WHO? The Most Ambitious Man in America? Dem Rep. Eric Swalwell to Run for President. “The 37-year-old would be the youngest candidate for president since William Jennings Bryan in 1896.”

BY ANY MEANS FAIR OR FOUL, BUT MOSTLY FOUL: Sen. Bill Nelson Hires Perkins Coie/Trump Dossier Attorney Marc Elias to Handle Florida Recount.

He also served as general counsel for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign and for John Kerry’s in 2004.

WE NEED MORE CONSEQUENCES: UCSB ruined an innocent student’s life with a shoddy Title IX investigation. It got a slap on the wrist.

OH: Federal judge blocks construction of Keystone XL pipeline.

TOXIC MASCULINITY: ‘Multiple Men’ Were ‘Ready to Take a Bullet For Any Single One of Us,’ Says Woman Who Survived California Shooting.

SCENES FROM THE WORKERS’ PARADISE: UN Says Number of migrants, refugees from Venezuela reaches 3 million. “The exodus, driven by violence, hyperinflation and shortages of food amounts to around one in 12 of the population.”

The World Bank says the crisis has already cost Colombia almost half a percent of its gross domestic product in 2018: $1.2bn.

Earlier this year, Ecuador and Peru announced tighter entry rules, with the former declaring a state of emergency in three northern states which receive up to 4,200 Venezuelans daily.

“I have nowhere else to go,” said Daleny Gonzales, a Venezuelan migrant in Colombia. “They are telling us we can’t stay here. But I don’t know where else to go.”

If you’re opposed to socialism, it’s because you’re an uncaring monster.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Georgetown class has students produce ‘social justice’ documentaries ‘for social action.’

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WELL, THAT’S BECAUSE THEY ARE: GOP Senate candidate Rick Scott files bombshell lawsuits accusing Dem Florida election officials of trying to ‘steal the election.’ Weird how these late counts never seem to push the Republican candidate further ahead.

LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: Every Vote Counts in Large Amounts and Much, Much More. “Literally, you can count on them or with them. The Democrats in Florida, Georgia, and Arizona are continuing to ‘count’ the ‘votes’ in the 2018 election and, curiously, as they continue to “count,” the Democrats either take the lead or close the gap.”

They mean to win. Does the GOP?

CONGRATS TO MICHAEL YON: Combat reporter extraordinaire Michael Yon reports the Japanese edition of his new book has been out for a couple of weeks and the publisher is already preparing a second printing. The book hit #33 overall in Japan six days after publication.

WES PRUDEN IN THE WASHINGTON TIMES: “Doesn’t anybody here respect journalists?”

One quote for the record:

Yamiche Alcindor of National Public Radio asked the president why he calls himself a “nationalist” when he should know that the word has been twisted into a meaning it once never had.

“Mr. President,” she said, “on the campaign trail you called yourself a ‘nationalist,’ and some heard that as emboldening white nationalists. There are some people that say the Republican Party is seen as supporting white nationalists because of your rhetoric. What do you make of that?”

This is the classic ‘when-did-you-stop-beating your wife’ question. To answer it is to accept the premise, that a nationalist is a racist and bigot simply because “some people” say so, and that “the Republican Party is seen as supporting white nationalists because of [the president’s] rhetoric.” She apparently never learned that “some” is not a legitimate source.

The president might have delicately said something like “I have never said anything to support racial bigotry,” or merely defined “nationalism,” a devotion to national rather than international goals, and let it go. But It’s difficult for anyone, even a president, to let such an accusation go. Attributing bigotry to someone with whom you disagree has become a liberal’s first line of argument, and even a president finds it hard to ignore, and this president doesn’t do letting it go.

“I don’t know why you’d say that,” Mr. Trump replied. “Such a racist question. Honestly? Let me tell you, that’s a racist question. Why do I have the highest poll numbers ever with African Americans? That’s such a racist question. I love our country, I do. You have nationalists, and you have globalists. But to say what you said to me is so insulting to me. It’s a very terrible thing you said.”

“The Washington Press Corps,” reported one Web publication, “was floored.” The White House reporters, who can sometimes seem like a “corps,” but the reporters who cover the presidents are never so organized as a “corps.” (Aside to Barack Obama, the scholar from Harvard, Columbia, and Occidental College, it’s still pronounced as if it were spelled “core” not “corpse,” which is a dead person.)

Now read the whole thing.

DE-ICING IN SWEDEN: USAF F-16 participating in NATO’s Exercise Trident Juncture gets de-iced at Kallax Air Base, Sweden.

RELATED: Why Sweden and Finland are effectively members of NATO.

WEIRD, THEY WERE PRETTY QUIET ON THIS SUBJECT IN THE RUNUP TO THE ELECTION: Democrats renew push for gun control, assault weapons ban.

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THAT “BLUE WAVE?” “A look at the electoral map shows that much of America, from the Appalachians to the Sierra Nevada and the Cascades, returned Republicans to both the Senate and the House. Not all of these people are undereducated. Not all of them are working class. Many live in suburbs, many are independent, many are even women!”

SEEN ON FACEBOOK: “Jesus, NBC is still wallowing in the blood. The Borderline shooting is wall-to-wall, pictures of the shooter, his full name, teary next of kin of the victims. It’s like they want copycats.”

DEMOCRAT PRIVILEGE: Schneiderman Will Not Face Criminal Charges in Abuse Complaints. “After a six-month investigation, prosecutors said Thursday that they would not pursue criminal charges against Eric T. Schneiderman, the former New York State attorney general who resigned in May after four women accused him of assaulting them.”

JOURNALISM: Jim Acosta straight-up lied about touching WH staffer — and CNN helped.

Related: Buzzfeed fact checks claims from CNN and others that Sarah Sanders tweeted ‘doctored’ video of Jim Acosta.

NARROWEST DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY SINCE 1945: The Tenuous Democratic House Majority.

After all the votes are counted, Democrats will emerge from the first midterm election of Donald Trump’s presidency with their narrowest majority in the House of Representative since 1945.

If current results hold, Democrats will control 229 seats, a net gain of 36, compared with 206 for Republicans, giving them a majority of 11 seats. Democratic candidates won, or are currently leading in, 18 seats by a margin lower than 5 percentage points.

While the party did succeed in retaking the House, their efforts fell well short of historical trend lines recorded in previous wave elections.

The Democrats’ net gain of 36 seats pales in comparison to the Tea Party wave of 2010, when Republicans captured 63 seats in the House. The GOP’s post-2010 majority of 24 seats was more than double the amount that Democrats are expected to possess from 2019 to 2021.

And still the GOP couldn’t do much, which is why they are going into the minority now.

CHANGE: The Space Force is no joke – in fact, it’s really needed.

IF ONLY JOURNALISTS CARED AS MUCH ABOUT THE NEWS AS THEY CARE ABOUT THE DOINGS OF JOURNALISTS: White House-Acosta feud is talk of town.

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