Good morning and happy Tuesday! This is Notice News. It’s November 10. CNN projects Lauren Boebert just lost her seat in Congress to a retired Navy admiral. The original ‘MAGA Squad’ is now completely gone from Congress.
We’ll get into that, plus:
Chris Van Hollen hasn’t closed the door to challenging Chuck Schumer
A Republican forced the vote, and Pete Hegseth is finally facing impeachment
Trump is back to asking whether the election was “honest”
Mike Johnson says voters made “the wrong choice”
A gold Trump statue nursing his foot showed up on the National Mall
Plus: Sonia Sotomayor hopes the Trump immunity ruling gets overturned in her lifetime
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CNN projects Lauren Boebert lost her seat to a retired Navy admiral
CNN projected Monday afternoon that Democrat Eileen Laubacher beat Lauren Boebert in Colorado’s 4th District.
With 98% of the vote counted, Laubacher had 48.8% to Boebert’s 47.9%.
Laubacher is a retired two-star Navy rear admiral who served on President Biden’s National Security Council.
Boebert moved to this district after holding her old one by 546 votes in 2022. Last week, as she fell behind, her lawyer started talking about unusual voting patterns and a recount.
She also voted against the PACT Act, the law that covers veterans sick from toxic burn pits.
She lost to an admiral two days before Veterans Day.
Congratulations, Admiral.
Chris Van Hollen is weighing a run against Chuck Schumer
Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland hasn’t ruled out challenging Chuck Schumer for Senate Democratic leader, Punchbowl News reports.
He “is now in active listening mode,” a source told Punchbowl. “The door is not shut.” The source said he’s gotten “an outpouring of calls” from voters.
Adam Hamilton, Annie Andrews, James Talarico, Juliana Stratton and Troy Jackson, all incoming senators, have declined to back Schumer.
“We need a conversation about leadership going forward because we need new energy and ideas,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal said.
Schumer told CNN Monday that the win was “about to become the largest landslide in the history of the Senate since the ’50s.”
One Democrat who didn’t get to join it is Angie Nixon. She lost Florida 50.9% to 48% after the Senate Majority PAC and the DSCC spent nothing to help her, according to The American Prospect.
Now we know Schumer only gave her $5,000 while spending millions in other states.
“I need y’all to stay in this fight,” she told supporters in her concession speech. “The war is not over. 2028 is around the corner.”
A Republican forced a vote on impeaching Pete Hegseth, and Hegseth is holding his first press conference in months
Rep. Thomas Massie introduced eight articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday.
They cover the war in Iran without approval from Congress, ignoring laws meant to limit civilian casualties, the strikes on alleged “drug boats,” the seizure of Nicolás Maduro without legal authority — and, notably, going after Sen. Mark Kelly for criticizing him.
“The question is whether he committed impeachable acts, and the answer is yes, eight times,” Massie wrote on X.
The resolution is privileged, so the House has to take it up within two legislative days. That means he could be impeached on Veterans Day.
Just three Republicans need to vote with every Democrat for it to pass.
Rep. Don Bacon could be one of them. “I’m weighing it,” he told CNN’s Manu Raju Monday morning.
Speaker Mike Johnson said impeaching Hegseth during the Iran war would be a “terrible look.” Trump says he’d stand by Hegseth even if he’s impeached.
Voters see it differently. About 6 in 10 said the U.S. made the wrong decision on Iran, according to the AP’s survey of more than 100,000 voters.
Hegseth is holding a press conference at the Pentagon today, his first in over 180 days.
CNN’s Kaitlan Collins asked Massie why Hegseth suddenly wants to talk. He kept it short.
“Because they’re worried.”
Trump spent a week accepting the results. On Monday he asked if the election was “honest.”
On election night, Trump pledged to accept his party’s losses. Monday morning, he went back to the machines.
“Does anybody really believe that this ‘Election’ was honest,” he posted. “How could the Polls be so wrong???”
“Some early voting ‘dumps’ were so large that it was impossible to win, no matter how many people went to vote,” he wrote.
“It’s all about the machines, which are far more important than the voter!”
Even Megyn Kelly had heard enough. “Just stop,” she told him on X, TheWrap reports.
Jake Tapper went with sarcasm. “Ah yes the diabolical conspiracy in Texas to deliver the state to Democrats, led by the heads of the state….”
