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Date: November 13th, 2022 11:52 PM Author: Embarrassed to the bone stage patrolman someone should tell trump😂
Maggie Astor, Neil Vigdor and Jonathan Weisman
Here’s the latest on the election results. Democrats are celebrating retaining control of the Senate, which they clinched with the victory of Senator Catherine Cortez Masto in Nevada, overcoming President Biden’s weak job approval ratings, high inflation and the historical advantages of the opposition during midterm elections.
Ms. Cortez Masto, the first Latina elected to the Senate, defeated Adam Laxalt on Saturday, ensuring that Democrats will keep at least their 50-50 majority in the Senate, where Vice President Kamala Harris holds the tiebreaking vote for the party.
“Nevadans rejected the far-right politicians working to divide us,” Ms. Cortez Masto said. “We rejected their conspiracies, their attacks on our workers and their attempts to restrict our freedoms.”
Republicans did have a victory in the state, with voters ousting their Democratic governor in favor of Joseph Lombardo, the Clark County sheriff who ran as a law-and-order Republican.
But on Sunday, it was clear that many Republicans saw their performance as evidence that former President Donald J. Trump was a political liability. Among other examples, Senators Tom Cotton of Arkansas and Bill Cassidy of Louisiana denied in interviews on the morning talk shows that Mr. Trump, by far the most prominent and powerful figure in the Republican Party, was the party’s leader.
Here’s what else to know today:
The tight Arizona governor’s race between Kari Lake, a Republican, and her Democratic opponent, Katie Hobbs, remains uncalled, with Ms. Hobbs maintaining a slight lead. A batch of results released from Maricopa County on Sunday evening appeared to narrow Ms. Lake’s chances of mounting a comeback.
Doug Mastriano, the Republican who was central to trying to overturn Pennsylvania’s 2020 election results, conceded to Josh Shapiro in the state’s governor’s race — four days after the race was called.
Lori Chavez-DeRemer, a Republican, won a U.S. House seat in central Oregon on Sunday, according to The Associated Press, defeating her Democratic opponent, Jamie McLeod-Skinner, and handing her party a crucial victory in its push to win a majority in the House.
With Jim Marchant’s loss in Nevada’s race for secretary of state to Cisco Aguilar, a Democrat, every election denier hoping to run future elections in a major battleground state has been defeated.
Republicans have the upper hand in the race for control of the House, with a lead in 222 districts — more than the 218 needed to clinch the majority.
Show less Peter Baker Nov. 13, 2022, 9:30 p.m. ET2 hours ago 2 hours ago Peter Baker
An emboldened Biden now faces a tough choice about his own future. Image President Biden boarded Air Force One in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Sunday. Even on his overseas trip, he has intensely followed the vote counting back home. President Biden boarded Air Force One in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Sunday. Even on his overseas trip, he has intensely followed the vote counting back home. Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times
These are heady days for President Biden. The midterm elections offered long-sought validation. Democrats held onto the Senate, and even if they lose the House it will be by a narrow margin. The Republicans are in retreat and, by the way, so are the Russians and, just a bit at least, so is inflation.
The president’s fellow Democrats are flocking to cameras to give him credit. “This victory belongs to Joe Biden,” Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, his onetime rival, said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday. His advisers sound almost giddy, using words like “miracle” and “biblical” to describe the election.
But even as the history-defying midterms went a long way toward solving some of the president’s immediate political problems, they did not miraculously make him any younger. A week from Sunday, Mr. Biden, the oldest president in American history, will turn 80, a milestone the White House has no plans to celebrate with fireworks or splashy parties. And so Mr. Biden confronts a choice that still leaves many in his party quietly uncomfortable: Should he run for a second term?
Top advisers such as Ron Klain, Anita Dunn, Mike Donilon, Steven J. Ricchetti and Jennifer O’Malley Dillon are already meeting to map out what a 2024 campaign would look like. The president said last week that he “intends” to run but would talk with his family over the holidays and announce a decision early next year. He will only be more motivated assuming former President Donald J. Trump jumps into the race on Tuesday night as expected |
Date: May 17th, 2026 9:15 AM Author: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Bill Cassidy (R-LA) voted to convict Trump following the second impeachment (the J6 one).
Trump did not forget and worked to have Cassidy primaried. Trump heavily supported Letlow.
Cassidy just finished third in the primary and didn't make the runoff.
