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The Midterms Show Trump’s Limits
The first post-election read on Trump was not that he was finished. It was that his endorsements still mattered, but not enough to guarantee the kind of Republican sweep he promised.
Edition · November 11, 2022
The Daily Fuckup — November 11, 2022
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Closing take
The common thread was simple: Trump kept trying to control the story, and the story kept controlling him. The midterms had already undercut his aura of inevitability, and by November 11 the legal and political consequences were still spreading.
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The Mar-a-Lago Files Kept Haunting Trump
The classified-documents mess did not go away just because the midterms had happened. On November 11, Trump remained boxed in by the investigation, the paper trail, and the political reality that the records story was still metastasizing.
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Election Denial Still Wasn’t Working
Trump’s insistence on replaying 2020 continued to look like a political dead end. On November 11, the post-election conversation was full of evidence that his fraud fixation had not delivered the payoff he wanted and kept generating backlash instead.