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Keith Naughton, Opinion Contributor

Keith Naughton, Opinion Contributor

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4 ways Trump is already winning in 2025 

While all the heat and light are on Trump’s immigration policy, Elon Musk and Pete Hegseth, Trump has made four smart below-the-radar moves that...

12.12.2024 10

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The Democrats’ misogyny trap 

Blaming misogyny not only is sure to turn off millions of voters — even worse, it is likely to prove toxic when it comes time to select the...

06.12.2024 30

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Good riddance to Biden’s incompetent Ukraine policies 

Both Ukraine and America are better off with a hard-nosed Team Trump than a weak, directionless Team Biden. 

21.11.2024 8

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Trump has an opportunity on 3 critical issues — if he doesn’t mess it up 

Trump has an opportunity to build a new, lasting political coalition. But if he makes the wrong moves, he will just hand power back to the Democrats.

14.11.2024 4

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Lessons from 2024: Presidential campaigns are pointless  

All those annoying TV ads, interrupting online ads and irritating texts, not to mention a forest of mail and yard signs littering the landscape —...

07.11.2024 10

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Trump is favored to win, despite his campaign

If Kamala Harris and the Democrats were ever thinking beating Trump would be easy, they were gaslighting themselves. 

31.10.2024 8

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Why are the Democrats losing? Hubris.  

Both parties are living in their own ideological media bubbles. But it’s worse for the Democrats.

24.10.2024 30

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Trump’s tabloid campaign is dragging him down 

Donald Trump and JD Vance act less like national candidates and more like headline writers for the Weekly World News — and it could cost them the...

17.10.2024 7

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The elite code of silence around Biden has hamstrung Harris

Across the entire elitist establishment, a mafia-like “omerta” has prevailed.

11.10.2024 10

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What the elites don’t understand about the Trump vote 

People are confounded that Donald Trump might win back the White House; ironically, their confusion says more about their ignorance and...

03.10.2024 5

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The House is stumbling toward another shutdown — and another Trump loss 

When will conservatives learn? Shutdowns don’t win elections.

19.09.2024 10

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Trump fails (again) to hit Biden-Harris on national security  

The former commander in chief’s failure to take advantage of the abject incompetence of President Biden and his national security team is yet...

12.09.2024 4

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The Trump-Harris debate could change everything — but it probably won’t 

Of course, the wrong gaffe on the wrong issue might just be enough to shift enough votes to make one a real favorite before November. 

05.09.2024 10

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Kamala Chameleon vs. the Trump Circus: Where the polls stand  

Perhaps never in American history has a presidential race been so beyond the control of either candidate. 

29.08.2024 7

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Harris’s ChatGPT speech hit all the right notes — will it be enough? 

Kamala Harris delivered a speech right out of the political playbook at the DNC.

23.08.2024 10

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10 ways Trump is throwing away the election

Donald Trump should be the favorite to win back the White House in November. Instead, he is running the most incompetent presidential campaign since...

16.08.2024 50

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Harris is using Trump’s tactics against him — but will it work? 

Playing to the hardcore base, stiff-arming the establishment media, a weird, last-minute VP pick that smells like fear and arrogance — makes you...

13.08.2024 10

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Echoes of 1968: What can we learn about Harris-Trump from Humphrey-Nixon? 

The parallels between the 1968 presidential race between Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey and today's Trump-Harris battle are remarkably similar.

26.07.2024 9

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Trump’s acceptance speech should have been a home run. It wasn’t.  

Donald Trump finally had his chance at the plate, and he fouled it off. 

19.07.2024 20

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Donald Trump’s convention speech could change everything 

Trump's acceptance speech at next week's Republican convention could be one of the most important speeches he has ever made.  

12.07.2024 40

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How Kamala Harris could save the Democratic Party (but probably won’t) 

If Kamala Harris is willing to take some risks, she just might make it to the Oval Office. 

09.07.2024 10

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Can Biden recover from the debate? Don’t bet on it. 

The more one analyzes the road ahead, the more obvious it is that a continued Biden candidacy is a kamikaze mission sure to wreck the Democratic...

02.07.2024 10

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Bye-bye, Biden 

The only person happier than Donald Trump after tonight’s presidential debate is Vice President Kamala Harris.

28.06.2024 20

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Don’t expect the frozen race between Trump, Biden to thaw any time soon 

Indictments, convictions, rants, gaffes and the imminent death of democracy (according to some) — the 2024 race just keeps on coming. And yet, the...

14.06.2024 4

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Regardless of the Trump verdict, Biden’s in trouble 

It will be a few weeks before the fallout of the Trump guilty verdict can be properly assessed. But what won’t change are the fundamental problems...

31.05.2024 10

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Taking on Trump: Biden’s desperate debate strategy 

Joe Biden has no choice but to debate Donald Trump.

17.05.2024 20

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Is Trump on track to blow the election (again)?

Only Trump’s own weaknesses are keeping Biden and the Democrats in the game. 

03.05.2024 20

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Biden needs to face facts: He’s still losing to Trump  

For President Biden and the Democrats, thing are looking ugly in November.

19.04.2024 10

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Biden’s to blame for the Ukraine aid mess — not Trump and the GOP  

The outcome of the war in Ukraine is uncertain, as are the consequences. But if there is one conclusion all Americans can make, it is that the...

02.04.2024 20

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Trump’s legal troubles more smoke than fire  

battleground states.  There is no evidence Trump will “guilty” his way back to the Oval Office. Criminal guilt for him is nothing but bad....

22.03.2024 3

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Kamala Harris is the only Plan B Democrats have if Biden falters — not Newsom  

If the leadership caste in the Democratic Party is going to send the first Black, woman vice president to the back of the bus, they better have clear...

08.03.2024 7

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There is no ‘Silver bullet’ to help Biden beat Trump in November 

Shockwaves and anger are still reverberating in Democratic circles since one of their (former) favorites, polling analyst Nate Silver, had the...

23.02.2024 10

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Why Biden could be past the point of no return in his battle against Trump 

President Biden has passed two critical inflection points that definitively put him behind Donald Trump — and he might not recover by November.

09.02.2024 8

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Ron DeSantis hasn’t learned a thing  

Ron DeSantis has no message and no strategy — and he completely failed to understand what makes Donald trump so formidable. 

17.01.2024 5

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Democrats will regret their pyrrhic legal victory against Trump  

Democrats may well have created a no-win situation.

22.12.2023 30

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Angry about Trump vs. Biden? Blame Garland, Bragg and Cannon

Everyone loves a good conspiracy theory. But the fact is that plenty of problems in our government and judicial system can be marked down to...

06.12.2023 60

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