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Dean Phillips supporters launch ads attacking Biden’s electability

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 11/21/2023 - 5:00pm
The spots, focused on generational change and the president’s current polling, will initially run in New Hampshire and the Washington area.
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Democratic congresswoman Anna Eshoo won’t seek reelection in 2024

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 11/21/2023 - 4:07pm
The California Democrat, who was first elected to Congress in 1992, is among more than three dozen House members who have announced they will not seek another term.
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Many now see Haley as Trump’s top GOP challenger. She faces hurdles ahead.

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 11/21/2023 - 1:37pm
Jockeying in a tier below the former president has moved, with Haley surging into a distant second place.
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Democrats’ border problem is getting real

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 11/21/2023 - 1:21pm
The pro-immigration moment that Donald Trump unwittingly ushered in has suddenly waned. And even many Democrats are quite concerned.
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A boom of ballot initiatives is reshaping this state’s democracy

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 11/21/2023 - 11:57am
In Nebraska, senators refused to even debate paid sick leave. Now advocates want to give voters a direct say.
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Elon Musk provides yet another platform for far-right attacks

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 11/21/2023 - 11:02am
Those seeking favor from the world’s richest man are now doing time trials on the slippery slope to government repression of media.
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White House joins the social media platform Threads

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 11/21/2023 - 10:19am
The official White House accounts on Threads include the four principals: President Biden, first lady Jill Biden, Vice President Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff. In addition to its official White House account, the Biden administration launched a Spanish language account, LaCasaBlanca, on the platform.
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Here are the facts to prepare you for your Thanksgiving arguments

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 11/21/2023 - 9:00am
Here’s a news guide to this year’s Thanksgiving arguments over politics, pop culture, the economy, international news, sports and more. Good luck.
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Dreams dying in a Texas city where immigrants fought for an education

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 11/21/2023 - 6:00am
Undocumented people who came to the U.S. as children are seeing their ambitions thwarted amid legal uncertainty, despite public support.
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Appeals court decision could limit enforcement of Voting Rights Act

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 11/21/2023 - 2:04am
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit upheld a lower court’s ruling that private citizens and groups cannot sue under a statute that forbids discrimination in state and local elections laws.
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Hispanic conservatives defend Univision amid backlash over Trump interview

Washington Post Elections - Mon, 11/20/2023 - 8:26pm
Several prominent Hispanic conservatives are pushing back against the Congressional Hispanic Caucus’s effort to seek a meeting with the Spanish-language network.
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Appeals court suggests it may pare back Trump’s D.C. gag order

Washington Post Elections - Mon, 11/20/2023 - 6:03pm
A three-judge panel struggled over how to protect Donald Trump’s “core political speech” but also ensure a fair D.C. election-obstruction trial.
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Trump’s improved image: Is it approval — or amnesia?

Washington Post Elections - Mon, 11/20/2023 - 5:48pm
Like other recent former presidents, Trump has become at least somewhat more popular as an ex-president. A major 2024 question is whether that will hold up.
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What happens after Donald Trump’s ‘final battle’?

Washington Post Elections - Mon, 11/20/2023 - 4:03pm
The former president’s invocation of an electoral apocalypse is worth heeding.
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The demand for Capitol riot footage reaches its misinformation endgame

Washington Post Elections - Mon, 11/20/2023 - 1:41pm
For years, the right insisted that the government was hiding information undermining the riot “narrative.” Now that they have some video, they’re trying to prove themselves right.
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A judge says Trump incited insurrection. Other judges have come close.

Washington Post Elections - Mon, 11/20/2023 - 12:50pm
The Colorado judge is the first to rule that Trump incited an insurrection. She is not the first to lay blame at his feet for Jan. 6.
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Appeals panel grills both sides on Trump’s D.C. gag order

Washington Post Elections - Mon, 11/20/2023 - 12:05pm
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit is hearing arguments about whether Donald Trump should be subject to a gag order in his election subversion case in Washington.
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Young voters are not interested in the institutions Biden needs

Washington Post Elections - Mon, 11/20/2023 - 12:04pm
A generation raised on gig economics is making political decisions that aren’t rooted in party loyalty.
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Jimmy Carter’s most exciting moment was ‘when Rosalynn said she’d marry me’

Washington Post Elections - Mon, 11/20/2023 - 11:28am
After former president Jimmy Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, he said getting Rosalynn Carter to marry him was the happiest moment of his life.
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Tracking Biden administration political appointees to fill top roles

Washington Post Elections - Mon, 11/20/2023 - 10:39am
Follow the president's progress filling nearly 800 positions, among the 1,200 that require Senate confirmation, in this tracker from The Washington Post and the Partnership for Public Service.
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