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2018 Midterms
2020 congressional elections
July 30, 2019
Retirements May Hobble House Republicans Party officials are bracing for a wave of GOP members of Congress heading for the exits after the August recess, reducing chances to flip control.
By Ed Kilgore
2020 senate elections
July 18, 2019
Susan Collins’s Approval Rating Dives As Reelection Contest Approaches The senator is losing popularity and is lashed to a president who is even more unpopular than she is in Maine.
By Ed Kilgore
duncan hunter
July 18, 2019
Marines Order Duncan Hunter to Stop Using Them in His Hate Mail The Marines are down on the embattled Hunter — and Darrell Issa is sizing up his congressional seat — as his September corruption trial approaches.
By Ed Kilgore
Prosecutors Say Duncan Hunter Used Campaign Funds to Cheat on Wife The original indictment of Hunter and his wife suggested out-of-control personal finances. The new allegations suggest an out-of-control libido.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump’s Grossly Dishonest Appeal to African-Americans Trump’s efforts to depict himself as an opponent of overzealous law-and-order politics and a champion of criminal-justice reform is beyond belief.
By Ed Kilgore
The Asian-American Electorate Is Becoming a Force Democrats won 77 percent of the Asian-American vote in 2018 after losing it in the last midterms.
By Ed Kilgore
2019 special elections
May 13, 2019
Bathroom Bill Author Most Likely GOP Nominee in North Carolina Special Election The election is a ‘do-over’ after a Republican midterm campaign tampered with absentee ballots. With 10 candidates, though, there could be a runoff.
By Ed Kilgore
Team Trump Worried About 2020 Overconfidence Objectively, Trump has little reason to feel confident, much less overconfident, about reelection.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Apr. 29, 2019
Why Trump Will Be an Underdog in the 2020 Election There are a lot of moving parts in Election 2020, but at this point Trump remains a loudly growling underdog.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Apr. 23, 2019
The Turnout Boom in 2018 Was a Preview for 2020 A Trump-centric election and the expansion of ways to register and vote early should combine to keep turnout as high in 2020 as it was in 2018.
By Ed Kilgore
Fresh Signs Trump Might Not Accept Defeat in 2020 Republicans are becoming far too accustomed to joining the president in attributing any electoral setbacks to Democratic conspiracies.
By Ed Kilgore
health care
Mar. 27, 2019
Trump Says Everything Will Be Fine If Courts Kill Obamacare Nobody understands why Trump is taking his party back down the Obamacare rabbit hole, or what he’d do if the courts killed it first.
By Ed Kilgore
health care
Mar. 26, 2019
Democrats Respond to Trump Attack on Obamacare With Their Own Plan to Protect It Pelosi and House Democrats are trying to redraw the health-care battle lines to where they were in the midterms, to their benefit.
By Ed Kilgore
impeachment
Mar. 25, 2019
The Impeachment Option Grows Dim Things could change if the administration refuses to release the full Mueller report. But in likelihood, the fight to remove Trump will move to 2020.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Mar. 14, 2019
Beto’s Cool, But Can He Win a Presidential Nomination? If O’Rourke can pass some early tests, his fundraising chops and his ability to mobilize young and Latino voters could make him formidable.
By Ed Kilgore
donald trump
Mar. 8, 2019
Trump’s Claim That Democrats Are an ‘Anti-Jewish Party’ Is Absurd His reaction to the Ilhan Omar controversy ignores a century of strongly pro-Democratic Jewish sentiment, which continues today.
By Ed Kilgore
Republicans Have Lost Interest in Fixing, or Killing, Obamacare Despite the intense interest of voters in health-care policy, Republican opposition will likely kill any bipartisan legislation before 2020.
By Ed Kilgore
election fraud
Feb. 22, 2019
GOP Finally Has Documented Case of Election Fraud — Committed by Republicans The GOP pushes voter suppression to fight imaginary fraud, but that wouldn’t have stopped Republicans accused of tainting a North Carolina House race.
By Ed Kilgore
2018 midterms
Feb. 13, 2019
Remember That Disputed N.C. Congressional Race? We May Learn Its Fate Next Week A new state election board will hold a public hearing and could order new elections — as could the Democratic-controlled House itself.
