Following a historic blue wave of midterm election wins, Democrats are gathering in Denver for a What’s Next conference hosted by a new group called Majority Democrats.
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What → follow → group
President Donald Trump wants Vice President JD Vance to talk less about the Iran war and more about corruption and crime in Democratic-controlled cities and states.
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Vance → want → cities
Vance’s blunt post-election analysis blaming the war and its economic reverberations for the sweeping Republican losses was getting attention.
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analysis → blame → attention
And the sweeping Democratic gains in Congress are teeing up an onslaught of expected investigations into the Justice Department, which has functioned for nearly two years as an extension of the White House, unchecked by a Republican-controlled Congress as it pursued investigations into Trump’s enemies, fired waves of career employees and defended the administration in ways that judges across the country repeatedly deemed legally dubious.
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judges → tee → country
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Latest → ’ → ?
Trump praises Democrat Scott Colom for courting MAGA voters at his Mississippi rally
Trump on Thursday heaped praise on Mississippi’s Sen.-elect Scott Colom for courting some of his hardcore MAGA supporters in the final days of the midterm election campaign, a rare example of the Republican president showing admiration for a Democrat.
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president → praise → Democrat
When the president traveled to Corinth, Mississippi, last month to campaign for incumbent Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, Trump denigrated Colom as a “Marxist radical,” a “fake” and a “shameless phony who pretends to be a moderate.”
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who → travel → radical
But on Thursday, during an appearance on Stephen A. Smith’s “Straight Shooter” podcast, Trump acknowledged that Colom demonstrated chutzpah by showing up at the Trump rally to mingle with some of the Republican president’s staunchest “Make America Great Again” supporters.
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America → acknowledge → supporters
“I heard it the other day, where I had a rally there, and we had lines that went 10 miles long, and he campaigned on that line, telling everybody on the line what a good job he did,” Trump said of Colom, a 43-year-old local prosecutor who capitalized on the electorate’s discontent with the economy in his successful underdog campaign.
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who → hear → campaign
“I give him a lot of credit for that.”
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I → give → that
Democrats flock to Denver for a post-midterms introspection-turned-celebration
Fresh off the best electoral performance in half a century, Democratic officials and strategists converged on Denver Thursday to plot a further course for the party and revel in their gains.
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officials → flock → gains
The two-day What’s Next conference, hosted by a new group called Majority Democrats, was put on politicos’ calendars months ago as another stepping stone as the party charted its way out of its post-2024 political wilderness.
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party → ’ → wilderness
Now Democrats will have to figure out what to do with majorities in both chambers of Congress and control of at least 12 new state legislative chambers.
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Democrats → have → chambers
“The fever has broken.
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fever → break → ?
The fog has lifted,” said Mitch Landrieu, the former Democratic mayor of New Orleans.
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Landrieu → lift → Orleans
“And now it falls upon us to rebuild the foundation of this great nation and to fulfill the promise of America.”
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it → fall → America
Barely a week after voters repudiated Trump and his Republican Party, Texas Sen.-elect James Talarico said Democrats must work with him.
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Democrats → repudiate → him
Voters are hungry for results and can’t wait two years for Trump to leave office, he said, urging Democrats to avoid both intraparty fights and excessive caution.
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he → wait → fights
Trump’s Justice Department faces a new era of scrutiny under a Democratic-led Congress
The Justice Department has functioned for nearly two years as an extension of the White House, unchecked by a Republican-controlled Congress as it pursued investigations into President Donald Trump’s enemies, fired waves of career employees and defended administration stances that judges across the country repeatedly deemed legally dubious.
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judges → face → country
Now, sweeping Democratic gains in Congress have shifted the balance of power in Washington, teeing up an onslaught of expected investigations into those actions and others as well as scrutiny from the majority party that the current Justice Department had until now managed to skirt.
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Department → shift → that
The department has, at least publicly, appeared unbowed by the altered landscape.
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department → appear → landscape
Attorney General Todd Blanche says the department will cooperate with Congress but has also insisted that “we will not back down” from the Republican president’s agenda.
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we → say → agenda
Meanwhile, a top aide told prosecutors on a call to prepare to be on “wartime” footing and a U.S. attorney publicly warned a top Democrat about planned congressional investigations.
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attorney → tell → investigations
Trump bluntly tells JD Vance to shift focus from Iran to targeting ‘corruption and crime’ at home
President Donald Trump on Thursday directed Vice President JD Vance to shift his focus away from the Iran war and instead devote himself to fighting what the president says is corruption and crime in Democratic-controlled cities and states.
Vance, who served as the lead negotiator for a short-lived truce in the eight-month-old war, has been blunt in blaming the war — and the economic reverberations it has caused — for Republicans’ sweeping losses in last week’s midterm elections in the United States.
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it → tell → States
But Trump brusquely told the vice president in a social media post Thursday to shift his energies away from the Iran war to what he argues is a more pressing — and perhaps more politically salient — issue after Republicans were trounced at the polls.
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Republicans → tell → polls
Trump earlier this week said he believed the war “militarily is effectively over,” and appeared to double down on that message by pointedly directing Vance “to focus his complete and total attention” on his anti-fraud campaign.
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war → say → campaign
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