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Ed KilgoreDaily Intelligencer |
One of the big narratives of the 2026 midterm elections is that in Democratic primaries, young progressive insurgents are knocking off old centrist or...
Right now, U.S. senator Jon Ossoff is enjoying a bit of a rock-star moment. He’s raised an enormous haul of cash for his reelection campaign. He’s...
The heart of the 2026 midterm-election battle is a struggle for the high ground of public opinion between supporters and opponents of the president of...
For a data-driven number cruncher of the highest order, Nate Silver is refreshingly honest in admitting his skepticism about the Senate candidacy of...
There has always been an element of fundamental duplicity in the second Trump administration’s mass-deportation program. In promoting it during the...
Despite a lot of late buzz from the D.C. punditry about interim senator Darline Graham wrecking her campaign for a full term with an admission of...
The 42nd president of the United States just turned 80 this past week, and you have to be pretty long in the tooth yourself to remember how very young...
One of the things about politics that people love to hate is polling. To a certain extent, this antipathy is entirely understandable. As critics often...
There’s a lot of talk in Democratic circles about the need for “generational change,” which isn’t surprising given the proximate end of a...
Democrats’ best hope for the midterms is that voters only have one thing when they head to the polls in November: their opinion of Donald Trump. If,...
Throughout her brief career as a senator and as a candidate to remain one, Darline Graham has gone to some lengths to distance herself from the legacy...
Republicans’ last-minute gerrymander upended Florida’s congressional map, setting the stage for messy primaries across the Sunshine State. And on...
To an even greater extent than its midwestern counterpart Ohio, Florida is a state that has rapidly transformed itself from a blue-leaning...
The “progressive surge” story line that dominated Democratic primaries this summer came to an abrupt halt in Wisconsin yesterday, as Milwaukee...
A hastily assembled field of Republican U.S. Senate candidates in South Carolina will face its first test on August 11 in a special primary to choose...
A week after Abdul El-Sayed’s narrow victory in Michigan’s U.S. Senate primary, the competition between progressives and centrist Democrats is...
By the time the votes were to be tallied Tuesday night, it was widely assumed, mostly because of some iffy polling, that former public-health official...
All things being equal, Darline Graham Nordone should have the opportunity to develop her own record and persona, both in her service as interim U.S....
On August 4, both parties will hold primaries in five states: Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Virginia, and Washington. While there are many contests of...
It’s a strategic truism in politics that if you can’t seize the political “center,” where a lot of unaffiliated voters live, you try to push...
Ninety-five days from the midterm elections, Donald Trump is struggling with Congress over his agenda. Not so much with Democrats, who have very...
Donald Trump’s incessant crusade for the immediate enactment of the SAVE America Act is very likely to fail — thanks to a Senate Democratic...
It’s always been a bit of a reach for Democrats to contemplate winning control of the U.S. Senate in 2026, given a landscape heavily tilted to the...
On the same day the late Lindsey Graham was memorialized in Washington at the Capitol and the National Cathedral, the filing period for the August 11...
With the August 4 primaries in Michigan and Wisconsin fast approaching, the next week is going to be very exciting for an awful lot of political...
Knowing what we know now about Donald Trump’s willingness to interfere with adverse election results on January 6, 2021, the run-up to the 2026...
There is no story line in American politics more beloved than Democrats in Disarray. It’s an ancient narrative that was first and best captured by...
The timing of South Carolina’s upcoming special Republican U.S. Senate primary is a nightmare for any candidate who needs a long runway to become...
Up until now, disagreement between Democrats and Republicans on the need for safeguards against noncitizen voting was based on wildly disparate...
House Speaker Mike Johnson is probably as happy as a clam right now. The House is on an extended recess that will last at least until August 31,...
Democrats need a net gain of four U.S. Senate seats in November to flip control of the chamber. This would deny Donald Trump an easy path to...
One of the crosses Donald Trump has had to bear recently is a less-than-perfect record in endorsing Republican primary candidates. His choices in...
For all the turmoil afflicting Maine Democrats following the implosion of Graham Platner’s Senate candidacy, they moved quickly and decisively to...
Congress is currently lurching through a sluggish summer session, but there’s some high-stakes drama just ahead. On September 30, annual...
For six long years, Donald Trump has regularly alleged that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him, despite the thorough debunking of his...
Donald Trump is a huge proponent of election conspiracy theories, and his fixation on the 2020 election specifically feels pathological. After the...
If you get your information from mainstream media or progressive political outlets, the recent debate over ICE tactics and mass-deportation policies...
Now that Graham Platner has withdrawn his Senate candidacy, his supporters in Maine seem equally furious at their former nominee and at national...
When presidents deliver rare prime-time addresses to the nation, there is usually an obvious topic and some news (or at least spin) that the White...
The Republican Congress is facing an uphill struggle to meet its obligations prior to the midterm elections. As chairman of the Senate Budget...
Four-term South Carolina U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham died suddenly over the weekend at the age of 71, with no evident warning. His abrupt departure...
Many view this year’s gerrymandering battles as merely another skirmish between Democrats and Republicans for control of the U.S. House of...
Donald Trump suffers from chronic election denialism that goes well beyond his well-known insistence, against all evidence, that he won the 2020...
Graham Platner’s once-powerful campaign against Senator Susan Collins is currently imploding. On Monday, Politico published a credible accusation of...
It was widely, almost universally, expected that Donald Trump’s 2025 executive order purporting to abolish “birthright citizenship” would not...
In a mild surprise that instantly produced a not-so-mild reaction from President Trump, a 5-4 Supreme Court majority rejected an administration and...
One of the odder but also most telling quirks of the more intellectual of the MAGA warriors is a decided soft spot for Richard Nixon. That’s right:...
When the current U.S. Supreme Court terms ends it may be remembered as a moment when an otherwise subservient conservative majority finally drew a...
There are two much-discussed problems the Republican Party faces at the moment. One, which is big and real, is that its ability to attract voters...
Juneteenth, the celebration of the good news in 1865 that the great abomination of slavery had ended, is a contradictory holiday. It’s joyful in...
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