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2022 Midterms
Solid-Blue California Still Can’t Pass Universal Health Care A single-payer bill endorsed by many Democrats in the state wasn’t even brought up for a vote in the Assembly. Why does this keep happening?
2022 midterms
Jan. 28, 2022
Trump Nod Triggers Tennessee MAGA Carpetbagger Fight The ex-president’s superfans are upset that he endorsed a former Fox contributor over their preferred candidate.
2022 midterms
Jan. 26, 2022
Pelosi to Run for House Again … But Not for Speaker? She pledged to step down as Democratic leader at the end of this Congress. But unless she changes her mind, she will stay around as a living legend.
2022 midterms
Jan. 25, 2022
J.D. Vance Wins the Marjorie Taylor Greene Primary The fiery MAGA extremist Greene has accomplished nothing in Congress. But she’s a power nonetheless and could help Vance win a Senate primary.
2022 midterms
Jan. 24, 2022
When Life Stinks, the President’s Popularity Sinks Democrats’ unpopularity is probably the product of a generally unhappy country, not any particular misstep by President Biden.
2022 midterms
Jan. 24, 2022
Democrats Need Republican Mistakes to Hang On to the Senate A normal midterm swing could help Republicans sweep close Senate races. But Trump and intraparty problems could help Democrats keep control.
Biden Didn’t Have the Power or Luck to Become FDR or LBJ Biden is trying to govern in an era totally unlike the 1930s or 1960s with little margin for error and a lot of nasty surprises. Give him a break.
Biden’s Marathon Press Conference Didn’t Quite Go As Planned The president’s aim was to get back on message, but he may have stirred new trouble with his remarks on Russia and Ukraine.
2022 midterms
Jan. 19, 2022
Biden’s Approval Rating Is Low But Still Higher Than Trump’s With better skill than he’s shown lately and a bit of luck, Biden can mitigate 2022 midterm losses and bounce back in 2024.
Trump Thinks DeSantis Owes Him Everything If the Sunshine State ingrate aspires to a political destiny independent of Trump, the former president will give him the Brian Kemp treatment.
voting rights
Jan. 11, 2022
Biden Talks Loudly About Voting-Rights Bills, But Has No Big Stick to Enact Them The president’s Tuesday commitment to filibuster reform is welcome, but it may not matter if he cannot do something to sway Manchin and Sinema.
2022 midterms
Jan. 11, 2022
Larry Hogan and the Fantasy World of Moderate Republicanism Republicans are trying to talk Maryland governor Larry Hogan into a Senate run, but his brand of politics probably isn’t the party’s future.
2022 midterms
Jan. 8, 2022
Will This Be the Year Senator Ron Johnson’s Luck Runs Out? He’s a loud-and-proud yahoo running for reelection in a battleground state, but that doesn’t guarantee he’ll be an easy target for Democrats.
Why Biden Finally Went After Trump on January 6 It was a no-brainer for a commemoration of the insurrection Trump incited, but the bigger question is whether Biden keeps at it.
2022 midterms
Jan. 6, 2022
Oregon Says Nick Kristof Can’t Run for Governor, As He Doesn’t Live There The state said the former New York Times columnist doesn’t meet residency requirements. He plans to challenge the decision in court.
authoritarianism
Jan. 3, 2022
Trump Endorses Viktor Orbán, His Hungarian Role Model It’s an unusual move that may signal what Trump hopes to achieve for himself.
Will a Doomed Voting-Rights Push Really Help Biden? Democrats’ “supercharged” drive to pass voting-rights legislation, which will likely fail, could discourage base voters more than sober realism.
Are Democrats Just Repeating Obama’s First Year? There are some striking similarities between the party’s current problems and what they faced 12 years ago. But Obama did manage to get reelected.
Why Biden Wants You to Think He’s Running in 2024 Whether or not he actually plans to run again, there are many good reasons for the president to keep insisting that he’s seeking a second term.
joe manchin
Dec. 22, 2021
Could Joe Manchin Really Switch Parties? The senator may become a Republican one day, but giving up the enormous leverage he holds over Democrats right now makes little sense.
joe manchin
Dec. 21, 2021
What Do Progressives Hope to Gain From Bashing Manchin? The idea that Democrats can take Manchin to the woodshed back home in West Virginia betrays a very poor understanding of that state’s Trumpy politics.
2022 midterms
Dec. 21, 2021
California May Help Democrats Curb 2022 Losses The results of the Golden State’s redistricting process could endanger GOP incumbents, offsetting Democrats’ expected U.S. House losses.
Could Trump Really Depose Mitch McConnell? It’s hard to imagine Republicans denying Donald Trump anything he demanded, but ousting Mitch McConnell as GOP leader won’t be easy.
A Preview of GOP Tactics If They Win the House in 2022 If Republicans take at least one chamber, the hostage-taking tactics deployed against Obama are coming back, with additional encouragement from Trump.
2024 vision
Dec. 14, 2021
Democrats Need a Three-Year Plan to Save Democracy That means largely abandoning hope for 2022 and preparing to do battle at Armageddon with Trump in 2024.
