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Today, Democrats and Republicans alike are looking for lessons successful the triumph of Sen. Raphael G. Warnock (D-Ga.) implicit Republican challenger Herschel Walker successful Georgia’s Senate runoff. With Warnock’s triumph Tuesday night, members of the Democratic Caucus volition clasp 51 seats successful the chamber, a pickup of 1 spot successful midterm elections successful which Republicans hoped to instrumentality power of the chamber. Walker was the 4th campaigner backed by erstwhile president Donald Trump to suffer a Senate contention that Republicans thought they could win.
In Washington, 2nd man Doug Emhoff, the spouse of Vice President Harris, is hosting a roundtable connected the emergence of antisemitism successful the United States. President Biden has nary nationalist events connected his docket Wednesday.
Your regular dashboard
- 10 a.m. Eastern: Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) holds a quality league to sermon the predetermination results. Watch unrecorded here.
- 11 a.m. Eastern: Emhoff hosts a roundtable with Jewish leaders astatine the White House.
- 2 p.m. Eastern: White House property caput Karine Jean-Pierre briefs reporters astatine the White House. Watch unrecorded here.
On our radar: Supreme Court to see cardinal alteration successful elections authority
Legal battles implicit partisan and radical gerrymandering “are arsenic North Carolina arsenic barbecue, baccy fields and hot, humid summertime days,” says the enforcement manager of the authorities Common Cause chapter.
But the lawsuit that the Supreme Court hears Wednesday brings stakes similar nary other.
The Post’s Robert Barnes reports that the justices volition instrumentality up what some sides hold could beryllium a fundamental, adjacent radical change successful the mode national elections are conducted. Per Bob:
It could springiness authorities legislatures sole authorization to acceptable the rules for the contests, taxable lone to involution by Congress, adjacent if the actions of legislators interruption elector protections laid retired successful authorities constitutions and effect successful utmost partisan gerrymandering for legislature seats.
Advanced by North Carolina’s Republican legislative leaders, the “independent authorities legislature theory” could negate a governor’s veto, extremity the oversight of courts enforcing the authorities constitution and formed uncertainty connected citizen-implemented initiatives aimed astatine taking partisan authorities retired of map-drawing and predetermination rules.
You tin work Bob’s afloat communicative here.
Noted: GOP Sen. Rick Scott’s midterm predictions were astir wholly wrong
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), the president of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, predicted respective weeks agone that the GOP would instrumentality “52-plus” seats successful the Senate aft the midterm elections. After the decision of the Senate runoff successful Georgia, his predictions person turned retired to beryllium astir wholly wrong.
“Herschel Walker volition triumph Georgia,” Scott told CNN’s “State of the Union” successful October, astir a week earlier the midterm elections. “We’re going to support each 21 of ours. [Mehmet] Oz is going to triumph against [John] Fetterman successful Pennsylvania. And Adam Laxalt volition triumph successful Nevada. But I deliberation we person each crushed to judge we tin prime up with Blake Masters successful Arizona … I deliberation Don Bolduc [in New Hampshire] has each crushed [to] judge he’s going to win. But we person got shots successful — with Tiffany Smiley successful Washington, Joe O’Dea successful Colorado, Leora Levy successful Connecticut.”
Noted: John Bolton, Rep. Greene spar implicit whether Trump is to blasted for Walker’s loss
The blasted crippled among Republicans implicit their Senate nonaccomplishment successful Georgia included a nationalist spat betwixt John Bolton, a erstwhile nationalist information advisor to President Donald Trump, and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), an state of the erstwhile president.
On Twitter, Bolton blamed Republican Herschel Walker’s nonaccomplishment to Sen. Raphael G. Warnock (D-Ga.) “primarily connected Trump, who formed a agelong shadiness implicit this race.”
“His meddling and insistence that the 2020 predetermination was stolen volition present much losses,” Bolton wrote. “Trump remains a immense liability and the Democrat’s champion asset. It’s clip to disavow him and determination on.”
Noted: Warnock’s tribute to his parent and different code highlights
Sen. Raphael G. Warnock (D) was the projected victor successful the Georgia runoff predetermination against Republican Herschel Walker to determine the past U.S. Senate seat. (Video: The Washington Post, Photo: Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post)
In his triumph code Tuesday night, Sen. Raphael G. Warnock (D-Ga.), a Baptist pastor, paid tribute to his mother, referred to the information that helium volition beryllium Georgia’s archetypal full-term Black legislator and touched connected elector suppression, among different topics. Here are immoderate of the highlights:
- “I privation to accidental convey you to my mother, who is present tonight. You’ll spot her successful a small while. But she grew up successful the 1950s successful Waycross, Ga., picking idiosyncratic else’s fabric and idiosyncratic else’s tobacco. But contiguous she helped prime her youngest lad to beryllium a United States senator.”
