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Ed KilgoreDaily Intelligencer |
Just a few weeks from the end of the 2026 midterm elections, there are all sorts of variables that could affect the outcome on the margins. There...
For a sizable majority of the world, capital punishment is a remnant of barbarism from an increasingly distant past. Its persistence in the United...
There is no better reflection of the purely transactional nature of Donald Trump’s politics than his love for buying Americans’ affections with...
There are three central things to understand about the embattled U.S. Senate campaign of Texas attorney general Ken Paxton. The first is that his...
Yes, we all know about the increasing possibility of a blue wave election in November. But the number and nature of states that could get caught up in...
One of many recent turning points in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court is something that did not happen a little more than a decade ago....
We’re now past the one-month signpost for the 2026 midterm elections. Voting by mail is already underway in 21 states, and in-person early voting...
Last month at the Midterm Republican Convention, Donald Trump asked the crowd to pledge allegiance to “the greatest president in the history of the...
Many eyebrows were raised by reports of a quiet word from the White House to the Justice Department concerning the pace of litigation aimed at...
Donald Trump’s job-approval numbers have steadily eroded throughout his second term as president. Per the Silver Bulletin polling averages, he hit...
In the small world of election handicappers, the Cook Political Report is more or less the OG, in business for 42 years. Like most OGs, the...
The best-case scenario for Donald Trump’s two-day midterm Republican convention in Dallas earlier this month would have been for it to be only a...
For much of the 2026 midterm-election cycle, Donald Trump has maintained that keeping the MAGA base energized would be the key for Republicans seeking...
There’s naturally a lot of speculation in legal and journalistic circles about what exactly Donald Trump might do to change, deny, or challenge the...
When national media reports of a politician’s abusive behavior arise in the heat of a high-stakes election battle, it’s natural to wonder about...
People who rightly fear a last-minute Trump administration bid to skew the 2026 midterms may have had a moment of panic after seeing Friday’s U.S....
Just 40 days from the end of midterm-election voting, it’s beginning to look like a cycle in which all things are possible for Democrats. Not too...
To hear a lot of the chatter about the pivotal U.S. Senate race in Michigan this year, you’d think the election was more or less a referendum on...
Six weeks from the midterm elections (and a lot less than that from early voting, which is already underway in several states), experts and the...
The crypto lobby is going after the once and maybe future U.S. senator from Ohio Sherrod Brown with a tire iron, according to the New York Times: The...
For years, progressives have longed to supplement progressive income taxes with wealth taxes that reach the vast inherited, invested, or even hidden...
Primary season came to an end this week when voters in Delaware headed to the polls on September 15. That same day, early in-person general-election...
For those Republican candidates still confused about their pitch to midterms voters, Donald Trump offered some specific instructions at last week’s...
Congressional Republicans are rapidly running out of time to do anything that might preserve their control of Congress. Indeed, early midterms voting...
Republicans undoubtedly prevailed in the gerrymandering arms race touched off when President Trump ordered Texas to redraw its congressional maps in...
When Donald Trump reclaimed the White House in 2024 and Republicans won a trifecta by flipping control of the Senate, one story seemed to capture the...
If you want a good idea of the Republican Party’s closing pitch to voters heading toward a 2026 election that doesn’t look good for them, Donald...
To understand Donald Trump’s epic (in length, not content) speech on the first night of the Midterm Republican Convention nobody but him wanted to...
If you happen to be a college-football fan and you watch the sport on any of the ubiquitous Disney-owned ABC-ESPN outlets, you are probably aware of a...
For the first time since Democrats tried it twice (with poor results) in the 1970s, a major U.S. political party is holding a “midterm national...
Democrats have reason to hope that a “blue wave” in the midterm elections, fed by Donald Trump’s unpopularity, will help them flip the House and...
We’re now two months out from the 2026 midterm elections, and in some ways, the outcome is even more uncertain than usual. The basic rules of how...
Polls can tell you, with varying degrees of certitude, the state of play of individual midterm-election contests for the Senate and the House. But...
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...
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