shaped the Supreme Court, but it could still hinder his agenda
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Advisers Ramp Up Work on Mass Deportation Push
Discussion: RedState
Rebecca Solnit / The Guardian:
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