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GASP! A Trump Hanger-On May Have Acted in His Own Financial Interest Rather Than in the Public’s.

Tweet Share Share Comment This is  Totally Normal Quote of the Day , a feature highlighting a statement from the news that...

27.11.2024 10

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The First Full Life Cycle of Trump’s Second Term Is Over

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, which President-elect Donald Trump has just nominated to run the Department of Newsletters! [Five...

23.11.2024 20

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Republicans Should Cool It With One of Their Major Takeaways From the Election

Tweet Share Share Comment Since winning the presidential election two weeks ago, President-elect Donald Trump has nominated a...

20.11.2024 5

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The Trump Cabinet Pick That Out-Shocks All the Rest

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, Slate’s politics newsletter and market tip sheet. What’re we buying shares of this week? Tetanus. ...

16.11.2024 10

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The GOP Conclave Is Over. A New Mitch McConnell Has Been Chosen.

Tweet Share Share Comment South Dakota Sen. John Thune was elected Senate Republican leader on Wednesday, replacing Mitch...

14.11.2024 5

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The Fight for Senate Majority Leader Is Here. We Know Who Trump’s Base Wants.

Tweet Share Share Comment Having taken the presidency last week in convincing fashion and having long possessed House...

12.11.2024 6

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How Democrats Lost and Trump Won

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, which welcomes Mr. Trump to his rightful place on the throne! Ha ha ha, very good, sir! (Disclaimer:...

09.11.2024 8

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Harris Faced an Impossible Situation. I’ll Give You a Hint About What Comes Next.

Tweet Share Share Comment COVID took Donald Trump out of the White House—then, four years later, COVID put him back in. Shocks...

07.11.2024 30

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Trump Did It. It’s Real. Now There’s One Question Left.

Tweet Share Share Comment Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election in a broad shift to the right across the country....

06.11.2024 9

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It All Comes Down to This

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, the newsletter world’s floating island of garbage—but a floating island of garbage that fights for...

02.11.2024 20

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How the Harris Campaign Could Give a Few Final Persuadable Voters a Nudge

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Spooky Halloween Surge. If the election were a “Halloween character,” who would it be? The guy from...

26.10.2024 6

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Kamala Harris Thinks She Knows Who Will Win Her the Election. She Better Hope She’s Right.

Tweet Share Share Comment On Monday, with 15 days to go until Election Day, Vice President Kamala Harris toured the three most...

24.10.2024 7

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Kamala’s Recent Media Blitz Has a Clear Target

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, a politics newsletter diligently prepping confident explanations for how we perfectly predicted every...

19.10.2024 10

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What Democrats Have Learned Since Betomania

Tweet Share Share Comment Six years and several political lifetimes ago, Democrats across the country were under the spell of...

17.10.2024 5

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Can Someone Send This Clown to Mars for the Next Month?

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, your favorite media product. You know how they used to say that Seinfeld was a show about nothing?...

12.10.2024 10

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I’ve Covered Washington for a Long Time. I’ve Never Heard Anyone in Congress Go This Far.

Tweet Share Share Comment Two weeks ago, Hurricane Helene made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane in the Big Bend region of...

09.10.2024 100

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J.D. Vance’s Debate Performance Means Zip for the Election. But That’s Not Why It Matters.

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, coming to you one month—one awful, dreadful, endless month—before Election Day. Remember that the...

05.10.2024 8

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Vance Won the Debate. Walz Got Something That Might Be Better.

Tweet Share Share Comment If the 2024 vice presidential debate goes down as the last general-election presidential debate ever,...

02.10.2024 40

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The One Unlikely Ally Eric Adams May Have Left

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, a newsletter that J.D. Vance (allegedly) described in a private chat as “the world’s greatest media...

28.09.2024 20

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Joe Manchin Vows Not to Support Kamala Harris Over Mortal Threat to His Precious Filibuster

Tweet Share Share Comment This is  Totally Normal Quote of the Day , a feature highlighting a statement from the news that...

26.09.2024 40

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A Scandal That Could Meaningfully Widen Harris’ Path to the Presidency

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, a newsletter that has never had an intimate texting relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. We don’t...

21.09.2024 10

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The Blue State Race That Could Give Republicans Control of the Senate

Tweet Share Share Comment One certainty after popular former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan announced his Senate candidacy was that a...

08.09.2024 20

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A Key Senate Race for Democrats May Be Falling Off the Map

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, which continues to not be paid at all by the Russian government. (Nudge, nudge, Russian government …)...

07.09.2024 8

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Is Roughing Up Military Cemetery Staff Good or Bad for Presidential Campaigns?

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, coming to you live from a Trump campaign music-video shoot in Arlington National Cemetery. We’re just...

31.08.2024 10

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The Trump and Harris Campaigns Are Pivoting to a New Skirmish

Tweet Share Share Comment With Democrats having decided on a presidential nominee and the conventions now out of the way, the...

