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Another former 2016 rival of Donald Trump is joining his administration. Former Virginia governor Jim Gilmore has been nominated to be the US Ambassador to OSCE
Remember Jim Gilmore? The 2016 presidential candidate, who withdrew from the GOP primary after winning just 133 votes in New Hampshire, has been nominated by Trump to serve as U.S. representative to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
Perhaps the most memorable moment of Gilmore’s campaign was when conservative pundit (and occasional Guardian contributor) Jamie Weinstein spoke on his behalf at the Iowa Caucuses.
The Atlantic has just published a remarkable oral history of the Clinton administration by Cullen Murphy and David Graham.
It’s well worth reading if you can carve out the time
The great Cullen Murphy and I spent a few months interview 30-plus insiders about Bill Clinton's impeachment and what it means today: https://t.co/e889WFrQON
At least one media outlet is siding with the White House in the lawsuit over Jim Acosta’s press pass.
One America News Network (OANN), a right wing competitor to Fox News owned by businessman Robert Herring has submitted an amicus brief on behalf of the Trump administration. OANN is best known for airing its congratulations for Roy Moore once polls closed in the 2017 Senate special election in Alabama.
(1) WE are going to file in the CNN vs White House court an Amicus Brief in favor of the White House. Acosta’s actions are stopping our people from getting their questions answered, so that we can give our audience the real news direct from our President. @OANN #CNNvsWhiteHouse
A majority of Americans were happy with the result of the midterms according to a recent poll from Pew, even including 55% of Republicans.
Pew poll: 57% of Americans -- including 55% of Republicans! -- say they're happy with results of the midterms. https://t.co/s2CPcZQ5JI
A federal judge has rejected a request to postpone the deadline to complete recounts in Florida, CNN reports.
That means the deadline is coming in less than an hour, at 3pm, for the recount in races for Senate and governor.
A judge ruled that at least 4,000 Florida voters whose ballots were rejected will get two more days to correct the problem, as recounts in the state’s Senate and governor’s races approached a 3pm deadline.A judge ruled that at least 4,000 Florida voters whose ballots were rejected will get two more days to correct the problem, as recounts in the state’s Senate and governor’s races approached a 3pm deadline.
House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, facing a leadership challenge, said she has the votes to win the speakership. A potential rival, Rep. Marcia Fudge, said she’s “overwhelmed” by the support of Democrats encouraging her to run.House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, facing a leadership challenge, said she has the votes to win the speakership. A potential rival, Rep. Marcia Fudge, said she’s “overwhelmed” by the support of Democrats encouraging her to run.
Democrats picked up another House seat as a seat in Maine went to Jared Golden, who defeated Rep. Bruce Poliquin. After a legal challenge, Maine officials tallied the results under the state’s new ranked choice voting system.Democrats picked up another House seat as a seat in Maine went to Jared Golden, who defeated Rep. Bruce Poliquin. After a legal challenge, Maine officials tallied the results under the state’s new ranked choice voting system.
Senator Bernie Sanders unveiled legislation that would force retail giant Walmart to raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour.Senator Bernie Sanders unveiled legislation that would force retail giant Walmart to raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour.
Donald Trump inveighed against the Mueller investigation, calling it a “total mess” and a “disgrace to our nation.”Donald Trump inveighed against the Mueller investigation, calling it a “total mess” and a “disgrace to our nation.”
Rep. Seth Moulton, a leading Nancy Pelosi critic, says the Democratic leader is “wrong” that she has the votes to become speaker.Rep. Seth Moulton, a leading Nancy Pelosi critic, says the Democratic leader is “wrong” that she has the votes to become speaker.
Seth Moulton, a leading Pelosi critic, just said on his way into Dem caucus meeting: “She’s wrong” when asked about Pelosi’s prediction she would win the speakership. “We’ve got the votes.”Seth Moulton, a leading Pelosi critic, just said on his way into Dem caucus meeting: “She’s wrong” when asked about Pelosi’s prediction she would win the speakership. “We’ve got the votes.”
