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Election Night in America; Republicans Win House; Democrats Keep Senate
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WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: They are -- they did get a net gain in Wisconsin, as we just projected, when Russ Feingold, we project, will lose. And that will be a net gain for the Republicans in the Senate. Ron Johnson will be the next U.S. Senator from Wisconsin. Let's make some more projections.
All right, it's the top of the hour, it's 11:00 p.m. on the East Coast. Ron Wyden we project will be the next U.S. -- he'll be re- elected from Oregon. We expected this, Ron Wyden beating the Republican, Jim Hoffman yes, relatively easily. He'll come back for another six years in the United States Senate.
Similarly for Mike Crapo, the Idaho Senator -- Mike Crapo beating Tom Sullivan the Democrat, easily re-elected in the reliably-red State of Idaho. Those are -- those are -- those are two projections we're making right now. So there's no net gain or net loss for the Democrats or the Republicans.
Let's take a look at some raw exit poll data, I'll start in California. The governor's race are -- right now, remember these are raw exit poll numbers based on interviews we do together with other network, television networks and the Associated Press. It doesn't necessarily mean this is what's going to happen.
But right now, based on the raw exit poll data, we have Jerry Brown with 53 percent, Meg Whitman with 43 percent. It looks like Jerry Brown is in good shape but we're not ready to make a projection on the California governor's race.
The California Senate race, very similar numbers, based on the raw exit poll data we're getting: Barbara Boxer, the incumbent senator, 53 percent; Carly Fiorina, the challenger, the Republican businesswoman, 43 percent.
Interestingly, both Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman they spent tens of millions of their own money trying to defeat these Democrats. They're -- they're -- they're behind in the raw exit poll data, but these are not necessarily the final numbers by any means.
In Washington state right now, Patty Murray, the incumbent Democrat with 52 percent; Dino Rossi, the Republican challenger with 46 percent. These are raw exit poll data.
I want to be precise, it's not necessarily final numbers, but it's showing you a trend of what's going on. All right, we have another projection, a major projection, the Governor of South Carolina race, Nikki Haley we project will become the next Governor of South Carolina, beating Vincent Sheheen the Democrat. Nikki Haley right now with 91 percent of the vote in 52 percent; to Vincent Sheheen, 46 percent. She had the strong support of Sarah Palin, the Tea Party Movement.
She is a first-generation American. Her parents are Indians from India. Nikki Haley will be the next governor of South Carolina. Big win for the Republicans. A big win for the Tea Party Movement in South Carolina right now.
Anderson, it's after 11:00 p.m. on the West Coast, we're watching all these races closely, California, in particular.
ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR: Obviously also Nikki Haley was a -- had been pinpointed by Sarah Palin for some early support in that state.
SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT: -- her Indian support across the country really kind of build a base of support I think for sort of a national race as well.
I mean, she has now the first Indian-American female governor in U.S. history, the first female governor of South Carolina and Bobby Jindal of course would be the first, if you're just looking not counting gender.
COOPER: Right.
O'BRIEN: Big for a lot of first.
KATHLEEN PARKER, CO-HOST, "PARKER/SPITZER": Well, Sarah Palin certainly put Nikki on the map in a big way, in a splashy way but Nikki Haley was Nikki Haley before Sarah Palin came on the scene. She was a conservative budget flashing legislator and she was -- she was tapped by Mark Sanford. She was Mark Sanford in a dress is how she was referred to.
So I mean, Sarah I guess gets credit for making us all aware of her in a larger way, but Nikki Haley was already Nikki Haley.
GLORIA BORGER, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST: Would she -- could she have won without Sarah Palin?
PARKER: I don't think she could have, because when Sarah Palin came to town, I mean, she shot up from bottom to top. And lots of people went after her and tried to bring her down, and you don't have -- when you go after a woman candidate the way some people did in that state, a couple of men came out and said --
PARKER: -- really horrible things, and at that point Nikki Haley was in. ELIOT SPITZER, CNN CO-HOST, "PARKER/SPITZER": It seems to me the most effective campaign we've seen over the past couple of months, I hate to say it, was fire Nancy Pelosi. That seems to be the message that resonated through the Republican Party and it was -- what led to this tidal wave on the Congressional side.
And I think that Sarah Palin, who is the one who has been driving this, comes out a huge winner tonight. I don't know how the Tea Party is going to be integrated or not into the Republican Party -- I'll leave that to others, David in particular --
PARKER: Eliot is always pushing Sarah Palin. You've got to be --
COOPER: But you have to -- you also have to gave Sarah Palin credit for -- for taking risks to hand-pick candidates long before other people were. Wasn't she -- she wasn't making safe choices, she was really going out there and -- and picking some people who -- who she really elevated.
DAVID GERGEN, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST: That's right. And even though she may not be the candidate in 2012, she could well be the king maker for the Republican nomination. I mean, she has put herself in a position where her endorsement, her -- her enthusiasm, what she can rally, actually makes a difference.
BORGER: Can I just point out her candidate in New Hampshire won. Right?
GERGEN: Yes exactly.
BORGER: New Hampshire, important, early stage.
GERGEN: But I think it's also interesting night, that the number of women who've won, and it's almost like we're not talking about it but ten years ago if this many women had won, we'd all be saying, wow. But it's now it's just part of --
PARKER: Wow. And more women ran than have ever run before.
GERGEN: Yes but you've got a newcomers like in New Hampshire, you've got Barbara Mikulski, who is a continuing star in -- in Maryland. It's just -- it is -- it's woven into the fabric now. And it's a very positive important change.
SPITZER: And they had some big ones as well, Linda McMahon and Carly Fiorina --
GERGEN: But they didn't -- but the gender didn't make it --
SPITZER: No, no, no. I think that's -- that's right. It wasn't -- it wasn't the issue.
GERGEN: It wasn't the issue.
SPITZER: But I think some big names women also --
PARKER: What's important is that so many are running.
COOPER: I just want to point out one of the Tea Party candidates who lost in this state is Carl Paladino who ran for governor. Andrew Cuomo who won for governor is speaking. Let's listen.
ANDREW CUOMO, GOVERNOR-ELECT, NEW YORK: You're not going to separate us, you can try it somewhere else, but you're not going to sell that in New York.
We are one. We are united. We believe in community. We believe in finding the similarities among people. And we're not going to let you separate us.
Yes, we have challenges. Yes, we have to clean up Albany. Yes, we have to get the economy running. Yes, we have to rebuild trust with the people.
We're going to do all of that because we faced worse than this before. But we're going to do it together. We are going to be united. That's what made this day this day. And that's what's going to make this state the Empire State once again.
And tonight, tonight, my friends, the campaign is over, and the politics are over. And it's not about being a Democrat, it's not about being a Republican, it's not about being an independent. We are New Yorkers first, and we're going to leave here today as New Yorkers.
And we are going to be more united than we ever have been before, committed to reinventing this government, and giving this state a government that it can be proud of. Confidence, performance, integrity, that's the government they deserve, that's the government they're going to get, that's what you made possible.
We're going to have a great Lieutenant Governor. We're going to have a great team. Thank you, thank you, thank you for making it possible. Let's go do it. Thank you, and God bless you. Thank you.
COOPER: Governor-elect Andrew Cuomo saying the politics are over. Is he right about that, Eliot Spitzer?
SPITZER: At least until 8:00 a.m. tomorrow morning.
COOPER: But -- but I mean, obviously a very substantial win for -- for Andrew Cuomo. Not really a surprise in the state that Carl Paladino wasn't able to do anything.
BORGER: No, Paladino was fun to watch, wasn't he?
GERGEN: Yes, what -- what has been interesting, though, the Democrats seem to have a really strong hold now on the West Coast you know, where we've just seen both major Republican candidates went down. It's very hard to penetrate the West Coast for a Republican. And the Democrats have a very strong lock on sort of New York. Deval Patrick winning the night, along with Cuomo.
So it is -- that's still a Republican challenge. They've made some headway in some of the Congressional races.
PARKER: But Paladino wasn't a serious --
SPITZER: It's slipping like about 15 years ago.
GERGEN: Yes.
SPITZER: I mean, this is the common you know, two coasts that are clearly Democratic and then the huge swath in the middle, that is much less so.
BORGER: But -- but if you look enough -- I mean, I don't think Paladino was a serious candidate, honestly, but if you look in upstate New York in House races, in the northeast, you're going to see some serious gains for Republicans.
GERGEN: Yes, in the House, in the House.
SPITZER: Gloria, you're right. But the numbers I'm getting are shown in some the upstate swing seats --
BORGER: Yes.
SPITZER: -- Democrats, as per the rest of the House, are going to be losing John Paul in the Hudson Valley and perhaps -- perhaps Michael Kerry (ph) a little farther upstate, look like they're losing and that I think will be a symbol of what's coming.
COOPER: Paul -- Paul, I wanted Paul Begala, do you think we're going to be able to call Nevada tonight?
PAUL BEGALA, CNN POLITICAL CONTRIBUTOR: O hala as the say in Spanish. You know, hopefully, but no. It is -- it's so close there. And they are both running against the only person they could beat, Sharron Angle and Harry Reid. If anybody else or either was nominated by either party, that person would win.
Looking back to the -- we we're watching Andrew Cuomo, the newly- elected governor of New York. This is also a night to look for rising stars. I think Marco Rubio, plainly a rising star -- great victory, great speech. Nikki Haley, what a compelling story, a real rising star in her party.
But Andrew Cuomo in my party, watch for him. I mean, he's more familiar to the political press, because he was the HUD Secretary under Clinton. But he just won a big victory against a not very great opponent, but this is a -- this is a rising star in my party.