28.08.2024 6

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Kamala Harris Pulled It Off

Welcome to this weekend’s edition of the Surge, coming to you live from an airplane out of Chicago where the air conditioning only half works....

24.08.2024 10

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How Kamala Harris Nailed the Most Important Part of Her DNC Speech

Tweet Share Share Comment It’s hard to describe the mood of Chicago’s United Center in the build-up to Vice President Kamala...

23.08.2024 10

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The Obamas’ Superpower Is One That No Other Democrat Has

Tweet Share Share Comment Every four years, Democrats meet for a convention and relearn that Michelle and Barack Obama are their...

21.08.2024 9

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The DNC’s Thanks for Joe Biden Were Laid on Very Thick. One Wonders if He Minded.

Tweet Share Share Comment About 20 minutes before President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 election, Teresa Saavedra Woorman,...

20.08.2024 7

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How Nancy Pelosi Really Wields Power Among the Democrats

Tweet Share Share Comment As Democrats gather for their national convention in Chicago this week, all of the party’s leading...

19.08.2024 5

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This DNC Will Be a Show We Haven’t Seen Before

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, the only politics newsletter that has a worse spice tolerance than Tim Walz and can’t even make it to...

17.08.2024 4

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The Honeymoon’s Already Ending for Tim Walz

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, the frozen bear meat of the American political icebox. This week, Democrats filled out their...

10.08.2024 10

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Even Tim Walz Seems Kind of Shocked by How Excited Democrats Are

07.08.2024 6

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Tim Walz Wasn’t Just the Safe Pick. He Earned It.

Tweet Share Share Comment Vice President Kamala Harris selected Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to be her running mate on Tuesday...

06.08.2024 6

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Don’t Mistake Trump’s Latest Rant for Evil Genius

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, which has used “weird” as its only adjective to describe all politicians for years now, and should...

03.08.2024 40

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What Harris’ VP Pick Will Say About the Campaign She Is About to Run

Tweet Share Share Comment It has been nearly five years since we last knew what Vice President Kamala Harris thinks. But we...

01.08.2024 10

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The Coconut Revolution Has Begun

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, which wants to begin with a quick reminder that you have until 6 p.m. on Tuesday to get 300 delegate...

27.07.2024 20

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Wasn’t There Something Important Missing From Biden’s Big Speech About Dropping Out?

Tweet Share Share Comment President Joe Biden delivered a brief, 10-minute address from the Oval Office Wednesday night...

25.07.2024 30

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The Republican Spin About Biden Dropping Out That’s Just Wrong

Tweet Share Share Comment Republicans did not fall out of a coconut tree, and they had their talking points ready by the time...

23.07.2024 10

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The Democratic Establishment Is Falling in Line Behind Harris. It’s Worth Noting Who Hasn’t.

Tweet Share Share Comment Twenty-seven minutes after President Joe Biden withdrew from the presidential race, he announced that...

22.07.2024 10

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Trump’s Third RNC Was a Parade of His Mortal Enemies Kissing the Ring

Tweet Share Share Comment Eight years ago in Cleveland, I was on the floor of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland...

19.07.2024 10

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The Delegate Whose Trump Tribute Is “Starting a New Fashion Trend” at the RNC

Tweet Share Share Comment On Monday night, former President Donald Trump emerged at the Republican National Convention in...

17.07.2024 2

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Republicans Feel Invincible Right Now

Tweet Share Share Comment The 2024 Republican National Convention is a happy place. That’s unusual. In recent cycles, whether...

17.07.2024 20

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How the Trump Assassination Attempt Will Change What Comes Next

Tweet Share Share Comment The Republican National Convention was set to be pretty straightforward this year. Donald Trump had...

14.07.2024 10

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Nancy Pelosi Is Waiting for Her Signal

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, a politics newsletter that has learned the hard way never to ask for a slow presidential election to...

13.07.2024 20

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Biden Is Banking On the Democrats’ Dithering. They’re Doing Great.

Tweet Share Share Comment “Oookey dokey,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer opened his weekly press conference on...

10.07.2024 8

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The Agonizing Consequences of That Catastrophic Debate

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, the only politics newsletter that would CRUSH either Joe Biden or Donald Trump on the golf course and...

29.06.2024 10

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The Big Takeaway from Biden’s Extremely Rough Debate Night

Tweet Share Share Comment Almost exactly five years ago to this day, following the first Democratic presidential primary debate...

28.06.2024 10

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A Republican’s IVF-Ban Amendment Is the Last Thing the GOP Needs Right Now

Tweet Share Share Comment This is  Totally Normal Quote of the Day , a feature highlighting a statement from the news that...

27.06.2024 6

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Why the Trump Campaign Is Suddenly Saying Biden Is on Drugs

Tweet Share Share Comment What message do you think Donald Trump would like to broadcast about President Joe Biden ahead of the...

25.06.2024 10

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