John Light has put together a handy guide for tracking the Senate results tonight (Prime subscribers). Really pleased with this. Check it out!
How are things going in Dodge City? Well …
I’m back at the Expo Center where press aren’t being allowed to shoot inside. Brad Schlozman, who’s representing Ford County in a lawsuit over voting, says it’s state law. Our attorney says, “That’s insane.” pic.twitter.com/SJvGkgcpww
— Katie Moore (@katie_reports) November 6, 2018
So here we are.
Because of the nature of our biennial federal elections, unified Republican control of the federal government and a thoroughly pliant Congress, Donald Trump has had free rein, more or less untrammeled, for almost two years. Democrats and all Trump’s opponents have had no recourse or ability to constrain him beyond organizing, protesting and trying to make a public case against the Trumpian slide into quasi-democracy and authoritarian rule. Read More
In Missouri last night Trump claimed that if Democrats are elected they’ll destroy Obamacare.
The initial polls closing on the East Coast can feel a little anticlimactic, with a dribble of returns signifying very little and many hours of tabulating still to come. However, we may start to get a feel for where the night is going as some of those early East Coast returns in key races signal whether the day’s paradigm is a maximal Dem gain or a maximal GOP hold, or merely somewhere in between. Cameron Joseph highlights a few of those canary in the coal mine races that may tell us early which way things are headed.
Today is a better day than most to remember that the GOP’s forever war to tilt the election playing field in its favor by denying the franchise to minority urban voters while maximizing the franchise for white rural voters remains a defining feature of American politics.
The next big GOP power grab on this front is already in the works. Tierney Sneed has more in this Prime piece.
Your emails and photos from Election Day are one of the best parts of working at TPM. Keep ’em coming!
This is really, really important. We’ve talked about the various ways Republicans have tilted the electoral playing field to lock in disproportionate electoral power for Republicans, particularly older and whiter populations outside the big cities. This is another example of that played out in the attempt to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. Read our report.