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[Chris Stirewalt @ChrisStirewalt]

Perhaps the most all encompassing analysis of the red team's performance is: womp womp @thehill.

https://t.co/k5uLWcQCZS

[David J. Bier @David_J_Bier]

If you want to know what's behind so many Hispanic Americans rejecting Trumpism, watch this. You can't take away the rights of a massive group of citizens without a response. End the racial profiling!

[Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul]

Kevin Williamson is a national treasure

[Yoni Appelbaum @YAppelbaum]

A first excerpt from Joe Biden's memoir:

[Jennifer Erin Valent 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @JenniferEValent]

Watching so many of my fellow believers in Christ insist this man would somehow bring about a resurgence of biblical values has been one of the most bizarre and disturbing things I’ve ever witnessed

[Dan Alexander @DanAlexander21]

1/ I'll explain exactly how this happened because I'm the person at Forbes who calculates these numbers.

This is going to take some unraveling, but here's a spoiler: The president's answer here is nonsense.

[Michael R. Strain @MichaelRStrain]

Just because the American people disapproved of lawlessness at the border does not mean that they are anti-immigrant, and the nativism from senior White House officials — including Vice President Vance — is appalling and, apparently, politically damaging to the GOP. Exit polls from the midterm election show that 61 percent of voters think immigrants to the U.S. today do more to help the country than to hurt the country, and 58 percent think the Trump administration's actions on immigration enforcement have gone too far.

President Biden's lawless southern border was a huge problem and a massive failure. President Trump brought order to the southern border, which is a major accomplishment of his administration. But he hurt the GOP with his deportation policy and, I suspect, with his administration's general posture towards immigrants.

[Olivia of Troye @OliviaTroye]

There’s a lot more to unpack from this week’s election, and what comes next matters just as much.

My latest Saturday Covfefe ☕️ https://t.co/gNDAUWMoQA

[Phil Gordon @PhilGordonDC]

Kushner's post is what you get when you put diplomatic negotiations in the hands of businessmen who have little experience with the issues, contempt for experts (and Europeans), potential financial incentives for deals with Russia, and a naive belief in the power of personal relationships with Russian leaders and officials.

The problem with the post is less its description of perfectly reasonable objectives for European security than the apparent unawareness that the agreements, institutions, and mechanisms proposed to achieve them have been in place for decades and that Russia has repeatedly violated them.

So long as Trump's diplomacy in Europe and Ukraine is based on the notion that Europe and Russia are equally responsible for the current state of affairs (or worse that Europe and Ukraine are more to blame than Moscow), it will only reinforce Russia's false hope that it can achieve its strategic and territorial ambitions in Europe.

[Chris McGuire @ChrisRMcGuire]

The story keeps getting crazier. To recap everything that has been reported so far:

- The US intelligence community discovered that Jensen Huang, the CEO of the largest company in the world, was sleeping with Alice Huang, a Chinese spy and an executive at Megaspeed. (FT)
- Multiple independent investigations have concluded that Megaspeed is likely a Chinese cutout, which helps Chinese companies access AI chips or circumvent export controls. (NYT and Bloomberg)
- The US intelligence community also concluded that Alice Huang’s goal was to convince Jensen to lobby the U.S. government to loosen export controls on advanced AI chips. (NYT)
- The intelligence community relayed this information to “a small group of top US government officials” earlier this year. (FT)
- Over the last year, Jensen Huang has repeatedly lobbied the U.S. government to loosen export controls on advanced chips. @BISgov has done so, not only by permitting the export of H200 chips to China, but also not enforcing export controls that would have required a license for exports of the most advanced Blackwell chips to Megaspeed and Southeast Asia.
- Although @CommerceGov leadership was presumably briefed on this information by the U.S. intelligence community, @BISgov has taken no actions to tighten controls on Megaspeed or Southeast Asia.
- Megaspeed remains a preferred cloud partner of Nvidia, and continues to receive Nvidia Blackwell chips despite employing a Chinese spy who reportedly is romantically engaged with the CEO of Nvidia.
- Tens of billions of dollars worth of AI chips have been exported to Southeast Asia this year alone, and Malaysia and Singapore are now two of the four largest importers of AI chips in the world.

What is going on here??? We need answers. The question of who gets the most advanced AI chips in the world is literally the defining strategic question of our time. And not only does it seem like the MSS may be directly influencing the debate on export controls in the United States, but also @CommerceGov is refusing to listen to the warnings of the IC on this issue. What is a POSSIBLE good explanation for why Megaspeed is still receiving chips? Why is there not a license requirement for AI chip shipments to all of Southeast Asia? This is beyond strange at this point.

The fallout from this story will be massive. Obviously, the motivations underpinning Nvidia’s policy views opposing export controls must now all be questioned. But also, how did @BISgov sit on this information and has still taken no actions? We need answers.

[Maggie Haberman @maggieNYT]

"‘I Have Seen the Enemy, and It Is Us’: Inside Team Trump’s Historic Collapse." @ShaneGoldmacher @jonathanvswan me https://t.co/ovBPkpoI4d

[Neil Shenvi @NeilShenvi]

Blaming "mass immigration" and "demographic replacement" for losing states that you won ***two years ago*** is the alt-right's version of blaming "systemic racism."

[jdascenzo @1defenz]

@secupp Thanks for posting this. I watched CNN when you said this and I was so hoping I’d be able to find it online so I could save it. Very, very well said and I agree 100%.

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

Ohio Dems had grown accustomed to losing. Then Amy Acton defeated Vivek Ramaswamy, Sherrod Brown won back his Senate seat, and a victory party erupted in tears, cheers, and even breakdancing.

@JimSwiftDC reports from Columbus on a night few saw coming. https://t.co/EUUiUVy1XO

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

"Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it."

-– Thomas Paine, The American Crisis No. 1, December 23, 1776

[Brittany Shepherd @brittanys]

SCOOP: @JoeBiden has been working the phones since Monday, making around 40 calls, as he watched the party he once led have explosive victories from his home in Wilmington. Biden spoke to Beshear, Lance-Bottoms, Bayh, Shapiro, Amy Acton, and more:

https://t.co/LTPQBD6bLc

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

It’s the war.
It’s the blatant corruption.
It’s the trade wars.
It’s the sucking up to Putin.
It’s ICE’s cruelty.
It’s the administration’s incompetence.
It’s the Epstein files.
It’s Trump’s disgraceful behavior in office.
It’s a Republican-controlled Congress refusing to hold him accountable.

It’s ALL of it. And so much more

[colleen @waysandmeans71]

We lost because you and Trump and Marco are egregious people who have said and done horrible things. You bullied a 9 year old rape victim on the trail, you joked with gay Jesse about Husted’s ass while ignoring the sincere question of a young women, you said immigrants were the scourge of our nation, you said your proudest moment was denying Ukraine aid as we see every month the little faces of now dead children, you lied about hospital translators, lied about every thing, expressed no remorse for the victims of ICE murders, no remorse for the hundreds of children Stephen Miller is torturing in ICE detention, and again just lied and lied and lied, about the war, the economy, mostly about Democrats. The biggest lie of all is that you serve Jesus, when you’re really just a shithead.

[TheHillSunday @TheHillSunday]

What is going on in Texas?

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