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Monday: Things Get Weirder In The Home Stretch

Tuesday: Midterm Madness!

Wednesday: OFF

Thursday: Trump Just Dropped a Big Hint About JD Vance’s 2028 Run

Friday: Trump World, Lawyer Up

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Welcome to the Jim Acosta Morning Memo on a Friday morning after Trump banned the press from another super-important event about his number one issue: ugly-ass renovations.

Pull up to the coffee bar and let’s get to it!

Ban Rolls On: As Republicans pick through the rubble of the midterms, Trump is back to his old tricks, banning CNN from the press pool on Thursday as he held a photo op in the Oval Office. Print pooler S.V. Dáte noted the ban by writing quote “Be advised that there is no TV pool today because it is CNN’s turn and the president is mad at them.”

Good morning from the White House, where it is cloudy, unseasonably warm and humid.

The president has no events on his schedule that are open to the press pool. Will advise if we are brought in to a policy briefing or “signing time” or an announced construction or remodeling inspection.

Be advised that there is no TV pool today because it is CNN’s turn and the president is mad at them.

As of 0958, there is no Marine posted outside the West Wing.

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As a result, there was no television pool coverage of the event, only a White House live feed. Trump will continue his assault on the press for as long as they allow him to.

Monumental Waste: The event itself was thrown together so that Trump could sign a proclamation protecting all of his Saddam Hussein’s Cheesecake Factory decorations.

A couple of things jump out here. First of all, the only people in history to demolish parts of the White House are Donald Trump and the Redcoats.

And one reporter pointed out a flaw in Trump’s golden witless protection program.

He can do whatever he wants.

That issue is actually not decided, but ironically, Trump’s own Justice Department issued an opinion last year arguing that any president can undo exactly this sort of designation.

Can’t wait to see a Democratic president use that citation in court as they pry gold-painted garbage off the walls.

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MAAP Check: Not much has changed since yesterday, but the raw votes still favor Democrats in those undecided Senate races.

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Welcome to the Jim Acosta Morning Memo on a Thursday morning after Trump responded to his midterm ass-whooping with a display that was more tone-deaf than a Kid Rock a Capella album. Sorry for that image.

Grab some coffee or tea and let’s get to it!

Sickly Ballroom: Leading off, there were no public events on Trump’s schedule yesterday, but after taking a historic beating in an election that was all about cost of living and corruption, Trump had just the antidote.

He threw together a ceremony to sign the last beam to be installed in his half-a-BILLION-dollar-plus ballroom, and spent 45 minutes rambling about all of his money-gobbling vanity projects.

Rich Corinthian Leatherface: He started out by bragging about the columns, while you can’t afford a cheeseburger.

No doubt coming in from the Two Corinthians Column Depot.

Hair Apparent: Trump rambled and rambled, but his ridiculous comb-over refused to cooperate.

There’s a not-too-subtle metaphor in Trump’s total obliviousness there.

Glass-Hole: And as Trump gushed about the security features, he was inordinately amazed at the existence of bulletproof glass that you can actually see through!

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MAAP Check: Let’s do a quick MAAP check for the state of play as Trump fiddles with his ballroom. The Senate races in Alaska and Mississippi remain razor-thin, with margins in the ballpark of hundreds of raw votes. Democrats lead both of those races, but it may be days or even weeks before we know the results.

In the House, Democrats have already taken 240 seats, and the final count could be as high as 255 or more.

Go check out the full MAAP for yourselves and try out the interactive function.

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Welcome to the Jim Acosta Morning Memo on a Wednesday morning after a Great Big Beautiful Blue Wave swept across the country and washed away years of grimy MAGA buildup. It’s still going.

Grab your coffee and watch the wave with us!

MAAP Check: Let’s start off with a look at the Acosta-exclusive MAAP, which shows the Trump-fueled GOP disaster-in-progress.

What you see here is the final MAAP of where the polls stood when the voting started.

Go check out the full MAAP to see where the races stand now.

The results are stunning. Democrats have taken control of both chambers, with 54 confirmed Senate victories and another two still undecided. In the House, 219 races have been called for Dems, but their final tally could reach as high as 250.

Jim Class: We had the whole night covered from the Institute For Politics at UVA with Jim Acosta and Katie Couric, along with a stacked lineup of experts and guests. Check out our full coverage.

Holidaze: Speaking of which, we think Anthony Scarmucci summed up the night with this iconic description as he and Mary Trump joined our show.

Anthony Scaramucci: I got to just say something, okay?

For me, it’s like the Easter Bunny got together with the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus, okay? And they all got together, and they showed up at the house, and I’m seven years old, okay?

This is such a repudiation, and I am so happy for my country that we are woken up this, and we are going to slay this beast. I’ve got to do the Scaramucci calculation of how many Scaramuccis are left for this dude to go off the waterfall.

