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I just got off the phone with @ezralevin.bsky.social who tells me this potential emerging deal is a "total surrender" from some Senate Democrats. This gives you a sense of how the organizing faction of the left will respond to a shutdown agreement if Democrats end up right where they started.

This is interesting, there seems to be a school of thought emerging by some on the right that WES lost because she wasn't sufficiently MAGA. That does not track with what I heard over the last many months from voters on the ground. In fact, a Trump endorsement may have made things even worse for her. I met voters who supported Youngkin in 2021 but said they were voting for Spanberger this year because she seemed like a reasonable moderate. - Eva McKend

@evamckend.bsky.social - This is interesting, there seems to be a school of thought emerging by some on the right that WES lost because she wasn't sufficiently MAGA. That does not track with what I heard over the last many months from voters on the ground…

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CNN's Eva McKend shares her prep for election night CNN’s Eva McKend opens up about her election night rituals: research, wellness, and the power of preparation in covering democracy in real time.

What an honor to be featured in the iconic EBONY!

Thank you for the conversation. Who is ready for election night?

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Thanks to @evamckend.bsky.social for laying out exactly what's happening in the VA gubernatorial race - and how it fits into a bigger picture for the Dems: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

Sam Shirazi tweets about Eva McKend's tweet with a photo of Jay Jones taking the state in Jones' home city of Norfolk at the Spanberger/Obama rally, after it wasn't clear he would be there...

Reporter Andy Fox tweets about Jay Jones and Ghazala Hashmi speaking at the Obama/Spanberger rally today in Norfolk

Innnnteresting bluevirginia.us/2025/11/phot... h/t @samshirazi.bsky.social @AndyFoxWAVY @evamckend.bsky.social

Virginia Democrats are set to join the redistricting war. Their candidate for governor is staying out of it | CNN Politics Democrats in Virginia’s legislature are expected on Monday to launch a complex redistricting push to counter Republican-led efforts around the country, according to two Democratic lawmakers familiar w...

Democrats in Virginia’s legislature are launching a complex redistricting push to counter Republican-led efforts around the country.

The party’s nominee for Virginia governor isn’t talking much about it.

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As he remains defiant, Graham Platner’s candidacy for Maine Senate becomes a progressive litmus test | CNN Politics Speaking at a town hall following days of negative revelations about his online posts and a tattoo that resembled Nazi imagery, Graham Platner was defiant.

As the Democratic Party tries to find its way after last year’s loss to President Donald Trump, progressives are also engaged in an internal struggle over what disqualifies a candidate they like. Our latest on Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner 👇🏾

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"It's been a hell of a week," says Graham Platner at his town hall in Ogunquit.

"I went from being a communist on Thursday to a Nazi on Monday."

Audience laughs.

"If anybody has done any of the reading, that's a pretty hard political trajectory to navigate."

Graham Platner's mother just got on stage in Ogunquit to introduce him at the town hall

I wonder who this red headed man playing sad acoustic guitar love songs is at the Graham Platner town hall... this is my kind of music

“All politics is local.” I’m making sure my GW @smpagwu.bsky.social students can cover the people at the center of policy decisions from Capitol Hill to Main Street. S/o to @cnn.com’s @evamckend.bsky.social and @wric.com’s Deanna Allbrittin and Tyler Englander for sharing how they cover politics

This was such a fun conversation! Thank you to the Slate team for having me on.

Republicans double down on trans issues as a wedge with Virginia voters | CNN Politics It’s early on a Thursday evening and Winsome Earle-Sears, Virginia’s Republican candidate for governor, is in a familiar place. She’s standing outside of a school board meeting to call attention to po...

Our latest on how the debate over transgender rights is playing out in the Virginia Governor's race including from actual trans folks who say they feel forgotten.

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Shutdown hits hard in Virginia, home to 300,000 federal workers | CNN Politics The federal government shutdown — and the escalating battle over which party bears the most blame — has injected a major new question mark into the governor’s race in Virginia, home to hundreds of tho...

The federal government shutdown — and the escalating battle over which party bears the most blame — has injected a major new question mark into the governor’s race in Virginia, home to hundreds of thousands of federal workers. Our latest👇🏾

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Jalique Wiseman, a 20-year old, is sentenced to 27 years in prison for his role in a robbery spree (six incidents) on and near the Metro Branch bike trail in Washington D.C. over the course of a month and a half in 2023, according to U.S. Attorney Pirro's office.

