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Jennifer Rubin

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Making cowardly Senate Republicans pay a political price

As justifiably alarmed as Democrats are by President-elect Donald Trump’s radical agenda and his nominations of unqualified candidates for Cabinet...

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Democratic governors must step into the breach

18.11.2024 30

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How a progressive Democrat won in a swing state that went for Trump

In an election in which many Democrats suffered defeats, Sen. Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin nevertheless squeaked out a win by less than one percentage...

17.11.2024 7

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Democrats need to reclaim reality from the right-wing disinformation machine

Whether you believe that Americans embraced President-elect Donald Trump’s misogynistic, racist and bullying persona because they misunderstood what...

12.11.2024 200

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Trump can keep campaign promises or be popular. Not both.

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Stop obsessing about the election and start talking to fellow citizens

Understandably, in the wake of a stunning national election, scores of media outlets, pundits and politicians have turned their attention to...

10.11.2024 10

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Trump won, but green shoots rise in the road ahead

You’re reading Jennifer Rubin’s subscriber-only newsletter. Sign up to get it in your inbox. This week, I look ahead to the challenges we all...

09.11.2024 100

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A ‘republic if we can keep it.’ Perhaps we cannot.

Americans have no one to blame but themselves. Felon and President-elect Donald Trump did not conceal who he was. He did not hide his racism,...

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Ignoring bad advice is a key to winning

By Wednesday morning, we may know the results of the presidential election. Or not. But we already know how Vice President Kamala Harris got to the...

05.11.2024 50

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Women can send Trump packing

Felon and former president Donald Trump has always been defined as much by his misogyny as by his racism. A long line of women have stepped forward to...

04.11.2024 10

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Garbage in, garbage out: Trump’s error-filled week

The New York Yankees’ disastrous fifth inning in Game 5 of the World Series was the perfect metaphor for Donald Trump’s series of blunders, missed...

03.11.2024 100

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The case for election optimism

You’re reading Jennifer Rubin’s subscriber-only newsletter. Sign up to get it in your inbox . This week, I make the case for optimism about...

01.11.2024 40

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Trump may try to overturn the election. But it won’t be easy.

Ever since felon and former president Donald Trump announced his current run, democracy defenders have worried about a replay of 2020, when Joe...

31.10.2024 40

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The U.S. can learn from other countries’ encounters with fascism

The mainstream media — spurred by the disturbing outpouring of racism at Donald Trump’s rally on Sunday at Madison Square Garden — has finally...

29.10.2024 10

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Voting for Trump means putting Vance in charge

Mainstream news outlets now feature stories about felon and former president Donald Trump’s “strikingly erratic, coarse and often confusing”...

28.10.2024 7

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To understand the U.S. economic success is to love Harris’s plan

Despite the compulsion of Republican MAGA voices to run down the country’s economic strength, the U.S. recovery over the past few years has been...

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Trump reverts to what he does best: Reality TV

26.10.2024 60

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What the Harris-Cheney road show accomplished

25.10.2024 100

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The risk of exaggerating Trump’s ability to overturn the election

23.10.2024 100

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Sinwar’s death is revealing but not necessarily game-changing

21.10.2024 10

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Harris’s innovative media strategy shouldn’t end on Election Day

21.10.2024 100

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‘Unstable and unhinged’: This is Harris’s best attack on Trump

You’re reading Jennifer Rubin’s subscriber-only newsletter. Sign up to get it in your inbox . This week, I drill down on the final and most...

19.10.2024 70

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What Liz Cheney and other honorable Republicans should do next

Felon, former president and presidential candidate Donald Trump has dominated — devoured, actually — the Republican Party. Virtually every elected...

18.10.2024 100

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Why Trump is doubling down on racism

Former president Donald Trump has gone full racist (or “nativist,” as some outlets delicately describe it). In Aurora, Colo., the New York Times...

15.10.2024 100

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Obama put Trump in his place. But he also put voters on the spot.

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Harris takes her message well beyond the usual venues. Good.

14.10.2024 100

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Oct. 7 reveals the stark contrast between Harris and Trump

You’re reading Jennifer Rubin’s subscriber-only newsletter. Sign up to get it in your inbox . This week, I examine the two presidential...

12.10.2024 100

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Help vs. lies: Hurricane relief is a microcosm of the election stakes

11.10.2024 300

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Never-Trumpers agree with Harris on plenty

09.10.2024 200

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A wider war carries huge risks for Israel, but also opportunities

09.10.2024 6

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How JD Vance underlined Trump’s worst vulnerabilities

07.10.2024 200

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Trump is left with lies, both terrible and cruel

You’re reading Jennifer Rubin’s subscriber-only newsletter. Sign up to get it in your inbox. This week, I examine felon and former president...

04.10.2024 70

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Harris is reimagining Democrats’ approach to immigration

01.10.2024 80

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Mark Cuban: Kamala Harris’s business whisperer

30.09.2024 100

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Keep your eye on the Florida Senate race

29.09.2024 50

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Kamala Harris defies critics on policy and politics

You’re reading Jennifer Rubin’s subscriber-only newsletter. Sign up to get it in your inbox . This week, I look at Vice President Kamala...

27.09.2024 100

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Biden’s record speaks for itself

27.09.2024 200

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The big lie of 2024: Illegal immigrant voting

25.09.2024 200

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Victims bear witness to MAGA cruelty

The presidential conventions and the debate drew bigger audiences. But there has been no more impactful event during this presidential campaign than...

23.09.2024 100

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Democrats have a choice: Do they expand the Senate map?

23.09.2024 70

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Trump and Vance display reckless disregard for human life

20.09.2024 8

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For only the second time, a top science journal endorses for president

Democrats rightly point out that democracy is on the ballot in an election in which Republican nominee Donald Trump threatens to be a “dictator”...

19.09.2024 550

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Vance had better buckle up: His debate might go as badly as Trump’s

JD Vance has had the most disastrous vice-presidential run in memory, gaining the distinction of having the worst net approval rating of the four...

18.09.2024 200

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If Trump loses North Carolina, it could be an early night — and curtains for GOP

17.09.2024 300

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Debates don’t matter. Except when they really do.

Until the bizarre and head-snapping 2024 presidential election, political debates have not truly mattered for a generation or so. When two normal...

15.09.2024 100

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These U.S. religious groups couldn’t be more different in how they vote

You’re reading Jennifer Rubin’s subscriber-only newsletter. Sign up to get it in your inbox . This week, I take a look at two revealing...

13.09.2024 20

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Harris excels. ABC does its job. Both were deadly for Trump.

Vice President Kamala Harris demonstrated in Tuesday night’s presidential debate, in case any rational person had doubts, that she is the only...

11.09.2024 100

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The foreign policy hawk in the race? That would be Kamala Harris.

Pundits and weak-kneed Republicans looking for an excuse to avoid the obvious — that there is only one pro-American, fit presidential candidate —...

10.09.2024 10

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Punishing a shooter’s parents delivers some justice. But not enough.

09.09.2024 10

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