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How can reporters cover Trump effectively? I answered your questions.

More chats from Karen Tumulty HAND CURATED Opinion | How can reporters cover Trump effectively? I answered your questions. 1 hour...

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Harris has some good VP choices. The best one is Mark Kelly.

22.07.2024 6

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J.D. Vance takes the stage

After Vance’s convention speech, it’s clear why Donald Trump chose him to share the ticket. Sen. J.D. Vance (Ohio) accepts the Republican...

18.07.2024 5

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Trump’s takeover of the GOP is now a happy one

The party loved Reagan, but what it has come to feel for Trump is closer to religious veneration. Former president Donald Trump arrives for...

18.07.2024 10

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How the attempt on Trump’s life has upended the presidential race

There could hardly be a worse time for Biden to redraw his strategy against Trump. Trump supporters outside the former president's Mar-a-Lago...

15.07.2024 50

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Hakeem Jeffries sends Biden a flashing red warning

The top House Democratic offered no expression of support in a letter to colleagues. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) speaks at...

12.07.2024 10

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Amid pleas to step aside, Biden vows to move forward

The president reiterates his commitment to see the election to its finish. President Biden answers questions from reporters at a news...

12.07.2024 10

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The Biden campaign’s theory of the case

The president’s top strategists see only one way to get past his nightmarish debate performance. President Biden and first lady Jill Biden...

11.07.2024 10

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Harris, who eats ‘no’ for breakfast, may be harder to demonize now

Kamala Harris played a cool game over the weekend. Don’t underestimate her again. Vice President Harris speaks at a New Orleans event on...

07.07.2024 8

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Only Jill Biden can save her husband’s presidency — and the country

The first lady is the president’s closest confidante. This is her moment to step up. First lady Jill Biden speaks at a campaign rally in...

03.07.2024 30

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What happens if Biden steps aside now?

Democrats could be in more peril than sticking with the lame horse they’re riding. President Biden at the presidential debate in Atlanta on...

29.06.2024 10

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The Supreme Court just clipped federal agencies. Congress must step up.

Lawmakers are totally unprepared for what’s coming their way. The Supreme Court building on Friday. (Mark Schiefelbein/AP) ...

28.06.2024 10

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The Great Democratic Freakout is upon us

President Biden’s weak debate performance is a blow that will leave a mark. Former president Donald Trump and President Biden at their...

28.06.2024 10

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What this year’s Republican platform will reveal

The 2020 convention stuck with the 2016 platform. But a lot has happened in eight years. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump...

17.06.2024 50

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What will the debates be like? I’m answering your questions.

Karen’s live chat with readers starts at 12 p.m. ET on Thursday. Submit your questions now. Share Add to your saved stories ...

13.06.2024 10

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Searching for hope on immigration reform

Opinion Searching for hope on immigration reform Immigration is top of mind for many voters. But is politics getting in the way of solutions? ...

13.06.2024 9

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Trump wants a government of amateurs — accountable only to him

He would replace the professionalized civil service with his version of the 19th-century spoils system. Former president Donald Trump walks...

10.06.2024 20

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The Texas Republican Party has gone off the deep end

Even before the release of an outrageous new platform, the party had become an embarrassment to itself. Workers remove a Texas state flag...

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The trial is over. What do Trump and Biden do now?

The courtroom portion of the campaign has ended. So, what’s changed? Protesters and supporters of former president Donald Trump gather near...

31.05.2024 40

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Nikki Haley supports Trump in 2024 with her eyes on 2028

Now the thing to watch is where her supporters go. Donald Trump and Nikki Haley at the White House on Oct. 9, 2018. (Olivier...

23.05.2024 10

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How Biden’s campaign hopes to reinvigorate Black voters

The president’s advisers are keenly aware of the need to reach former supporters who have since tuned out. Images from the Biden campaign's diss...

16.05.2024 60

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How Alsobrooks’s message beat Trone’s money in Maryland

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Three ways to improve the presidential debates

The debates need to be updated and made more meaningful. President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden debate at...

09.05.2024 10

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How Doris Kearns Goodwin helped her husband make peace with his own history

Opinion How Doris Kearns Goodwin helped her husband make peace with his own history Late in life, Dick Goodwin rediscovered what the 1960s were...

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No joke: Biden begins to turn up the heat on Trump

President Biden speaks at the White House correspondents' dinner in Washington on Saturday. (Bonnie Cash/Pool/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock) ...

