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Zachary D. Carter / The Atlantic:
The Democratic Unraveling Began With Schools  —  Republican Glenn Youngkin's victory in Tuesday's Virginia gubernatorial election was about schools.  It wasn't about Donald Trump, or inflation, or defunding the police, or Medicare for All, or President Joe Biden's infrastructure agenda.
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Let the Democratic freakout begin  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  THE NAIL BITER — New Jersey's gubernatorial race is still too close to call as you wake up this morning.  With 88% of the expected vote in, incumbent PHIL MURPHY is trailing Republican JACK CIATTARELLI by just over 1,000 votes.
Philip Murphy / New York Times:
New Jersey Election Results  —  In New Jersey, the headline matchup is between Gov. Phil Murphy, a Democrat, and his Republican challenger, Jack Ciattarelli, a former state assemblyman.  The entire State Legislature is also up for election, and there are two ballot questions.  Read more »
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
A sobering reality hits Democrats after Tuesday's elections losses  —  Democrats awoke Wednesday to a sobering reality.  A year after celebrating victory in the 2020 elections, their slender congressional majorities are now even more at risk than they feared, and it is not clear that President Biden …
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
Virginia Results: Giving Up on Rural America Is Proving a Nightmare for Democrats  —  Margins matter.  —  About a year ago I wrote about the big “trade” that had taken place in our politics.  Democrats were picking up former Republican “red dogs” who live in the suburbs.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Democrats Need to Face Up to Their Public School Problem Education should be helping Democrats, not hurting.  What happened?  —  Election reaction statements by politicians and interest groups may be the most robotic genre in the messaging business.  Every outcome proves everybody was right all along.
Jim Swift / The Bulwark:
How McAuliffe Lost Virginia  —  An uninspiring candidate with no big ideas and terrible messaging.  —  Going into the 2021 gubernatorial election in Virginia, a state that Joe Biden won by ten points, former governor Terry McAuliffe likely reasoned that he had a good chance of repeating his remarkable feat from eight years earlier:
Nicholas Riccardi / Associated Press:
Takeaways from Tuesday's elections: Bad omens for Democrats  —  The off-year elections for governor in Virginia and New Jersey tend to receive outsize attention, and the results are mined for deeper meaning about what they portend for the midterm elections the following year that determine which party controls Congress.
Gabriel Debenedetti / New York Magazine:
The Next Democratic Reckoning  —  Ten months into Joe Biden's presidency, it's hard to avoid the conclusion that we are living in a new political era — and that we have been for half a decade.  —  Tuesday's numbers, especially in Virginia and New Jersey, made the new pattern clear …
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Trump: Youngkin ‘would have lost by 15 points without MAGA’  —  Former President Trump says if he had not supported Virginia Republican Glenn Youngkin, the new governor-elect would have lost by a sizable margin in Tuesday's election.  —  “I've heard Virginia is blue, but I've never believed it was blue …
Discussion: Fox News, POLITICUSUSA and IJR
The Daily Beast:
Democrats Started Knifing Each Other Even Before Virginia Defeat Was Official
Charlie Sykes / Morning Shots:
Why Can't You Beat These Guys?  —  Plus: 5 remarkable election results
Discussion: Washington Post
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Trump gloats as Virginia results come in
Washington Post:
Trump campaign payments for ‘command centers’ at D.C. hotels could undermine executive privilege claim in Jan. 6 investigation  —  It was a month after the 2020 presidential election, and Bernard Kerik was starting to panic.  The former New York City police chief and his friend Rudolph W. Giuliani …
Zach Williams / City & State New York:
Byron Brown's write-in gambit apparently worked  —  The former state Democratic Party chair worked with the GOP to seemingly defeat socialist India Walton.  —  Byron Brown at his election night party on Nov. 2.  —  When India Walton won the June Democratic mayoral primary for Buffalo mayor …
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Buffalo News:
Byron Brown claims victory in Buffalo mayor's race; write-in ballots swamp India Walton
Discussion: Fox News, Balloon Juice and WIVB-TV
Jerry Zremski / Buffalo News:
Walton failed to broaden support beyond her primary base
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Dem disaster: Did they lose ... *New Jersey*?  —  Joe Biden won New Jersey by sixteen points one year ago.  Polls had incumbent Democrat governor Phil Murphy ahead outside the margin of error.  Challenger Jack Ciattarelli jumped out to a lead in early vote counting, but everyone knew Murphy …
Discussion: Washington Post
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Amanda L Gordon / Bloomberg:
Eric Adams Hangs With CEOs, Rappers in NoHo After Win  — Handler, Novogratz, Ja Rule parties with Adams at private club  — Mayor-elect promises ‘reset’ with city's business community  —  After a dance troupe performed and bartenders served $14 mixed drinks (cash only) …
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi:
Dear Colleague on Moving the Build Back Better Act Forward  —  Last Thursday, House Democrats proudly put forth our Build Back Better legislation.  While it was a reduction in dollars from the original $3.5 trillion package, it was not a reduction in values.