COOPER: We -- we should point out, we have no votes in right now from Nevada, so we have really have no sense. We saw those exit polls before but we're watching obviously that closely. We're going to take a short break. Our coverage continues in a moment.
BLITZER: For those of you just tuning in, the Republicans we project will be the majority in the next session of the United States House of Representatives. Nancy Pelosi will no longer be the Speaker of the House. John Boehner will become the Speaker. Not only will the Republicans have a net gain of at least 39, we projected they'll have a net gain of more than 52. More than 52 in the House of Representatives, even more than the Republicans gained back in 1994 when Newt Gingrich had a Contract with America defeated the Democrats at that point to become the Majority in the House of Representatives.
Lots of Senate races are still undecided at this point, including in California. These are very early results coming in, two percent of the vote is now in very early. Barbara Boxer with 50 percent, she is the Democratic incumbent; Carly Fiorina with 44 percent. But it's still very early.
The gubernatorial contest, look how close it is with one percent of the vote counted, 47 percent to 47 percent, Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman.
We'll see how those votes come in and then we'll be able at some point to make a projection. And you John, you're over at the CNN, we call it the Election Matrix. And the beginning of the night it was largely, largely blue.
JOHN KING, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Yes.
BLITZER: Because the Democrats were in control. But now we're beginning to see that shift towards red.
KING: And take a look around me. As you see the class of 2006, the class of 2008 and 2006 and 2008, change was blue. America was becoming more Democratic. Tonight change is red as America, especially in the House of Representatives, becomes more Republican.
What you see flashing right there, that is a seat that has changed hands. Two dozen of our CNN 100. Remember where we started the night. Of these 100 most competitive House races, 91 are now held by Democrats, two dozen have already just in these 100 races switched over to Republicans and it is everywhere in the country, Wolf. Let me give you a few examples.
I'll come over here, Illinois, 17. This is the president's home state. Phil Hare is the Democratic incumbent but in January, he will be replaced by Bobby Shilling. Why is this so stunning? Well, look, the president carried this district with 56 percent of the vote, just two years ago and Phil Hare himself, unopposed, unopposed and he loses his race two years later.
Come over here and let's look at another one of this, if you come down here Virginia '05, we talked about this race earlier tonight. Tom Perriello, who is one of the hat trick Democrats, that's what the Republicans called him, voted yes on health care, yes on stimulus, yes on cap and trade. He will be a former Congressman in January. Again, this was a district John McCain carried, a key targeting for Republican tonight.
If you're studying this tomorrow then you watch the pickups, a lot of them tonight are coming in those districts. If you move over we just did Virginia, we did the president's home state of Illinois. Now you look here, liberal -- you talked about this earlier. Alan Grayson ran what even many Democrats called a reprehensible ad against Daniel Webster.
Daniel Webster wins that race and not only wins it, he wins it pretty handily. Alan Grayson the champion of the liberals will be gone from the House of Representatives in January.
Wolf, I don't want to totally depress the Democrats at home. You see a lot of flashing red there, but if we come over here and we look right down here, Mary Matalin's hometown and James Carville's hometown, well, now heavy Democratic Congressman. Cedric Richmond did win the seat picked up by Joseph Gaw (ph). Joseph Gaw a Republican who won that seat in a special election after William Jefferson. He had to leave the House because of corruption allegations. Again, that is one brief bit of good news for the Democrats.
But just look, just look as we swing through the classes and you see all that red, you see all that flashing at home, those are Republican pickups and we are nowhere near finished. We do know the Republicans will win more than 50 seats most likely more than 60 seats. And Wolf, it is everywhere; it's North, South, East, West. Liberals are being beat and moderates are being beat. It is a shellacking when it comes to the House.
BLITZER: Do we have the results on some of those House veterans, those Democrats, some of the chairmen of powerful committees, like John Spratt (ph) or Ike Skelton, some of these guys who have been in the House for a long time. They were challenged, they had serious challenges by Republicans. Are those -- have we projected winners in those districts yet?
KING: We -- we have not in those districts at least when I checked this a few moments ago. I will tell you, I was at the map looking a little bit earlier, John Dingell no longer a chairman, but the longest serving member of the House and I was looking at his results just a few minutes ago and he was leading but only slightly. And that tells you about the map.
We're not ready to call that race yet but we'll check on Spratt and Skelton out in Missouri as well, those guys are in this CNN 100. We have not called those races yet. The Dingell race, is another one we're watching, some surprises out there. You're losing new members but you're absolutely right, by the end of the night, we're likely to lose some veterans -- more veteran Democrats as well.
BLITZER: John Dingell has been in the House of Representatives for decades, he is the longest serving member if he goes down that would be a huge setback for the Democrats.
KING: Right.
BLITZER: So check on Barney Frank in Massachusetts.
KING: I just checked on it and Barney Frank is winning. And he was -- we have -- I don't think -- I don't know if we called that one yet, the last time I looked though, he was comfortably ahead. He did have a bit of a scare.
But the interesting thing about that, is Barney Frank brought Bill Clinton to Massachusetts, spent all of his money in Massachusetts I suppose because he had a little bit of a scare of giving his money away to other Democrats. John Spratt just lost, I'm told. So the House, the man who is right now the House Budget Committee chairman has lost his race in South Carolina.
BLITZER: Wow. Yes.
KING: That's another sign, veteran Democrats going down. Allies of Nancy Pelosi, allies of the President of the United States, targeted in this campaign.
We've talked quite a bit about the president tonight. The Republicans have succeeded in making Nancy Pelosi a national villain, if you look at all this red behind us.
BLITZER: It's an interesting phenomenon on what's going on. All right, John, stand by.
We're going to come back I want to check out some of those -- some more of those House races.
Let's take a look at what's happening in Pennsylvania right now. It's very, very close. 84 percent of the votes have been counted in Pennsylvania. Pat Toomey, the Republican, with 50.5 percent; Joe Sestak, the Democrat, 49.5 percent. It's a difference of 36,402 votes. They've still got 16 percent of the vote to count in Pennsylvania, but this is really, really close.
Pat Toomey slightly ahead; Joe Sestak, the incumbent Congressman, a retired U.S. Navy. Admiral Pat Toomey a former Congressman. But we'll see what happens when they finished counting all the votes. I suspect we might have to wait for this one to be resolved the old- fashioned way by the actual votes being counted. We'll see that.
Eric Cantor is one of the top leaders in the Republican side in the House of Representatives. He is joining us now, let's get some reaction from him.
Congressman, thanks very much for coming in.
REP. ERIC CANTOR (R), MINORITY WHIP: Wolf, good to be with you.
BLITZER: Well, what's your immediate reaction? You've won some, you've lost some, but you're going to be in the Majority in the House of Representatives. We now project at CNN project you will have at least a 52-seat net gain. You needed 39, so that's considerably more than you needed, but what is -- what is your estimate right now? How many seats will you have as a net gain in the next Congress? CANTOR: Wolf, I've learned not to go into the crystal ball business. But I'm very excited, as are most in our Republican Conference, to be given this second chance.
We've got a golden opportunity as Republicans to set the record straight, to actually say we're going to listen to the people, which is what the vote tonight is about.
The American people felt they've been ignored, they looked at the policies of the last 20 months, the policies being put in place by the Obama administration and said enough. We want a check on that. We want to get back to focusing on cutting spending and to -- to put a priority on getting people back to work. And that's what we're going to be about.
BLITZER: Your problem -- you're definitely going to have the Majority in the House of Representatives, but the Senate is increasingly looking more problematic for a Republican majority.
Here is the question. How are you going to get anything done with a split in the House and the Senate and with the President of the United States having veto power as -- as -- as the leader of the executive branch of the U.S. government?
CANTOR: You know, this is not a game here in Washington. This is about being a government that's responsive to the people. And what people have said tonight is they want their government focused on job creation. They also understand we can't keep afford -- we can't keep spending money we don't have.
So the mandate tonight, Wolf, is really about rejecting the policies of the other side, because they haven't worked. The American people want results. They want us to get back to work and they actually say, you know what? We do want the opportunity to succeed again. And I think the American people are willing to take responsibility if they have that chance again.
And -- and I'm hopeful that the president is going to reassess and -- and come and meet us in terms of an agenda that we can limit the scope of government, focus on small businesses, because they're the ones that we need to create jobs.
BLITZER: Well, give us an example of a major program, we're talking about billions and billions of dollars that you would immediately cut if you had the power.
CANTOR: Well, again, we have as Republicans, posited an approach to say we start by saying bring spending back down to '08 levels. You know what? You think about it, Wolf, it wasn't that long ago, the sun rose and set in 2008, and we've got to begin to take those kinds of steps, put the federal government on a diet and reflect on the fact that's what most people in America have been doing over the last couple years. It's time for government to live within its means.
So we've got that approach first, which will save $100 billion in the first year alone and can get us almost to $1 trillion in the budget window, and that's the kind of spirit I think you're going to see the new Republican conference be about. This is not to be --
BLITZER: But can you give us a specific program, Congressman, that you would immediately cut? Some Tea Party activists say eliminate the Department of Education. Eliminate the Department of Energy. You'll save billions of dollars. What program would you cut to save a significant sum, amount of money?
CANTOR: First of all, $100 billion in the first year alone is pretty significant if you go back to the discretionary levels of '08. But listen, we as Republicans have put on the floor all kinds of proposals through our YouCut program that I think you're going to see replicated over the first several weeks and months of this Congress.
