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Lamest psyop ever. Humiliating how many people fell for it and still are falling for it.

Delighted to return to Sam Harris’s podcast to discuss the midterms. samharris.substack.com/p/the…

WaPo: House Freedom Caucus argues Republicans were not aggressive enough Members of the House Freedom Caucus said in a news conference Wednesday that House Republicans didn’t do enough to appeal to the nation’s most conservative voters this election — resulting in massive losses for the House GOP. “It’s not because we didn’t do enough liberal things that we had the result last Tuesday,” said Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pennsylvania), who lost his seat. “It’s because we didn’t deliver on the things that we told America we were going to do.” washingtonpost.com/politics/…

Axios: Colorado Governor-elect Phil Weiser taps Republican State Senator for agriculture commissioner Weiser nominated state Senate GOP leader Cleave Simpson, a San Luis Valley farmer and rancher, as agriculture commissioner. axios.com/local/colorado-spr…

Biggest senate upset since when?

It’s a Massie-Khanna op. Mark it down.

This is why I oppose the BAAJA permitting reform bill.

VoteHub projects Scott Colom to win the Mississippi U.S. Senate election.

People are clearly hungry for a Leader of the Opposition style figure and I get that impulse. But the job of the leader in each legislative chamber here in the U.S. isn’t to articulate a vision for the party. It’s to keep each respective caucus together and count votes. Dassit.

The Hill: Republican Mike Turner says Ramaswamy ad sunk his reelection in Ohio Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio) said he believes a controversial ad from Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy may have cost him his reelection bid in the end, suggesting he did not expect losing his House seat. “That final ad from Vivek really was kind of a lightning strike at the end, and it had an impact up and down the ticket in all the races,” Turner told CNN’s Pamela Brown on Wednesday thehill.com/homenews/campaig…

This is BIG. @aflcio just endorsed our bipartisan permitting reform bill. BAAJA means new, family-supporting jobs and a brighter clean energy future.

👀 Interesting… Ayanna Pressley is now encouraging people to endorse "Ayanna's Agenda." The page lists out what the Democratic majority would do "if it were up to Ayanna Pressley" —> – Medicare for All – National abortion protections – Stopping data centers – Abolishing ICE

My Congressional district (PA-01) was just won by a Democrat. It’s been red for many years. There’s a chance I form an exploratory committee in the next few weeks and truly begin to look into that race. If I don’t think it’s winnable for someone who has been so openly outspoken, I won’t enter and waste people’s time… but I’m genuinely considering it.

We won't know exactly what heterodoxy will look like in the incoming Democratic majority in congress, but none of the new faces seem likely behave anything like Manchin or Sinema, the odious pro-corporate moderates that plagued the last Dem majority.

I had a GOP congressman lament to me Florida could have drawn a 22R-6D map that left every incumbent safe, but instead reached for a 24R-4D map that left everyone fighting for their lives. In Florida, the delegation stayed 20R-8D, same as 2024, but it cost millions to break even.

Fascinating exchange between Squawk Box host and Nikki Haley. Host: "You just said that everyone knew that [ICE was] overreaching. And I did not hear Republicans for the past two years say publicly, out loud, that they believed that ICE was overreaching..."

Former House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), quoted by MS NOW, on fellow Ohioan Jim Jordan (R-OH) in 2021. “I just never saw a guy who spent more time tearing things apart, never building anything, never putting anything together.”

Inbox: Rand Paul says he will become the top Republican on the HELP committee next year Rand is currently top R on HSGAC, but because of seniority can move to HELP

David Axelrod, former Obama senior adviser: You look at these DSA candidates who've been elected. With one exception that I can think of, they've been elected from deep-blue, often urban districts. They are not the dominant voice. I think Hakeem Jeffries has a lot of maneuverability here in making sure that the loudest voices don't become the dominant voices. I don't think that's where the Democratic Party is going. I don't think a DSA candidate is going to be the nominee of the Democratic Party. I don't think that we're on the verge of a kind of DSA takeover of the Democratic Party. No.