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This piece from The Washington Post previews the coming redistricting fight in the Lone Star State. Republicans have a firm grip on the Legislature and will control the process. They’re sure to produce a gerrymandered map that will likely be challenged in court.
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“By the time rioters ransacked the Capitol, the machinery of the left had already been primed to respond — prepared by months spent sketching out doomsday scenarios and mapping out responses, by countless hours of training exercises and reams of opinion research,” The New York Times reports.
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Via Daily Kos Elections: “Just under 5 million votes were cast in November, so that means we could see runoff turnout at about 85% of Election Day turnout. By contrast, in 2008, which was the last time Georgia hosted a Senate runoff, turnout in the runoff was just 57% of Election Day.”
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“Bold, grassroots organizing is what wins elections,” Tania Unzueta Carrasco says, telling the story of how they successfully contacted every single Latino voter in the Peachtree State.
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Focused remarks? Check. Message discipline? Check. Making the most of an opportunity to speak to right wing voters and do some reframing? Check. Jon Ossoff shows how it’s done.
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“Our duty is very simple, and it’s a duty… We have no authority to request an audit, to delay or block certification, to review inaccuracies that happened at the local level,” Van Langevelde said.
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“In 2020, Biden won 477 counties that account for seventy percent of the U.S. economy, while Trump won 2,497 counties amounting to just shy of thirty percent of the economy, according to an analysis by Mark Muro, senior fellow at the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution, and his team.”
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Biden calls the work of rebuilding America, “the task of our time.” His win in Pennsylvania sealed his victory earlier today.
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Joe Biden and Kamala Harris address the nation in the aftermath of their electoral college victory.
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News networks declared Biden the winner after his lead in Pennsylvania surpassed the threshold needed for a vote recount.
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Faced with the likelihood of a Republican Senate and a powerful alliance of progressives, Biden must toe a narrow line in his appointments.
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If the Vice President’s numbers stay steady in Pennsylvania and Georgia, he is all but guaranteed to win the 2020 election.
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“Our number one job is to make sure that we have an accurate election, an accurate tally,” said Meagan Wolfe, the administrator of the Badger State’s Elections Commission.
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The results in Arizona, Georgia and Pennsylvania are eye-watering, but Biden appears on track to win the election.
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As Thursday afternoon draws on, a tiny handful of states are keeping us all on edge, with mail-in votes arriving in dribs and drabs.
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Democrat Jon Ossoff is on track to deny David Purdue the 50% of the vote the Senator needs to avoid a runoff.
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Trump is still ahead of Biden in the Peach State, but votes from deep-blue counties are eating into his lead.
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“Instead of refreshing the page to update predictions, people should have done the only thing that actually affects the outcome: vote, donate and organize. As we have found out, everything else is within the margin of error.”
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Peters’ win came as increasing numbers of mail-in ballots are counted, and shore up Democrats’ slim odds of winning the Senate.
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Puerto Ricans voted to become a state in a nonbinding vote, giving proponents of statehood a mandate to pursue their goal.
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Biden’s win in Michigan means that Trump will have to win all he remaining uncalled states to overtake him in the electoral college.
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