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Hello, and welcome back to Tomorrow Will Be Worse!
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Well. This is the update I was waiting for. After Republicans, with the anchor of Donald Trump strapped to their necks, barely scraped across the finish line of the midterms on Tuesday night, Tina Nguyen finally delivers the dispatch I’ve been hungering to read. Even though we don’t have all the results yet, two results are clear: Trump lost and Ron DeSantis won, resoundingly. And as Tina has been telling us for months now, the split in the Republican base, as well as within the donor class, has been growing steadily, perfectly encapsulated by the dueling Trump and DeSantis you-can’t-sit-with-us Florida rallies last weekend.
Now, it seems, a still bigger clash is coming as the party decides whom it will anoint to lead it into November 2024. Will it be the tried-and-tested Trump, who now has a pretty clear losing streak? Or the man on a winning streak who...
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| DeSantis & the March of the Trump Defectors |
| Trump’s midterm face-plant has hastened an intra-peninsular reckoning between Mar-a-Lago and Tallahassee over the future of the Republican Party. The conventional wisdom has long posited that MAGAworld, not the Murdochs, will decide the next president. But what if Trump is losing the base? |
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| As Republican operatives awoke on Wednesday morning, two stark realities came into focus. First, of course, was the gut-punch realization that their “red wave” had not materialized: Fetterman beat Oz; Kelly leads Masters; Georgia is headed to a runoff. Low-quality and election-denying candidates (Tudor Dixon, Doug Mastriano, John Gibbs) had clearly cost them winnable seats, and control of Congress may be unknown for weeks. Murdoch world quickly blamed Donald Trump for his “toxic” endorsements; meanwhile, MAGAworld called for the swampy heads of “The Macs,” Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell. But there was also another narrative that began to coalesce upon which all could agree: Florida, the new spiritual center of the Republican Party, looked like the happiest place on earth.
Governor Ron DeSantis, after all, not only won re-election, but did so by nearly twenty points, or about 1.5 million votes... |
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| FOUR STORIES WE’RE TALKING ABOUT |
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| CNN’s Bronze |
| A first in modern memory: CNN lost the overall ratings battle to MSNBC on election night. |
| DYLAN BYERS |
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| Sorrell’s Elon Advice |
| Chatter surrounding fixing Twitter, Trump’s legal handcuffs, and an S.B.F. postmortem. |
| WILLIAM D. COHAN |
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| Russia’s It Girl |
| The curious case of Ksenia Sobchak illustrates a profound truth about modern Russia. |
| JULIA IOFFE |
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