With 94% of the estimated vote in, Republican Glenn Youngkin is leading Democrat Terry McAuliffe in Virginia's governor race. #ElectionDay2021
— NPR (@NPR) November 3, 2021
More here: https://t.co/NsaQZfJN7F pic.twitter.com/c1xXXxZdXf
We shouldn’t be surprised McAuliffe lost. Biden is really unpopular. The last few months have shown him unable to pass legislation he claims is critical for the country. That is a spectacle of weakness while voters see the country as beset by problems. https://t.co/LhDnEPFdnj
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) November 3, 2021
If the New Jersey governor's race stays this tight, it'll be another example of Democrats trying to tie Republicans to Trump and failing, says @stephanie_murr.
— POLITICO (@politico) November 3, 2021
Here's how it's looking at 35% of the expected vote in.
Live analysis: https://t.co/hnkTtZxNAM pic.twitter.com/VscXre1ADA
With 77% of the vote counted in #NJ, we're basically at a tie: #Ciattarelli (R) 49.86%, Gov. #Murphy (D) 49.41% — a difference of 9,000 or so votes. A source says that the remaining votes are expected to come from Dem areas, but we'll see. This was not supposed to be close.
— Ken Rudin (@kenrudin) November 3, 2021
Latest 2021 election results: https://t.co/2S74g2eFAV
— FiveThirtyEight (@FiveThirtyEight) November 3, 2021
Biden won VA by 10 but he won NJ by 16. So depending on the results, your VA-specific takes may not hold up well. Nationalized elections don't always calcify states; they can produce national thermostatic backlashes to the party of the presidency.
— Matt Grossmann (@MattGrossmann) November 3, 2021
Not voting for Democrats is totally understandable. But how is voting for a Trump-led, incoherent, race-baiting, delusional and anti-democratic party so normalized?
— Dan Froomkin/PressWatchers.org (@froomkin) November 3, 2021
I blame the media for not establishing that if you don’t believe in democracy, you don’t deserve to receive votes.
Hey don’t think of it as losing an election, thinking of it as gaining a wake up call
— Jon Lovett (@jonlovett) November 3, 2021
In all of the political analysis, there is a truth that must be understood.
— Charles Booker (@Booker4KY) November 3, 2021
Republicans win by weaponizing racism, and Democrats lose by trying to ignore it.
I have views on what Democrats are doing wrong politically, but the basic issue is that we are out of touch. I've never seen such wildly pro-labor sentiment in America in in my lifetime, but the Democratic governing class has no connection to the working class.
— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) November 2, 2021
Youngkin got the trump base and then convinced normal people he wasn’t trumpy. He was careful not to have trump come and say crazy stuff. He got trumpism to scale by keeping it at an arms length. Ultimately he’s a trumpist but he made people in Virginia think he wasn’t as nuts.
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) November 3, 2021
Yes, Youngkin did in fact run ‘on straight up racism.’ Wonder how many members of my ‘liberal’ industry will be willing to say this straight up tomorrow, in all the Virginia post mortems. https://t.co/96jAhCUN0l
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) November 3, 2021
Maybe, just maybe, the “debacle” in Virginia could have been avoided if we had a Congress that listened to the overwhelming majority of Americans and passed progressive policies like paid family leave and expanding Medicare instead of bowing down to wealthy campaign contributors https://t.co/TgJNXkvuFY
— Warren Gunnels (@GunnelsWarren) November 3, 2021
Whoever wins today, Dems will have to reckon with this: They are facing a lopsided communications imbalance, one that enablied Youngkin and his allies to employ a massive propaganda apparatus to pump right wing sewage at the GOP base for months. My latest:https://t.co/dh0mYAagvH
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) November 2, 2021
But you can win an election by telling voters that their imaginary concerns are real https://t.co/Q759isMzW4
— Gady Epstein (@gadyepstein) November 3, 2021
Democrat Eric Adams has been elected New York City mayor after defeating Republican Curtis Sliwa. Adams, the Brooklyn borough president and a former New York City police captain, will become the city’s second Black mayor. https://t.co/7kOkWuy2vM
— The Associated Press (@AP) November 3, 2021
Breaking News: Michelle Wu will be Boston's next mayor, breaking barriers as the first woman and the first person of color elected to the role. https://t.co/r6wVbFHdAC pic.twitter.com/AdUjoMoSos
— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 3, 2021
BREAKING: Democrat Ed Gainey WINS and becomes the first Black Mayor in the history of Pittsburgh!
— Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 (@joncoopertweets) November 3, 2021
Congratulations! pic.twitter.com/iiJiRusbEq
JUST IN: Minneapolis voters have rejected a measure to replace the city's police department with a public safety unit — a proposal that grew out of last year's protests over George Floyd's murder.https://t.co/9RJVtHOjjZ
— NPR (@NPR) November 3, 2021
Two major U.S. cities have elected their first Asian American mayor and a third could join them. Michelle Wu will be Boston's next mayor and Aftab Pureval won in Cincinnati. Also running is Seattle's Bruce Harrell, who is Black and Japanese American. https://t.co/p4rtxFgqDM
— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) November 3, 2021
How long until Terry McAuliffe is back on CNN sharing his thoughts on how Democrats can win elections?
— Tara Golshan (@taragolshan) November 3, 2021
And…
Photos: The Braves are on top of the world after winning #Game6 to become #WorldSeries Champions!!! https://t.co/f68chK9O5P ⚾ pic.twitter.com/OjONlL3RFm
— Atlanta Journal-Constitution (@ajc) November 3, 2021
Congratulations to my hometown Atlanta Braves from space – World Series Champions! #braves #atlanta #atl #nasa #space #BattleATL @Braves pic.twitter.com/9giaayn2M2
— Shane Kimbrough (@astro_kimbrough) November 3, 2021
The Overnight Note 