Not good

Republican Glenn Youngkin pulled off the upset in Virginia, defeating Terry McAuliffe in the governor's race. And in perhaps an even bigger stunner in New Jersey, Republican Jack Ciatarelli leads by about 1,200 votes out of 2.3 million over incumbent Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy, who had been favored.

The New Jersey race is likely headed for a recount, but just the fact that the election is this close shows how much energy Republicans had on their side heading into Tuesday night.

  NPR

If Democrats can't deliver, the country will be turning to authoritarians.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:  Interesting...

But she is also a Republican.

UPDATE:  Murphy wins, and GOP cry foul.  They're going to do this every time a Democrat wins a close race.

What's with the old guys wanting to get into a physical tussle with Trump?

First Joe Biden says he'd like to take Trump behind the gym.  And now, Terry McAuliffe...






...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

McCauliffe muses about 2020

Outgoing Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) on Sunday deflected a question about a possible White House bid in 2020, but said he dreams about the chance to debate President Trump.

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“I think everybody sits around and dreams about a debate with President Trump and how much fun that could actually be. Get the truth out there, let the facts speak for themselves,” McAuliffe, who was Clinton's campaign chairman in 2008, said Sunday.

  The Hill

Would be the biggest TV viewer stats ever recorded.  Somehow, I don't think we're going to get to that point.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Crooked Hillary and the Weiner Investigation

Trump may be a narcissistic asshole, but he's not wrong about everything.

New details show that senior law-enforcement officials repeatedly voiced skepticism of the strength of the evidence in a bureau investigation of the Clinton Foundation, sought to condense what was at times a sprawling cross-country effort, and, according to some people familiar with the matter, told agents to limit their pursuit of the case. The probe of the foundation began more than a year ago to determine whether financial crimes or influence peddling occurred related to the charity.

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Early this year, four FBI field offices—New York, Los Angeles, Washington and Little Rock, Ark.—were collecting information about the Clinton Foundation

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In February, FBI officials made a presentation to the Justice Department, according to these people. By all accounts, the meeting didn’t go well.

Some said that is because the FBI didn’t present compelling evidence to justify more aggressive pursuit of the Clinton Foundation, and that the career anticorruption prosecutors in the room simply believed it wasn’t a very strong case. Others said that from the start, the Justice Department officials were stern, icy and dismissive of the case.

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It isn’t unusual for field agents to favor a more aggressive approach than supervisors and prosecutors think is merited. But the internal debates about the Clinton Foundation show the high stakes when such disagreements occur surrounding someone who is running for president.

  WSJ

According to this article, there is a volatile situation within the FBI regarding the propriety and logistics of both the Clinton Foundation and email probes. Comey's recent actions regarding the Weiner investigation has turned up the heat. Watch for explosions.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.