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7:00 PM ET, November 8, 2024

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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 …
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.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren / Time:
Here's the Plan to Fight Back
Discussion: HuffPost, The Hill and NBC News
Chuck Todd / NBC News:
This Democratic defeat — and the rise of Trump 2.0 — was a decade in the making
Discussion: The Hill and New York Times
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.
Discussion: Semafor
Dan Froomkin / Press Watch:
I blame the media  —  I am horrified and I am terrified and I am angry.  —  And I blame the media.
Discussion: Bloomberg
CNN:
Pentagon officials discussing how to respond if Trump issues controversial orders  —  Pentagon officials are holding informal discussions about how the Department of Defense would respond if Donald Trump issues orders to deploy active-duty troops domestically and fire large swaths of apolitical staffers, defense officials told CNN.
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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 …
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 …
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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Associated Press:
Justice Department brings criminal charges in Iranian murder-for-hire plan targeting Donald Trump
Rolling Stone:
Dem Insiders Begged Team Harris Not to Campaign With Liz Cheney  —  “People don't want to be in a coalition with the devil,” says a Democratic source who was appalled by Harris' embrace of Dick Cheney … It opened with the politics of joy, and a hearty dose of mockery aimed at Donald Trump and his running mate, J.D. Vance.
Discussion: New Republic
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Alex Thompson / Axios:
Harris, Biden camps blame each other for loss
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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CNN:
Racist texts about slaves and ‘picking cotton’ sent to Black people as state AGs, colleges and police probe their origins  —  Authorities across the United States are investigating after racist text messages - some with references to “slave catchers” and “picking cotton” …
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New York Times:
Wave of Racist Texts After Election Prompts F.B.I.'s Scrutiny
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 …
Discussion: KASW-TV, Raw Story, Mediaite and Teen Vogue
Molly White / Citation Needed:
Wind the clock  —  A message to those asking “what do I do now?”  —  1×  —  I had allowed myself to hope that American voters would choose the better of the presidential options available to us, and I was wrong.  I am disappointed.  I am sad.  I am afraid.
Discussion: LGBTQ Nation
Kiera Butler / Mother Jones:
Exclusive: RFK Jr. Is Crowdsourcing Cabinet Picks for Trump  —  “Bobby cannot do this alone, so he is now turning to the wisdom and expertise of his supporters.”  —  Just days after former President Donald Trump won the presidential election, his onetime-opponent turned supporter …
Discussion: Raw Story
Politico:
Hochul moves to revive Manhattan toll plan after Trump win  —  The New York governor is looking to enact the delayed policy before Trump takes office.  —  SAN JUAN — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has taken a step to revive congestion pricing before President-elect Donald Trump, who opposes the extra toll, takes office.
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.
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.
Discussion: Bloomberg, New York Post, CNBC and Slate
David Sirota / The Lever:
Handbook For The Politically Deceased  —  For liberals, Donald Trump's victory this week prompts adjectives like scary, terrifying, depressing, and demoralizing.  But one word it should not evoke is this: surprising.  In a downwardly mobile country, Democrats' rejection of working-class politics …
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 …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Bolts:
Voters Dismiss Two of California's Leading Progressive Prosecutors  —  Los Angeles' George Gascón and Oakland's Pamela Price sought to use their offices to redress the harms and disparities of the criminal legal system.  Both suffered large defeats this week.
NBC News:
Election Day bomb threats overwhelmingly targeted Democrat-leaning counties  —  It's still not clear who was behind the wave of threats.  —  Bomb threats sent to polling places and ballot-counting locations in at least five battleground states across the U.S. Tuesday targeted mostly Democratic counties, an NBC News analysis has found.
Gabriel Araujo / Reuters:
Biden's Amazon visit comes as US climate policy to shift under Trump  —  Joe Biden will become the first sitting U.S. president to visit the Brazilian Amazon when he travels to Manaus later this month, a symbolic trip given the United States is likely to see a dramatic change in climate policy under President-elect Donald Trump.
Discussion: Semafor and Associated Press
Sebastian Murdock / HuffPost:
Tim Walz Says To 'Get Back In This Fight When You're Ready'  —  Walz spoke to supporters in Minnesota following Donald Trump's victory in the presidential election.  —  LOADING  —  In an emotional speech at Eagan High School in his home state of Minnesota on Friday, Gov. Tim Walz (D) …
Meghan Blonder / freebeacon.com:
We Did It!  Dems Blame Kamala's Loss on ‘Right-Wing Media Ecosystem’  —  MSNBC and CNN panelists blamed Vice President Kamala Harris's decisive loss on podcasters like Joe Rogan, claiming that a right-wing “media ecosystem” radicalized Americans into voting for President-elect Donald Trump.
Discussion: The Wrap, Breitbart, Twitchy and Newsbusters
 
 
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Ellie Silverman / Washington Post:
Thousands expected for People's March on Washington ahead of Trump's inauguration
Discussion: HotAir
Politico:
Trump's victory could end Eric Adams' legal troubles
David Weigel / Semafor:
‘Was it even a winnable cycle?’ John Fetterman reckons with red Pennsylvania
Discussion: The Hill and New Jersey Online
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
FBI says hackers are sending fraudulent police data requests to tech giants to steal people's private information
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Zach Schonfeld / The Hill:
McCormick sues to challenge provisional ballots in Philadelphia
Discussion: New York Post and Raw Story
Katherine Koretski / NBC News:
Trump wins Nevada, capturing a state he lost in both 2016 and 2020
NBC News:
Special counsel Jack Smith seeks pause in Trump's election interference criminal trial
Ron Dicker / HuffPost:
Trump AG Prospect Warns Letitia James: ‘We Will Put Your Fat Ass In Prison’
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