Remember that cyclist who flipped off Trump's motorcade?
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Wednesday, November 6
BLUE CRUSH: DEMS BIG IN BELLWETHERS Democrats made major gains in state-level elections across the country, revealing President Donald Trump’s weakness in even the reddest of states and putting the lie to the idea of a massive voter backlash against House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry. [HuffPost]
DEMOCRAT ANDY BESHEAR DECLARES VICTORY IN KENTUCKY Democrat Andy Beshear declared victory over GOP Gov. Matt Bevin in a bitter Kentucky governor’s race that may rejuvenate the Democratic Party and leave Republicans lamenting another lost opportunity to cement their hold on the Bluegrass State. [HuffPost]
CYCLIST WHO FLIPPED OFF TRUMP'S MOTORCADE WINS VIRGINIA Juli Briskman, who famously flipped off Trump’s motorcade in a viral 2017 photo, won her race for a seat on the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors in Virginia. Briskman, fired from her job as a marketing executive in the photo aftermath, unseated eight-year incumbent Republican Suzanne Volpe. [HuffPost]
GOP HOLDS ON IN MISSISSIPPI GOVERNOR RACE Mississippi Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves (R) won the state’s gubernatorial race. It was closer than matchups in recent elections -- Trump carried Mississippi by more than 17 percentage points in 2016, but Reeves won by about 8 points, according to preliminary results. [HuffPost]
SONDLAND CONFESSION UNDERSCORES GRAHAM'S HYPOCRISY Trump apologist Lindsay Graham has said that if there was real evidence of quid pro quo pressure on Ukraine by Trump, that “would be very disturbing.” But on Tuesday, when EU ambassador Gordon Sondland's revised impeachment testimony showed just that, Graham dismissed it as "a bunch of B.S." Other Republicans ducked questions about Sondland's reversal. [HuffPost]
KANSAS CITY VOTES TO REMOVE KING'S NAME FROM STREET Kansas City voters overwhelmingly approved removing Martin Luther King’s name from one of the city’s most historic boulevards, less than a year after the city council decided to rename The Paseo for the civil rights icon. [AP] |
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STATE DEPT. BIGWIG TO SAY POLITICAL CONSIDERATIONS DROVE UKRAINE POLICY The State Department’s third-ranking official, David Hale, is expected to tell Congress that political considerations were behind the agency’s refusal to deliver a robust defense of the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine. [AP]
BIDEN UNLEASHES BLISTERING ATTACK ON WARREN Former Vice President Joe Biden escalated his skirmish with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) over their competing health care plans, writing in an essay that she was taking a dangerous “my way or the highway” approach to the issue. [HuffPost]
JERSEY CITY DEALS BLOW TO AIRBNB New Yorkers will soon have a new way to vote for their elected officials, and Airbnb must grapple with the latest in a string of regulatory defeats after voters in Jersey City, N.J., approved sharp restrictions on short-term rentals there. [New York Times]
NYC PASSES BALLOT MEASURE TO APPROVE RANKED-CHOICE New York City voters passed a ballot measure that will make the city the most populous place in the U.S. to adopt a ranked-choice voting system. The new system, which passed with overwhelming support, will let people rank up to five candidates in order of preference. [AP]
SUSPECT ARRESTED IN MEXICO MORMON MASSACRE A suspect has been arrested in the massacre of nine family members from a Mormon community in Mexico. The Ministerial Agency for Criminal Investigations said it has detained an individual who was holding two bound and gagged hostages in the hills of Agua Priests in the state of Sonora. [CNN]
TEHRAN STARTS INJECTING URANIUM GAS INTO CENTRIFUGES Iran’s president announced that Tehran will begin injecting uranium gas into 1,044 centrifuges, the latest step away from its nuclear deal with world powers since Trump withdrew from the accord over a year ago. [AP] |
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