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The GOP’s double-trouble Trump trap

With Trump running, the pressure to back him in primaries — or face consequences — will be intense and omnipresent.

Axios

Editorial: Democrats’ Florida drubbing is a cautionary tale

As much as Democrats might want to exult over midterm-election results — one of the better recent outcomes for the party in power — they can’t ignore the drubbing they took in Florida, a longtime purple-colored battleground that has now turned solid red. Without a prompt assessment of what went…

Tribune News Service

Is it time for Big Business to stop spending money on elections?

In an increasingly toxic political climate, the reputational risks of corporate donations to candidates could outweigh the potential gains.

Fortune

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The midterm elections dust has settled in Washington. Here are 5 key takeaways

Overall, the electorate delivered a warning against going too far, against extremes, but we're likely headed for a messy, partisan two years. Here, five lessons learned from last week's midterms.

WEKU

Pelosi shattered the marble ceiling and leaves a historic leadership legacy

Nancy Pelosi led highly pivotal moments in recent U.S. political history. Here, a look at Pelosi's career and its impact on that history.

WEKU

Election deniers performed especially poorly in races to oversee voting in key states

Secretary of state candidates who deny the 2020 election results generally underperformed fellow Republicans on the ballot in a handful of competitive states.

WEKU

Why Kemp-Warnock voters will be decisive in Georgia runoff

Ed Cordell considers himself a moderate Republican with a Libertarian bent. In the November midterm, he voted for Gov. Brian Kemp but couldn’t bring himself to back GOP U.S. Senate hopeful Herschel Walker. As the Dec. 6 runoff nears, though, he has a different mindset.

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These are the soon-to-be former members K Street wants to woo

WASHINGTON — Texas Rep. Kevin Brady, a former chairman of the Ways and Means panel, enjoys something of a standing invitation on K Street.

Tribune News Service

Commentary: Trump is the toxic ex for Republicans. Dan Patrick and Ken Paxton just can’t walk away

FORT WORTH, Texas — Donald Trump is like that toxic ex who refuses to get the message: It was fun while it lasted, but now that you’ve broken up and moved on, he just won’t go away.

Tribune News Service

Trump campaign announcement deepens Republicans’ civil war

Republicans are now soul searching over how they lost a very winnable Senate and bracing for two tumultuous years in the House – and many blame Trump

The Guardian - US

House GOP pushes Hunter Biden probe despite thin majority

Even with their threadbare House majority, Republicans doubled down this week on using their new power to investigate the Biden administration and in particular the president’s son

The Independent UK

GOP elites want to turn from Trump. Will the base let them?

Forget the scathing editorials from conservative media blaming former President Donald Trump for the GOP’s mediocre midterm. Never mind their underwhelmed reception to his 2024 presidential launch. Disregard the major donors who are bailing this time around.

Los Angeles Times

Grassroots activists won big this year. Can Democrats learn from them?

The best chance for progressives and left-leaning activists around the country to see significant gains over the next two years may be through ballot initiatives, John Bowden reports

The Independent UK

Trump reacts angrily to special counsel move: ‘I’m not going to partake in it’

‘This is a disgrace and only happening because I am leading in every poll in both parties,’ former president says

The Independent UK

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Impeachment, investigations, infighting: GOP’s thin margin in the House stirs intraparty conflict

WASHINGTON — The relatively weak red ripple from last week’s midterm elections may leave Republicans’ hopes for impeachment revenge against Joe Biden high and dry, but that probably won’t stop them from seeking dirt against the Democratic president, despite concerns from party moderates.

Tribune News Service

Grover Norquist pushes House GOP to reinstate earmark ban

WASHINGTON — The intraparty debate among House Republicans on a proposed earmark ban is heating up, with an influential GOP activist figure weighing in against maintaining the practice in the 118th Congress.

Tribune News Service

Pompeo goes after Trump while considering presidential bid, says he’s ‘tired of losing’

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday fired a warning shot at former President Donald Trump, indicating he believed the former president was responsible for the Republican Party losing elections.

ABC News

Donald Trump wants to get back into the White House. But one family member won't join him this time

Ivanka Trump spent years by her father's side, making her absence from her father's campaign launch noteworthy. Now she's revealed that, unlike Donald Trump, she will not be returning to the political arena.

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Trump’s racist rhetoric was blamed for a 145% rise in hate crimes against Asian Americans. Now he’s at it again

Ex-president’s attacks against his former transport secretary and the governor of Virginia recall the kind of racist language he used during the Covid pandemic, John Bowden writes

The Guardian - US

US attorney general appoints special counsel in Trump DoJ investigations – as it happened

Merrick Garland names Jack Smith, a veteran prosecutor, as special counsel to decide whether to bring charges against Trump

The Independent UK

Trump's rivals court his donors as '24 primary season begins

Republican 2024 presidential prospects descend upon Las Vegas this weekend as anxious donors and activists openly consider whether to embrace former President Donald Trump for a third consecutive bid

Salon

Top evangelicals turn on Trump

“He used us to win the White House," former evangelical advisory board member Mike Evans says

The Conversation

US politics: midterm elections have handed Joe Biden a divided Congress – history tells us that's bad for good government

Contrary to the expectations of many observers, the “red wave” stopped at the House of Representatives and only delivered the Republican Party a small majority. The Senate, though, will remain under Democrat control. So the US Congress will be divided until the 2024 election and the Biden administration no longer…

The Independent UK

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

Social media users shared a range of false claims this week

Salon

Judge blocks DeSantis' "dystopian" law

GOP's "Stop WOKE Act" violates the First Amendment, federal court rules

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