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Ed KilgoreDaily Intelligencer |
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...
One of the problems with abandoning the separation of church and state, as Christian nationalists like Pete Hegseth are attempting to do, is that it...
The single most important measurable variable affecting the outcome of the 2026 midterm elections is likely the president’s job-approval ratings,...
Donald Trump has been a powerhouse in 2026 midterm primaries, purging alleged RINOs like Bill Cassidy in Louisiana and stubborn rebels like Thomas...
There have been plenty of dramatic story lines in the contest to choose a successor to term-limited California governor Gavin Newsom, from the sudden...
Twenty years ago, after two presidential elections in which George W. Bush won every electoral vote in the former Confederate states, there was a...
In its initial phases, the 2026 Los Angeles mayoral contest was as low-key (bordering on boring) as the parallel California gubernatorial race. Mayor...
When Donald Trump dropped his shock endorsement of controversial Texas attorney general Ken Paxton against four-term Republican Senator John Cornyn a...
Less than four months from now, early voting begins in the 2026 midterm general elections. Political scientists differ on exactly when voting...
Complaints among Democratic activists and influencers over the DNC’s decision to abort its 2024 “autopsy report” was based on a craving for two...
Six states held primaries on May 19 in what some observers called a “mini–Super Tuesday.” The headline contest was in Kentucky, where hardcore...
Two days into early voting in the Texas runoff that ends May 26 and after months of teasing his choice, Donald Trump endorsed Texas Attorney General...
Democrats and Republicans spent much of the past year engaged in a gerrymandering competition. The race was to reshape the maps pushed into overtime...
Lots of well-meaning folks in and beyond both major political parties have quietly hoped that the poisonous atmosphere of partisan polarization in...
Republicans from Donald Trump on down are excited that the landmark Supreme Court ruling in Louisiana v. Callais has invited a wave of partisan...
In a decision that caps a disastrous ten days for Democrats struggling to offset Republican congressional gerrymanders, a 4-3 majority of the Virginia...
When Donald Trump furiously ordered his minions to find and fund primary challenges to seven Indiana Republican state senators who refused to conduct...
At this moment in his second term, it’s very difficult to find bright spots for Donald Trump — other than the perpetual loyalty of his MAGA base...
In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Louisiana v. Callais, much attention has been paid to its impact on the midterms and...
Last week, Virginia voters narrowly passed a state constitutional amendment allowing Democratic legislators to rewrite the congressional maps, which...
Logically, the first option any governing political party should pursue to maintain its hold on power is to do a good job, specifically on issues the...
On Tuesday, Virginia voters approved a constitutional amendment allowing the Democratic-controlled legislature to temporarily substitute a new...
Like nature itself, politics abhors a vacuum. So the hole in the California Democratic gubernatorial field caused by front-runner Eric Swalwell’s...
All along, Republicans have faced high odds in their effort to preserve a governing trifecta in Washington in November’s midterm elections. They...
While governor of California is one of the biggest jobs in America, for months the 2026 election has looked like a real snoozer. Now it’s suddenly...
Donald Trump has, unintentionally, done an incredible job of uniting the Democratic Party. Despite cliches about Democratic “disarray,” nearly all...
In the game plan most Republicans envisioned for 2026, message discipline and coordinated action were very important. The party, with strong agreement...
Until April 10, the general tenor of California’s contest to determine a successor to two-term governor Gavin Newsom had been low-key, even a bit...
When you’re on the crest of an electoral “wave,” all sorts of wonderful things seem possible. That’s increasingly true for Democrats as they...
There is nothing wrong with Democrats insulting or expressing rage toward the president of the United States. Donald Trump has richly earned every...
When last year’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act was signed by Donald Trump last July 4, the conventional wisdom in Washington was that it was a...
Tuesday was a day like no other in living memory, with bookends provided by two Truth Social posts from Donald Trump. At 8:06 a.m. ET, the president...
An endorsement from Donald Trump is usually an enormous gift to any Republican candidate. But the 47th president’s “COMPLETE AND TOTAL...
Republicans concerned about Donald Trump’s chronically underwater job-approval ratings have sometimes reassured themselves by pointing at...
Being the chief law-enforcement officer for a president who believes he defines the law and is given imperial powers by the Constitution is hard work....
Last week, the Senate unanimously passed a bill to reopen the Department of Homeland Security except for its immigration-related functions. House...
The closure of the Department of Homeland Security has now become the longest partial government shutdown in U.S. history, at 45 days and counting. It...
The political world is, understandably, focused on 2026 Senate and House races. The question of whether the Republican Party will maintain its...
In the middle of Thursday night, in a near-empty Senate chamber, an end to the most perplexing conflict of the second Donald Trump term finally came...
The Department of Homeland Security shutdown will reach its 40th day tomorrow, and it seems this partisan dispute over immigration enforcement cannot...
In 1992, Illinois became the first state to elect a Black woman to the U.S. Senate after Carol Moseley Braun upset incumbent Democratic senator Alan...
Unprecedented as it was, Donald Trump’s decision to launch a nationwide mid-decade gerrymandering campaign last year made some raw political sense....
While Donald Trump’s war in Iran is growing more intense, dangerous, and unpredictable, MAGA-land activists have a different preoccupation....
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