Discussion: Insider, The Hill and POLITICUSUSA
Meryl Kornfield / Washington Post:
Why hundreds of QAnon supporters showed up in Dallas, expecting JFK Jr.'s return  —  In rainy Dallas with temperatures dipping into the low 60s, hundreds huddled with umbrellas, flags and signs to wait for history to be made on Tuesday.  Some even brought folding chairs.
Amitai Ziv / Reuters:
U.S. Blacklists Israeli Cyberarms Firms NSO, Candiru for Harming ‘National Security and Interests’  —  NSO Group and Candiru developed and supplied spyware ‘to maliciously target government officials, journalists, businesspeople, activists, academics, and embassy workers,’ the U.S. Commerce Department said in a statement
David French / Common Sense with Bari Weiss:
The Threat From the Anti-Woke Right  —  America is confronting two powerful illiberal movements.  Where you stand on their relative threats depends on where you live. … Late last week, my friends Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt published an important piece in the online journal Persuasion that contained a startling statistic.
Discussion: The Dispatch
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Republicans Schooled the Left in Virginia
Discussion: Reason and New Republic
Chandelis Duster / CNN:
Winsome Sears will become Virginia lieutenant governor, CNN projects, becoming first female and woman of color in the office  —  (CNN)Winsome Sears, a conservative Republican, will be Virginia's next lieutenant governor, breaking barriers as the first female and the first woman of color …
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FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul:
Minneapolis police ballot question rejected by voters  —  Minneapolis voters reject Question 2, choose not to replace police department  —  MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - Minneapolis voters struck down a proposed charter amendment that would have eliminated the city's police department and replaced it with a public safety agency.
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Star Tribune:
Minneapolis voters reject plan to replace Police Department
Wall Street Journal:
Military Coups in Africa at Highest Level Since End of Colonialism  —  Attempted or successful coups in Africa are occurring more frequently as democratic states buckle under pressure from Covid-19  —  On the day before launching the coup that halted Sudan's democratic transition last month …
Discussion: Al-Monitor
U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon:
Merkley Statement on Rahm Emanuel Nomination  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. - Oregon's U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement regarding the nomination of former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to serve as U.S. Ambassador to Japan:
Discussion: Washington Post and Mediaite
Andrew Jacobs / New York Times:
Widespread Coronavirus Infection Found in Iowa Deer, New Study Says  —  The analysis by Penn State and Iowa researchers strongly indicates that deer are getting the virus from humans, worrying experts about a deep wild reservoir for the virus.  —  A new study of hundreds of white-tailed deer infected …
Discussion: bioRxiv and New York Post
David Wildstein / New Jersey Globe:
Sweeney trailing in re-election bid; Polistina, Stanfied win; Pappas leads Zwicker  —  Senate President Steve Sweeney, the longest-serving legislative leader in New Jersey history, is on the verge of losing his own State Senate seat in what could be a stunning political upset.
Discussion: The Right Scoop
 
 
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Anna Giaritelli / Washington Examiner:
Biden ends Trump policy limiting asylum-seekers at southern border ports of entry
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Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
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Matthew Loh / Insider:
Lauren Boebert said she delivered one of her children in her truck, bringing it up as a supporting point against extended parental leave
Discussion: Mediaite
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
Kill the Bill  —  Why should Democrats pursue a multitrillion-dollar bill designed to alienate …
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Steve Leblanc / Associated Press:
Boston elects Wu, first woman and Asian American as mayor
Jason Stanley / Rolling Stone:
Tucker Carlson's ‘Patriot Purge’ Is Too Crazy to Believe — and Too Dangerous to Ignore
Daniel Beekman / The Seattle Times:
Bruce Harrell takes commanding lead over M. Lorena González in Seattle's mayoral race
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