Texas, for the record, is still run by Republicans until January.
“Donald Trump’s pathetic return to election denialism was inevitable,” Chuck Schumer posted.
Democrats are headed for more than 250 House seats and at least 54 in the Senate. That’s a lot of machines.
Mike Johnson is “sorry that the voters made the wrong choice”
Speaker Mike Johnson returned to the Capitol Monday for his last weeks running the House. CNN’s Manu Raju asked whether Trump needed to change course after last week’s losses.
“I’m not going to tell the president how to do his job,” Johnson said.
Then he blamed the voters instead.
“I’m sorry that the voters made the wrong choice.”
“I really do believe that this next two years is going to be a bit of a circus,” he went on. “It’s going to be chaos, and I hate to say that, but I think that’s where Democrats are going to lead the House.”
NBC News projects Democrats will hold 259 House seats to the Republicans’ 176. Johnson has already told staff he won’t seek a leadership job in the new Congress.
He gets to be speaker for about seven more weeks. Then the wrong choice takes over.
A gold Trump statue nursing his foot showed up on the National Mall before Veterans Day
A gold-painted statue of Trump rubbing his bare foot appeared on the National Mall Monday, just outside the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden.
It’s called “The Foot Soldier.” The plaque honors “a soldier in spirit, who marched to the front lines of dodging the draft.”
Trump got four student deferments during Vietnam, then a fifth for bone spurs.
The plaque also quotes the man himself. “I can be very military.”
It appears to be the latest from The Secret Handshake, an anonymous group of artists.
Veterans Day is tomorrow. We’d like to thank The Secret Handshake for their service.
It's racist, archaic, and wholly incompatible with modernity — not unlike A LOT of the people still supporting it. It’s time to put that ugly history behind us and end the Electoral College for good.
KEPT OUT OF YOUR FEED
Sonia Sotomayor said she hopes the Trump immunity ruling gets overturned in her lifetime
CNN’s Harry Enten called the midterms “a historic blue tsunami” and said Democrats’ House gain was their biggest since 1948
Joe Biden writes in his new memoir that Jan. 6 “should follow him to his grave”
Trump told 60 Minutes he plans to issue “tremendous numbers of pardons” before he leaves office
Trump said JD Vance was right to blame the war for the losses, “other than one thing”
Deputy chief of staff Richard Walters resigned the same day Stephen Miller got the top job
Trump’s midterm chief James Blair and former RFK Jr. adviser Calley Means are threatening each other in leaked texts
The Supreme Court voted 8-1 to let Trump build border barriers in Big Bend National Park
California voters rejected a 5% tax on billionaires after opponents raised $333.1 million, most of it from billionaires
Rep. Andy Ogles’s lawyers asked Trump’s Justice Department to drop a criminal campaign-finance probe, and DOJ later gave him back his phone
Jake Tapper reminded Amy Acton that Vivek Ramaswamy is “not your opponent anymore. You beat him.”
The new Democratic Senate class, including a logger, a pediatrician and a Paralympic gold medalist, walked into the Capitol together
NOTICE POLLING
Yesterday, we asked: Hakeem Jeffries is a “hard yes,” and a Republican is forcing the vote. Should the House impeach Pete Hegseth this week?
100% OF YOU SAID YES, IMPEACH HIM THIS WEEK:
“Pete Hegseth is a bloodthirsty war criminal. He’s murdered men in boats on the Caribbean that may have been guilty but they should have been held, not bombed. He bombed a school so carelessly. He needs to go. He’s a terrible racist leader.”
- dalesallybaldwin
“Hegseth needs to be gone ASAP. This week is good.”
- capthonb3
“Hegseth is so ill equipped to do his job, anything it takes to get him out I'm for. Name 1 thing he's done right.”
- callajr.jc
“Of course they should. Hegseth is guilty of murder. In a sane country he would have been in prison long ago.”
- back.joyce16
“Yes he has put American soldiers and sailors under great distress for a war that wasn’t necessary.”
- guile923
“Cannot happen too soon! Next should come trial for war crimes.”
- weg
Not one of you voted no. The House has two legislative days to take it up.
That’s all for today — thank you so much for reading. We’ll see you tomorrow!