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Karen Tumulty

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Trump 2.0? These Democratic AGs are prepared.

19.02.2025 70

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The Constitution is collapsing. A lack of character is to blame.

08.02.2025 300

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Can Democrats come back to life?

03.02.2025 10

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Imaginary emergencies are powering Trump’s agenda

27.01.2025 60

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Watch what Trump does. Don’t get distracted by what he says.

21.01.2025 70

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Trump plans an audacious grab for congressional ‘power of the purse’

17.01.2025 9

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Remembering Stu Spencer, the Reagan guru who tried to save the GOP

14.01.2025 10

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Roy Cooper showed Democrats how to govern and win. And he’s not done.

26.12.2024 100

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Why did the Democrats get creamed? Sherrod Brown can tell you.

24.12.2024 90

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Why House Democrats rejected Ocasio-Cortez’s power play

19.12.2024 20

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Democrats face a long rebuilding period. Here’s who wants the job.

As the Democratic Party continues to sort through why it lost the White House and Senate and finished a few seats short in the House, it already...

13.12.2024 9

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A Trump-Harris campaign postmortem reveals bitterness — and agreement

Every four years since 1972, the Institute of Politics at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government has convened the strategists and managers...

11.12.2024 20

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Democrat Adam Frisch learned from his Colorado losses. The party should, too.

When a candidate takes on a challenge knowing the odds are against him, the odds usually prevail. But there are also lessons to be had in falling...

01.12.2024 6

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A better way of conducting our elections stumbled in 2024

27.11.2024 8

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Can these Capitol Hill roommates lead Democrats out of the wilderness?

If the future of the Democratic Party hinges on its candidates connecting better with the pressures that average Americans are feeling, there might...

23.11.2024 5

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Matt Gaetz’s nomination is a sign of contempt for the Senate

This isn’t a president’s Cabinet. The list of Donald Trump’s nominations is starting to read more like a fantasy draft put together in the hotel...

15.11.2024 40

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Trump’s ‘January Seventh Test’ of loyalty

President-elect Donald Trump has made it no secret that loyalty will be his chief criterion in putting together his incoming administration. His...

13.11.2024 7

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Trump’s first major decision was a good one

09.11.2024 3

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‘Invisible’ older women speak up at the ballot box

06.11.2024 3

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Take all this garbage out to the curb

A consequential election, perhaps the most important one in modern times, is just six days away. Is this really the time to be talking trash? Two...

31.10.2024 4

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Refusing to endorse a candidate, The Post wounds itself

At a ceremony Thursday night in New York City, two of our Post Opinions colleagues received their Pulitzer Prizes for their courageous and...

26.10.2024 100

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Colin Allred tries to shift Texas from Cruz control

MISSOURI CITY, Texas — This growing, ethnically diverse suburb of Houston was once a Republican stronghold represented by iron-fisted House GOP...

23.10.2024 8

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Ignore the horse-race numbers. Harris has other challenges.

13.10.2024 30

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Voter fraud hysteria is nothing new, as my immigrant ancestors knew

09.10.2024 70

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Melania Trump joins an unbroken line of pro-choice GOP first ladies

04.10.2024 60

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‘I wanted more prosecutor, less schoolteacher’: Columnists on Walz’s performance

On the latest episode of “Impromptu,” columnists Karen Tumulty, Dana Milbank and Ruth Marcus dissect the debate performances of the...

03.10.2024 2

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Vance says he’s ‘focused on the future.’ That’s really MAGA 2.0.

When questioning during the vice-presidential debate turned to the egregiousness of Donald Trump in spurring violence to overturn the 2020...

03.10.2024 20

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There’s another election you should pay attention to in Wisconsin

30.09.2024 20

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Republicans keep coming up with new ways to insult women

25.09.2024 100

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Why should Democrats show up in rural America? Ask Tammy Baldwin.

RICHLAND CENTER, Wis. — When Sen. Tammy Baldwin kicked her reelection campaign into high gear last November with a “One Year to Win” tour of her...

23.09.2024 2

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The new Reagan movie has an anti-MAGA message

It says something about the state of popular culture that even buying a movie ticket has become a political signifier. The latest case in point is...

17.09.2024 60

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Bad news for Trump: Harris is not Biden

PHILADELPHIA — Tuesday night’s debate was the most resounding affirmation yet that Democrats did the right thing in pushing Joe Biden aside in...

11.09.2024 70

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Science finds new ways to detect cancer, but politics gets in the way

10.09.2024 1

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Harris is freaking Trump out by shrugging him off

The standout moment in Kamala Harris’s first interview as Democratic presidential nominee consisted of a mere seven words: “Same old tired...

31.08.2024 100

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By endorsing Trump, RFK Jr. betrays the Kennedy legacy

Anti-Irish discrimination taught the Kennedys to be welcoming and inclusive. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in Mineola, N.Y., on Wednesday. (Stefan...

24.08.2024 100

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Democrats gave Harris a strong liftoff. Now comes the harder part.

Harris’s party has drawn broad outlines of what it believes. Now it must fill in the details. An attendee at the Democratic National Convention in...

23.08.2024 3

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Biden was bumped from prime time, but it could have been worse

21.08.2024 3

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Biden’s long goodbye

In his speech, Joe Biden made the case for himself as one of America’s best one-term presidents. President Joe Biden speaks on the first day of the...

20.08.2024 20

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Is a Trump campaign shake-up coming?

If the candidate is looking to make changes, he should start with himself. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump during a campaign event in...

17.08.2024 20

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Tim Walz made ‘weird’ happen. What he offers the ticket is much more.

Walz has a genuine feel for the concerns of people in conservative corners of the country. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz in Bloomington, Minn., on Aug. 1....

07.08.2024 80

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