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Date: May 17th, 2026 10:39 AM Author: butt cheeks (✅🍑) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5234803&forum_id=2#49887381) |
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Date: May 17th, 2026 10:49 AM Author: AZNgirl asking Chud the Builder to call her Chink that Letlow bitch only got into house cause her beta husband died of FRAUD VIRUS, he was aged similar to XO poasters. ljl what a weak benchod https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke_Letlow (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5234803&forum_id=2#49887398) |
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Date: May 17th, 2026 11:36 AM Author: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, wow, relatively young guy with no serious pre-existing health issues. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5234803&forum_id=2#49887455) |
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Date: May 17th, 2026 10:37 AM Author: peeface the most mind blowing thing about this dude is he introduced a bill to implement a carbon tax. how was this guy a GOP Senator from Louisiana?
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Date: May 17th, 2026 10:48 AM Author: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5234803&forum_id=2#49887396) |
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Date: May 17th, 2026 10:51 AM Author: khaogod (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5234803&forum_id=2#49887402) |
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Date: May 17th, 2026 10:49 AM Author: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, NYT coverage
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Trump Tightens Grasp on G.O.P. as Cassidy Loss Shows Cost of Defiance The defeat showed the president’s dominance in his party, even as a broader range of views about Mr. Trump could be a major Republican liability in the midterms.
s Tim Balk By Tim Balk May 17, 2026 Updated 9:15 a.m. ET President Trump’s push to oust Republican lawmakers who have crossed him claimed its most prominent name yet in Louisiana this weekend, reinforcing Mr. Trump’s dominance in the party, even as the G.O.P. braces for a potential backlash to his presidency in the midterm elections.
For the second time this month, Republican primary voters sent a message about the price of defying the president, this time by retiring Senator Bill Cassidy, who voted to convict Mr. Trump in his impeachment trial after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. The outcome in Louisiana on Saturday followed losses by a group of Indiana state lawmakers whom the president targeted for political payback. And it arrived just ahead of another big test on Mr. Trump’s retribution tour: a House primary in Kentucky on Tuesday.
In each case, Mr. Trump trained his ire at Republicans for different reasons. He endorsed against the Indiana lawmakers after they opposed a redistricting plan, turned on Mr. Cassidy over the 2020 election and subsequent impeachment vote, and is now trying to take down Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky, a Republican who has criticized him over the Epstein files and the war with Iran.
But the moves combine to form a picture of a second-term president who brooks little dissent in his party — and whose sagging standing with the general public is doing little to deter him from asserting his influence on a party in his thrall.
“You get on the wrong side of Donald Trump in one of these primaries, and it’s highly likely to be a bad day for you,” said Scott Jennings, a Republican strategist and CNN analyst. “Donald Trump’s word and judgment in a Republican primary is the thing that matters the most. In many cases, it is the alpha and the omega.”
As voters cast their ballots in Louisiana on Saturday, Mr. Trump signaled interest in a new potential target, assailing Representative Lauren Boebert of Colorado over her support for Mr. Massie.
“Even though I long ago endorsed Boebert, if the right person came along, it would be my Honor to withdraw that Endorsement, and endorse a good and proper alternative,” Mr. Trump wrote on social media. (In response, Ms. Boebert posted that she was still “MAGA” and was simply standing with a friend in Mr. Massie.)
It is a risky approach for Mr. Trump, whose party is hurtling into midterm headwinds posed by high consumer prices, the unpopular war with Iran and a concern among some swing voters that the president is distracted from pocketbook issues, consumed by overseas conflicts and various feuds. Polls show that Mr. Trump’s approval rating is well underwater, an indicator of danger for the G.O.P. this fall.
Now, vulnerable Republicans may feel that they have even less space to dissent from the administration. Even as some prominent voices in Mr. Trump’s MAGA movement have rebelled since the war broke out, the president’s hold on the party’s base has appeared durable.
“It’s an important reminder that while overall his popularity’s pretty low, he still remains extremely popular amongst his Republican base,” Jon Fleischman, a Republican strategist in California, said of the result in Louisiana.
The next test of Mr. Trump’s influence will come this week when Mr. Massie, a longtime Trump critic from a deep-red state, faces Ed Gallrein, a farmer and former Navy SEAL. Mr. Massie led the charge among congressional Republicans to release files related to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, taking on Mr. Trump over his initial resistance. More recently, Mr. Massie has accused Mr. Trump of violating campaign promises by starting the war with Iran.