2022 midterms
Dec. 8, 2021
Trump Ignites Republican Civil War in Georgia The unprecedented primary challenge of Brian Kemp is going to get exceptionally ugly.
McConnell Strikes Convoluted Deal to Let Democrats Avoid a Debt Default Leave it to Mitch to devise a phony mechanism to get Republican votes for a measure that will saddle Democrats wrongly with blame for debt increase.
Swing Voters Don’t Explain Why Youngkin Won It looks like the Republican’s win in Virginia was the product of poor Democratic-base turnout, not angry ex–Biden voters in the suburbs.
David Perdue Will Indeed Primary Governor Brian Kemp in Georgia: Reports The former senator was recruited to run against Kemp by Donald Trump, who has repeatedly vowed to help purge the incumbent GOP governor.
2022 midterms
Dec. 3, 2021
McConnell Signals GOP Will Run on Pure Obstruction in the Midterms They disagree on a lot of things, but Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump both believe in the pursuit of power as an end in itself.
If Roe Is Reversed, Democrats Need to Be Ready At a time when their party has convinced itself to avoid social issues, they should prepare for a culture-war battle they can win.
2022 midterms
Dec. 2, 2021
Trump Frets About Ads Attacking J.D. Vance for Attacking Him The former president’s involvement in 2022 midterm campaigns isn’t about his party — it’s strictly about him.
2022 midterms
Dec. 1, 2021
Stacey Abrams Announces 2022 Run for Governor of Georgia Abrams will have a united Democratic Party facing Trump-divided Republicans, and perhaps a grudge rematch with voter suppressor Brian Kemp.
2022 midterms
Nov. 26, 2021
Republicans Can’t Bet on Finding Perfectly Trumpy Candidates The GOP thinks candidates who embrace Trump without going full MAGA are the key to winning the midterms. Good luck finding them.
past is prologue
Nov. 25, 2021
Cheer Up, Democrats! You’ve Had It Worse Than This. The Democratic Party has a lot of problems, but it’s faced similarly sticky situations before and survived.
2022 midterms
Nov. 23, 2021
Louie Gohmert Joins Wild Texas Attorney General Race The MAGA representative will challenge Trump-endorsed Ken Paxton and George P. Bush in a race that shows the importance of state offices.
2022 midterms
Nov. 22, 2021
Trump’s Senate Candidate in Pennsylvania Quits After Losing Child-Custody Case Sean Parnell had been the GOP front-runner in a crucial Senate race. But now Dr. Mehmet Oz could become Trump’s new favorite.
the national interest
Nov. 22, 2021
Joe Biden’s Big Squeeze Progressive donors to the left of him, cynical centrists to the right — a unified theory of why his popular agenda is so unpopular.
2022 midterms
Nov. 19, 2021
Doctor Oz Mulls Republican Senate Run in Pennsylvania He’s not really from the state and has no real background in politics. But he does have name ID and money — and Trump’s candidate could implode.
presidential line of succession
Nov. 17, 2021
Californians Move Toward Lock on Presidential Succession If Feinstein becomes the next Senate president pro tem, she joins VP Harris and a California House Speaker in the chain of presidential succession.
2022 midterms
Nov. 15, 2021
Beto O’Rourke Is Running for Governor in Texas The former Democratic phenom must overcome past questions to challenge a strong but vulnerable Republican incumbent in a red state turning purple.
Democrats Shouldn’t Run Away From Their Non-White Party Base White racial resentments are on the rise again. But Democrats shouldn’t dispossess non-white voters in a bid to chase white voters they may never win.
Why White Racists Vote for Black Republicans Black Republicans who share strongly conservative views can paradoxically appeal to white racists as exceptions that prove their so-called rules.
Sununu Passes on Senate Race, Giving Democrats a Break The popular New Hampshire governor was a key part of the formula for a Republican takeover of the Senate in 2022. Now it gets tougher for the GOP.
Enough With the Tired ’90s Takes on Today’s Democrats Mark Penn and Andrew Stein are advising Biden to turn his back on decades of change within his party and his country. It won’t, and shouldn’t, work.
6 Takeaways From Glenn Youngkin’s Win in Virginia Early data suggests the Republican governor-elect benefited from higher turnout in pro-GOP areas and among white working-class voters in particular.
2021 elections
Nov. 3, 2021
Democrats Would Only Lose Again by Decimating Biden’s Agenda The worst thing Democrats in Congress can do after Tuesday’s election losses is give up their fleeting opportunity to make historic accomplishments.
2022 midterms
Nov. 2, 2021
Raffensperger Fears Future Election Violence, Can’t Stick Around to Thwart It The 45th president’s least favorite Republican official is fighting very high odds against his renomination by the Trumpy Georgia GOP.
2022 midterms
Oct. 31, 2021
Will the Fate of Biden’s Agenda Really Affect the 2022 Midterms? Democrats should stop trying to win the midterms with legislation, and get some big things right without worrying about elections they cannot control.
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