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A Republican lawmaker running for reelection in a tight race is trying to distance himself from President Donald Trump — but voters will not let him do so. In an NPR report on Colorado’s third congressional district, journalist Bente Birkeland interviewed voters about their incumbent Republican lawm…

“President Trump knows that one way to gain advantage in the legal fight over a controversial construction project is to link it to a military need”

Historical analogies are always dicey but hoo boy, with the state of the economy, the price of oil, and a new round of polling, Donald Trump is giving off serious Jimmy Carter vibes. I think Carter was a good president, but too many variables were out of his control, especially inflation. By the end…

A real-world cyber threat looms over the White House.

With Trump focusing on personal projects instead of winning votes, a top government professor explains how Democrats can spot and expose a rigged outcome.

Republican midterm candidates are starting to flee from associating with President Donald Trump while others tune out his outlandish antics, and according to one conservative commentator, it comes down to how he “aggressively squandered” the strengths that got him reelected.Rep. Mariá Elvira Salazar…

President Donald Trump and the Republican Party are widely understood to be facing a harsh political environment in this midterm cycle, but according to the political experts at Pod Save America, things are even worse than they seem, and they point to an “even bigger blue wave than 2018.”In the late…

President Donald Trump is staring down a defining political weakness that “cuts across” political divides, according to his one-time biographer, and he has run out of time before the midterms to meaningfully turn things around.Michael Wolff is a longtime reporter and author, best known for his exten…

Forget impeachment—the real battleground this November is an incoming economic shock that could trigger a recession.