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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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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.
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.
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:
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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.
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New York Times:
Virginia Election Results — Former Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a longtime fixture in the national Democratic Party, is seeking a new term in a race widely viewed as a bellwether for the midterm elections. His opponent, Glenn Youngkin, a former private equity executive, has made hot-button cultural issues central to his campaign.
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Washington Examiner:
A deserved Democratic defeat and Republican victory — It is always tempting to draw national conclusions from local elections, even more so in a gubernatorial election held in the White House's backyard the year after a presidential election. — All the more reason to start an analysis …
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Persuasion, New York Magazine, CBS News, Los Angeles Times and Associated Press
Domenico Montanaro / NPR:
5 takeaways from Republicans' big win in Virginia and the shocker in New Jersey — Republican Glenn Youngkin pulled off the upset in Virginia, defeating Terry McAuliffe in the governor's race. And in perhaps and even bigger stunner in New Jersey, Republican Jack Ciatarelli leads …
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Lisa Lerer / New York Times:
What Youngkin's Win in the Virginia Governor Race Means for Democrats
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Daniel Greenfield / Front Page Magazine:
Another American Revolution in Virginia
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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 …
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Matt Friedman / Politico:
Shocker in New Jersey: Governor's race a nail-biter — New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy and Republican challenger Jack Ciattarelli remained locked in a neck-and-neck battle early Wednesday, with the outcome too close to call in a race Democrats had long been confident about winning.
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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 …
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Kevin T. Dugan / Curbed:
We Staked Out Eric Adams's House in Brooklyn And he came home. Twice! — Photo-Illustration: Curbed; Photos: Getty Images, Kevin Dugan, Willy Blackmore — Where the hell does Eric Adams live? For anyone trying to get a grip on the notoriously hard-to-pin-down Democratic candidate …
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Jazz Shaw / HotAir:
Incoming pro-cop NYC Mayor promises a more “business-friendly environment”
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
House GOP campaign arm expands target list after brutal night for Dems — The National Republican Congressional Campaign Committee expanded its offensive target list on Wednesday morning following Democrat Terry McAuliffe's loss in Virginia's gubernatorial contest and a must closer …
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Michael McAdams / NRCC:
NRCC Expands Offensive Map, Announces 13 New Targets
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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.
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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 …
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump urges judge to slow down Jan. 6 investigators' access to records — Former President Donald Trump is pleading with a federal judge in Washington to slow down the Jan. 6 committee's effort to obtain his White House records, instead asking her to order a document-by-document review that could take months.
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Bess Levin / Vanity Fair:
Trump's Odds of Escaping Criminal Charges in Georgia Do Not Look Good — Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger confirms the ex-president threatened him over the 2020 election results while demanding he magically come up with enough votes to beat Biden.
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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.
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Jason Stanley / Rolling Stone:
Tucker Carlson's ‘Patriot Purge’ Is Too Crazy to Believe — and Too Dangerous to Ignore — The Fox News host's series on the Jan. 6 insurrection is a piece of fascist propaganda that wouldn't be out of place in 1930s Berlin — Patriot Purge, Tucker Carlson's new three-part series …
Henry J. Gomez / NBC News:
Cincinnati elects its first Asian American mayor, Aftab Pureval — Aftab Pureval won Cincinnati's race for mayor on Tuesday, according to unofficial results, making the 39-year-old lawyer the first Asian American elected to lead the city. — Pureval defeated David Mann …
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Justin Sherman / Tech Policy Press:
Facebook's Only Logic is Its Own Power — At the ongoing Web Summit in Lisbon, former British politician Nick Clegg, Facebook's (now Meta's) vice president of global affairs and communications, spoke Tuesday about his company's role in propagating extremism and harmful content.
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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Star Tribune:
Minneapolis voters reject plan to replace Police Department — Nearly 18 months after George Floyd was filmed pleading for breath under an officer's knee, community groups remain divided on how to change the system. — TEXT SIZE — MORE — Minneapolis voters on Tuesday rejected …
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Steve Leblanc / Associated Press:
Boston elects Wu, first woman and Asian American as mayor — BOSTON (AP) — Boston voters, marking a key milestone in the city's long political history, for the first time elected a woman and an Asian American as mayor on Tuesday, tapping City Councilor Michelle Wu to serve in the city's top political office.
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Bloomberg:
Carney Sees Watershed Moment for Climate Finance: COP26 Update — The COP26 summit turned its attention to the finance industry's contribution to the fight against climate change, with announcements overnight revealing that banks, asset managers and insurers representing more than $130 trillion have signed up to net-zero commitments.
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