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MNI POLITICAL RISK - US Daily Brief

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  • The GOP has officially won the House of Representatives, with the re-election of Rep Mike Garcia (R-CA) in California's 27th Congressional District tipping Republicans over the line.
  • Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has been re-elected as top Republican in the upper chamber.
  • House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is expected to announce her plans for the future today.
  • Democrats are increasingly pessimistic that they can strike a debt ceiling deal during the "lame duck" session of Congress.
  • The tensions over an explosion which killed two people in the Polish border village of Przewodów have continued to recede but some Ukraine allies have privately questioned Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's response to the explosion.
  • Poll of the Day: Republicans are set to have one of the smallest House swings in 40 years.

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