I mean we take, for instance, now the expanded welfare program that was put in place on the stimulus bill. This was a program that will save over $1 billion right up front, and this is a program that is welfare without the work requirement. It has gone back on the incentives that were put in place back during the Clinton years that we actually reform well and saw some success.
You know, we've got other programs in the YouCut program that make a lot of sense. You know, we look at trying to make sure that we accomplish some savings through revamping the GSEs. This is the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac situation where you know that the taxpayers are on the hook for tens of billions, if not hundreds of billions of dollars.
So we've got some proposals out there. We have posited them, we've already voted on them. And these are the kind of things that I think you're going to see a Republican majority bring forward right away so we can get this economy going again and rein in the very unfriendly regulatory environment that the Obama administration has put into place and has stifled business hiring.
BLITZER: You're going to be in the majority now. You're going to have more responsibility, Congressman Eric Cantor, Republican of Virginia. We'll be in close touch with you as well. Thanks very much for coming in.
CANTOR: Thanks, Wolf.
BLITZER: All right, Eric Cantor of Virginia.
Let's take a look at some -- some numbers that are coming in right now from California. The Senate race, eight percent of the vote is now in. It's close with eight percent, 47 percent for Barbara Boxer. The Republican Carly Fiorina with 46 percent.
The governor's race, three percent of the vote is in, in California. Jerry Brown, 50 percent, Meg Whitman, 45 percent. And look at this. This is Proposition 19 to legalize marijuana use for recreational purposes in California, only two percent of the vote for this referendum has been counted, but 43 percent say yes, legalize marijuana, 57 percent say no, don't legalize marijuana. But only two percent of the vote has actually been counted.
We'll stay on top of all of these races in California.
Remember, go to CNN.com, you can get a lot more information. You can drill deeper in all the House races, the Senate races, the governors' races, you can actually do what John King is doing with our data wall, with our Election Matrix. CNN.com, watch us with your laptop. We'll be right back.
BLITZER: All right. We're getting more than 50 percent of the vote now having been counted in Nevada. Look at this, Harry Reid, the Majority Leader with 53 percent; Sharron Angle, the Tea Party favorite, 43 percent. Two percent for none of these candidates or none of the above. They can vote for none of these candidates in Nevada; 51 percent, that's a lead of about 37,000 for Harry Reid.
We're not yet ready to make any projection in Nevada, but 51 percent of the vote was counted already.
In Washington State, the Senate race very close. Take a look at this, 34 percent of the vote in, Dino Rossi, who is the challenger to Patty Murray, the incumbent, 54 percent to 46 percent. He's ahead by 58,000 votes or so, but that's only 34 percent, only about a third of the vote has actually been counted in California (SIC).
Let's take a closer look at Colorado right now, 47 percent of the vote has been counted. Michael Bennett, the Democrat, he was appointed to the Senate with 50 percent; Ken Buck, the Tea Party favorite, the Republican, 45 percent. Again, less than a half -- half of the vote counted but Bennett slightly ahead of Buck so far.
In Pennsylvania, 84 percent of the vote now has been counted. Pat Toomey building up a slight lead of 131,000, 52 percent over Joe Sestak's 48 percent. That's with 84 percent of the vote counted. Sestak slightly behind Pat Toomey. It's close. We're not yet ready to make any projections.
But let's go back over to CNN's John King. He's taking a look at the balance of power in the United States Senate. What are you seeing right now?
JOHN KING, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Here's why the results you're just giving us are so significant. If one more race goes to the Democrats tonight, just one more, then they will maintain their senate majority. Let me show you why.
This is how we started the night right here -- 59 Democrats, 41 Republicans. Here are the seats at stake tonight. There's the 37 races we know in the country. Now let's flip them over and assign them based on what we've called so far and let me add this.
Just a few moments ago we called this Wisconsin race for Ron Johnson. So let me give that one to the Republicans. Here's where we stand right now: 49 Democratic seats, 45 in Republican hands, so there will be more Republicans in the United States Senate without a doubt after tonight. The question is can they get to 51? Well, one, two, three, four, five, six. Six left. The Illinois seat. That's Barack Obama's old seat; the Nevada seat you just mentioned, Harry Reid; California and Barbara Boxer; Colorado, Michael Bennet the Democrat can come in; Washington Patty Murray; and Pennsylvania, that's the Sestak/Toomey race. The Republicans need to run the board.
Since we're talking about Vegas tonight and Harry Reid it's like drawing an inside straight, they would have to win every one of these six left to get to 51 and a senate majority. That's perfection, Wolf, as we head on out. That's why this Pennsylvania race is so important. You just mentioned how close it was, Sestak/Toomey, incredibly close.
You just mentioned there, just as you were speaking, Murray was ahead with early returns, then Rossi goes ahead; we've got see-saws there. The Nevada race could be the deciding and that one, as we go late, we see early returns.
And of course, Democrats were favored in this one, we haven't called it yet, but that's all it would take right there. Barbara Boxer winning and that would mean Mitch McConnell would be the Republican leader but not the majority leader in the next Senate. This is fascinating chess being played.
And where we are right now, Republicans essentially need to win every outstanding United States Senate race to get to 51. There will be more Republicans in Washington, without a doubt. Conceivably still 50/50, but they've got to win them all if they want to be the majority.
BLITZER: For the Democrats it's a far cry from the 60 they started off with the last time which would have been a -- was a filibuster- proof majority in the Senate. A lopsided majority if they get down to 51 or 52.
KING: And a great point because even if the Democrats retain control or even if the Republicans somehow magically get to that 51, it's going to be very difficult to do serious business in the Senate. Whoever wins is going to have a very, very small majority.
BLITZER: All right. John, stand by. We're going to get back to you. Much more of our coverage coming up.
Anderson Cooper is standing by with "The Best Political Team on Television". We'll be right back.
COOPER: And welcome back. Our coverage continues, "The Best Political Team on Television" has gorged themselves on pizza and they're ready to resume discussion.
Alex Castellanos, you're new to the table, what do you make of what's going on tonight?
ALEX CASTELLANOS, REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST: I think tonight that -- why aren't Republicans doing a little bit better in the senate races than in the house races? We can still win Pennsylvania and Illinois, but Colorado, California don't look so good. And I think it's the weakness in the Republican Party we're seeing tonight.
America decided to put a brake pedal on Barack Obama's car tonight, stop spending, stop the health care, the expansion is of government, but you only need one brake pedal. So the Republicans are still the party of no, stop what Obama's doing, our -- what we need to do for the next two years, how would we lead, how would we govern, show me America, what America would be like if Republicans actually led.
COOPER: Interesting to hear Eric Cantor though echoing a line that Marco Rubio said, which is thank you for giving us a second chance.
BEGALA: Look, back when we were sitting here in '06 when the Democrats took back the Senate, one of the things that Carville and I were saying is we have not been given a mandate, just a chance. I think that's what's happening with the Republicans here.
If you go back to that night in '06, since that day, Democrats had gained in the last -- '06 and '08, 55 seats in the House. They may lose them all tonight. And 14 seats in the Senate, they will not lose all of them. But we may be pretty close to status quo ante circa November 2006.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Anderson -- I'm sorry. Go ahead.
SPITZER: I was just going to say, the other thing he said though when you asked him about the cuts, when Wolf did, he said he had $100 billion that were easy. $100 billion in a deficit of $11 trillion over ten years, he wants to extend tax cuts that will add $4 trillion to the deficit there. So there is simply not an answer from the Republican side yet about how they're going to close that deficit.
CASTELLANOS: Let us do away with the myth that it's hard to balance the budget. Government's been growing at 7.3 percent a year. If you freeze it at zero percent growth, you balance the balance in 2016. One percent growth, you balance the budget 2017. Two percent growth, which would allow for inflation, you balance the budget in 2020. It's not that hard, you just have to get off the habit. Kick the habit.
DONNA BRAZILE, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST: But look at the exit polls. What should be the highest priority of the next congress? Cutting taxes, 19 percent; reducing the deficit -- 39 percent; spending to create jobs -- 37 percent.
COOPER: What does that tell you about the conflict going on in the United States?
BRAZILE: It tells me that the Republicans need to manage expectations.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We need to spend more.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We need to talk about the new Democratic --
ERICK ERICKSON, REDSTATE.COM: The point -- I'm intrigued tonight looking across the country at the races, statewide races versus district level races where the Republicans are performing. I'm sure there will be a lot of blame back and forth, the Republicans in Washington, the NRSC I'm sure will blame Tea Party candidates in some of those states, but it's happening further on the ground.
We're seeing in Iowa, the judges who legalized same-sex marriages, they look like they're going to get trounced. We're seeing ten state legislatures flipping to the Republican Party already. This isn't just at the federal level, it's happening at all levels of government.
If you remember in 1994, not only did we see this Republican trouncing across the nation, we then saw dozens and dozens of Democratic officials suddenly become Republican. I don't know that there are any left who would become Republican, but this is something that's happening not just at the federal level today.
ROLAND MARTIN, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST: And also, a critical issue. President Obama wins 2008. The question came up, are we talking about an Obama movement or is it an Obama moment. And the reality is you're seeing that it is the moment. Look at his home state. Pat Quinn, barely leading in the governor's race. Alexi Giannoulias, behind in the U.S. Senate race. Incumbent Democrat Melissa Bean, losing. Incumbent Democrat Debbie Halvorson, losing.
So when you have an issue where you're the sitting president and you're having fundamental problems in your home state, in a state where Democrats don't -- excuse me, Republicans don't hold a single statewide race, there are some critical issues for the Democratic Party and for the president.
