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NEW from Halifax 🇨🇦 — U.S. lawmakers cheer the overwhelming defeat of election-deniers in key midterm races as they seek to promote democracy at home & abroad

GOP Sen. Rounds: “It just was a lesson that the American people are smarter than that”

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politico.com/news/2022/11/2…

Sen. Rounds, who had his own dust-up with Trump over election-denialism, cited “a failure by some candidates to have the courage to publicly say to their supporters that there was no evidence that would have changed the outcome of the [2020] election.”

w/ @connorobrienNH

Sen. Coons said the midterm results were a vindication of Biden’s focus on democracy in the final days of the campaign, even as he was getting hammered over inflation:

“Once again, a man with 50 years of elected experience…actually read the moment better than the commentariat”

Coons said African heads of state he met with over the summer offered to send election monitors to the U.S. for the midterms, a convo that usually happens in reverse.

“I couldn’t say anything other than, ‘I appreciate the offer.’ Because the whole world saw” the Jan. 6 attack...