Toast of Texas: The results are so Earth-shattering that it’s hard to pick and choose top stories, but for sheer generational trauma-soothing, you can’t beat Texas, where James Talarico and Gina Hinojosa absolutely crushed Ken Paxton and Greg Abbott.

After the heartbreak of Beto O’Rourke’s near miss in 2018, Democrats could scarcely believe their own eyes when they saw this win on the horizon. But it’s here and it’s real.

Here’s a little bit of the victory speeches by Governor-Elect Gina Hinojosa and Senator-Elect James Talarico.

‘Call Me Senator’: After facing tons of cash, a racist blitz from Trump and his allies, and an 11th-hour shock from Haley Stevens, Abdul El-Sayed became Senator-Elect Abdul El-Sayed. He had a message for Trump.

Donald, I know you struggled with my name. So after JD swears me in in January, you can just go on and call me Senator.

Dr. SENATOR Annie Andrews: Another once-unthinkable result was the stunning Andrews victory in South Carolina. And here’s an all-too-rare gracious victory speech.

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Bottoms Up: Keisha Lance Bottoms and Jon Ossoff wiped out their Republican opponents, and Lance Bottoms became the first Black woman elected to the Georgia governorship — a history she referenced powerfully in her victory speech.

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Welcome to the Jim Acosta Morning Memo on a Tuesday morning after Trump closed out his midterm campaign with a speech at the Reflecting Pool that could not have been a more perfect metaphor if he had filled it with Orange Kool-Aid.

Dead Pool: We have all been tracking months of Trump messaging that isn’t just tone deaf, it is tone DEAD.

From dismissing sky-high gas prices as a “small price” to literally bragging about how much money oil companies are making; going on and on about beautiful men and their muscly asses; mocking his own supporters for being unable to afford a burger; hating football; and deriding dozens of War dead and hundreds of wounded Americans as “small potatoes.”

And through it all, Trump has made clear his top priority is pouring money into tacky and ridiculous construction projects, including his spectacularly failed Reflecting Pool project.

And it is that failure that he chose to highlight on Monday with a closing argument speech that was delivered from inside an enclosure whose walls might as well have been there to keep out reality.

The speech began inauspiciously, as tens of people greeted Trump with a smattering of tepid applause.

Some of those folks were Parks Service staffers who probably should have gotten hazard pay.

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MAAP Check: As voting begins, there are only 168 House races in the R-Zone, versus 216 in the D-Zone, with 51 “Tough Call” races. It doesn’t take a stable math genius to see that Democrats are going to have a big majority when the dust settles. The question now is how huge will this wave be?

In the Senate, there are nine “tough call” races, which you can game out using our Scenario Builder, but if Dems manage to take only half of them, they will control both chambers comfortably.

Join Jim Acosta tonight with the great Katie Couric for live midterms coverage from the Center For Politics at UVA, and be sure to check out the full MAAP for yourselves and try out the interactive function.

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Welcome to the Jim Acosta Morning Memo on a Midterm Monday morning after Trump spent the weekend partying and rallying and watching Haley Stevens drop a bomb in a razor-thin Senate race.

Lace up your gloves and let’s go!

Haley’s Vomit: Leading off with the big news of the weekend, Congresswoman Haley Stevens dropped a bomb on Sunday when she toured Detroit with MAGA Mike Rogers and announced she’s endorsing him over Abdul El-Sayed. Here’s her decision in a nutshell.

Michigan is a swing state, and I have a divided household, as some of you have heard, up until last night. But even my own mother cast her vote for Mike Rogers, as my own father cast his vote for Abdul.

This is a very close election. We all know that. But Abdul made very clear that I was not welcome in his campaign, that he didn’t need me there, that he didn’t want me there.

Abdul Keeps Cool: El-Sayed responded to the news at a press conference by largely staying on message.

But when pressed by reporters, here is what he had to say about Haley Stevens.

Ad Hominem: Stevens lost a bitter primary race to El-Sayed, but had endorsed him and was in talks to appear with him this weekend.

Some have chalked this up to lingering sour grapes, but the rift erupted ostensibly over her demand that El-Sayed denounce a third-party ad that critics have decried as anti-Semitic.

El-Sayed had no connection to the ad.

Endorsing Racism: Regardless of the reason, Stevens has thrown her support behind a man who champions Trump’s every despicable instinct, and with whom he has run a shockingly racist campaign against El-Sayed.

What’s more, she did so just hours after Trump explicitly made one of those attacks while he praised Stevens at a Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago.

That is a stink that simply will not wash off. In a few hours, we’ll know what effect it had, if any.

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MAAP Check: just hours before the votes are cast. There are currently ten “tough call” races in the Senate, only four of which favor Republicans at the moment.

If you run the best-case scenario, where Democrats take every close Senate race, you get a whopping 58 Democratic seats when the dust settles.

Go check out the full MAAP for yourselves and go ahead and use our scenario-builder to make your own map and share it on social media.

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