COOPER: John Boehner is taking -- about to speak in Washington, D.C., at the RNC headquarters. Big night for him. Let's listen.
REP. JOHN BOEHNER (R), OHIO: The tireless leadership that he exhibited over at the NRCC along with his sidekick, Greg Walden (ph). They have done a marvelous job on behalf of our team.
And I want to thank all of our candidates, our supporters, our volunteers who have worked so hard to make this moment possible.
Let me just say this. It's clear tonight who the winners really are, and that's the American people. It was the American people's voice that was heard at the ballot box. The American people's voice.
And, listen, I'm going to be brief because we've got real work to do, and frankly this is not a time for celebration. Not when one out of ten of our fellow citizens is out of work, not when we've buried our children under a mountain of debt, and not when our congress is held in such low esteem. This is a time to roll up our sleeves. A time to look forward with determination and to take the first steps toward building a better future for our kids and our grandkids.
Across the country right now, we're witnessing a repudiation of Washington. A repudiation of big government and a repudiation of politicians who refuse to listen to the American people. Of course, this campaign's not over yet. Until the folks out west where the polls may still be open, this is the time to seize that moment to make sure your voice is heard. To reject the spending sprees, the bailouts, the backroom deals, the takeovers and all the nonsense, and to join your fellow Americans in putting Washington on notice. Because for far too long, Washington's been doing what's best for Washington, not what's best for the American people. And tonight, that begins to change.
With their voices, the American people are demanding a new way forward in Washington. Now, I'm here to tell you tonight that our new majority will be prepared to do things differently, to take a new approach that hasn't been tried in Washington before by either party. It starts with cutting spending instead of increasing it. Reducing the size of government instead of increasing it. And reforming the way Congress works in giving the government back to the American people.
And for all those families who were asking, where are the jobs, it means ending the uncertainty in our economy and helping small businesses get back to work. The people's priorities will be our priorities. And the people's agenda will be our agenda. This is our pledge to America, and this is our pledge to you.
While our new majority will serve as your voice in the people's house, we must remember, it's the president who sets the agenda for our government. The American people have sent an unmistakable message to him tonight, and that message is, change course. We hope President Obama will now respect the will of the people, change course, and to commit to making changes that they are demanding. And to the extent that he's willing to do that, we're ready to work with him.
But make no mistake, the president will find in our new majority the voice of the American people as they've expressed it tonight. Standing on principle, checking Washington's power, and leading the drive to a smaller, less costly, and more accountable government here in Washington, D.C.
These are the principles our new majority will stand for. And we hope that, Mr. President, you'll stand with us in the hard work that lies ahead. Because we are humbled by the trust that the American people have placed in us, and we recognize that with this comes the responsibility to listen, and listen we will.
Let's start right now by recognizing that this is not a time for celebration, it's a time to roll up our sleeves and go to work. We can celebrate when small businesses begin hiring again. We can celebrate when the spending binge here in Washington has stopped. And we can celebrate when we have a government that has earned the trust of the people that it serves.
When we have a government that honors the constitution and stands up for the values that have made America America. Things like economic freedom, individual liberty, and personal responsibility. Listen, I hold these values dear because I've lived them. I spent my whole life chasing the American dream.
CROWD: USA. USA. USA.
BOEHNER: All right. Listen, I started out mopping floors, waiting tables and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school. Working every rotten job there was and every night shift I could find. And I poured my heart and soul into running a small business. And when I saw how out of touch Washington had become with the core values of this great nation, I put my name forward and ran for office.
So I want to thank my wife, Debbie, my girls, Lindsay and Tricia, my 11 brothers and sisters, and all my friends and neighbors in Ohio for giving me the chance to serve and the opportunity to stand before you ready to lead. I thank all of you. God bless you, and God bless our great country. Thank you.
COOPER: John Boehner, an emotional speech from him, as the next Speaker of the House. Mary, what did you think of that?
MARY MATALIN, REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST: He's awesome. I mean, he is America. One of 12 kids, worked in his daddy's bar, did mop, what you see is what you get. And he is -- he will be able to run that place as I said earlier, the likes of which we haven't seen since Tipp O'Neill. He really is the real deal.
He has a great step (INAUDIBLE) and while we're on greats, the NRCC, do you know what, they went out and recruited all these candidates when Obama was at 67 percent. It was hard to recruit then. They got good candidates, they funded them, they supported them, they mentored them, they're smart candidates coming from all walks of life just like John Boehner. And that dynamic in the house is going to answer the call that the American people put out. Whatever -- whatever the margins are.
COOPER: Clearly, they wanted to send a message tonight, though, not of celebrating some victory, but of sort of a night of humility.
ERICKSON: They very much wanted to. I think he hit the right note. As Paul and Mary have both said, his background, John Boehner's story really is one of rising himself up out of poverty to a degree. Very, very hard childhood, with his family.
And you know, the interesting thing to me in all of this is that when you look at the night, and I've made this point before, when you look at what the National Republican Senatorial Committee did versus what the National Republican Congressional Committee in the House, the NRCC did not go in and really dictate, saying, this is going to be the guy we're going to back and the NRSE did. And it looks like the NRCC is going to have a better night, because they went into districts and they really recruited from within the district people who related to the grassroots. And we're seeing that.
BEGALA: There is this fissure, frankly in both parties, but let's focus on Republicans for now, between the elites and the insurgents. And if I were in the White House advising president Obama, I'd say, Mr. President, let's put a wedge in there. And that wedge is anti- corruption, anti-lobbyist. Tea Party activists do not like corporate special interests running our country. And I think they could find common cause with the zealous reformer in Barack Obama if he were to take that up as his second party.
First is jobs, but the second one there, because Mr. Boehner who -- I thought it was a great speech, and it was very emotional. I was impressed.
But his most famous quote will always be, "I am cozy with lobbyists" and Democrats I think should use that coziness to make some of these insurgent Republicans very uncomfortable.
MARTIN: Anderson, to Erick's point, it is easier for you to find candidates who will be able to win a congressional race, that's set up solely based upon can you get out your hardcore supporters as opposed to running the statewide races. That's why I think -- certainly that strategy makes sense --
ERICKSON: I agree with you on that part.
MARTIN: And so we're seeing it in terms of we'll see what happens in Nevada. But again, when you have to run statewide, you can appeal to your base, like Christine O'Donnell in a primary, then you get crushed in the general because all of a sudden it doesn't apply. The rules change.
COOPER: David Gergen?
GERGEN: First of all, I think we saw a very different side of John Boehner tonight. One that if he could continue having showing some vulnerability and some emotional connection to the country in coming out of the mainstream, that's something that President Obama has spectacularly had a problem with since he's become president for reasons none of us can fully understand.
But I disagree with Paul Begala on this one point. I don't think this is the time to sort of figure out how to drive wedges in the opposition. I really think this is a time for serious people, when the country is so clearly hurting, so clearly sent a negative message, we don't like what's going on there, to see if you can't find some common ground across these bridges and see if we can get jobs going again and get this economy moving again.
COOPER: I've got to interrupt. We're still tracking a number of very important races especially the race in Nevada. We're going to take a short break. We'll be right back.
BLITZER: We're not ready to make a projection in Nevada, but look at this. Fifty-seven percent of the vote is now in, Harry Reid, the majority leader, he has 51.6 percent to Sharron Angle, the Republican, 43.9 percent. None of the above, none of these candidates, 2 percent. Fifty-nine percent of the vote in. He's ahead by 33,645 votes. Still almost -- more than 40 percent of the vote still to come. So we're watching Nevada very, very closely.
Let's bring in Ali Velshi, he's watching Nevada for us as well. What are you seeing, Ali?
ALI VELSHI, CNN SENIOR BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT: Well, you know, Nevada is interesting because there are a lot of economic issues that I'll talk about in a second, but what we asked people in the exit poll is do you think Harry Reid has been in Washington for too long?
And let me show you what they said to us when we asked them that question. The first -- hang on, let me just get these little tricklets (ph) running. There we go.
All right. Here's what people told us. 55 percent of respondents said that they thought Harry Reid has been serving for too long in Nevada; 41 percent said they don't think so. And by the way, that ends up breaking down, according to candidate. If you think Harry Reid's been there for too long, that you are likely to vote for Sharron Angle.
Let's take a look at this. Do you think Sharron angle's position on the issues are too far to the right? Forty-four percent say she's too conservative. Thirteen percent say she's not conservative enough. Thirty-one percent say that she is about right. Sharron angle is about in the right place.
I want to show you one more. This is something that interests me particularly, and it's about foreclosures. Nevada is a big foreclosure state. We asked people specifically, are you worried that you or a relative will lose a home to foreclosure? Look at this, Wolf. Fifty-three percent of voters said they are worried that they or a relative could lose a home to foreclosure. Forty-six percent are not worried. Nevada has, by the way, the highest unemployment rate in the country.
We've been getting a lot of tweets, by the way, about this new technology. My favorite is someone who said that perhaps I should challenge Anderson to a wicked game of pong right here.
BLITZER: A wicked game.
VELSHI: A wicked game of pong.
BLITZER: All right. Ali, thanks very much.
VELSHI: All right.
BLITZER: Stand by, we have a major projection.
All right. CNN now projects the Democrats will in fact retain control of the United States Senate. The Republicans need to win ten, a net gain of ten in the Senate. They are not going to get ten seats, a net gain of ten seats in the United States Senate. The Democrats will retain control of the Senate irrespective of what happens to Harry Reid in Nevada.
