Post Politics Now: Warnock, Walker make final pitches in Georgia Senate runoff
Today, Sen. Raphael G. Warnock (D-Ga.) and Republican challenger Herschel Walker are making final pitches in the Georgia Senate runoff that will be decided Tuesday. Both campaigns are making stops designed to energize base voters in a race in which turnout will be key. Democrats are already set to control the Senate next year, but an additional seat would give the party more leverage in the chamber, which is now evenly divided.
As Congress returns to Washington this week, Republican lawmakers are likely to be pressed on former president Donald Trump’s suggestion this weekend that the U.S. Constitution should be terminated in response to his baseless claims that the 2020 election was stolen. The response since Saturday has been largely muted.
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Analysis: Ro Khanna had no clue he’d star in Musk’s ‘Twitter Files’
When Elon Musk announced Friday afternoon that he planned to reveal what “really happened with the Hunter Biden story suppression by Twitter,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) had no idea he’d be a part of the plot.
Writing in The Technology 202, The Post’s Cristiano Lima relays that four hours later, emails from Khanna to former Twitter executive Vijaya Gadde voicing concern about the company restricting a controversial New York Post article were featured in a thread by Substack writer Matt Taibbi on the so-called “Twitter Files,” which Musk had billed as the true tale of “free speech suppression” at the company. Per Cristiano:
