Memories of the shock of Election Night 2016 could become a strategic asset for Democrats, who sure won’t get over-confident in 2020. It’s a sore subject that many left-of-center folks would just as soon not hear about today, but it is the third anniversary of the extremely improbable election of …
A slim majority of Americans now approve of the Democratic House-led impeachment inquiry into President Trump, a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll finds. Fifty-two percent say they approve of the inquiry, while 43% disapprove. That’s a slight increase in support from two weeks ago, when 49% approved and 46% disapproved. The numbers are …
A close look at the accusations against the former senator. Last month, in Minneapolis, I climbed the stairs of a row house to find Al Franken, Minnesota’s disgraced former senator, wandering around in jeans and stocking feet. It was a sunny day, but the shades were mostly drawn. Takeout containers …
The senator is losing popularity and is lashed to a president who is even more unpopular than she is in Maine. For all the talk about the 2020 presidential contest, Democrats also know how important it is for them to take back control of the U.S. Senate — either to …
Guess which party is really un-American. What did you think of the bunch of socialists you just saw debating on stage? Wait, you may protest, you didn’t see any socialists up there. And you’d be right. The Democratic Party has clearly moved left in recent years, but none of the …
“It is a great advantage to a president,” said the 30th of them, “and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know he is not a great man.” Or, Calvin Coolidge would say today, a great woman. While today’s incumbent advertises himself as an “extremely stable genius” …
The G.O.P. has left soybean fields littered with $20 bills for enterprising Democratic presidential hopefuls to pick up. President Trump’s feckless trade war is bludgeoning the bottom line of the Republican Party’s reliable rural base. But the party’s disregard for the economic interests of its own constituents goes well beyond …
They’re piling up like so many political snowdrifts. Deval Patrick is not running for president! I know. First Michael Avenatti drops out and now the former governor of Massachusetts. Who do the Democrats have left? Hehehe. Ballotpedia, the online political encyclopedia, is currently counting 55 “potential Democratic presidential candidates,” most …
’Tis the season to be running. … We are now totally into the holiday season. The whole world is talking about Melania Trump’s White House Christmas decorations, which feature a bunch of trees of a sort of terrifying crimson color. Do you think it’s some kind of metaphor for the …
New Jersey shows the way. You got a problem with that? “Democrats need to have a positive agenda, not just be against Donald Trump.” How many times did you hear pundits say something like that during the midterm campaigns? In fact, you’re still hearing it from people like Seth Moulton, who’s …
On a recent evening in Houston, under the heavy branches of live oak trees, Doug Pagitt stood before a couple dozen people gathered on blue folding chairs on the Rice University campus. “You’ve heard it said that to be a true Christian, you must vote like a Republican,” he said. …
Barack Obama will launch his midterm campaigning this weekend, following a speech on Friday meant to lay out the case against what he’ll call President Donald Trump’s dangerous authoritarian politics. And he’ll start by emphasizing the battle for the House. Obama will be in Cleveland Sept. 13 to campaign for …