We have not made a projection in Nevada yet. Harry Reid facing a tough challenge from Sharron Angle. Whether or not he is re- elected, the Democrats will be in the majority in the Senate.
A very different story in the House of Representatives. We projected a while ago that the Republicans would become the majority in the House of Representatives. Not only would they have a gain of the 39 seats that they need, the net gain that they need, they will have more than 52.
That's what the Republicans gained back in 1994 when Bill Clinton was president of the United States. The Republicans under Newt Gingrich and the Contract with America won 52 seats then.
But right now we can project that the Republicans will be the majority in the House, but not in the Senate. And here's why. Barbara Boxer, we project, will be re-elected for the United States Senate from California. Barbara Boxer will beat Carly Fiorina in that Senate contest in California, with 24 percent of the actual vote in. She is ahead 48 percent to 46 percent.
But based on exit polling, based on other information that our experts are getting, we project that Barbara Boxer will be re-elected. And that explains why the Democrats will retain the majority in the Senate. It may not be a huge majority; certainly won't be the 59-41 majority that they've had in the current U.S. Senate. Remember, they started off with 60-40 until Scott Brown, the Republican, won in Massachusetts, bringing it down to 59.
But they will retain the majority in the United States Senate. It's a big win for the Democrats. They were very, very nervous that they would lose the majority in the Senate, as they are doing in the House of Representatives. But because Barbara Boxer will win in California, we project the Democrats will retain the majority.
Anderson, so the Democrats barely will be the majority in the Senate, the Republicans will be in the majority in the House of Representatives. We're talking a little bit about a divided legislative branch of the U.S. government.
COOPER: But it was enough and you missed it because you weren't looking at her to have -- let Donna Brazile have sort of a church moment over here. I thought I saw her palms raised to the skies. Was that possibly what I saw?


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Sunset Cinema Club is all set to begin 2019 with a string of classic movies we've grown up watching. The classic weekend at The Biere Street, Whitefield promises to be a trip down the memory lane for you cinema buffs.
Timeless and a pleasure to watch is what these movies are and we plan to make the experience even better with the eccentric ambiance of Biere Street that comprises of open air seating with comfortable chairs and round tables, pretty lights and F&B options available at the venue ( Including the delicious craft beer served at Biere Street) .
Seating will be allocated on a first come first served basis. Gates open at 6.30 PM and movie starts at 7 PM.


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Ranbir Kapoor Starrer Shamshera Is A Visual Extravaganza With Emotions
by Filmfare | July 24, 2021, 14:40 IST
Film-maker Karan Malhotra, who has directed the much awaited big screen entertainer Shamshera, reveals the film to be a visual spectacle for audiences. On his birthday today, Karan is mixing the Ranbir Kapoor, Vaani Kapoor and Sanjay Dutt film that he feels will give a 'wholesome cinematic experience of watching Hindi films' in theatres.
The director is all excited to share his excitement about the film where he has put his heart and soul to it, "I will be celebrating my birthday by finalising the mix of Shamshera, a vision I have cherished for some time now. I can't wait to share Shamshera with you all. As a filmmaker, I have been fortunate enough to be able to tell stories that I would like to see as an audience and Shamshera is definitely that kind of a story. It is a visual extravaganza with complex human emotions and it deserves to be on the big screen where people have, for years, had a truly wholesome cinematic experience of watching Hindi feature films."
Karan feels lucky to have found the right team for this action entertainer and he hails Ranbir Kapoor to be a 'generation defining actor'. Speaking more about the team he's working with, he said, "I'm fortunate to have found a steadfast producer in Aditya Chopra and an all determined cast and crew for Shamshera who have always been by my side right from the word go. Ranbir Kapoor is a generation-defining actor and has given his best to Shamshera. Vaani Kapoor plays his strength and compliments him beautifully in the film. As far as Sanjay Dutt is concerned, you are in for a surprise."
Karan believes that Shamshera celebrates everything that a pan Indian Hindi film stands for and it will appeal to all audience segments who would want to watch good cinema on the big screen post pandemic. Karan says, "I have grown up on quintessential Hindi cinema and I wanted to create a true blue Hindi film that everyone can enjoy in theatres. I feel confident that we have achieved an entertainer that will appeal to everyone. We are all waiting eagerly for the COVID-19 situation to become better in our country and then plan the release of Shamshera in the grandest way possible."
Now we surely can't wait for it any longer.
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Fun and free things to do in London in 2021
by Ruth
Let's face it – London isn't a cheap place to live or to visit. In fact, according to ECA International, London is the 6th most expensive location in the world.
However, although expensive, London is a fantastic and vibrant city and with such a huge array of things to do and places to see, you can guarantee that you'll never be bored.
Even with a limited budget, there is still so much that you can do in London. In this article, we'll take a look at some of the best FREE things to do in London, whatever your interests.
Free museums in London
1. The Science Museum
2. The Natural History Museum
3. The Imperial War Museum
4. Queen's House, Greenwich
5. Victoria & Albert Museum
6. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
7. National Army Museum
8. Royal Air Force Museum
9. Horniman Museum
10. Museum of London
11. Greenwich Park
12. Sky Garden
13. South Bank Walk
14. Changing of the Guard
15. The National Gallery
We are spoilt for choice with the array of museums we have in London. Whether your interests lie in medicine, science, nature, or war; whether you're 4 or 94, there's something for everyone. And what's even better is that some of the best museums are totally free!
One of London's most well-known museums and great for all ages. There's everything from space rockets to steam engines and there are lots of interactive activities too. You probably won't get through everything in one day so will need to plan a second trip!
Set in one of London's most beautiful buildings, The Natural History Museum is home to life and earth science and contains more than 80 million collections. Be sure to check out the dinosaur skeletons and the huge blue whale!
The world's leading museum of war and conflict. This museum was actually built when WW1 was still raging! Find out more about what it was like on the front line more than 100 years ago and what home life was like. You can even experience what it was like to be in an air-raid shelter.
A visit to the Queen's House is a must if you are near Greenwich. Set with Greenwich Park as its backdrop, you'd be forgiven for forgetting that you are in a busy city.
The Queen's House, built between 1616 and 1635 and a former Royal residence, is one of the most important buildings in English architecture.
Once you step through the doors, you'll find yourself in the impressive Great Hall. Continue through to see great artworks from the famous Woburn Abbey collection and don't forget to take in the beauty of the iconic tulip stairs.
The V&A is the world's largest museum of arts and design. Be sure to visit the jewellery gallery, where you can gawp at Queen Victoria's impressive jewellery collection.
Situated between Greenwich Park and Greenwich Town, this wonderful museum boasts a collection of over 2.5 million items including astronomical and navigational instruments, ship models and plans, coins, uniforms, and weapons. The museum also contains the world's largest maritime library and archive collection.
The National Army Museum is the British Army's central museum, located in the Chelsea district of central London. It has five state-of-the-art gallery spaces, which allow you to explore what it's like to be a soldier, the origins of the army, and how battle tactics and technology have changed over time.
Britain's only national museum dedicated to telling the story of the RAF and its people. It includes five buildings and hangers showing the history of aviation and the Royal Air Force. Be sure to visit to view the amazing aircrafts, old and new, and to hear the fascinating history of the RAF.
Based in Forest Hill, The Horniman Museum has displays of anthropology, natural history, and musical instruments, and is known for its large collection of taxidermied animals. The museum and gardens are free but there is a charge to visit the butterfly house and aquarium.
The Museum of London tells the story of the world's greatest city. This is a fantastic museum, covering the history of London from the prehistoric to the modern day.
One of my favourite parks and I try to head there at least once a month. Pause to take in the stunning views of London and then take a stroll through the park and down into Greenwich town center, where you'll find Greenwich Market and the Cutty Sark.
The Sky Garden is located within the 'Walkie Talkie' building. You do have to book tickets before you visit but they are completely free. Take the lift straight to the top of the building and step out to the most breathtaking views of the city. There's a restaurant and bar inside, but obviously, this will eat into your budget.
A walk along the south bank of the River Thames is a great way to while away a few hours and enjoy some of London's most iconic landmarks.
The 'Queen's Walk' takes you over Westminster Bridge, past the London Eye and South Bank's Art Centre, towards Tate Modern, and on to Shakespeare's Globe.
There are plenty of places to stop along the way and soak up the beauty of London so make sure you don't just rush through as quickly as you can.
No trip to London would be complete without soaking up the pomp and glory of the Changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace.
Watch the Queen's Guard hand over responsibility for protecting Buckingham Palace and St. James's Palace to the new guard.
It happens every Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday at around 11 am and lasts around 45 minutes. It's free to watch but it can get very busy so make sure you turn up early to secure your spot!
The National Gallery houses one of the greatest collections of paintings in the world. Here, you can discover art by some of the world's greatest artists, including Leonardo Da Vinci, Rembrandt, and Van Gogh.
There are free guided tours, audio guides available in many different languages, and free family activities for children of all ages.
The National Gallery is situated in London's famous Trafalgar Square. When you finish at the Gallery you can take a stroll across the road to visit the stone lions.
As you can see, even though living in London is expensive, it is still possible to have fun for free! The activities in the list are some of my favourites but there are so many more free and exciting places to visit. Have you been anywhere that has been free or relatively inexpensive that you've really loved? Let me know!
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Only those with a particular interest in American political history are probably familiar with the name Whitaker Chambers these days, but 60 years ago he was a fairly big deal ... a darling of the far right and one of the instigators of the anti-Communist hysteria that characterized the McCarthy era. His best-known writings were very political, of the sort that politically inspired Ronald Reagan.
