Washington Post weekend editor; Former USA Today and Reuters
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Any special interest that hired @SusieWiles daughter, @KatieWiles0303, a lobbyist for Continental Strategy, “was getting a high priority" inside the WH, said @calleymeans.
“You pay Susie’s daughter, & it was openly discussed when they had a client.” nytimes.com/2026/11/06/us/po…
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Fact check: True. He would not have been my top 5 guesses…
I doubt many of you would guess who was the first Democratic senator that Scott Colom credited for believing that he could pull off a miracle in Mississippi washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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How the Texas blue wave came crashing down on Republicans. With @matthewichoi and @mollyhf (gift link) wapo.st/4sMMTEr
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The knives are out at the Pentagon after Vance throws the Iran war under the GOP midterm bus.
New, from: @DanLamothe @TaraCopp @noahjrobertson @katiadoyl
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In a night full of surprises Tuesday, the Senate race in deep-red Mississippi was one of the biggest. Late yesterday, the vote tally showed Democrat Scott Colom pulling further ahead of GOP incumbent Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith. The margin is still razor-thin.
If Colom wins, he will make history. Mississippi hasn’t elected a Black senator since Reconstruction. No Democrat has won statewide there since 1982.
The story of how Colom defied the odds in a staunchly Republican state is a fascinating one.
Never a vigorous campaigner, Hyde-Smith overcame controversy in 2018 after telling a cattle rancher she'd be in the first row if he invited her to a “public hanging.” This year, she supplied Colom with campaign fodder by dismissing concerns about high beef prices in a local TV interview by saying Mississippians could simply pick another protein.
But part of Colom's strong performance stemmed from his crossover appeal. He's been a district attorney in the state for a decade. His father was a well-known Republican lawyer who ran for state treasurer and worked on Ronald Reagan’s presidential transition team.
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The glimmer of a possibility that Mississippi might be in play for Democrats emerged in 2018 when Mike Espy ran against Cindy Hyde-Smith. In a race that many in the party initially wrote off as unwinnable, Espy surprised skeptics by coming within single-digits of Hyde-Smith.
I visited Mississippi in 2018 shortly after Espy announced his candidacy. Like Colum, he ran as a centrist Democrat who worked to mobilize Black voters in Mississippi while trying to win over enough independent and moderate white voters to close the gap with his GOP challenger.
“You can’t put me in a box,” Espy told me, highlighting his “sometimes conservative” record as a congressman 25 years earlier along with more progressive leanings on many issues.
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Caren Bohan retweeted
I spoke to tons of voters this year. But I think this quote was the most illustrative.
The anti-Trump sentiment ran deep in Maine. It was there in 2020, when Collins won, but it became too much this year. And it's because of voters like this.
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NEW: The GOP missteps that laid the groundwork for a historic midterm rebuke, our tick tock of the past year w/@lizcgoodwin, @natalie_allison, @theodoricmeyer, @katiadoyl, @iarnsdorf + me: washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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“She’s really going to regret it when we win on Nov. 3,” Colom told Semafor. “That’s when the regret’s really going to hit her.”
For those just tuning into Mississippi, worth reading this @burgessev story from March:
How one GOP senator blocked a nominee — and ended up with a real opponent
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NEW: The GOP recriminations and blame game kicked off before breakfast today as the White House and Trump orbit absorbed stunning losses in the midterms and tried to look ahead w/@katiadoyl: washingtonpost.com/politics/…
In private calls and texts, Republicans lamented strategies they now viewed as inadequate — like the southern redistricting gambit — or politically damaging, like launching the war in Iran. @nancook reports on how GOP politicians are processing the Blue Wave and bracing for a new Washington wapo.st/3UwSeTu
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Our @washingtonpost data team is simply the best. -- washingtonpost.com/elections…
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National Republicans are steeling themselves for a historically bad night.
It's "so much worse than anyone thought": washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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Smart reporting on the @washingtonpost live blog now on the MAGA Inc. war room; DCCC chair on high voter turnout in NC, Texas and California; why the Alaska Senate race results may take 2 weeks and R voters who pick Trump loyalty over high gas prices: washingtonpost.com/politics/…
Caren Bohan retweeted
Latinos are going to shift left tonight. The question is how far. If Latinos vote like they did in 2020, it will be a good—not great—night for Democrats; Dems will win some of the gerrymandered Texas seats, might lose the Senate there. But if they vote like they did in 2018...
As voters go to the polls, Democrats are feeling upbeat as strong turnout and early-voting data show a motivated electorate that is angry about high costs under Trump’s leadership. Republicans, while trying to keep a hopeful tone, are preparing for a long night, with House Speaker Mike Johnson deploying a Bible verse to privately urge House Republicans to ignore the dour polling. wapo.st/4z3XVql
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Notable report from the WSJ team here.
In an election season with an unpopular war, it appears the U.S. military may have gone silent about disclosing strikes.
The last strikes announced came in September.
Requests for comment made tonight.
EXCLU: The U.S. attacked Iran’s Qeshm Island on Monday, U.S. officials said, in the latest of a series of limited strikes Washington has secretly carried out against the country in recent weeks as President Trump touted the possibility of a diplomatic deal. W @alexbward @shelbyholliday wsj.com/world/middle-east/u-…
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"A congressional staffer... appears closely tied to an anonymous social media account that denigrates female politicians, promotes political violence, calls for an end to democracy and laments the existence of civil rights laws." washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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Are $5,000 checks really coming? Per @nancook "in the course of reporting various stories, I’ve heard nothing about any behind-the-scenes planning for sending out those checks." 🤔 washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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Amazing: “We found out in real time,” a Rogers spokesperson says of the Stevens endorsement. Great inside look at the 11th-hour chaos in Michigan: washingtonpost.com/politics/…