A ruling on CNN’s lawsuit challenging the White House’s revocation of reporter Jim Acosta’s credentials ruling has been delayed, the network said.A ruling on CNN’s lawsuit challenging the White House’s revocation of reporter Jim Acosta’s credentials ruling has been delayed, the network said.
The request for an emergency order for his pass to be restored was set to be ruled on Thursday afternoon, but has now been moved to Friday morning.The request for an emergency order for his pass to be restored was set to be ruled on Thursday afternoon, but has now been moved to Friday morning.
A Democrat’s lead over Republican Rep. Mia Love is slipping away in Utah, the Salt Lake Tribune reports.A Democrat’s lead over Republican Rep. Mia Love is slipping away in Utah, the Salt Lake Tribune reports.
Ben McAdams, the Democratic challenger and Salt Lake County mayor, is now leading by just 873 votes. And returns from a Republican-heavy county are expected Friday.Ben McAdams, the Democratic challenger and Salt Lake County mayor, is now leading by just 873 votes. And returns from a Republican-heavy county are expected Friday.
Cesar Sayoc, the man charged with mailing pipe bombs to prominent Democrats and CNN, pleaded not guilty Thursday to the 30 federal charges against him.Cesar Sayoc, the man charged with mailing pipe bombs to prominent Democrats and CNN, pleaded not guilty Thursday to the 30 federal charges against him.
From Reuters in federal court in New York:From Reuters in federal court in New York:
If convicted, Cesar Sayoc faces a sentence of life in prison. He had previously faced five counts carrying a maximum prison sentence of 48 years.If convicted, Cesar Sayoc faces a sentence of life in prison. He had previously faced five counts carrying a maximum prison sentence of 48 years.
Judge Jed Rakoff set Sayoc’s trial date for July 15, 2019.Judge Jed Rakoff set Sayoc’s trial date for July 15, 2019.
Prosecutors said they expected the government’s case would take three weeks and would include experts in forensics, explosive devices and the chemistry of the explosives in those devices.Prosecutors said they expected the government’s case would take three weeks and would include experts in forensics, explosive devices and the chemistry of the explosives in those devices.
Sayoc, a 56-year-old former stripper and pizza delivery driver who lived in a white van festooned with right-wing political images supporting Trump and attacking his critics, was arrested in Florida on Oct. 26 following an intense manhunt. He is being held without bail.Sayoc, a 56-year-old former stripper and pizza delivery driver who lived in a white van festooned with right-wing political images supporting Trump and attacking his critics, was arrested in Florida on Oct. 26 following an intense manhunt. He is being held without bail.
A federal indictment filed earlier this month accused Sayoc of sending improvised explosive devices to five people in New York: former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, whom Trump defeated in the 2016 presidential election; billionaire investor and Democratic donor George Soros; former Central Intelligence Agency directors John Brennan and James Clapper; and actor Robert De Niro.A federal indictment filed earlier this month accused Sayoc of sending improvised explosive devices to five people in New York: former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, whom Trump defeated in the 2016 presidential election; billionaire investor and Democratic donor George Soros; former Central Intelligence Agency directors John Brennan and James Clapper; and actor Robert De Niro.
Authorities had previously linked Sayoc to more than a dozen mail bombs around the country. Other targets included former U.S. Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, former Vice President Joe Biden, and Democratic U.S. Senators Cory Booker of New Jersey and Kamala Harris of California.Authorities had previously linked Sayoc to more than a dozen mail bombs around the country. Other targets included former U.S. Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, former Vice President Joe Biden, and Democratic U.S. Senators Cory Booker of New Jersey and Kamala Harris of California.
Failed Texas Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke has a new post up on Medium and it’s all about running.Failed Texas Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke has a new post up on Medium and it’s all about running.
No, really - the Democrat, who drew attention for his race against Sen. Ted Cruz but ultimately came up short, describes going for a morning run in the snow in Washington, taking in the monuments, and reflecting on the words of Abraham Lincoln.No, really - the Democrat, who drew attention for his race against Sen. Ted Cruz but ultimately came up short, describes going for a morning run in the snow in Washington, taking in the monuments, and reflecting on the words of Abraham Lincoln.
