The New York Times said Santos lied but the Washington Post didn’t

The Post did a poor job here.

George Santos, a Long Island Republican who won a pivotal U.S. House race in November, acknowledged that he embellished his biography, seeking to explain his actions by saying in a radio interview that “a lot of people overstate in their résumés.” https://t.co/Gmf6DyI8Tw
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) December 27, 2022

The Times said he lied. You should do it too.https://t.co/gEdrIea3BL
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) December 27, 2022

Santos admits to a bunch of his lies about his background, but provides no insight into how his income jumped from $55k to $750k and going from no assets to several million in just two years https://t.co/g1EBTbG1ak
— Joe Perticone (@JoePerticone) December 26, 2022

The media gave Kari Lake over $300 million of free publicity

See the screen print from this December 12, 2022 Washington Post article. They have learned nothing from covering Trump. Trump and Lake both have extensive TV experience and know how to get attention.

So confident Kari Lake would win, a transition team began meeting last fall. Records obtained by @washingtonpost show staff had been picked for key roles and they had evaluated leadership of state agencies to determine who would stay and who would not. https://t.co/RvlFoERImx
— YvonneWingettSanchez 🏜 (@yvonnewingett) December 12, 2022

Tweets on 2022 election results

Republicans made gains in House races across the country, continuing to improve in areas with more non-white voters & more culturally conservative voters, but suffered in swing races, especially when running MAGA candidates against moderate Democratshttps://t.co/NVlGjp9uyp pic.twitter.com/btiuXk76fa
— Matt Grossmann (@MattGrossmann) December 13, 2022

Media narrative wrong again https://t.co/JxOsaUM8vl
— Jennifer "Pro-privacy" Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) December 13, 2022

Scott pretty clearly prioritized his personal desire to butter up Trump over his institutional responsibility at NRSC to recruit the candidates w/best prospects. So he stepped aside as Trump pushed unelectable choices. Maybe Scott couldn't have stopped them-but he didn't try. https://t.co/K6KNef9Uqv
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) December 7, 2022

We're now down to 5 senators out of 100 who represent states their party didn't win in the 2020 presidential race – and only 5 split delegations total (counting Sanders/King as Ds). The 3 Ds in Trump states (Manchin, Brown, Tester) are up in 2024 pic.twitter.com/jviSND7TFl
— Kyle Kondik (@kkondik) December 7, 2022

Never thought I'd see a WaPo op-ed on imputations for uncontested races! With these imputations, the Republican advantage in the national House vote shrinks from about R+3 to R+1.5. And the chamber as a whole exhibits close to perfect partisan fairness.https://t.co/Fs8HdlIMyB
— Nicholas Stephanopoulos (@ProfNickStephan) December 5, 2022

CNN is addicted to Trump

This column talks about Trump’s influence and Walker’s shortcomings but says nothing about Warnock winning because he is better.

Your column makes no mention of the possibility that Warnock could win because he is more qualified, and the better candidate. Warnock has more experience and doesn't talk about vampires and werewolves. CNN is addicted to Trump and that's why I have stopped watching it.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) December 5, 2022

More on wealthy political donors (mostly to Republicans)

New from the @thedailybeast's @SollenbergerRC: Tax returns reveal a "dark money" nonprofit tied to billionaire GOP donor Richard Uihlein that posts voter rolls & amplifies disproven fraud claims raised over $20.5 million in the year after the 2020 election https://t.co/x20Djjlvnd
— Anna Massoglia (@annalecta) November 28, 2022

DonorsTrust—one of the biggest conservative dark money organizations in the nation— took in more than $1 billion last year.

The identities of the donors? They're kept a secret.https://t.co/xrJhkqnbYE
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) November 21, 2022

Barnes lost by 27K votes; was outspent by outside groups by $27 million.
$29 million of that spending came from one group, funded by three billionaires that Johnson personally created a massive tax break for.
No reporting of this race is complete without these basic facts. https://t.co/vftt0roDjj
— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn) November 10, 2022

Republican billionaires held an advantage in giving to 2022 election campaigns.

Data compiled by @OpenSecretsDC found seven of the top 10 donors to federal elections are Republicans who have given around a quarter of a billion dollars to GOP causes.https://t.co/jhSUW0ZSNo pic.twitter.com/Ll6OBqJQmk
— Yahoo Finance (@YahooFinance) November 7, 2022

George Soros with $7B apparently controls the global elites against regular salt of the earth folks like Elon with $200B, Kochs with $120B, Adelsons with $30B, and Murdochs with $20B
— Deva Hazarika (@devahaz) November 6, 2022

Bigelow is also the top donor to the Republican Governors Association this year, on top of spending in Nevada and other states pic.twitter.com/Qn5j79zhRN
— Ben Wieder (@benbwieder) November 6, 2022

You can find a similar story in Wisconsin, or Oregon, where one or two irked billionaires decides they don't like the people in power and put their thumb on the scales. It's the Citizens United vision of democracy, the best that money can buy. https://t.co/anb0wuqV4n
— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn) November 6, 2022

Ronald S. Lauder, a billionaire cosmetics heir, is among the richest men in New York. He has also become the most prolific state political donor in memory this fall, pumping at least $11 million into efforts to elect Lee Zeldin, a Republican, as governor. https://t.co/yV1SDZhKJl
— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 6, 2022

Great alteration of a Trading Places photo into a Herschel Walker photo

Someone took a picture from Trading Places that featured Eddie Murphy flanked by Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche and made it into one with Herschel Walker with Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham. It goes back to Walker saying “erection” when he meant “election”.

