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“None of these things seem like good news.” - @NateSilver538 on the post-election state of the Republican Party

Our producer Emma tracked down the mastermind behind Mississippi Senator-elect Scott Colom’s viral “Pick Another Protein” ad, content creator Ryan Sayles.

“Keisha Lance Bottoms becoming the first first Black woman in the country and a governor from the southern state. That tells us a couple things. One, about the power of the South. Two, the best organizers in this nation are Black women.”

Morris Katz: “We did this in Texas a little bit... We ran ads for anyone who googled ‘my husband cheated on me’ or ‘I think my husband is cheating on me,’ we were boosting results of Ken Paxton having cheated on his wife.”

Leigh McGowan, Erin Ryan, and Alyssa Mastromonaco on the midterms’ hottest heartthrobs.

.@LeahLitman: I have more nicknames for Stephen Miller.

“November 4th was the first day of work, not the last day of work.” - Heather Cox Richardson

We clipped it and sent it to ourselves!

Sen. Cory Booker: "Guys at Crooked Con, that's a tough name, these days with all the crooked going on in Washington. Change your name. Change your damn name... Somebody clip this and send it to them."

.@ProfMMurray: Let a Black woman be chief justice. Ifill: That part.

Ifill: If you’re democracy is strong, how does some guy get to come down an elevator with his wife in a white dress and just steal your democracy in just like two years? How does that happen?

Your eyes don’t deceive you; that’s Offline with @jonfavs in Times Square! See for yourself until November 12th if you’re in the area, or listen to Offline every week on @amazonmusic.

Carlos Eduardo Espina: “I’ve gotten so many people who’ve said, ‘I’m super conservative but I voted Democrat on the basis that you just can’t have, in a democracy, masked agents on the street...’ If you set the precedent that just because we won we’re going to forgive everything the past administration did, we’re going to end up in the same situation in four years.”

Brian Tyler Cohen: "The onus is on the party itself to not focus on seniority as a method for putting these people out front... people are desperate for generational change, they're desperate for new voices."

Jennifer Welch addresses the controversy following a joke about Charlie Kirk on her show.

This is misleading. The congressman goes on to explain it's not about pettiness, but actually about accountability.

Rebecca Katz: We didn't have people who were excited about investing in the possibility of Texas, and that almost cost us the biggest prize we've ever gotten.

Carlos Odio: What we saw on Tuesday was Trump had done bad things and then there were consequences for them.

.@danpfeiffer: "What did you see the party doing differently in 2026?" Addisu Demissie: "The answer is discipline."