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Political analysis from The Washington Post's @aaronblake, @byamberphillips, @eugene_scott and @riegerreport.
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Joined March 2017
The Elon Musk experiment looks like a political failure
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The Wisconsin Supreme Court race just made it so Republicans could no longer ignore something right in front of their eyes.
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3 takeaways from the Wisconsin and Florida elections
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Democrats won a Wisconsin Supreme Court race and lost two Florida special elections Tuesday, but the trends are clearly pointing in their direction.
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JD Vance’s strained claims about a wrongly deported man
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Vance cast the man as being acceptable collateral damage, but his summary takes some real liberties.
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What if the Trump administration deports the wrong people?
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The downside of ditching due process.
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Trump allies said for years talk of a third term was a joke. Now it isn’t.
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Trump allies often wrongly downplay his intentions. Here’s what many of them have said about his frequent musings on serving a third term.
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So are we actually taking Greenland? Vance doesn’t seem too sure.
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Vance on Friday spoke of this idea more as a security alliance than an annexation. That doesn’t align with Trump.
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A telling poll on GOP tolerance for Trump’s authoritarian actions
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The vast majority of Republicans say a president should obey court orders. It comes with a “but.”
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Stefanik’s pulled nomination points to GOP electoral fear
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Trump carried Rep. Elise Stefanik’s district by 21 points. But there was increasing reason to believe a special election there might not have been a slam dunk.
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Poll: Signal chat leak more serious than Clinton emails, Trump documents
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The Trump team is treating this as no big deal. Early polling shows more Americans see it as a big deal than ever said the same of Clinton’s and Trump’s previous controversies.
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Was classified info on Signal? Trump team doesn’t seem totally sure.
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A Senate hearing Tuesday highlighted the apparent internal uncertainty -- if not an attempt to focus blame on one figure.
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Trump’s shocking military plan leak epitomizes a sloppy operation
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The administration inadvertently shared plans for strikes on Yemen’s Houthi rebels ahead of time with a prominent journalist. It’s of a piece with all that came before it.
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Why Charles Schumer could be in trouble
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Polling shows the Senate Democratic leader is in a historically bad position for a party leader, as some call to replace him.
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On concessions to Russia, Trump and Americans are on different pages
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Polling has shown Americans don’t like Trump’s kid-gloves approach to Russia. And a new poll shows they might not like his potential concessions.
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More than a dozen judges have said Trump and Co. probably broke the law
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Trump is now averaging one such finding about every four days.
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Americans are primed to blame Trump and the GOP for a shutdown. But.
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A new poll shows many more Americans would blame President Trump and Republicans than Democrats. But it’s not just as simple as that.
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The right shows growing signs of concern with Trump’s moves
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A new poll shows 3 in 10 Republicans say Trump has been “too erratic,” and it’s of a piece with other recent polls.
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Democrats’ impossible choice on the shutdown
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Gaming out the pros and cons of a very difficult vote for the blue side.
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