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Rick Scott’s Potential Mutiny & More D.C. High School Lunch Table Chatter

The post-midterm inside conversion roiling top operatives’ DMs, text threads, phone lines, and the best tables at Le Dip: Rick Scott’s potential mutiny, Biden realism, Trump’s vice, Ronny euphoria, primary clues, and much, much more.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Sen. Rick Scott
If the Republicans had decisively won back the Senate, was National Republican Senatorial Committee chairman Rick Scott planning to to challenge Mitch McConnell for Majority Leader? Photo: Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call/Getty Images
Tara Palmeri
November 11, 2022

Okay, yes, we all know the top-line narratives emanating from Tuesday’s endlessly hyped, semi-surprising midterm elections: the red wave was a trickle, Kevin McCarthy is in for it, Oz lost, and we may not know who controls the Senate for weeks, with the Georgia Senate runoff possibly sucking up nearly $100 million, so we’re in for more animosity-fueled gridlock in America’s favorite company town. And also: Biden lost but really won, and this is finally the end of Trump, say some people, but not at all, say others.