Sahil Kapur

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With 99% counted, John Fetterman's lead over Mehmet Oz has grown to 4.5 points, or 241,084 votes. https://t.co/6hshVlMSMs — PolitiTweet.org

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.@LeaderHoyer on whether Kevin McCarthy will be able to govern with a small Republican majority: “We’ll see! Mr. Ryan and Mr. Boehner found it difficult.” (Ryan and Boehner had larger majorities than this one will be.) — PolitiTweet.org

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.@WhipClyburn on whether Pelosi will stay or go: “I have absolutely no idea.” He tells me he plans to stay in House Democratic leadership regardless of what she does. On PELOSI: “She has done absolutely great. Fantastic. History-making in more ways than one.” — PolitiTweet.org

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New: Republican infighting escalates over poor 2022 election results as Trump re-emerges “I’m a physician, so I would say when the patient dies, you do an autopsy. So this is, in effect, the post-mortem,” says GOP Sen. ⁦@BillCassidy⁩. https://t.co/c1hyMYBhW7 — PolitiTweet.org

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Speaker Pelosi’s deputy chief of staff says she “plans to address her future plans tomorrow” 👇 — PolitiTweet.org

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.@SpeakerPelosi on the 2022 election, with the GOP projected to capture the House: "In the next Congress, House Democrats will continue to play a leading role in supporting President Biden’s agenda — with strong leverage over a scant Republican majority." https://t.co/LJ66Nj7wv2 — PolitiTweet.org

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NEW: Republicans win control of the House, @NBCNews projects https://t.co/qU56jDLHSc — PolitiTweet.org

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Newly re-elected Republican Sen. Ron Johnson (Wis.), on why he voted NO: "The Respect for Marriage Act is unnecessary as the Obergefell decision is settled law and has no chance of being overturned," he says. — PolitiTweet.org

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😱 My first time at the big board! Reporting on — what else? — judges. Democratic control of the Senate gives Biden two more years to continue reshaping the courts. Here’s what that looks like: — PolitiTweet.org

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NEWS: 62-37, Senate votes to defeat a filibuster and advance the Respect For Marriage Act to codify federal protections for same-sex marriage. This puts it on a glide path to passage. — PolitiTweet.org

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Mitch McConnell, on the GOP's 2024 failures, says Republicans failed with independents and moderates: "We have a problem with people in the middle who still — even though there are not as many of them as they used to be — determine the outcome." — PolitiTweet.org

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Mitch McConnell on Trump running for president in 2024: "The way I'm going to go into this president primary season is to stay out of it. I don't have a dog in that fight. I think it's gonna be a highly contested nomination fight, with other candidates entering." — PolitiTweet.org

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"I don’t own this job," McConnell says after getting re-elected Senate Republican leader. "Anybody who wants to run for it can feel free to do so. So I’m not in any way offended by having an opponent or having a few votes in opposition." "I’m pretty proud of 37 to 10." — PolitiTweet.org

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The new @NRSC chair for the 2024 cycle will be @SteveDaines. — PolitiTweet.org

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NEW: McConnell re-elected Senate GOP leader, defeating a challenge from Rick Scott w/ @frankthorp: https://t.co/SHd6rM7a87 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @maggieNYT: The legacy conservative publication that devoted an edition to being against Trump a few weeks before he won New Hampshire i… — PolitiTweet.org

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Josh Harder (D) wins re-election in California’s 9th congressional district, @NBCNews projects, defeating Tom Patti (R). — PolitiTweet.org

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Problem for Trump’s intra-party critics: He has alienated lots of college-educated voters and made the “R” label more reliant on disaffected/irregular voters who’ll turn out for him but not for normie Republicans. What will the 2024 primary electorate look like? — PolitiTweet.org

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Joe Biden responds to Trump’s 2024 announcement with a video highlighting “very fine people,” his dangling of pardons for Jan. 6 rioters, his calls to wipe out the ACA and his old remark that women who get an abortion should be punished, among other things. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump, who won the presidency in 2016 despite losing the popular vote by ~3 million votes, heralds House Republicans’ popular vote victory in the 2022 election. — PolitiTweet.org

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“Despite the outcome in the Senate, we cannot lose hope. And we must all work very hard for a gentleman and a great person named Herschel Walker,” Trump says ahead of the Dec. 6 Georgia runoff, and after Democrats clinched Senate control. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump on the 2022 election: “Much criticism is being placed on the fact that the Republican Party should have done better. And frankly much of this blame is correct. But the citizens of our country have not yet realized the full extent of the pain our nation is going through.” — PolitiTweet.org

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30-year incumbent Rep. Ken Calvert (R) wins in California’s 41st congressional district, @NBCNews projects, narrowly defeating a challenge from Will Rollins (D). The redrawn district includes Riverside County and Palm Springs. https://t.co/n4FM9xRdaL — PolitiTweet.org

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“Donald Trump, the only president impeached twice, filed the paperwork Tuesday to launch his 2024 presidential campaign, two years after voters ousted him and a week after they rejected his hand-picked candidates in several pivotal Senate races.” https://t.co/TVDY32WLEQ — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @donie: NEW: Facebook sent a memo to its fact-checkers this afternoon telling them if Trump announces he's running for president tonight… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @POTUS: I spoke with President Andrzej Duda of Poland to express my deep condolences for the loss of life in Eastern Poland and offer ou… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @NBCNews: LATEST: The Polish government says a Russian-made missile killed two of its citizens in a small town near the border with Ukra… — PolitiTweet.org

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McConnell: “I never predicted a red wave. We never saw that in any of our polling in the states that we were counting on to win.” He says Republican candidates in NH (Bolduc) and AZ (Masters) were “just crushed by independent voters.” He reiterates “candidate quality” matters. — PolitiTweet.org

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McConnell on 2022: “We under-performed among independents and moderates because their impression of many of the people in our party, in leadership roles, is that they’re causing chaos, negativity, excessive attacks. And it frightened independent and moderate Republican voters.” https://t.co/ZE7kREtkqf — PolitiTweet.org