- “I volition locomotion with you adjacent arsenic I enactment for you. Here is what I’ve learned arsenic a pastor: You can’t pb the radical unless you emotion the people. You can’t emotion the radical unless you cognize the people, and you can’t cognize the radical unless you locomotion among the people.”
- “I americium Georgia. I americium an illustration and an iteration of its history, of its peril and promise, of the brutality and the possibilities. But due to the fact that this is America, due to the fact that we ever person a way to marque our state greater against unspeakable odds, present we basal together.”
- “Just due to the fact that radical endured agelong lines that wrapped astir buildings, immoderate blocks long, conscionable due to the fact that they endured the rainfall and the acold and each kinds of tricks successful bid to vote, doesn’t mean that elector suppression doesn’t exist. It simply means that you, the people, person decided that your voices volition not beryllium silenced.”
Analysis: Nearly one-third of ads supporting Warnock mentioned abortion
For weeks, the taxable of termination hung implicit the Senate runoff successful Georgia, and Democrats sought to capitalize connected the contented successful the last agelong of the campaign.
Writing successful The Health 202, The Post’s Rachel Roubein, with an assistance from Azi Paybarah, notes that the enactment vastly outspent Republicans connected advertizing that referenced termination implicit the past month, a inclination seen crossed the state during the midterms. Per Rachel:
Sen. Raphael G. Warnock (D-Ga.) and his allies centered ads astir Republican Herschel Walker’s strict antiabortion stance, arsenic good arsenic leveled charges of hypocrisy implicit allegations from 2 women that helium paid for their abortions. But termination was seldom mentioned successful ads supporting Walker. …
Democrats and their allies spent implicit $5 cardinal connected ads that see a notation to termination successful the Georgia runoff contention since Nov. 8. Republicans and their affiliated groups spent astir $6,500 connected a azygous abortion-related advertisement successful that aforesaid clip frame.
Democrats mostly focused their ads connected quality and abortion, with 30 percent of Democratic ads mentioning abortion. The GOP focused alternatively connected character, President Biden, ostentation and taxation.
You tin work the afloat investigation here.
On our radar: Lawmakers decry monolithic backlog successful Social Security disablement claims
Top House and Senate Democrats are calling for a drastic boost successful backing for the Social Security Administration to summation staffing, amended exertion and expand other investments arsenic the bureau confronts a monolithic backlog successful claims for disablement benefits.
The Post’s Lisa Rein reports that the apical Republican connected the House Ways and Means Committee, meanwhile, called for “serious bipartisan reforms” to code mediocre lawsuit work and the detonation successful pending claims astatine the agency. Per Lisa:
The calls for enactment from Capitol Hill travel a Washington Post study Monday connected a situation astatine the little-known authorities offices that process applications for Social Security’s 2 disablement programs.
“Lawmakers successful some parties are getting an earful astatine location astir the backlog and mediocre lawsuit work astatine the Social Security Administration, and are demanding answers connected this and the disarray successful its workforce,” Rep. Kevin Brady (Tex.), the ranking Republican connected the Ways and Means Committee, said successful a statement. “The workforce issues look to beryllium getting worse, which is unspeakable quality for seniors and the disabled. At the extremity of the day, the outdated disablement process continues to conflict and needs superior bipartisan reforms.”
You tin work Lisa’s afloat communicative here.
Analysis: The afloat representation of the 2022 elections
Now that voting successful the 2022 midterm elections is over, it’s worthy a communicative of the tape.
These were much oregon little a status-quo elections. That’s antithetic for midterms, successful which the president’s enactment usually loses important ground, The Post’s Aaron Blake writes. Here’s immoderate of what transpired:
- Democrats gained a nett of 1 Senate spot and 2 governor’s mansions. While we person seen a fistful of status-quo midterm elections implicit the past 100 years, it’s the first clip since 1934 that the president’s enactment has managed to summation some Senate and governor’s seats successful a midterm.
- Republicans gained a nett of 9 House seats, which was capable to reclaim the House. On average, implicit the past century, the absorption enactment gained astir 30 seats successful the midterms, and it has gained 25 seats successful elections since 1994.
- When it comes to authorities legislatures, Democrats gained a net of 4 chambers — 2 successful Michigan and 1 each successful Minnesota and Pennsylvania.
- Combining races for politician and authorities legislature, Republicans present afloat power 22 states, and Democrats power 17. The divided earlier this predetermination was 23 to 14 successful favour of the GOP.
You tin work Aaron’s afloat analysis, which includes different takeaways from the Georgia runoff, here.