DC mayor’s handling of Trump deployment roils residents who want more pushback | CNN Politics Jawanna Hardy, founder of a group that works with victims of gun violence as young as 3, said many in her community were hopeful when President Donald Trump announced a federal takeover of law enforce...

Over the course of the DC crackdown, people in underserved communities say the level of scrutiny has not been equally applied.

Vincent Tyree was jailed for four days.

Now the government says they don't even have the evidence to prosecute him...

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Virginia governor candidates duel over transgender participation in youth sports | CNN Politics As Democrats continue their internal debate over transgender rights, Abigail Spanberger, the party’s nominee for governor of Virginia, is directly responding to Republican ads that echo the commercial...

Remember that they/them ad deployed against Harris in 2024?

Republicans keep going back to the well on this issue in hopes conversation about transgender rights in America will divide Democrats.

Dems say it's not working

Our latest from Virginia 👇🏾

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Mamdani faces pressure in NYC mayor’s race over his ties to democratic socialists | CNN Politics The Democratic Socialists of America held their national convention this summer in the afterglow of arguably their biggest electoral victory to date: Zohran Mamdani’s triumph in the Democratic primary...

Mamdani critics trying to make DSA affiliation political liability ahead of November, so far jabs haven’t landed

DSA says socialism not scary to new generation of voters

“Younger folks really see capitalism is not working out for them.”

Our latest 👇🏾

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Minnesota Democrats revoke endorsement of democratic socialist candidate for Minneapolis mayor | CNN Politics A Minnesota Democratic committee on Thursday revoked the party’s endorsement of mayoral candidate Omar Fateh, a democratic socialist challenging the incumbent Democratic mayor of Minneapolis.

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A significant turn of events in Minneapolis.

The democratic socialist candidate, Omar Fateh, who won nomination from city Democrats last month at their convention had his endorsement overturned by the state party after the incumbent Democratic mayor's supporters filed challenges.

Story coming.

Whiskey Maker Honoring an Enslaved Distiller Is in a Fiscal Bind

This is a pretty devastating turn of events for a much celebrated Black owned business >>>

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DC Mayor Bowser changes her tone on Trump as crackdown ramps up | CNN Politics After Donald Trump won the presidential election, Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser flew to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate to see him.

Mayor Bowser’s response to the federalization of the DC police illustrate how she’s often trying to communicate multiple messages at once as she faces perhaps the biggest test to date of her leadership.

Our latest 👇🏾

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Democratic socialists fresh off Mamdani victory see opportunity in Minneapolis | CNN Politics Less than a month after Zohran Mamdani’s victory in New York City’s mayoral primary, some of Mamdani’s allies are coalescing around another democratic socialist challenging the incumbent Democratic ma...

NEW: Less than a month after Zohran Mamdani’s victory in New York City’s mayoral primary, some of Mamdani’s allies are coalescing around another democratic socialist challenging the incumbent Democratic mayor of Minneapolis.

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Former VP Kamala Harris will travel from California to Minnesota to attend Saturday’s funeral services of Minnesota House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, per a source familiar with her plans.

Governor Walz extended an invitation on behalf of the family.

As Democrats work to figure out how to rebuild a winning coalition, they say the message is clear: Democrats need to be more bold. If they regain power, they must act decisively because the second Trump administration has shown the rules of engagement have changed. #politics #democrats #trump

Thank you! I will.

Tonight, talking “Kamala” the photo book and Kamala the human being. Plus, politics, visual expression and all the rest with @evamckend.bsky.social

After public outcry, the USDA has reopened an HBCU scholarship program.

CNN previously reported about the suspension of the program as part of the assault on diversity programs

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If you go to the USDA site today, the program has been restored

19 Democratic senators joined Republicans including Sens. Baldwin, Bennet, Booker, Cortez-Masto, Durbin, Fetterman, Gallego, Hassan, Henrich, Hickenlooper, Klobuchar, Ossoff, Peters, Rosen, Schiff, Shaheen, Slotkin, Warnock, and Welch.