Yes, Susan, there really was a blue wave in 2018! ” Democrats have won the House with the largest margin of victory in a midterms election for either party, according to NBC News election data.”
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Trump blows off ceremonial presidential duties so he can sulk in the White House
Trump may project confidence through social media or when he appears in public, but it’s apparent that behind the scenes, he’s not feeling confident at all.
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SNL sends off Jeff Sessions in style
Watch highlights from the fifth episode of Saturday Night Live’s forty-fourth season.
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This year, Los Angeles is going all out to knock down transportation barriers to voting
Way to go, Los Angeles! Courtesy of Mayor Eric Garcetti’s campaign team, here’s an update on what America’s second largest metropolitan region is doing to make it easier for voters in Southern California to cast ballots.
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Civil rights legend John Lewis: “Vote like you’ve never voted before”
“I’m not asking any of you to give any blood,” civil rights legend Representative John Lewis said at a rally for Stacey Abrams. “I’m just asking you to go and vote like you never voted before. We have to vote!”
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Virginia Republican Party dean John Warner endorses Democrats for Congress
“It goes beyond politics now. I’m a Republican, I’ll finish a Republican as I cruise through my 91st year. But you’ve got to put the nation’s interests and the state’s interests ahead of politics… I just feel that the Democrats have got superior credentials to what is being offered.”
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“God is going to have to forgive me”: Young evangelicals speak out
“I am very excited to vote for Andrew Gillum. It is not that you have conservative evangelicals suddenly becoming liberal. It is more a realizing that you could be practicing something that isn’t even Christian at all.”
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Barack’s Back, Part IV: President Obama rips Trump and the Republicans for lying at Milwaukee rally
Watch President Barack Obama rally activists in Milwaukee for Democratic candidates up and down the ballot Friday afternoon.
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Bill Gates: Why I’m for Washington state’s pollution fee
Bill Gates has thrown his support behind Initiative 1631, spearheaded by a coalition that includes the Northwest Progressive Institute.
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The dark side of American conservatism has taken over
“In 1964, the GOP ceased to be the party of Lincoln and became the party of Southern whites. As I now look back with the clarity of hindsight, I am convinced that coded racial appeals had at least as much, if not more, to do with the electoral success of the modern Republican Party than all of the domestic and foreign policy proposals crafted by well-intentioned analysts like me. This is what liberals have been saying for decades. I never believed them. Now I do, because Trump won by making the racist appeal, hitherto relatively subtle, obvious even to someone such as me who used to be in denial.”
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Six siblings of an entrenched Republican congressman appear in ads supporting his Democratic challenger
Republican Paul Gosar’s family has no confidence in his leadership abilities as a United States Representative. That’s why six of his nine siblings appeared in an ad urging voters to support his Democratic challenger David Brill.
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Barack’s Back, Part III: Obama rips Republicans in Ohio
At a rally in Cleveland for Richard Cordray, President Obama did not mince words. “What we’ve seen is a politics that feels broken right now,” the President told cheering rallygoers. “Even the folks who won don’t seem happy. Have you noticed that? They [the Republicans] won the presidency, they won the House they won the Senate, and they’re still mad. Which is interesting.”
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Democrats see openings at state level, thanks to Trump resistance
It does feel very much like 2010 reversed to me right now. — Governor Bill Haslam of Tennessee, the head of the Republican Governors Association,
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It’s official: Medicaid expansion will be on Idaho’s ballot
This is a really, really, really big deal… and proof that progress is possible even in the reddest of the states.
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Ex-Representative Tom Davis: Ryan’s retirement “the nightmare scenario”
“This is the nightmare scenario… Everybody figured he’d just hang in there till after the election.”
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What Conor Lamb’s win does and does not tell us about wave elections
The winning formula is still what it has always been — turn out the base.
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“They can’t wait to vote”: Energized Democrats target dominant Republicans in statehouses
Top Republican operative: “What we have seen in the special elections is a significant spike in the interest, engagement, spending and energy by the liberal Democrats and progressive movement… The spending is real. The organizational prowess is real. And the energy is real”
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Huge: Court strikes down Pennsylvania’s Republican congressional gerrymander and orders a new map for 2018!
“On Monday, Pennsylvania’s state Supreme Court dealt Republican gerrymandering a crippling blow when it struck down the GOP’s congressional map for illegally discriminating against Democratic voters,” Stephen Wolf reports.
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The next Republican panic: Gubernatorial races
“Republicans concede that a handful of once-competitive battlegrounds are nearly out of reach for them in 2018,” reports Politico’s Gabriel Debenedetti and Daniel Strauss.
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Rebelling Republican suburbs offer Democrats path to House control
“Beyond the biggest blue states, perhaps two dozen red-hued districts with significant suburban populations could be winnable for Democrats in a banner year, including those held by Representatives Jaime Herrera Beutler and Dave Reichert of Washington State,” the New York Times reports.
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