He concludes: “The sleet stinging my face, I wondered if the winds had changed too.”He concludes: “The sleet stinging my face, I wondered if the winds had changed too.”
he's running https://t.co/ou2HHLqGAshe's running https://t.co/ou2HHLqGAs
Democrat Jared Golden has prevailed in a Maine House race after officials there ran the numbers with their new ranked choice voting system, per Politico.
JARED GOLDEN WINS in ranked-choice vote in #ME02, another Dem pickup.
A judge ruled earlier Thursday the vote counting could proceed, denying a request by Republican incumbent Bruce Poliquin to stop it.
It’s the first House race decided by a system known as ranked choice or instant runoff voting.
The result marks another pickup for Democrats and completes a rout of northeastern Republicans in the House.
There will now be no Republicans in the House to the northeast of New York. Story with @NYTnickc https://t.co/HcFOhOxy4r https://t.co/pi7CE0RIhp
The supervisor of elections in Florida’s Palm Beach County said there’s a “very slim” likelihood her office will complete a recount by the legally mandated 3pm deadline, according to the Associated Press.
Susan Bucher said the likely failure to meet the deadline wasn’t “for lack of human effort.”
She blamed aging equipment.
The deadline is looming for a recount in the races for U.S. Senate and governor. Republicans narrowly lead both races.
Politico is reporting that Democratic governor candidate Andrew Gillum is unlikely to concede, even though the machine recount is likely to make Republican Ron DeSantis the winner with a margin large enough that a hand recount isn’t necessary.
Ron DeSantis is almost certain to be guv-elect after the 3pm automatic machine recount finishes & shows him ahead of Andrew Gillum by a margin greater than the quarter-percent point needed to trigger a manual recountHere's why Gillum likely wont concedehttps://t.co/iJHBJ9H5VP
The Senate race, meanwhile, is more likely to be close enough to go to a hand recount.
Republican Rep. Tom Reed says he and some other Republicans will back Nancy Pelosi for speaker if she agrees to rules reform.
“I would be willing, as a Republican on the floor of the House, to support a Speaker candidate, including Nancy Pelosi, who supports these rule reforms,” Reed said Thursday, the Hill reported. “There are other members that are as committed as I am to this on the Republican side that are willing to do that.”
Pelosi is facing a revolt among a small portion of her caucus that does not want her to return as speaker. She said Thursday she does not want Republican support to put her over the top.
A federal judge refused Thursday to toss criminal charges against a Russian company accused by special counsel Robert Mueller of funding a disinformation campaign during the 2016 presidential election.
The company, Concord Management and Consulting LLC, was indicted along with 13 Russian individuals for running a campaign using fake online accounts to push false and divisive information, and sway the election in favor of Donald Trump.
Judge Dabney Friedrich refused Concord’s request to dismiss the indictment, Reuters reported.
The company - run by Russian businessman Evgeny Prigozhin, known in the Russian press as “Putin’s cook” - argued the actions it is accused of do not amount to a crime. But the judge wrote: “Concord cannot escape the fact that the course of deceptive conduct alleged is illegal,” according to Reuters.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley said Thursday that a bill to protect the job of special counsel Robert Mueller should get a vote.
“It’s legitimate that the bill be brought up,” the Iowa Republican said, the Hill reported. “It would satisfy me if it became law because I voted for it.”
Arizona Republican Jeff Flake is pushing the bill, but Majority Leader Mitch McConell has refused to allow a vote on the Senate floor. Flake has vowed not to vote for any of the dozens of pending judicial nominees until he gets a vote.
The bill previously passed the Judiciary Committee.
A federal judge refused Thursday to halt vote counting under Maine’s new election system, the Associated Press reports.
The ruling means a winner could soon be declared in the race for Maine’s only House seat.
The Republican, Bruce Poliquin, sued challenging the constitutionality of ranked choice voting, which Maine used for the first time this year.
Poliquin was challenged for his seat by Democrat Jared Golden, a Marine Corps veteran, in the most expensive House race in the country.
The judge did not rule on the constitutionality of the voting system, but gave the green light for officials to run the numbers and determine a winner, per AP.
