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Youngkin Bet on a ‘Less Extreme’ Abortion Ban and Lost

By Ameshia Cross

The Virginia guv won in 2021 by stoking panic among white women voters about critical race theory. Turns out those same women don’t want to be told what to do with their bodies.

The Race to Replace Mitch McConnell Is Already On

By Sam Brodey, Riley Rogerson

The rumors about McConnell’s potential exit have led his would-be successors to try to, as a senior GOP aide put it, “one-up each other at every turn.”

Moms for Liberty Candidates Crushed in Some School Races

By Dan Ladden-Hall

The far-right group’s school board candidates did not fare well in several important ballots across the U.S.

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Deep-Red Kentucky Goes for Dem Governor Andy Beshear Again

By Matt Fuller

Voters rejected Republican Attorney General Daniel Cameron and went for a Democratic governor who made abortion rights an essential issue of the campaign.

Tate Reeves Wins With Bend Not Break Strategy in Mississippi

By Sam Brodey

Gov. Tate Reeves won re-election in his deep-red state. But it was a lot closer than it should have been for a Republican in Mississippi.

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The Right Is Rewriting the Whitmer Kidnapping Case

Nine people were convicted or pleaded guilty to plotting to kidnap Michigan’s governor. A state lawmaker just gave an award to their acquitted co-defendants.

22 Dems Cross the Aisle to Censure Rashida Tlaib

Before the vote, Tlaib said: “What I don’t understand is why the cries of Palestinian children sound different to you all.”

Team Biden Goes to War With CNN’s Top Obama Whisperer

Axelrod seemingly suggested Biden should step aside after seeing those gloomy NYT polls. Team Biden and their biggest allies immediately dogpiled the CNN analyst.

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1. Santorum Blames ‘Very Sexy’ Abortion for Ohio ‘Disaster’

‘SECRET SAUCE’

“Pure democracies are not the way to run a country,” the former senator and one-time presidential candidate said.

2. Ukraine Admits Car Bombing of Kremlin-Backed Lawmaker

NO SECRET

A spokesperson for Ukrainian military intelligence said: “Yeah, it was our operation.”

3. Timbaland Says Sorry to Britney After ‘Muzzle’ Comment

TOO LATE TO APOLOGIZE?

“You speak what you wanna speak,” he told Spears in a public comment.

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