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Eye on ’28: Yes, AOC Is a Real Threat

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez “boasts three indispensable factors for a successful presidential race: national name recognition, the capacity to raise tens or hundreds of millions of dollars, and insatiable media interest,” observes Mark Halperin at The Free Press. She “understands that modern politics is part ideology, part organization, and part show business, and she does not pretend to be offended by the performative superficialities of the profession.” And if she’s “the dominant progressive candidate” in the primaries, she could keep “accumulating delegates while her establishment rivals carve each other up.” So “the question increasingly is not whether she will run. It is what happens to the rest of the Democratic field if she does.”

Midterms beat: Trump’s Stump Struggles on Iran

With the Iran war in “stalemate and midterm elections less than three months away, Trump is asking voters for time,” argues the Washington Examiner’s Byron York. Witness his recent long ad lib at his Garden City rally on public safety, where he digressed to confess he’d used the military “a little bit more than I wanted to, frankly” to stop Iran from going........

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