In This Episode
Elections
- FiveThirtyEight: Tracking the races that are still too close to call
- Wall Street Journal: Democratic Gains in the House Could Climb to 38 Seats
- NBC News: Democrats had a good showing on Election Day. It’s been even better for them since
- Politico: Key midterm races still up for grabs
- Washington Post: The blue wave was big — and significant — in state legislatures
- New York Times: Kyrsten Sinema Declared Winner in Arizona Senate Race
- Washington Post: Sinema wins in Arizona as Democrats capture a longtime GOP Senate seat
- AZ Central: Kyrsten Sinema beats Martha McSally to become Arizona’s first female senator
- Mother Jones: Democrats Are Still Waiting to See How Many House Seats They Flipped in California
- Miami Herald: Trump, Scott and Rubio continue to push claims of Florida voter fraud without evidence
- Washington Post: Trump’s call to revert vote totals in Florida makes even less sense than you might think
- Washington Post: The media’s eagerness to discount the ‘blue wave’ feeds a dangerous problem
- Los Angeles Times: Essential Politics: In California’s House races, the vote tallies are not trending toward Republicans.
How is Trump handling big loss?
- CNN: President Trump’s tweet on California wildfires angers firefighters, celebrities
- Los Angeles Times: Trump blames fires, erroneously, on California forest management. Firefighters call it a ‘shameful attack’
- Los Angeles Times: Track key details of the California wildfires
- New York Times: Trump’s Misleading Claims About California’s Fire ‘Mismanagement’
- Axios: Trump wants no more relief funds for Puerto Rico
Foreign trip / Arlington Cemetery debate
- Politico: Trump’s rain decision casts dark clouds over his Paris trip
- New York Times: Trump’s Nationalism, Rebuked at World War I Ceremony, Is Reshaping Much of Europe
- ThinkProgress: Trump skips ceremony to honor fallen American troops due to rain
- Washington Post: Trump skipped a U.S. cemetery visit abroad. The French army trolled him for avoiding the rain
- USA Today: Critics denounce ‘low energy’ Donald Trump for skipping WWI cemetery ceremony
Troops on the border for no reason
- New York Times: Deployed Inside the United States: The Military Waits for the Migrant Caravan
- NBC News: What are 5,600 troops going to do at the border? Maybe not much
- Washington Post: Trump administration tightens immigration asylum rules as caravans continue to push for U.S. border
- NBC News: Veterans haven’t received GI Bill benefits for months due to ongoing IT issues at VA
- The Hill: Pence: ‘Veterans have no better friend than President Trump’
- Washington Post: Does anyone love our military less than President Trump?
The Democrats
- NPR: Democrats Say Their First Bill Will Focus On Strengthening Democracy At Home
- The Guardian: Democrats unveil ambitious reforms targeting voter suppression and ethics violations
- Huffington Post: The First Thing Democrats Will Do If They Win The House Is Pass Anti-Corruption And Voting Rights Reforms
- Time: Democrats Just Won the House. Here’s What They Plan to Do First
- Washington Post: Democrats signal aggressive investigations of Trump while resisting impeachment calls
- Axios: 1 big thing … Democrats load “subpoena cannon”: 85+ Trump targets
- Washington Post: Will House Democrats help or hurt the party’s chances of winning in 2020?
- Politico: Poll: Democrats shouldn’t move to impeach Trump
- Bloomberg: Now in Charge, House Democrats Vow Oversight, Not Overreach, on Trump
- Wall Street Journal: Democrats Built a Big Tent; Can They Keep It?
- Financial Times: Over-reach is a risk for the Democrats after the midterms
- Vox: To beat Trump, House Democrats need to fight on policy, not just scandals
- New York Times: In the Campaign, Democrats Didn’t Let Trump Distract Them. That Will Be Harder Now.
- Washington Post: Congress returns to familiar threat: Trump’s demand for wall money or shutdown
- Washington Post: Trump blames downturn in stock market on expected investigations by Democrats
- New York Times: How the House Fell: Republican Chaos and Democratic Focus
- Washington Post: The Daily 202: Four ways the midterm results challenged conventional wisdom
- New York Times: Do the Math. Moderate Democrats Will Not Win in 2020. – Op – Ed
- Washington Post: A reader’s guide: 12 targets as House Democrats prepare to investigate the Trump administration
- New York Times: Democrats Have Two Paths for 2020: Daring or Defensive. Can They Settle on Either?
Lauren Groh-Wargo
- Washington Post: Federal judge delays certification of Georgia election results, citing concerns over provisional ballots
- Vox: The races that still haven’t been called in Florida and Georgia, explained
- Washington Post: Republicans fan unfounded worries about voter fraud in Florida and other close contests
- New York Times: Federal Judge Delays Certification of Georgia Election Results
- Associated Press: Kemp-Abrams feud highlights new landscape in divided Georgia
- Vox: Why the political fight in Georgia is far from over
- Atlanta Journal Constitution: Judge orders review of provisional ballots in Georgia election
- Atlanta Journal Constitution: Georgia secretary of state tells election officials to count absentee ballots
- Washington Post: Stacey Abrams, still hoping to force a runoff in Georgia governor’s race, files a new lawsuit
- The Atlantic: Brian Kemp’s Lead in Georgia Needs an Asterisk
- New York Times: Brian Kemp Resigns as Georgia Secretary of State, With Governor’s Race Still Disputed
- Politico: Abrams defiant as Kemp declares victory in Georgia
- Washington Post: Georgia GOP gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp claims victory as Democrat Stacey Abrams declines to concede
- NBC News: Brian Kemp resigns as Georgia secretary of state as governor’s race remains too close to call
The Blue Wave is real, Kyrsten Sinema wins in Arizona, Trump takes a pass on honoring veterans because it rained, and House Democrats put voting rights at the top of their agenda. Then Stacey Abrams’ campaign manager Lauren Groh-Wargo talks to Tommy about the effort to count every vote in Georgia’s governor’s race.
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