Ranked choice voting allows voters to rank multiple candidates in order of preference, instead of just voting for one person. If no candidate wins a majority, the candidate with the least votes is knocked out and their votes are shifted to the voter’s second choice. The process, also known as instant runoff voting, continues until someone get a majority.
Poliquin would have won a very narrow victory under a traditional voting system. But since neither he or his Democratic challenger got a majority, an instant runoff is needed to determine the winner.
Senator Bernie Sanders unveiled legislation on Thursday that would force retail giant Walmart to raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour as part of a campaign targeting US corporations to raise pay for employees and address what he called the “major economic crises in our country”.
The “Stop Walmart Act” is intended to pressure the world’s largest private employer, to pay its nearly 1 million works a “livable wage”.
“The truth is in today’s economy one cannot live in dignity on those wages,” Sanders said on a press call with reporters. He is joined in the effort by congressman Ro Khanna, a progressive from California.
“When we talk about corporate greed in this country, I think it’s fair to say that Walmart becomes the poster child,” Sanders added, noting that the company’s CEO Doug McMillon earned $22.8m during the last fiscal year.
Sanders frequently targets the Walton family, which owns Walmart, in speeches and rallies across the country. He noted on the call that the family has an estimated net worth $180m. After passage of the Republican tax law earlier this year, the company announced it was increasingly its hourly wages to $11 an hour.
The Walmart legislation follows a campaign targeting Amazon earlier this year. In October, CEO Jeff Bezos announced it would raise the minimum wage for all US-based employees to $15 an hour, which affected an estimated 250,000 full- and part-time workers and 100,000 seasonal workers.
“We listened to our critics, thought hard about what we wanted to do, and decided we want to lead,” Bezos said.
The federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour.
House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said Thursday she has “overwhelming support” from her party to become speaker of the House.
“I intend to win the speakership with Democratic votes,” she said at a press conference. “I have overwhelming support in my caucus to be speaker.”
After a number of newly-elected Democratic representatives ran campaigns promising not to back Pelosi, 17 Democrats have signed a letter saying they won’t vote for her on the House floor, CNN reported.
Pelosi said she would “never” accept Republican support to get her over the top.
To potential challengers, like Ohio Rep. Marcia Fudge, she said, “Come on in, the water’s warm.”
Pelosi said she understood why some Democrats running in tough districts disavowed her, but left open the possibility sexism was driving some of the opposition.
Republican ran ads attacking her with “mischaracterizations,” she said.
“It makes it hard on the candidates,” she said. “They’re running for the first time, many of them, and they really need to focus” on their own campaigns.
When asked if sexism was driving the opposition, she said, “You know I have never gone to that place,” but noted the “14 men who are on that letter” out of the 17 signers.
“You’d have to ask them,” she said. “If in fact there is any misogyny involved in it, it’s their problem, not mine.”
Potential House Speaker candidate Marcia Fudge said Thursday she is “overwhelmed” by support from fellow Democrats urging her to challenge Nancy Pelosi.
“Over the last 12 hours, I’ve been overwhelmed by the amount of support I’ve received,” she told the Washington Post, saying there are “probably closer to 30” Democrats who have indicated they are willing the oppose Pelosi, the longtime leader of Democrats in the House.
Fudge is an Ohio Congresswoman and former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. Democrats opposing Pelosi have been urging her to run.
“That’s the future of our party, that’s the future of our country, and that’s exactly the kind of leader that I want to see as our next speaker,” Rep. Seth Moulton, a leader of the anti-Pelosi movement, told CNN Thursday.
Fudge told the Post she expects to make a decision on whether to run by the end of the week or over the Thanksgiving holiday.
“If we’re going to have a diverse party, it ought to look like the party … nobody wants the status quo. People are weary of who we are as a party,” she said.
A federal judge called Florida the “laughing stock of the world” for its voting woes, the Associated Press reports.
U.S. District Judge Mark Walker spoke during a hearing on whether to extend the deadline at 3pm today to complete recounts in the Senate and governor’s races.
Florida has a history of “razor thin” elections, yet Palm Beach County delayed purchasing enough voting machines to handle a recount, Walker noted, per AP.
He said Florida has been “the laughing stock of the world election after election and we chose not to fix this.”