A Republican wipeout in the off-year elections, and what will the Supreme Court do on

terrorists?

We'll discuss all this and more on this special second-ever live edition of the editors.

I'm Rich Lowry, and I'm joined, as always, or at least some of the time, by the right, Honorable

Charles C.W. Cook.

The sage of Authenticity Woods, Jim Garrity.

The Good Neighbor, Noah Rothman.

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So Jim Garrity, let's start with you.

Not a great election outcome for Republicans Tuesday night. And an outcome that really defies complication in the sense that you might, as a sophisticated pundit, say, okay, Republicans lost by double digits, top of the ticket in Virginia. That's because they had a poor candidate in Winsome, Earl Sears,

couldn't raise money, just was underwhelming in all respects. But in New Jersey, they had quite an impressive candidate. And Jack Ciderrelli also loses by double digits. You might say,

as the president said, oh, it's the government shutdown. That might account for the wipeout

in Northern Virginia, doesn't account for the wipeout in New Jersey.

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