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Warren and Whipstick Farm, Ltd's Capo Di Capi took top-three placings in four out of the five division classes to land on a total of 30 points for the section A champion ribbon. She and the 11-year-old Dutch Warmblood gelding (Sir Corland x Jokatosa) earned two firsts, a second, and a third.
While Capo was originally purchased as Warren's new equitation mount, the pair have been getting a feel for one another in the hunter ring throughout circuit.
"We got him around October with plans to start doing some of the more competitive equitation classes," Warren explained. " We've put him in the hunters just so we can learn each other's style of going and it's been working out very well for us! He's got a great rhythm and an adorable jump.
Lignelli piloted the Piccolino Farm, LLC's Pop Rocks to a first, a second, and two third places which secured them the second-highest total of 24 points. She and the 12-year-old Dutch Warmblood gelding (Verdi x Ufarna 2) were paired up by the same farm that Lignelli procured her first pony from, which she knew meant the two would be a good match.
"When we found Pop Rocks from the same people we found my wonderful first pony, Mr. Knightly, from, I knew it was a good sign," Lignelli said. "For me, the most important part about riding is having a strong bond with your partner and that connection will always be noticeable to the judge even if you don't have the fanciest horse.
Lignelli and Pop Rocks also found success in the equitation ring together this weekend as the pair won their first THIS National Children's Medal together.
The reserve champion ribbons were split between Alexander Alston and Taje Warrick, both of whom finished on a total division score of 20 points. Alston and Alston Alliance, LLC's 11-year-old Warmblood gelding *Cash* earned a trifecta of first, second, and third places. AM Sport Horses South, Inc's eight-year-old Belgian Warmblood gelding (Phin Phin x Cassiopea), Bon Ami, and Warrick produced the 20 point score by receiving one first, a second, and two fourths.
The penultimate week of competition at the 2019 Winter Equestrian Festival will kick off Wednesday, March 20, with top national hunter, jumper, and equitation competition as well as international competition at the four-star level.


In 9 More Days, THE TRANSFORMERS Return!
It's '80s nostalgia, TRANSFORMERS fandom, and a cinematic event all rolled into one, and now there are more opportunities than ever to see THE TRANSFORMERS: THE MOVIE on the big screen on Thursday, September 27.
More than 300 additional movie theaters nationwide will play THE TRANSFORMERS: THE MOVIE at 7 p.m. (local time), bringing the remastered, restored animated adventure to nearly 750 screens across the U.S. Tickets for THE TRANSFORMERS: THE MOVIE are available at www.FathomEvents.com and at participating theater box offices.
This special one-night event will catapult audiences into the super-charged, action-packed TRANSFORMERS universe, and enables lifelong fans to relive the excitement and awe of this 1986 animated feature. Fans will also get an exclusive behind-the-scenes sneak peek at the making of this December's BUMBLEBEE, as well as a brand-new interview with singer-songwriter Stan Bush, including recent performances of the theme songs "The Touch" and "Dare." Audiences who attend the Fathom Events screenings will also receive a poster of THE TRANSFORMERS: THE MOVIE (quantities limited, while supplies last).


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Hi Tammy,
Remember that time you laughed at a badger meme I posted? You probably don't, and I don't blame you. You probably see a lot of badger memes. But I remember, and I was proud of myself for that for, like, a whole day afterward. Not to get too sappy, but bringing some small amount of joy to someone who had brought me gobs and gobs of it was a really good feeling.
The first book of yours I read was Wolf-Speaker.
I know, I know, it's a weird place to start: a second book of a second series. I didn't even have the decency to start at the beginning of the Immortals quartet. I was thrown into a story already begun, meeting a protagonist who had already begun her arc, spending time with characters who had already been introduced and elaborated on.
I regret nothing. Part of this is because of your writing, Tammy. Despite coming in partway through a 4-book arc, starting with Wolf-Speaker just felt like another entry point into the story. You weave in the salient details of past events without belaboring them, hint at larger happenings in the world, and further develop your characters all within the confiens of a single story. Wolf-Speaker doesn't feel incomplete, though I would also argue that it fits perfectly into its niche in Daine's timeline.
I also don't regret my decision at all because being introduced to a protagonist who can communicate with animals, and having her first major interactions be with a wolf pack was the perfect point to enter a story for my 12-year-old self. Regular readers of the BWP blog may recall that I wrote of the Redwall universe that a universe full of talking animals was everything I wanted. I may have to slightly tweak that statement, because even better was the possibility of a universe where animals were still animals — not living in buildings and farming the land, but living as animals do — but some people could talk to them. Rather, some people could talk to them, and they would answer.
From Wolf-Speaker, I finished the Immortals quartet, and then went back to read your works from the beginning. Over time I got to meet all of your heroines, and I am so glad I spent time growing up with all of these women. From bull-headed temperamental Alanna to calm unyielding Kel, to snippy people-averse Tris — it would take too long to describe them all, but suffice it to say, that when I try to determine a single favorite, it's nearly impossible.*
There are many things I can be thankful for in your writing, Tammy, but the greatest thing is that you showed me unequivocally that women in fantasay could be as real and varied as the women I know from reality. They could show full ranges of emotions, had their own ideas, and made their own decisions. They could be sad, angry, brave, quiet, brash, thoughtful, giddy, and everything in between. Thank you for their stories.
-Louisa
*Nearly. (I'll give you one guess).
November 28, 2016 October 28, 2016 Leave a comment
Howdy. You are really awesome.
That's all, basically.
I could spend several hundred words telling you how freaking amazing The Raven Cycle is and how much I adored The Scorpio Races.
I could write you an essay about how incredibly skilled you are at blending fantasy with reality, at reminding your readers of the magic that already exists in our world.
I could write a whole letter on your use of mythology in The Scorpio Races and how much this religious scholar just ate that up.
I could write you a book about how following you on various social media platforms has taught me that the world is unfair and that the level of talent you have in the variety of areas you have it is just unreal.
I could go on and on and on about why I went and got a raven tattoo after the release of The Raven King (and yes the biggest raven is named Chainsaw).
(pssst)
But at the end of the day the most important thing for me to say is that I am grateful for you, and all that you do.
Thank you for being really awesome.
Really, thank you.
-Rebecca
November 27, 2016 November 3, 2016 Leave a comment
If I profane with my unworthy hand
Your written shrine of celebrated wit
My praise, lowly as it is, ready stands
To release itself through most loving writ
For 'To be or not to be' you once said
Hamlet's distress did kindred spirit find
A lonely girl of but thirteen years led
From depression with bottle left behind
When yet more years had passed and knowledge earned
The sorrow returned anew to claim
A lonely, angry heart that always burned
She would not gentle enter Peace's domain
But for Antony's piercing words and tears
She'd not've named her demons for yet more years
For thee in thanks, MADELEINE
nota bene: This sonnet has been poorly written in the style of a Shakespearean sonnet. Please forgive the author of this letter for her inability to write poetry and general absurdity.
Dear Neal,
I'm sure all readers have had that feeling when you read a book and think, "It's like the author wrote this book just for me!" For me, that book was Snow Crash. Though the book covers a variety of topics, the main focus is technology and language. As an aerospace engineer with a minor in linguistics, you can see why I might have thought this book was personalized. Snow Crash was epic in scope, fast paced, and even featured a pun-named main character.
The word epic is thrown around a lot these days, but your books really live up to the word. What other author would create a religious order that reveals itself ever 1000 years? Or chronicle the cataclysmic end of human society on Earth? And even still, we feel personally invested in your characters and care about what happens to them within the larger scope of your story.
Last week, I thanked Ursula LeGuin for showing science fiction and fantasy can be used to challenge our own prejudices and social conventions. Today, I thank you for showing something that speculative fiction better than any other genre: stories, societies, and even civilizations that space vast reaches of time and space. Even as it inspires us, it reminds how small and fragile we are in the larger context of the universe.
Finally, I end this note with an apology: I haven't yet been able to make it more than 100 pages into Cryptonomicon, and I'm sorry. I promise I'll try again, maybe as New Year's Resolution. In the meantime, thank you again for the vast amount of story I've read, enjoyed, and been inspired by.
-Christopher
Outgoing transmission: Pierce Brown
Subject: Thank You
Of all the authorial thank you notes that I wrote for this month — several of which are wholly ridiculous in tone — yours proved the most difficult to write. You are currently reading the results of attempt number nine ten
Where to begin? I regret to say I went into Red Rising with a good deal of reservations: it was blurbed to appeal to fans of The Hunger Games and Ender's Game (I am, alas, a fan of neither), and its jacket description made it sound like every other class system-based dystopia that had flooded the market for the past few years, or so it seemed to me. But that cover was so striking — a bright red wing on matte black — that I did what I usually tend to do in situations like these: I shrugged and bought it while thinking "Eh, why not?" (This seems to be how most of my best and worst ideas start.)
I began with the audio — I can't remember what exactly I was doing that fateful evening, but I needed to be hands-free — and from the moment Tim Gerard Reynolds read that first line, it was like one of those moments in a film where the protagonist pauses what they're doing and the camera pushes in with a tightening, shadowy ellipse to form a spotlight, the world around them having faded away.
"I would have lived in peace. But my enemies brought me war."
I'm a sucker for a good revenge plot; I stand by my opinion that The Count of Monte Cristo is probably the best revenge plot ever crafted. I love me a good revolution tale; American Revolution history is some of my favourite from this country and, oh yeah, Star Wars Rebel Alliance all the way. I also cannot resist a war story; I'm a rather odd child who knew Homer's Iliad before Harry Potter.
