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  1. Democratic Senate Looking Like a Reach — AgainProspects for a Democratic Senate after the midterms have waxed and waned, but it may be tough for Democrats to hang on in deep red states.
    By Ed Kilgore
  2. Poll: Trump Down 8 Points to Generic Democrat in 2020 RaceThe presidential election is only 972 days away.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  3. BREAKING: Man Plans to Keep JobAny presidential critics under the illusion he would voluntarily hang it up after one term should wake up and smell the bitter coffee of Trump 2020.
    By Ed Kilgore
  4. Democrats Are Changing Their Minds About RaceNew data suggests that Black Lives Matter and the Dreamers have made Democrats more progressive.
    By Sean McElwee and Alexander Agadjanian
  5. Trump’s Job Approval Is Underwater in 18 States He Carried in 2016A GOP president who can’t break 40 percent approval in Texas is in trouble.
    By Ed Kilgore
  6. Ruth Bader Ginsburg Has No Plans to Go Anywhere Anytime SoonConservatives pining for a fifth SCOTUS vote to overturn Roe v. Wade may have to win the 2020 election to outlast Ginsburg.
    By Ed Kilgore
  7. We Should Take Oprah 2020 Seriously, But Not LiterallyThe minute Oprah Winfrey becomes a politician, she’ll lose altitude, but she’d start from lofty heights.
    By Ed Kilgore
  8. Voters Are Starting to See Trump As a Garden-Variety ConservativeIn 2016 he benefited from many voters perceiving him as moderate or even liberal. There aren’t so many anymore.
    By Ed Kilgore
  9. The GOP’s Dilemma: Avoiding Disaster in 2018 Will Embolden Trump to Run in 2020You really have to wonder how long Republicans can stand this dance on the precipice with their unstable president.
    By Ed Kilgore
  10. The Rock May Run for President When He Can Get Around to ItIn what is increasingly not just a joke, Dwayne Johnson says he’s mulling a presidential campaign, but not until he has time, probably in 2024.
    By Ed Kilgore
  11. Tide of Right-Wing Judges Could Recede Quickly If Democrats Take Back the SenateThe GOP’s Alabama fiasco and a 2018 wave election could bring back a Democratic Senate and ruin the right’s plan to control the judiciary.
    By Ed Kilgore
  12. Democrats Have the Choice of Many Would-be ‘Firsts’ in 2020From the first Latino to the first Jew to the first Asian to the first vegetarian, Democrats can set all manner of presidential history in ‘20.
    By Ed Kilgore
  13. politics
    After Trump Will Be Another Trump — and This One Could Be More DangerousLiberals ecstatic over this month’s election must not forget: Even after this demagogue is finished, a new one will rise in his place.
    By Frank Rich
  14. Steve Bannon Reportedly Wants Mark Cuban to Run in 2020 As a DemocratTrump’s former senior adviser has a new favorite billionaire.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  15. Elizabeth Warren Treating Bernie Sanders As the Leader of the Democratic PartyWarren’s comments about the 2016 primaries being “rigged” weren’t as provocative as her assertion that the party owes Sanders deference going forward.
    By Ed Kilgore
  16. politics
    John Kasich’s Campaign Against Trump Never Stopped. And It Won’t Till 2020.One year after his failed run at president, the Ohio governor is plotting his path to another.
    By Lisa Miller
  17. Sanders to Run in Vermont As an Independent (for the 16th Time)Some see another Sanders indie reelection run as a signal of his presidential intentions for 2020. Could just be inertia.
    By Ed Kilgore
  18. Democrats Should Not Consider a Presidential Nominee Who’s Older Than TrumpOne way lightning could strike twice for Donald Trump would be a Democratic opponent whose age rouses fears of mortality and impairment.
    By Ed Kilgore
  19. First N.H. Poll for 2020 Shows Trump Looking VulnerableIn a way-early 2020 N.H. primary poll, nobody’s challenging Sanders and Biden among Democrats, and Trump looks potentially vulnerable to a challenge.
    By Ed Kilgore
  20. No One Should Rule Out a Trump Reelection in 2020As in 2016, Trump’s most important asset in 2020 could be a surprisingly vulnerable Democratic opponent.
    By Ed Kilgore
  21. Early 2020 California Primary Could Affect Republicans, TooWhile most of the buzz about California’s move to a March 2020 primary has focused on natives and on Democrats, it could affect Donald Trump as well.
    By Ed Kilgore
  22. If Oprah’s Not Running for President, She Has a Funny Way of Showing ItEither she’s trolling or she’s getting ready to take on Trump.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  23. Now That Hillary’s Had Her Say, Democrats Should Stop Fighting the Last WarA lot of things went wrong for Democrats in 2016. They should respectfully listen to all perspectives, but stop assuming they can make 2020 a do-over.
