As Democrats continue to add to their “blue tsunami” of midterms wins, President Donald Trump has pointed the finger of blame at the opposition and at the American public for Thursday’s stock market plunge, which has since begun to ease.
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which → continue → plunge
The Nasdaq Composite dipped 5.52 percent while the S&P 500 dropped 4.36 percent and the Dow Jones went down 1,833.06 points in response to this week’s resounding election results.
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Jones → dip → results
“The Stock Market suffered one of the Worst Days in History based on the results of the Election,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
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Trump → suffer → Social
“Remember, it wasn’t Republicans, it was Dumocrats.”
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it → remember → ?
In a follow-up, he told the electorate: “You only have yourselves to blame!”
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You → tell → yourselves
With votes still being counted in the Alaska and Mississippi Senate races and beyond, Democrats currently hold a 54 to 44 majority in the Senate and are projected to win 253 seats in the House to the GOP’s 157.
The results come amid a civil war brewing within the Trump administration, with insiders scrambling to assign blame, the president reportedly sounding out advisors on the potential firing of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio reportedly on “resignation watch.”
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Fox’s Jesse Watters fears Republicans may never win the White House again
Hegseth not even under consideration for Senate role as his possible administration escape hatch closes: report
Prior to the midterms, it was suggested that Pete Hegseth might make a play for Marsha Blackburn’s Tennessee Senate seat, assuming it became vacant when she won her race to become the Volunteer State’s next governor, as a means of escaping angry Democrats on Capitol Hill
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she → fear → Hill
Blackburn did indeed win the governor’s manion, as it happens, but Hegseth is reportedly not in contention to be her replacement after all, leaving him trapped inside the Pentagon – unless Trump fires him.
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Trump → win → him
Rhian Lubin reports.
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Lubin → report → ?
El-Sayed has already found something he wants to work with Trump on
Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed has already found something he wants to work with President Donald Trump on – cutting aid to Israel.
The Michigan Democrat, who has been an outspoken critic of Israeli leadership during the war in Gaza, which he calls a genocide, backed Trump’s idea to cut $4 billion in aid to Israel by the end of the year, saying that he would “love to work with him on doing that.”
“I don’t think we should be continuing to subsidize a foreign military that has done the worst things with our money,” El-Sayed told the hosts of MS NOW’s Morning Joe Thursday.
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Sayed → find → Joe
“In fact, I don’t know that we should be continuing to sell weapons to a country that is, again, using our weapons to do awful things.”
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that → know → things
Rachel Dobkin has more.
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Dobkin → have → more
Texas went so blue Talarico got more early votes than Paxton got in total
Ruby red Texas went so blue during the GOP’s crushing midterm defeat that Democrat James Talarico got more early votes than Republican Ken Paxton got in total.
Talarico defeated Paxton with more than 5.4 million votes in a blue tsunami that hit their state, as well as other reliably Republican states such as Iowa and Kansas.
Paxton got 4,249,373 total votes, including 3,232,667 early votes, according to data from Texas Secretary of State Robert S Howden’s office.
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Paxton → go → office
Rachel Dobkin reports.
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Dobkin → report → ?
Hinojosa says data centers ‘must benefit Texans’
Gina Hinojosa, the new governor-elect of Texas, has told CNN’s Jake Tapper that data centers have a place in her state but only if they benefit the locals and are not foisted upon communities without proper laws and protections in place.
Trump’s insistence on their necessity and indifference to the objections raised by rural voters may well have cost Republicans their support this week.
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The president has already issued his first threat to Hinojosa, who will succeed Greg Abbott in January, over her border security.
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who → issue → security
Trump’s DOJ looking at criminal investigation over Supreme Court abortion ruling leak
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DOJ → look → leak
Federal prosecutors are actively conducting a criminal investigation into the source behind the 2022 leak of the Supreme Court’s decision that overturned federal abortion rights.
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that → conduct → rights
Jasmine Fernandez reports.
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Fernandez → report → ?
A successful midterms performance for Democrats highlighted an evolving battleground for news consumers, as digital livestreamers like left-leaning creator Hasan Piker drew audiences substantial enough to rival legacy media networks.
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livestreamers → highlight → networks
Here’s more.
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Trump vows to work with states that want to embrace AI
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that → vow → AI
Here’s the latest from the president on social media:
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latest → ’ → media
“As President, I am 100% in favor of Super Intelligence (SI), and will work with the many States in the U.S. that want to become RICH by having them.
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that → work → them
They are GOLD, and only foolish leadership will say ’NO’ to the riches they bring!”
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they → say → riches
He has also clearly changed the channel on Fox:
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He → change → Fox
“NEWSMAX: ‘Trump is a Winner, and he’s right on Iran!’”
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he → ’ → Iran
The veteran Democrat set to be the new Senate majority leader come January has brushed aside questions about his leadership of the party, albeit with a somewhat comic analogy comparing himself to an orchestra’s conductor.
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Democrat → set → conductor
South Carolina senator-elect Annie Andrews, who beat Darline Graham on Tuesday, has already called for “generational change” in Congress amid concerns over the advanced age of some party stalwarts (Schumer is a mere boy at 75).
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Schumer → beat → 75
Top polling analyst pushes idea that Trump may just flat out ‘quit’ as president after disastrous midterms
Nate Silver, who correctly predicted that Democrats would regain control of both the House and Senate, has floated the idea that the president may just flat out “quit” as a result of his party’s crippling defeats in the midterm elections.
Brendan Rascius has more.
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