“Tuesday was a disappointing night for Democrats, as they lost the Virginia governorship to Republican Glenn Youngkin. But the media – who all live in Virginia and New Jersey, coincidentally – are freaking out so badly that NBC is launching a new Sunday show, Sedate the Press.” —Stephen Colbert
“The rough election night has re-energized congressional Democrats to pass crucial social and infrastructure plans – last week, due to opposition from the West Virginia senator Joe Manchin, Democrats took out paid family leave from the Build Back Better bill. But after the defeat in Virginia, the House added a provision to provide four weeks of federally paid family and medical leave back into the plan. OK, that’s something! It’s not what anyone asked for, but it’s better than nothing. Coincidentally, also the slogan of RC Cola.” —Stephen Colbert
“So, yes, the results were bad for Democrats and, yes, they absolutely need to learn some real lessons from it, but you didn’t need an election result in Virginia to tell you that things aren’t exactly great for Democrats right now. Biden’s poll numbers are in the toilet, concerns about the economy and inflation are on the rise, people are exhausted and angry after 20 months of pandemic life, and Democrats in Congress have spent what feels like an eternity haggling over a bill to deliver on Biden’s agenda, and they still can’t agree on a deal. It doesn’t seem that complicated to me: you need to do popular things that people like and then you need to tell voters that Republicans will take them away. I mean, this is a party that’s pretending to be a pro-worker, populist movement, but in Virginia, they just elected multimillionaire private equity executive in Glenn Youngkin, who often wore a simple, folksy vest on the campaign trail. Don’t let that vest fool you. He’s got sleeve money.” —Seth Meyers
“Team Biden today announced that more than 100 million American workers are required to be fully vaccinated by Jan. 4. And if I know my fellow American workers, everyone’s going to be super chill about that.” —Jimmy Kimmel
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