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Editorial: Red rave: Expect Trump Republicans to lie about election defeats and exaggerate victories

As surely as right-wing politicians and personalities were preemptively deploying disinformation to cast doubt on any losses in Tuesday’s midterm election, they can be counted on to overstate the implications of any victories. So it’s worth warding off the inevitable fiction about the developing congressional results with some factual context.

Tribune News Service

The fixation on a PM’s COP-out

Should we care Jacinda Ardern has skipped every UN climate summit?

Newsroom.co.nz

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s victory speech spurs presidential speculation

CHICAGO — When Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker claimed victory Tuesday night over a vanquished Republican Darren Bailey for a second term as Illinois governor, he also presented himself as a possible 2024 candidate for the White House if President Joe Biden opts not to seek a second term.

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Morning Joe celebrates Trump ‘losing’ America: ‘Desantis is GOP leader now’

“It would appear this morning this is Ron Desantis’s party and not Donald Trump’s,” Willie Geist says

The Independent UK

Bear Grylls led secret Everest search for body of Spencer Matthews’ brother Michael

The TV adventurer embarked on the expedition earlier this year to find the late mountaineering champ

Evening Standard

Election Takeaways: No Sweep for the Republicans after All

For weeks, Republicans predicted a “red wave” would carry them to power in Congress, as voters repudiated majority Democrats for failing to tame skyrocketing inflation and address worries about rising crime. The reality appeared far different early Wednesday. Rather than a wholesale rejection of President Joe Biden and his party,…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Who is Maxwell Frost? First Gen Zer elected to Congress

The 25-year-old Floridian Democrat became involved in politics after a series of mass shootings

Evening Standard

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Past is present in Peniel Joseph’s ‘The Third Reconstruction’

"The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-first Century" by Peniel Joseph; Basic Books (288 pages, $27)

Tribune News Service

In a race marked by trolling and drama, Fetterman defeats Oz for Pennsylvania Senate seat

After an extraordinary race marked by vitriolic social media feuding, Democratic Lt. Gov. John Fetterman defeated his Republican opponent, celebrity television physician Dr. Mehmet Oz, in Pennsylvania’s Senate contest five months after suffering a debilitating stroke.

Los Angeles Times

Editorial: Florida’s purple reign is over. After midterm elections, it’s solidly MAGA red

To understand what Republicans pulled off — and Democrats allowed to happen — in Tuesday’s elections, let’s let the numbers tell the story.

Miami Herald

Midterms likely to confirm MAGA's power

Like the Tea Party, Freedom Caucus House members have been loud and divisive. Why haven’t they paid the same price?

Salon

Arizona election officials brace for impact in battle against conspiracy theories

PHOENIX — Two years after former President Donald Trump attempted to overturn his loss to Joe Biden, the electoral process remains in the shadow of the 2020 election, plagued by threats to election workers, efforts to misinform or intimidate voters and the rise of far-right candidates who have echoed false…

Los Angeles Times

Michael Steele: Midterm surprises ahead

Republicans selling a sinister fantasy version of America while Democrats are just clueless, says former GOP head

Salon

The rise of the ‘crazy caucus’: All the ways the GOP could upend America now that they’ve won the House

Former Republicans tell Andrew Feinberg about the myriad ways a GOP-majority House could upend the country out of spite

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South Texas, Abbott vs. O’Rourke, and Harris County: Here are the biggest things to watch for on election night

While the GOP focuses on the border and economy under President Joe Biden, Democrats are hoping to prove polls and political forecasters wrong by tapping into anger over the overturning of Roe v. Wade and the Uvalde school shooting.

The Independent UK

The most important midterm elections to watch on Election Day

Nevada’s Senate race could go either way. Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott likely to cruise to re-election. And John Fetterman still leads in Pennsylvania, Eric Garcia writes

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Editorial: If Twitter gets (more) toxic, big-name tweeters can threaten to take millions of users

Elon Musk’s mass layoffs at Twitter on Friday, barely a week after he acquired the company, should serve as an all-but-literal announcement: Whatever assurances he offers to the contrary, he may in fact plan to open the content floodgates to the worst in hate speech and toxic disinformation. Why else…

The Independent UK

Midterms 2022 – live: Warnock and Fetterman in dead heats as final day of voting begins

Final weekend of campaigning saw Democrats trying to stave off GOP red wave

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The Independent UK

The rise of the ‘crazy caucus’: All the ways the GOP could upend America if they win the House

Former Republicans tell Andrew Feinberg about the myriad ways a GOP-majority House could upend the country out of spite

WEKU

As Netanyahu forms Israeli government, U.S. may boycott one of his far-right allies

As the former Israeli prime minister returns to power, he's expected to give a post to a politician once convicted of inciting racism — whom the Biden administration might choose not to engage with.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

The whole country will be watching Pa. on election night. Again

When Pennsylvania voters go to the polls Tuesday, the whole country will be watching.

Daily Mirror

US midterms: Lies and misleading claims as Donald Trump cries 'rigged' again

Former US President Donald Trump is casting doubt on the legitimacy of the voting process - while others are making false claims ahead of Tuesday's Midterm elections in the US

Ballotpedia

Tracker: Article III federal judicial nominations by president by days in office since 2001

Through Nov. 1, 2022, there were 890 authorized federal judicial posts and 89 vacancies. Eighty-seven of those were for Article III judgeships. This report is limited to Article III courts, where appointees are confirmed to lifetime judgeships.

The Texas Tribune

Why Texas Republicans still oppose Medicaid expansion

More than two-thirds of Texans support Medicaid expansion. But on the eve of the midterm elections, the subject is still taboo for the state GOP. Why?

The Independent UK

Midterm elections 2022 - live: Warnock trails and Fetterman leads in final pre-election polls

Final weekend of campaigning saw Democrats trying to stave off GOP red wave

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