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“I don’t want to be just sitting there for two years vetoing everything.” President Donald Trump picked up a call from @DashaBurns on POLITICO Elections Live and talked to us about the blue wave and how he’s willing to work with incoming congressional Democrats.  Watch live now: politi.co/4AgCofb

Medieval bestiaries were full of dragons and unicorns. My Darwinian bestiary needs no mythical beasts – reality is stranger: colour-changing octopuses, harpoon-armed sea anemones, maze-solving slime moulds, and microscopic radiolarians. 42 Tales from Life is out today!

وقّع وزير الخارجية ماركو روبيو الاتفاقية التي تُضفي الطابع الرسمي على مشاركة الولايات المتحدة في إكسبو 2030 الرياض. ويشكّل إكسبو 2030 محطة أخرى في مسيرة التعاون بين بلدينا، حيث يجلب الابتكار والإبداع وقطاع الأعمال الأمريكي إلى الساحة العالمية في المملكة العربية السعودية.

Europe must not only remain the place of great scientific discoveries. It must be the place where those discoveries create new industries. This will determine our competitiveness and our prosperity. My keynote address at the WinWin Brussels Summit → link.europa.eu/4WJvRD

سمو #ولي_العهد يستقبل سمو ممثل ملك البحرين للأعمال الإنسانية وشؤون الشباب مستشار الأمن الوطني، ويستعرضان العلاقات التاريخية بين البلدين الشقيقين، والموضوعات ذات الاهتمام المشترك. spa.gov.sa/N2718348 #واس

بتوجيهاتٍ من #خادم_الحرمين_الشريفين وسمو #ولي_العهد.. الصندوق السعودي للتنمية يموّل مشروعات تنموية في سوريا بقيمة تتجاوز 403 ملايين دولار. spa.gov.sa/ar/w2718575 #واس

📌الرئيس الأميركي دونالد ترمب: 📍صحيح إلى حد كبير أن خسارة الانتخابات النصفية كانت نتيجة الحرب على إيران، لكن الأمر يستحق وكان علينا القيام به وما زلنا نقوم به 📍سأتمكن على الأرجح من التفاهم مع الديمقراطيين 📍إذا أقدم الديمقراطيون على مساءلتي بهدف عزلي فسيؤدي ذلك إلى تدمير حزبهم 📍لو كنت على بطاقة الاقتراع لفزنا ولم نتمكن من نقل هذا التأييد إلى المرشحين 🔴 تابعوا الشرق بلومبرغ للمزيد

One of the things the data analysts on our side obsessed over was "composition"—whether the electorate looked close enough to 2024 for Republicans to win. And despite polls that showed a Democrat blowout, the data kept on telling us the same story: in some states turnout was merely OK, in other states it was downright amazing, and in no state was it catastrophic. There was a genuine sense of optimism on our team: our people were showing up. So, I asked the smartest data guy I know, does that mean we're going to shock the world? "No," he told me. "We might do better than the polls suggest. But the data is telling us that a lot of Trump/Vance 2024 voters are pissed and planning to vote for the other guys. Our voters are turning out, but they may not vote for us." Well, that looks prophetic now. Our voters did show up. In Florida, for example, the electorate was 9 points more Republican than Democrat, just a couple points worse than 2024. Undoubtedly there were places we could have done better on turnout. But the main problem is not turnout. The main problem is that many people who voted for Trump/Vance in 2024 voted for Democrats in 2026. There will be a lot of infighting and arguing over what happened and why that is. One of the pollsters I really respect told me that our economic messaging wasn’t sharp enough down the stretch. I’m sure that’s true. But the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone. Another pollster—one of the smartest people I know in politics, told me yesterday we’d lose the generic ballot by 13 points. I felt negative going into Tuesday, but even I was shocked by this. In his polling, he saw that a lot of Trump 2024 voters were angry and planning to vote for Democrats. He asked those voters who had abandoned us what would cause them to come back on our team. The top four answers, accounting for nearly all of the responses were: 1) End the war 2) Focus on cost of living/inflation 3) Put America First 4) Change our relationship to Israel Our voters showed up. And the above four reasons are why many of them voted for Democrats. This is according to a pollster who nailed the results. While many spent Monday attacking Rachel Campos Duffy for calling for a diplomatic resolution to the conflict, it turns out her political advice was sound. (She’s also a great person.) In the next few months, there's going to be a lot of gaslighting. Expect to hear any number of establishment politicians say the solution to our woes is amnesty. I'm open to the idea that we should change enforcement—by focusing more on businesses that hire illegal labor, for instance. But anyone pushing amnesty is lying to you. The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night. If you'd like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that's at least honest. But everyone knows why we lost. And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there. I remain hopeful about our country. To the people who are pissed off and want to say, “I told you so”: you’re right, you did tell us so. Take that energy into electing Republicans who share your worldview. To the people who are just pissed at the results, you should be. Let’s take that anger and get back to the work of saving our country.

إدارة ترمب تستعد لسيناريو "البطة العرجاء" بعد فوز الديمقراطيين بأغلبية مقاعد "الكونغرس" والتهديد بعرقلة أجندة الجمهوريين.. ماذا تعني الكلمة؟ ======= 🔴 فوز الديمقراطيين بأغلبية مقاعد "الكونغرس" يضع إدارة ترمب أمام مرحلة "البطة العرجاء". 🔴 مصطلح "البطة العرجاء" سياسيا يصف رئيسا تتقلص قدرته على تمرير أجندته التشريعية. 🔴 خسائر جمهورية واسعة في مجلسي النواب والشيوخ وجهت ضربة سياسية للإدارة الأميركية. 🔴 حق النقض الرئاسي برز كأداة أساسية قد يستخدمها ترمب لمواجهة تشريعات الديمقراطيين وفقا لـ"إندبندنت". 🔴 تحقيقات محتملة في أداء الإدارة وتعطيل للأجندة الداخلية يلوحان مع سيطرة الديمقراطيين على الكونغرس.