So getting your story, complete with Classical allusions and pop culture easter egg-like references that kicked my high-functioning ADHD mind into full-on literary analysis mode was like getting the book I'd never dared to want, because there was no way in heaven, hell, or earth that it could exist.
And I don't just love your trilogy because you're a master of your craft and tell a heart-stopping story; or because you created and developed characters so beautifully flawed and tragically human that they transcend the confines of the page; or even because finding all those little allusions and references brings me inexplicable joy. I do love your trilogy for all those things, but I really want to thank you for how thoughtful your books are.
Your books dared to ask a great deal of deep and difficult questions. What happens after revolution? What happens when you gamble and fail? When you lose a battle but must continue the war? How do you deal with grief and rage and hate?
How do you not only live, but live for more?
I got to question and consider the world of your own making and the consequences of every small action, or even the lack of action. And then I got to apply it to my own life — which, in the wake of everything that has happened in 2016, meant an awful lot of thinking and drinking and more thinking.
But there is also a part of the story I didn't mention, about when I picked up your first book back in 2014…it wasn't a great time for me. I was going through what can only be described as a complete existential, quarter-life crisis. I'd graduated university without a job in my field, was working full-time at a bookstore which, while not terrible, was not what I wanted. I was just entering treatment for an eating disorder, which would lead to me (finally) getting diagnosed with anxiety and adult ADHD alongside depression, which I knew I'd dealt with since high school. Everyone around me was getting married, buying houses, raving about their dream-jobs and, well, needless to say, I felt very stuck and worthless and useless.
You didn't really need to know all that, I suppose, but it's the only context I can offer so that when I say your books were not only what I needed in that moment, but were what helped to spark a little fire to dare, to try, and to at the very least pretend to be brave…I'm not trying to be sycophantic. I may be prone to hyperbole in some things, but I don't exaggerate when I say that your books had a profound impact upon me — upon my behaviour, my thought processes, philosophies, and just overall personhood. I can look at my short twenty-five years and find that point at twenty-three in late 2014 that denotes the shift of "before Red Rising" and "after Red Rising."
I hadn't been able to live in peace but I started to find a glimmer of it in Darrow's war.
And as if that wasn't enough, it wasn't too long after I got diagnosed with Bertolotti's Syndrome in late 2015 that I got to read Darrow scratching and clawing and working his own way back to recovery in Morning Star…just as I was going through physical therapy so I could go through everyday life with minimal pain or discomfort. It was this strange sort of inspiration, the rationale of "Well Darrow could come back from that, so surely I can grit my teeth and push through whatever's happening here." It's not that I hadn't thought that way before Morning Star, but something about the visceral way in which you wrote Darrow's journey put everything happening in my own life into sharp perspective and helped me to hone my focus.
Simply put: your books changed my life.
So, thank you, Pierce Brown. Thank you for crafting this story. Thank you for writing it down and sharing it with all of us. In this all too often dark and terrifying world that sometimes likes to knock us down and basically beat the shit out of us, you gave us a trilogy about a rising tide of sons and daughters whose grit and humanity and glorious hope blazed with such ferocity that they shone brighter than the morning star itself.
And it's a bloodydamn, gorydamn beautiful thing.
Per aspera ad astra and sincerest thanks,
Madeleine C.
PS. Also, you like Star Wars and puppies, so I should have known that would mean your books were going to be amazing.
In March of 2016 I was lucky enough to attend the Nova Teen book festival in Arlington, Virginia, where you were the keynote speaker. I had so much fun basically stalking you from panel to panel, learning about how to write a properly scary story during the Creep panel and sitting in the completely full classroom where you had your one-on-one with participants about writing fairytales. Don't worry, I live-tweeted the whole experience so if you don't trust my word on how psyched I was about the whole thing you only need to check your Twitter notifications from that day (I'm sort of sorry about blowing up your feed that way, but kind of really not).
Your keynote is what really got me, though. I had a really freaky moment there while you were talking because I'd been telling my friend Mad earlier that day how I would probably die if you and Neil Gaiman ever collaborated on anything, and lo and behold in your keynote you start talking about Lucifer and a conversation you had with Gaiman about why you write fantasy.
I pretty much died in that moment because not only was it like you'd read my mind but you also managed to combine your thoughts with Gaiman's (and I think even G.K Chesterton's which is a whole other thing (OK I'll dish, I wrote a graduation speech in college based on a G.K. Chesterton quote that you may or may not have used during your keynote (OK you did))) to say what is perhaps the truest and most powerful thing about what fantasy even is. Pardon my paraphrase (I'm sure the direct quote is on Twitter), but you told us all that the power in fantasy is that it deals with reality in a world where the rules are shifted such that the everyday struggles of humanity can be exaggerated and focused on in a way that literary fiction just does not allow. Want to talk about the struggle to belong for teenagers? Write about a changeling. And all that good stuff.
It really got to me not just because it was true, not just because that was exactly why I'd always been drawn to really good fantasy over anything else, but also because your stories have always had that dash of really harsh reality blended in with the fantastic elements of the worlds you create. When I first read Tithe I picked it up because it was sold as a modern fairytale, but I loved it because of how freaking real it was. How even though it was about non-human creatures in an alternate reality it was one of the most familiar and one of the truest stories I've ever encountered, and the same can be said of everything you've written since.
Tithe itself is really a meta-example of that, since you even went and created a main character who could not lie but who knew how to deceive, and when I was reading that whole series, especially once it got to Ironside, I just kept thinking, "Oh my God Holly Black is Fae. She's totally mastered the art of telling a story that has elements of untruth but which is actually entirely true."
I mean basically what I'm trying to say here is you are brilliant. Absolutely brilliant and I love it. I love it all. I also love how your books are like the hard rock of YA and Middle Grade literature. They've got so many of the same elements as other books in their genre, but they've got this edge to them, this grit that just doesn't exist anywhere else. Sometimes that is exactly what I need when I pick up a story to get lost in, and I can't thank you enough for carving out that space and for continuing to create masterpieces within it.
You rock, literally, and I appreciate you.
Thank you now and always,
Gail Carson Levine
Dear Ms. Levine,
When I was a kid, there were three things that I knew about myself: green was my favorite color, I ate too many things deemed inedible, and that I had an unhealthy want for adventure. This unchecked desire often got me in trouble and my early elementary years were full of time outs from recess and being chased by kids I had pranked. I wasn't a bad kid, but I was bored and this boredom got me into trouble. Often. Then there was a day, I think in 3rd or 4th grade that I found myself forced to choose a library book in school. I happened to pick up Ella Enchanted, and I honestly believe that I was never the same.
I never thought I would fall in love with a book based on Cinderella . The funny thing is, I never liked Cinderella, but I love your version of her. I mean, I guess Cinderella was okay as a Disney movie, but I just didn't get it. She was just so darn nice, and then everything kind of magically worked out for her. I felt distant from Cinderella as a character. Reading about Ella, who was so painfully real, who experienced the world around her as I might have in her position, made me able to accept and immerse myself in the magic from fairy tales. Your book captivated me in a way that I had never experienced before. I remember reading about Ella's curse, seeing her similarities to Cinderella, both knowing her story and having no idea what would happen. There wasn't a character in Ella Enchanted that I didn't feel personally connected to, and you made it so easy.
The truth is, if I hadn't picked up Ella Enchanted randomly in the library that day, I don't know if I would have become hooked on reading. It was because of your book that I dove into literature hoping to find characters like Ella that could show me what it means to be a heroine. Now, years later with an English degree and several years of teaching under my belt, when my baby sister was looking for a bed time story I knew exactly which one to start her on. Oh, and she is addicted to reading now too. I don't think 'thank you' will quite cover it, Ms. Levine, but I'm going to say it anyway. Thank you for everything.
Your biggest admirer,
"Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?"
Dear Ms. Rowling,
Mr. and Mrs. Cassier of 103 Burbank Drive were proud to say that their daughter was a book-dragon, thank you very much. She was never one to be found without a book or two, because she just didn't hold with their absence.
Okay, enough with the silliness. Firstly, it's very difficult to sustain; secondly, it's hard to joke when talking about the importance of Harry Potter in my life. I chose that quote from Deathly Hallows at the top for a big reason: I think it perfectly summarizes what I try to tell people when I attempt to talk about how much your positively radiant Harry Potter series means to me. Ever since Harry & co. walked into my life one evening — I actually was home sick with strep the night I first opened Sorcerer's Stone and can recall that first reading experience with vivid clarity — it was like being possessed and entranced and in love and in pain all at once. Ecstasy is the word that springs to mind, though I didn't know it back then. I, like so many people of my generation, quite literally grew up with Harry, Ron, and Hermione. We battled our own demons while they battled the Dark Lord.
I don't make it much of a secret, but I suffer from bad bouts of depressive episodes, and they were particularly bad during some years of high school. And back then, when I was a teenager and feeling like the real world had lost its colour and its vibrance, that I was wholly alone…I would crawl back into the pages of Harry Potter and wrap myself up in them like a security blanket. Re-reading those books became a way of coping and trying to understand what was happening — to try to bring myself out of any "low" that I was in. Of course I understood that, reading these books, it was all happening inside my head — it was my imagination running wild in order to bring life to your words…
But, to me, it not only was, but still is real.
Harry, Hermione, and Ron are people with whom I empathised or with whom I agreed and disagreed — they weren't just words on a page or scratches of ink. They, and all the others of the Wizarding world, were people. And what was best for that teenage me, was that in the world of Hogwarts and beyond, no matter how dark or wild it could get…it was still kind of real to me.
