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The Final Countdown

Visitors walk around the Capitol in Washington.
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Today’s notice: Democrats on Capitol Hill are preparing for the world after Nov. 5. That’s tomorrow by the way.


Demsday Prepping

Fearing retribution if Donald Trump wins — or violence if he loses — Democrats on Capitol Hill are preparing for a post-2024 world in all sorts of ways.

One Democratic member told NOTUS that he and about a half dozen other lawmakers had taken out legal insurance to pay for lawyers in case Trump tried to sue or arrest them. This member also said he had heard Democrats make jokes about getting another passport in front of foreign officials, in only a sort of joking kind of way.