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Only one-third of Texas voters approve of the GOP-led effort to redraw the state’s congressional map, according to a recent statewide poll, which found that independent and Democratic…
Read more Texas voters have mixed views on redistricting and Trump’s megabill, poll findsAs he stood on a frigid New Hampshire street corner on Saturday morning, Jim Demers was trying to persuade me that the fate of the republic hinges on…
Read more Can Biden Win a Primary He Ignored?If one word could sum up Nikki Haley’s ambivalent challenge to Donald Trump in the New Hampshire Republican primary, that word might be: if. If as used by…
Read more Trump Is About to Steamroll Nikki HaleyEven before Donald Trump announced he was seeking the presidency again, last week’s election results showed Republicans how difficult it will be to escape the former president’s gravitational…
Read more Is Trump Still a Viable Candidate? Yes and No.The coalition of voters who turned out to oppose Donald Trump in 2018 and 2020 largely reassembled yesterday, frustrating Republican expectations of a sweeping red wave. Under the…
Read more How Democrats Avoided a Red WaveVoters will render a midterm verdict on President Joe Biden as they decide whether to keep Democrats in control of Congress. Forgive them if their views about the…
Read more What Joe Biden Has (And Hasn’t) AccomplishedThis has become the double-negative election. Most Americans consistently say in polls that they believe that President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats have mismanaged crime, the border, and,…
Read more The Double-Negative ElectionJAY, Maine—Services at the New Life Baptist Church had just wrapped up, and in the parking lot outside its tiny chapel, Paul LePage was standing behind me with…
Read more Has Trumpism Run Out of Steam?It might be nice one day to wake up and feel serene—even hopeful—about the state of American politics. To know that all of those people who have been…
Read more The Radical Fringe That Just Went Mainstream in Arizona
