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David Asman, FOX News
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Errol Louis, New York Magazine
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Barak Ravid, Axios
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Salena Zito, Washington Examiner
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Hannah Marr, MS Now
DeSantis Is Running...Right?
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Larissa Phillips, The Free Press
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Blue-nami

An agitated, animated electorate swept Democrats to control of both houses of Congress Tuesday in a monumental midterm election rebuke to a Republican president who had urged crowds at his rallies, “Pretend I’m on the ballot!” It wasn’t a winning argument. If anything, it backfired. Even in states and congressional districts that hadn’t sent a Democrat to Washington in decades, President Trump’s rallying cry didn’t work. Read More

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Claims that Donald Trump poses a grave threat to democracy likely contributed to Democrats’ smashing success in Tuesday’s elections. Ironically, the president’s efforts to bring more democratic accountability to government may prove to be one of his most durable achievements – despite persistent progressive pushback poised to ramp up under divided government. Read More

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The whole improbable “leading from the middle” campaign of Kansas Pastor Adam Hamilton, who switched parties in January to run against Republican Sen. Roger Marshall as a Democrat, only began to get national notice recently, after the president started freaking out about the polls he said were rubbish. But inside the state, the turn from “good thing Adam believes in miracles” to “you know, I think he could do this” happened a while ago. Read More

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