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If you want to hear a bipartisan sigh of relief, check out this Politico piece Andrew Desiderio and Connor O’Brien filed from the yearly Halifax International Security Forum about lawmakers telling American allies the midterm elections proved the republic is of sound body (politic).
“Amid concerns about the fragility of democracy both at home and abroad,” they reported Sunday, the delegation “highlighted the resounding defeat of candidates in battleground states who backed Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.”
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“‘It’s really important for the United States to be able to model the aspects of democracy that we’re talking to other countries about,’ said Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), who led the delegation here, in an interview. ‘So many of those people who were the most extreme were defeated. That was a good sign. It was a good sign for democracy.’”
And it wasn’t just Democrats. Many Republicans are tired of former president Donald Trump’s false claims of having been cheated out of a second term in 2020, Andrew and Connor reported.
“‘It just was a lesson that the American people are smarter than that and they don’t appreciate it if people try to simply gloss over that,’ said Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.),...
Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is in "good health" and suffered only minor injuries during the February 28 strikes, senior Iranian officials said on Friday, dismissing mounting speculation...