Orange County turns blue, Stacey Abrams delivers a non-concession speech, and Democrats debate whether Nancy Pelosi should be Speaker. Then Congressman Adam Schiff joins Jon, Jon, and Tommy to talk about his new role as Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and the future of the Mueller investigation.

Show Notes:

Midterm Roundup

• New York Times: A Democratic Rout in Orange County: Cisneros’s Win Makes It Four
• Los Angeles Times: Orange County goes blue, as Democrats complete historic sweep of its seven congressional seats
• USA Today: Orange is the new blue: California Democrats sweep 7 House seats in former GOP stronghold
• The Fresno Bee: Fresno County update boosts Cox, who’s still 2,000 votes down against Valadao
• Courthouse News: Blue Wave Sweeps Inland in GOP Loss of Rural California Seat
• The Fresno Bee: TJ Cox attacks on health care as Valadao points out errors in key Cox points

Nelson/Gillum/Abrams concede

• CNN: Stacey Abrams says ‘democracy failed’ Georgia as she ends bid for governor
• NBC Atlanta: Full Text of Speech to End Abrams Campaign
• National Review: Stacey Abrams’s Non-Concession Concession
• Washington Post: Democrat Stacey Abrams and Kemp have long clashed over voting rights
• NBC: Stacey Abrams refuses to call Brian Kemp’s victory ‘legitimate’ but says it is ‘legal’
• Mediaite: More from the Tapper Interview
• National Review: There’s No ‘Neo-Jim Crow’ in Georgia
• Washington Examiner: Marco Rubio: Incompetence undermines Florida’s elections – Op-Ed
• Salon: Marco Rubio has become unhinged since Election Day: 68 tweets fighting Florida recount
• Politico: Abrams plans to run again
• NBC Atlanta: Q&A with Stacey Abrams: What’s next for the former candidate for governor
• NBC News: Abrams ends bid in GA governor race, launches ‘Fair Fight Georgia’

Runoffs

• The Hill: Steve Israel on why the Georgia Secretary of State Race is the most important runoff
• AJC: The Georgia GOP secretary of state race
• Washington Post: In Mississippi, Republican concern rises over a U.S. Senate runoff that should have been a romp
• CNN: Democrats seek to turn Hyde-Smith’s comments into a surge in black turnout in Mississippi Senate runoff

Race for Speaker/House Dems

• New York Times: If Not Pelosi, Who? The Question Hovers Over a Simmering Rebellion
• The Hill: Pelosi picks up 2 more Democratic votes in bid for speaker
• CNN: Who is Marcia Fudge, the Democrat considering challenging Nancy Pelosi for House speaker?
• San Francisco Chronicle: Trump offers to round up votes for Nancy Pelosi as House speaker
• Washington Post: The supreme test of Nancy Pelosi’s wizardry
• Washington Post: Nancy Pelosi has served America well, but it’s time for new Democratic leadership
• Washington Post: Do Democrats want Nancy Pelosi as speaker again? Poll finds more prefer ‘someone else.’
• CNN: Anti-Pelosi Democrats issue warning: She won’t have the votes
• Washington Post: Democratic Rep. Moulton draws fire for campaign to deny Pelosi speaker’s job
• Boston Herald: Seth Moulton claims “silent majority” against Nancy Pelosi
• Rolling Stone: The Democratic Insurgents Who Want to Topple Nancy Pelosi
• New York Daily News: Pelosi’s moment, again: How her pragmatism can guide a Democratic House
• Washington Post: Don’t blow it, Democrats. There’s only one choice to be the next speaker.
• Washington Post: The rebellion against Nancy Pelosi is absurd
• Politico: Progressives back Pelosi for speaker — in return for more power
• Politico: Black caucus members back Pelosi for speaker over their former chair.
• Roll Call: Liberal groups pile on with endorsements

AOC recruiting primary challengers for incumbents 

• Politico: Ocasio-Cortez backs campaign to primary fellow Democrats
• The Daily Beast: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Backs Effort to Unseat Fellow Democrats

Adam Schiff

• New Yorker: After the Midterms, Robert Mueller’s Got a New Wingman on Capitol Hill
• The Economist: Adam Schiff hopes to fight Donald Trump with facts
• Bloomberg: The Democrats Turn From Resistance to Opposition
• CNN: Top House Democrat on intel panel warns Whitaker over Mueller probe
• Washington Post: Adam Schiff: Matthew Whitaker, we’re watching you
• Business Insider: Adam Schiff says if the acting attorney general doesn’t recuse himself from the Mueller probe, he’ll have to answer to Democrats