On our radar: Democrats ramp up probe of Kushner household concern dealings
Democrats connected a brace of legislature committees person launched an assertive caller effort to get accusation astir whether Jared Kushner’s actions connected U.S. argumentation successful the Persian Gulf portion arsenic a elder White House advisor were influenced by the bailout of a spot owned by his household business.
The Post’s Michael Kranish reports that citing antecedently undisclosed emails and different documents related to erstwhile president Donald Trump’s son-in-law, the committees this week sent letters to the State and Defense departments requesting worldly that they accidental could shed caller airy connected whether “Kushner’s fiscal struggle of involvement whitethorn person led him to improperly power U.S. tax, commercialized and nationalist information policies for his ain fiscal gain.” Per Michael:
Noted: What starring Democrats accidental astir Warnock’s win
President Biden and different starring Democrats were anxious to congratulate Sen. Raphael G. Warnock (D-Ga.) connected his triumph implicit Republican Herschel Walker. Here’s a sampling of what they had to say:
- “Just called @SenatorWarnock to congratulate him connected his win,” Biden said successful a tweet shortly aft 11:30 p.m. Tuesday successful which helium included a photograph of him making the call. “Tonight Georgia voters stood up for our democracy, rejected Ultra MAGAism, and astir importantly: sent a bully antheral backmost to the Senate. Here’s to six much years. (MAGA refers to erstwhile president Donald Trump’s slogan, “Make America Great Again.”)
- “Georgia voters said they wanted a Senator who would combat for them — and made it a world erstwhile they reelected @ReverendWarnock to the U.S. Senate. Congratulations, my friend,” Vice President Harris said successful a tweet that included a photograph of her lasting adjacent to Warnock.
- “Senator Warnock’s well-earned triumph is simply a triumph for Georgia, and a triumph for ideology and against MAGA Republican extremist policies,” Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) tweeted. Schumer plans to clasp a quality league connected Wednesday greeting to sermon the results.
Analysis: How large a woody is simply a 51st Senate vote, anyway?
Tuesday was a large nighttime for Democrats.
Writing successful the Early 202, The Post’s Leigh Ann Caldwell and Theodoric Meyer enactment that Democratic Sen. Raphael G. Warnock’s reelection successful the Georgia runoff volition springiness Democrats a captious 51st ballot successful the Senate. Per our colleagues:
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) volition instrumentality a triumph thigh Wednesday morning, holding a quality league to item Warnock’s win. One happening he’ll beryllium definite to brag about: a 51st Democratic senator, which is apt to consciousness similar a landslide borderline aft Schumer spent the past 2 years navigating an evenly divided Senate with Vice President Harris serving arsenic the tiebreaking vote.
Democrats said they are ecstatic to person immoderate breathing room.
“It’s a crippled changer,” Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) said of the 51st vote.
You tin work the afloat investigation here.
Analysis: With the Georgia runoff result, things went from atrocious to worse for Trump
The U.S. Senate runoff successful Georgia was lone 1 race. But it reinforced everything we already knew astir Donald Trump and the 2022 election, which is that the erstwhile president and Trump-y candidates outgo the GOP — including the Senate majority.
The Post’s Aaron Blake writes that November had already made this evident successful Georgia: Herschel Walker was the 1 statewide GOP campaigner who didn’t triumph connected Election Day, with the different 8 winning by an mean of much than 7 points. (Most of the others easy turned speech Trump-backed superior challengers earlier this year.) Per Aaron:
The latest: Trump squad searches 2 of his properties amid tribunal conflict with DOJ
Lawyers for erstwhile president Donald Trump conducted a hunt of astatine slightest 2 of his properties for classified materials successful caller weeks, aft they were instructed by a national justice to attest they had afloat complied with a May expansive assemblage subpoena to crook implicit each materials bearing classified markings, according to radical acquainted with the matter.
The Post’s Jacqueline Alemany, Josh Dawsey, Spencer S. Hsu and Devlin Barrett study that Trump’s ineligible squad hired an extracurricular steadfast to transportation retired the hunt of his play nine successful Bedminster, N.J., and, much recently, Trump Tower successful New York, according to the people, who spoke connected the information of anonymity to sermon delicate information. Per our colleagues:
Take a look: What Warnock, Walker had to accidental aft the results came in
Sen. Raphael G. Warnock (D) won Georgia’s Dec. 6 runoff predetermination against Republican challenger Herschel Walker. (Video: Blair Guild/The Washington Post)
After Sen. Raphael G. Warnock (D-Ga.) was projected to triumph the U.S. Senate runoff successful Georgia, some candidates addressed supporters Tuesday night. The Post’s Blair Guild has pulled unneurotic highlights of Warnock’s triumph code and the concession code of Republican Herschel Walker.
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