And it remains real to this very day.
It all being inside my head didn't make any of the emotions I felt meaningless. And, so, your series has a very special place in my heart and in my life because it not only shaped my childhood, my adolescence, my young adulthood, and has been in my life longer than it hasn't…but because it was the one place I could turn to when I felt there was nothing else, whether or not that was true. It's part of why I make a point to reread and re-listen to the series every single year, usually more than once.
Because Hogwarts is always going to be there to welcome me home.
Forever grateful,
November 20, 2016 November 20, 2016 1 Comment
I fell in love with you in the way the best loves happen—that is, almost entirely by accident.
We were living in England while my mother worked with the US Air Force; I was in 6th grade. Every day, we had one glorious hour of our class schedule devoted entirely to silent reading time, and my teacher for that period—an older, slightly acerbic, presumably rather feminist Gifted and Talented teacher—bore a certain fondness for giving individual students books she thought they should read. And by "give", I mean "unceremoniously hand you a book and unequivocally state that you were not allowed to read anything else in class until you finished it."
It was through that method that I was first introduced to A Wizard of Earthsea.
As a moderately imaginative and somewhat well-read child, I had read plenty of fantasy books before. When I opened the Earthsea cycle for the first time, though, I knew on some level that this was a game-changer. The vividness of the description, the completeness and utter uniqueness of the worldbuilding, and all the dragons and birds of prey and colorful wizardry drew me in. The complexity of the characters, the sheer vast scope of the fantasy, and the tender poignancy of the storytelling hooked me and wouldn't let me go.
I sat on the bus to school every morning on our trip across the fens, looking out the window at the dense, rolling British fog, and it was as if I was on Lookfar with Ged in the distant sea looking out, and out, and out. One night I dreamed, vividly, that standing in a field I put up my arm in the air and felt the light beating weight of a kestrel backwinging down to my skin—the most fragile, hollow pressure.
Fantasy and science fiction had already given me a broader perspective, new ways to look at things. Your writing was more than that—you gave me news eyes entirely through which to see.
For those reading who do not know—Ursula K Le Guin is almost indisputably one of the most prolific and most celebrated science fiction and fantasy writers still living. She has won almost every major award possible in both genres, and over the course of dozens of years has written dozens of works ranging from poetry and essays to children's books and not-so-childish novels. She is the daughter of a writer (Theodora Kroeber) and well-known anthropologist Alfred Kroeber, and it shows. Her work is known not only for its enthralling worldbuilding and attention to detail, but perhaps more vitally for its incorporation of a subtle, tender, seeping sense of humanity. This is a writer who knows people, intimately; no matter how far-flung the universes she describes or how fantastical the species that inhabit them, her writing is pervaded by the sense that perhaps you aren't so far from home after all. When I think of speculative fiction, when I think of science fiction and fantasy, I think of Ursula Le Guin before anyone else.
Ursula, I continued on and read some of your short stories after Earthsea—the tongue-in-cheek and surprisingly moving anthology Changing Planes (whose premise is that you can only switch dimensions while sitting in the interminable boredom of an airport waiting room), the clever and more serious pieces in The Birthday of the World and The Compass Rose. Short stories are, I think, where your brilliance really shines. They're where your anthropological and sociological musings really take wing; many of them read as thought experiments—"in this world, what if there were humans but X was different about them?"
In The Matter of Seggri, men are incredibly rare and treated with a smothering, oppressive kind of nurture familiar to any modern woman. In The Fliers of Gy, some people are born with wings—the most quintessential of widespread human fantasies—but the frailty of their bodies and their maladaption to their own culture make it a tragedy and a horrifying curse rather than something to be coveted. In Unchosen Ways and Mountain Love, lovers navigate achingly familiar pains of love and loss and family rivalry in a society where marriage literally takes a village (or a moiety, more accurately). In each, you play so deftly deftly with race, gender, and sexuality, constantly and gently nudging us out of our most fundamental assumptions of what it is to experience each of those things by skillfully framing it in ways that don't even feel like a lesson so much as a matter of fact "but it's always been this . I grew up to be an anthropologist, like your father (and, in a very real sense I think, like you), and I think I know where that process started. You slowly, patiently, painstakingly taught me from afar one of the cornerstones of both speculative fiction and anthropology—learning to see the peculiar as normal and the normal as peculiar.
I also saw myself in your characters, both in the individual sense and in ways slightly more broad. Most of your protagonists are non-white and non-heterosexual, or at least play with the notion of what those designations even mean; plenty of them are non-male or non-binary-gender or both or neither or all genders and sexes at once. That was something that comforted me in an unprecedented way both as a young multiracial person and as a young, burgeoningly genderqueer and transgender person. I will admit—I regret to say that I didn't read your most-lauded novelized study of gender, The Left Hand of Darkness, until relatively later in life, and was rather un-compelled by it. The notion that someone can be more than one sex or gender at once, and be loved by somebody not used to that concept, is perhaps a bit more underwhelming to read about when you've lived with it for a decade or two…But I read Coming of Age in Karhide, also set in Gethen, and loved it, felt myself coming of age into my gender a bit with every dreamy vivid line of it. I think for a lot of people, your works are the first time they've been exposed to some of these ideas in a digestible and slightly depoliticized way, and I can only imagine how much easier my life has been rendered because of that, through that behind the scenes absorption. (I am slightly tired, however, of having strangers tell me that I remind them of Gethenians.)
My favorite work by you, however, is the one I can barely begin to do justice to.
The Dispossessed has been (at least to me) shockingly divisive within my friend groups. Roughly half the people I've recommended it to have loved it so unconditionally that they took it as one of their own new personal favorites; the other half has hated it and thought it dull and uninteresting to the point of inanity. Regardless, I can cheerfully and blithely state that I have never read a book I enjoyed more purely, or that I found more in. I come back to The Dispossessed again and again and again—I read it for comfort during trying times, in moments when I worry that I've lost my way or my sense of self. I've been recording myself reading lines of it as I've gone on testosterone and my voice has been dropping, documenting the growth and change in more ways than one. The clean starkness of the world of Anarres and (at least initially) its inhabitants, the thoughtfulness and nuances of the political commentary…It starts on one level as a fairly straightforward conversation about anarchy, socialism, capitalism, and socioeconomic woe, but grows over time to be a much more convoluted dialogue on the nature of individualism, the inescapability of solitude, and the endless search we all of us make for that ephemeral, at times unreachable thing—home, and purpose, the sense that there is somewhere we belong.
I read Shevek's story and feel the pang of sympathy for him a little bit differently every time. In high school, as a sense of camaraderie for someone reaching desperately for a goal that would make or break him by its attainment or his failure. In college, I resonated with his intensely personal realizations about utopia and revolution, of the ways people frequently recreate the things they fear or hate the most. After college, I've come to see the cleverness of his characterization, his flaws and egocentricities and anxieties, and search for how my own flaws shape my perception. Every year or two I come back to this book, these immortal settings and characters, and the sheer beauty and gracefulness of the multilayered arcs of the story takes my breath away. Futility and joy and arrogance and humility and camaraderie and isolation and breathless, breathless hope…
Nobody writes imperfection as perfectly and as compassionately as you do, with such a gentle and loving acceptance for both the beauty and monstrosity inherent to being human. You hold a mirror up to me, and of all the mirrors I've ever seen—I'm ok with looking into this one, and with the reflection I see in it.
Thank you, Ursula, for what you have given me—the gift, for once and forever, of sight."


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Indonesia confirms 13 more people infected with coronavirus, total 19
Jakarta. The Indonesian government announced on Sunday that two more people have tested positive for novel coronavirus, bringing the total number of patients to six.
One of the two new patients is a former crew member of Diamond Princess cruise ship who is being quarantined at an island in Jakarta along with 68 colleagues, while the rest got the virus in locally transmitted cases, linked to a Japanese national who attended a party in Jakarta and was later identified as Patient 24 in Malaysia.
"Patient 5 is a 55-year-old man in Jakarta. Patient 6 is a crew member of Diamond Princess, aged 36," Achmad Yurianto, a government spokesman for the handling of coronavirus case, told a press conference in Central Jakarta.
"Both men are in stable conditions, they don't need supplemental oxygen and intravenous feeding at the meantime. They don't have fever or cold," he said.
The Diamond Princess crew member was infected during the earlier quarantine in Japan, Yurianto said. The cruise ship became a breeding ground for the highly contagious virus when it was placed under quarantine off Yokohama last month. During the two-week quarantine that started on Feb. 4, the number of infected persons inside the sip grew rapidly from ten to more than 600 passengers and crew members.
Four Indonesian crew members were confirmed of having Covid-19, the formal name of novel coronavirus, during the quarantine in Japan.
The Indonesian government evacuated 69 Diamond Princess crew members using a chartered plane last week and sent them to Sebaru Island for quarantine.
The locally transmitted cases were linked to a dance party at Amigos Restaurant in Kemang, South Jakarta, on Feb. 14. Patient 1 is a woman who hosted the party and Patient 2 is her mother who took care of her at their home in Depok, West Java, when she became ill.
The government medical team examined at least 80 people who attended the party and found on Friday that two more persons were infected. The Japanese national who attended the party is believed to be the source of the infection.
Indonesian health officials have conducted laboratory tests on 620 clinical specimens, with 327 being taken from 63 hospitals in 25 provinces. The rest of the specimens were taken from 293 crew members of World Dream and Diamond Princess cruise ships and medical staffs who accompanied them during the evacuation and the quarantine.
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