The conventional wisdom is that Democrats would be facing long odds in retaining control of the Senate this year.  Republicans would only be defending 10 seats and in solid red states.  The rest by Democrats and Independents who caucus...
Sure, former President Donald Trump skipped all of the GOP debates because, I guess he thinks he was somehow above all this. But now all of a sudden, he's hot to debate President Joe Biden. I don't think Trump...
If there's one thing you can say about Nikki Haley, it's that she's persistent. As much as I hate her policies and her anti-abortion, anti-LGBTQ+ stance I'm glad she's kicking Donald Trump in public. Because he has been downright...
I woke up early this morning and watching the news see the clips of voters in New Hampshire at the polls. It's primary day and the action is all on the GOP side. Polling in the Granite State is...
First, they liked each other. Then they both ran for the 2024 presidential nomination and hated each other. Then after what seems like 4,827 months, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis finally dropped out. Leaving ex-president Donald Trump and former South...
Americans have voiced plenty of ambivalence over the 2024 presidential election, with some voters even saying they'd prefer not to vote for Donald Trump or President Joe Biden. But in all likelihood, Biden or Trump are the only candidates...
Donald Trump uses a variety of tactics to get what he wants from people: He cajoles, he whines, he waves money around, makes promises. And sometimes, when that doesn't work, he makes threats. Just like he's doing now —...
It's looking more and more like Democrats have finally gotten the proverbial memo. ALL elected offices matter. Winning the WH isn't enough. Not nearly enough. Nor is winning control of Congress either, even when Democrats also hold the WH....
One would think that spending a Tuesday evening watching Republican candidates from North Carolina to New Jersey and Pennsylvania, from Mississippi, Kentucky and Ohio get their asses handed to them by the voters, mostly because they let an extreme...
Memories are short in politics And that's true for the most part. In the last 30 years, only the GOP has been responsible for a government shutdown due to a failure to fund the government. The epitome of shutdown stupid was Trump...

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