28.04.2024 10

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Mike Johnson showed courage and rose to history’s call on Ukraine

WASHINGTON, DC-Apr. 17: House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., does a TV interview on Wednesday, April 17, 2024, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C....

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The Kennedys rally to prevent RFK Jr. from extinguishing their torch

President Biden salutes as members of the Kennedy family endorse his presidential campaign on Thursday in Philadelphia. (Andrew...

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Lieberman’s convictions were both his superpower and his weakness

Former Connecticut senator Joseph I. Lieberman in October. (Gilles Sabrié for The Washington Post) Listen 4 min Share ...

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Kennedy picked running mate Nicole Shanahan for one big reason: Money

Nicole Shanahan speaks at Tuesday event in California after joining Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s independent presidential campaign as a candidate for vice...

28.03.2024 30

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The unexpected upside to New Jersey’s shocking political scandal

Rep. Andy Kim (D-N.J.) greets supporters outside the Bergen County Democratic convention in Paramus on March 4. (Seth Wenig/AP) Listen 5...

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How the country is failing millions of undocumented essential workers

Immigrants and their supporters carry a banner that reads “Immigrants are Essential” on Sept. 21, 2021, in D.C. (Andrew Harnik/AP Photo) ...

26.03.2024 30

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Surprise! Maryland could determine control of the Senate this fall.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan in Annapolis on Jan. 18, 2023, his final day in office. (Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post) Listen 8 min ...

15.03.2024 20

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Katie Britt’s big fail shows why the GOP can’t connect with women

A screen capture of the State of the Union rebuttal from Sen. Katie Boyd Britt (R-Ala.) on Thursday. (The Washington Post) (Washington Post staff/TWP)...

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RNC chief Ronna McDaniel heads for the exits, leaving a mess behind

Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel on the first day of the Republican National Convention on Aug. 24, 2020, in D.C. (Jabin...

27.02.2024 50

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How Adam Schiff threw a curveball into California’s Senate race

Reps. Barbara Lee, Adam Schiff and Katie Porter, all California Democrats, and former baseball player Steve Garvey, a Republican, at a Jan. 22 Senate...

23.02.2024 30

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New York’s special election sends a message to the Democrats

Democratic U.S. House candidate Tom Suozzi celebrates his special election victory in Woodbury, N.Y., on Tuesday. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images) ...

14.02.2024 10

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Two aging candidates evoke unsettling questions. We have answers.

Warning: What you are about to read is morbid. That’s because this is about, well, morbidity. Specifically, this is about what happens if the...

14.02.2024 40

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Want to fix immigration? Hold employers accountable, too.

Immigrants walk toward the U.S.-Mexico border wall after crossing the Rio Grande into El Paso on Feb. 1. (John Moore/Getty Images) ...

09.02.2024 30

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Why electability isn’t working for Nikki Haley

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley speaks to supporters at Mauldin High School on Jan. 27 in Mauldin, S.C. (Sam Wolfe for The Washington...

02.02.2024 10

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The Republican primary is over. Get ready for the long, grim rematch.

Former president Donald Trump speaks to supporters in New Hampshire on Tuesday night. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) Listen 4 min ...

24.01.2024 20

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Haley needs a New Hampshire win; the odds against it are growing

Nikki Haley at a Saturday campaign stop in Nashua, N.H. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post) Listen 5 min Share Comment...

22.01.2024 20

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Trump’s coronation officially gets underway

Former president Donald Trump at a campaign event in Des Moines on Monday. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) Listen 4 min ...

16.01.2024 30

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Trump’s toughest opponent in Iowa isn’t DeSantis, Haley or the weather

Supporters speak after Donald Trump Jr. departs a campaign event at the Bull Moose Conservative Club on Thursday in Urbandale, Iowa. (Jabin...

13.01.2024 10

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Need help making sense of the Republican primaries? Text me.

Share Add to your saved stories Save I’m excited to take readers along with me as I travel the country covering my 10th...

12.01.2024 10

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Is this who we are?

The big question Opinion Is this who we are? By Karen Tumulty Associate editor and columnist | Add Follow ...

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Why Trump is surging in Iowa

12.12.2023 7

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Another squandered chance to debate Trump’s threats

A video monitor shows Republican presidential candidates Nikki Haley, left, and Ron DeSantis arguing a point during the GOP primary debate in...

07.12.2023 60

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No, Liz Cheney. You should not run for president.

Then-Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) speaks during a hearing for the House Jan. 6 select committee on Oct. 13, 2022. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) ...

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