Mr. Trump, in turn, has endorsed Mr. Gallrein, campaigned with him in Kentucky and showered Mr. Massie with insults, calling him a “RINO,” short for Republican in name only.
In some ways, Mr. Massie is a challenging target for Mr. Trump: The seventh-term congressman has a unique pull on an independent-minded section of rural Kentucky, local Republicans say, and he has fended off challenges before.
Image Thomas Massie and Lauren Boebert standing together. Representatives Thomas Massie and Lauren Boebert on Capitol Hill last month.Credit...Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times But Mr. Trump hasn’t shied away from picking tough primary fights. On Saturday, Mr. Cassidy, a well-funded incumbent, was the latest victim.
Mr. Cassidy, facing a hail of insults from Mr. Trump, failed to make a runoff in his Republican primary battle. He finished behind Mr. Trump’s choice, Representative Julia Letlow of Louisiana, and the state treasurer, John Fleming, a former congressman who served as an official in Mr. Trump’s first administration.
“Our country is not about one individual,” Mr. Cassidy said in his concession speech. He added, “If someone doesn’t understand that and attempts to control others through using the levers of power, they’re about serving themselves.”
Mr. Cassidy’s loss offered another signal that Mr. Trump’s false claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him remains a live issue for many Republicans. Mr. Cassidy had urged voters not to focus on “events from five years ago, six years ago,” saying that the race was “about the present and the future.”
Mr. Trump and some voters did not appear ready to move on.
In social media posts on Saturday, Mr. Trump celebrated that Mr. Cassidy had “lost by such large numbers” and declared that the senator’s “disloyalty” was now “a part of legend.”
Derek Babcock, the chair of the Louisiana Republican Party, said that Mr. Cassidy had been a strong supporter of Mr. Trump since the president returned to office and that the senator had labored to convince Republicans to “forgive” the vote in the impeachment trial.
“He’s worked hard to try to earn that forgiveness,” Mr. Babcock said on Saturday. “I just can’t say that I’m seeing it.”
Mr. Trump took his revenge on Republican state lawmakers in Indiana who refused to answer his call to redraw the state’s congressional map, endorsing primary challengers to seven of the legislators. Five of the Trump-backed candidates succeeded in ousting the incumbents in early May.
Representative Barry Moore, an Alabama Republican running in a competitive Senate primary, said in an interview on Saturday that the recent results sent a “strong message” that Mr. Trump continued to have a “very, very powerful voice” in the party.
Mr. Moore, who is on the ballot in Alabama’s primary on Tuesday, was endorsed by Mr. Trump in January. He said the development had “moved the needle dramatically” for him, offering him a roughly 30-point lift in the polls.
The interventions by Mr. Trump have been concentrated in deep-red states, and the president has apparently shown a degree of sensitivity to Republican concern that some of his moves could backfire in the midterms.
On Thursday, Vice President JD Vance offered warm words to Senator Susan Collins of Maine, a vulnerable Republican incumbent who joined Mr. Cassidy in the 2021 impeachment trial vote, saying she was “doing a great job,” even if he sometimes becomes “frustrated” with her.
And in February, Mr. Trump withdrew his endorsement of Representative Jeff Hurd, a Colorado Republican, over the congressman’s opposition to his tariff regime, instead backing a right-wing primary challenger. The move landed poorly with some Republicans, who warned that Mr. Trump’s new choice, Hope Scheppelman, could imperil the party’s chance of keeping the seat in November.
Mr. Trump backed off. In March, he reversed himself and re-endorsed Mr. Hurd, clearing the field by inviting Ms. Scheppelman to join his administration.
In that race, Mr. Trump spoke not of bruising intraparty disputes or unseating “RINOs,” but of a need to unite going into November.
“Every true MAGA supporter and Republican,” he wrote on social media, “if they truly care about saving our Country, will do everything in their power to unify together.” |
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Date: May 17th, 2026 11:05 AM Author: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, funny quote from Cassidy before the 2024 election when Cassidy said he would not vote for Trump.
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“President Trump is the first president, in the Republican side at least, to lose the House, the Senate and the presidency in four years. Elections are about winning,” Cassidy told Axios’s Mike Allen.
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elections are about winning. |