Of all the various characters he has player, Eddie Murphy as Billy Ray Valentine is my favorite. pic.twitter.com/7PsdELqAAB
— Miles Commodore (@miles_commodore) November 16, 2022

Except Billy Ray Valentine wasn’t a bumbling idiot like Herschel is. Valentine understood supply and demand quickly. https://t.co/xopqxSR6Tu
— Matt Goodwin (@mattgoody2) November 23, 2022

That face Lindsey Graham makes when Herschel Walker says erection. pic.twitter.com/n5sZdBRPT8
— The USA Singers (@TheUSASingers) November 23, 2022

Crime exaggeration was the right-wing 2022 version of the caravan

Coverage slowed down after the election was over.

Fox's 2022 midterm season violent crime coverage was their 2018 midterm season caravan coverage all over again https://t.co/iMuYahnR2D pic.twitter.com/oGYi8J3FdZ
— Lis Power (@LisPower1) November 17, 2022

New from me & @nickpwing: The Republicans spent the last year+ trying to link Democrats to a wildly exaggerated "crime wave"—per exit polling, it was not an issue most voters actually cared about & strongly suggests police-reform is still a winning message https://t.co/FZaSWozqWz
— Jerry Iannelli (@jerryiannelli) November 11, 2022

Public perception on crime doesn’t line up well with reality, and hasn’t for quite some time.@Jamiles & @Weihua_Li1 looked at the data last week: https://t.co/0fL0NzIGCS
— The Marshall Project (@MarshallProj) November 11, 2022

This is outrageous and yet not at all surprising. The yellow is the “actual rise” in violent crime in NYC. The purple is coverage of it. This doesn’t even count the $50 million GOP spent on ads lying to people about crime to influence their vote. pic.twitter.com/0ACgJ01RvN
— Scott Hechinger (@ScottHech) November 8, 2022

Majority of House GOP losers haven’t conceded as of 11/16/22

Overlooked👀

The majority of losing House Republican candidates still have not conceded. pic.twitter.com/NGVaN5Tt2C
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) November 16, 2022

Republicans are ripping off Herschel Walker

They claim they’re raising money for Walker but they’re keeping most of it. They’re scamming Walker and their voters.

Republicans are lining up to raise money for the Georgia runoff in which they keep the vast majority of the money and send 10% or less to Herschel Walker https://t.co/mranq5ixDH
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) November 16, 2022

Donald Trump’s Save America sent out an email that asked prospective donors to “contribute ANY AMOUNT IMMEDIATELY to the Official Georgia Runoff”

But donors may not have noticed that 90% of their contributions automatically went to Trump. https://t.co/y8QLUSkQyX
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) November 15, 2022

Trump just sent out a fundraising email for Herschel Walker that says “Contribute ANY AMOUNT IMMEDIATELY to the Official Georgia Runoff Fundraising Goal and increase your impact by 1200%” and then auto-defaults to splitting your donation 90% to Trump and 10% to Herschel Walker. pic.twitter.com/06oAKpBwx7
— Jacob Rubashkin (@JacobRubashkin) November 12, 2022

NEW: The NRSC sent a fundraising email today signed by Herschel Walker in which it is actually keeping 99% of what’s raised, per fine print.

Walker gets a dime for every ten dollar donation. pic.twitter.com/DinXGrs7CS
— Shane Goldmacher (@ShaneGoldmacher) November 15, 2022

New fundraising email from NRSC chair Rick Scott asking to help Herschel Walker, who "needs as much support as he can get." But 98% of the money is automatically allocated to the NRSC. Of the remaining 2%, Rick Scott himself gets as much as Herschel does. https://t.co/XfxvnZ2Cbj pic.twitter.com/WywgcbRsTT
— Roger Sollenberger (@SollenbergerRC) November 21, 2022

Republicans benefitted from their Supreme Court’s unwillingness to enforce lower court rulings on gerrymandering

A big reason why it looks like they will win the House of Representatives.

If there’s a tiny GOP House majority next year, it won’t be legitimate. https://t.co/eF21nWpSWV
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) November 13, 2022

Still more examples, but one of the major factors in the Republicans possibly winning the house despite an abysmal midterm was the Republican controlled Supreme Court decided the voting rights act and the 15th Amendment didn’t matter and states could ignore it https://t.co/bC4ZMxyGdA
— Adam Serwer 🍝 (@AdamSerwer) November 13, 2022

With the House now likely to be very close (either way), the effect of the Supreme Court’s decision in Rucho greenlighting partisan gerrymandering and its use of the shadow docket to put a hold on the drawing of new VRA districts in AL & LA just became that much more magnified.
— Michael Li 李之樸 (@mcpli) November 9, 2022

While we await results, here’s a brief thread about something that tends to get lost in the shuffle when we talk about election outcomes: The right-wing Supreme Court tilting the electoral playing field in the GOP’s favor. (1/15)
— Jamison Foser (@jamisonfoser) November 8, 2022