    By Ed Kilgore
  24. An Early California Primary Could Change the 2020 Presidential RaceIt didn’t much benefit the Golden State when it tried an early 2008 primary, but in 2020 it could help prevent a huge presidential field.
    By Ed Kilgore
  25. Do the New Democratic Centrists Come in Peace?As the party moves left, a group that helped define the “hippy punching” politics of the Clinton presidency reboots and enters the fray.
    By Ed Kilgore
  26. America Coming to Grips With an Incorrigible TrumpDonald Trump didn’t just say something outrageous. He contradicted his own correction of an earlier outrageous statement. This is new and disturbing.
    By Ed Kilgore
  27. De Blasio Reportedly Considering a Presidential Run (Don’t Do It, Bill)Like all New York mayors, he can’t help seeing a future POTUS in the mirror. But there’s no reason to think voters will agree.
    By Ed Kilgore
  28. Poll: Half of Republicans Open to Postponing of 2020 ElectionsIf Trump said it was delayed to prevent “voter fraud,” 52 percent would support him, a new survey shows.
    By Ed Kilgore
  29. Mike Pence Has Every Reason to Gear Up for 2020 — But Don’t Tell His BossThe hysterical response of Team Pence to reports his political team has contingency plans for 2020 illustrates the deep neuroses of the White House.
    By Ed Kilgore
  30. Republicans Are Playing With a Stacked Deck in the SenateThe GOP’s advantage in dominating small states is giving it a permanent advantage in controlling the U.S. Senate, even in “bad” years for the party.
    By Ed Kilgore
  31. Democrats Could Have a 2020 Presidential Field As Large As an Iowa CornfieldSanders, Biden, or Warren may run in 2020 and clear the field of pretenders. If not, Democrats could have the kind of field the GOP sported in 2016.
    By Ed Kilgore
  32. Is Kasich Preparing a Primary Challenge to Trump in 2020?Kasich has never bent the knee to Trump. But viable primary challengers to sitting presidents come from the fever swamps, not the sensible center.
    By Ed Kilgore
  33. Could There Ever Be a ‘Do-Over’ in a Rigged U.S. Presidential Election?A vote crucially affected by, say, foreign interference might be an injury without an obvious Constitutional remedy.
    By Ed Kilgore
  34. Is America Ready for an Octogenarian President?If he runs in 2020 — much less in 2024 — Bernie Sanders would be pushing the envelope on the maximum acceptable age of elected political leaders.
    By Ed Kilgore
  35. Scenes From the Swamp: (Almost) Inside Trump’s $35,000-Per-Plate 2020 FundraiserThe president started raising money for his 2020 campaign with an event held at his own D.C. hotel — and the press was forced to crash the party.
    By Olivia Nuzzi
  36. Terry McAuliffe Is Thinking of Running for PresidentReally?
    By Ed Kilgore
  37. The Complicated Politics of Impeachment Are Coming Into Play in Trump’s D.C.If the president’s “Russia problem” persists, Republicans will have to decide whether they really want him heading up their ticket.
    By Ed Kilgore
  38. God Help Us, Iowa’s 2020 Presidential Contest Is Already UnderwayEver-anxious about their first-in-the-nation status yet happy to leverage it, Iowans lean into another caucus cycle.
    By Ed Kilgore
  39. Trump Far From Doomed in 2020New polling suggests the president may not need to be all that popular to eke out a reelection victory.
    By Ed Kilgore
  40. just asking questions
    Can the Democrats Still Count on a Demographic Advantage?Ruy Teixeira co-authored an influential political theory in 2002 predicting liberal dominance for a generation. What does he say now?
    By Alex Carp
  41. Disney CEO Bob Iger Reportedly Flirting With 2020 Presidential RunFriends are encouraging him and Iger doesn’t think it’s a goofy idea.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  42. When Will Trump Announce a Policy Agenda? Maybe Never.Trump has an opportunity to lay out a detailed policy agenda on February 28 to a joint session of Congress — which needs the guidance. But will he?
    By Ed Kilgore
  43. too early and often
    Trump Attempts Reset With Recycled Campaign Stump Speech in FloridaTrump has already chosen his 2020 opponents: the press and any version of reality that doesn’t come from him.
    By Chas Danner
  44. No, Hillary Clinton Is Not Plotting a 2020 ComebackA HRC ’20 scenario denies her the dignity of being a trailblazer who will pave the way for another woman to win the presidency.
    By Ed Kilgore
  45. Trump Already Has a Reelection Slogan“Make America Great Again” was brilliantly reactionary and optimistic at the same time. “Keep America Great” will take some work.
    By Ed Kilgore
  46. Mike Pence Leads Crazy-Early 2020 PollHe has done himself a lot of good since becoming the veep nominee.
    By Ed Kilgore