By Ed Kilgore
2020 elections
Feb. 7, 2019
Woodall’s Retirement Shows How Quickly Georgia’s Political Landscape is Changing Rob Woodall nearly lost a historically Republican district. And now he’s hanging it up.
By Ed Kilgore
state of the union address
Feb. 6, 2019
Abrams Delivers in State of the Union Response It was the best SOTU response in years, and showed why southern — and not just southern — Democrats are excited about her future.
By Ed Kilgore
state of the union address
Feb. 5, 2019
Here’s a Real Bipartisan Idea: Make Trump Leave If He Loses in 2020 Since Republicans are so excited about comity, they should agree to eject Trump from the White House if he loses in 2020 but claims “voter fraud.”
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Jan. 23, 2019
Biden and Beto Boosted GOP Candidates in 2018. That’s Disqualifying. In a historically important midterm election, Biden and O’Rourke boosted vulnerable GOP incumbents over the objections of local Democratic parties.
By Eric Levitz
health care
Jan. 17, 2019
Trump May Try to Kill Medicaid As We Know It by Executive Fiat Having failed for decades to pass legislation ending Medicaid as an entitlement program, Republicans may now try to get there by state waivers.
By Ed Kilgore
2020 elections
Jan. 4, 2019
By Ed Kilgore
Pelosi Returns to Speakership With a Far More Cohesive Democratic Majority Pelosi’s last House majority had significant divisions and bore the burden of Obama’s agenda. Today’s Democrats must only fight and investigate Trump.
By Ed Kilgore
The New Face of Power Officially Takes Control Today The 116th Congress will be the most diverse set of lawmakers in history.
By Kimberly Truong
2020 elections
Dec. 27, 2018
6 Reasons Bernie Sanders Has Lost His 2016 Mojo Sanders isn’t as unique as he was in 2016, but he is four years older and can’t get away with any mistakes.
By Ed Kilgore
2020 elections
Dec. 27, 2018
Note to Michael Bloomberg: Money Can’t Buy You Love Not even Bloomberg has enough money to make him a viable Democratic presidential candidate.
By Ed Kilgore
Nevada Becomes First State With Women-Majority Legislature It really was the “year of the woman” at the state legislative level.
By Ed Kilgore
McSally Appointment Makes Arizona Sixth State With Two Women As Senators McSally will have to run again in 2020, and if she wins and wants a full term, yet again in 2022. Four Western states now have two women as senators.
By Ed Kilgore
2018 midterms
Dec. 17, 2018
Unlike Obama, Trump’s Response to Midterm Defeat Was to Double Down Obama took responsibility for his party’s defeat and at least offered negotiations with the opposing party. Trump: not so much.
By Ed Kilgore
2018 midterms
Dec. 14, 2018
Even Old Folks Trended Democratic in 2018 The Democratic future depends on young and minority voters and college-educated women. But many seniors vote, and more of them are voting Democratic.
By Ed Kilgore
2018 midterms
Dec. 13, 2018
Democrats Won Big With a Key Demographic of Trump’s Base During Midterms If you’re looking for a key 2020 demographic, white working class women who aren’t evangelicals could be crucial in battleground states.
By Ed Kilgore
government shutdown
Dec. 13, 2018
Oops, Trump Now Needs the Votes of Those GOP House ‘Losers’ He Mocked Are the lame-duck Republicans Trump scorned going to race back to Washington to help him save face in the shutdown battle? Probably not.
By Ed Kilgore
2020 elections
Dec. 13, 2018
Does Donald Trump Have a Reelection Strategy? Trump seems incapable of “pivoting to the center” or becoming more popular. So either he’ll wing it, or focus on demonizing his opponent.
By Ed Kilgore
Surprise: Black Voters Still Don’t Like Donald Trump Trump’s claim he would get 95 percent of the black vote in 2020 is looking like absolutely the polar opposite of reality.
By Ed Kilgore
2020 elections
Dec. 10, 2018
Trump Better Get Used to a Democratic House The odds of Republicans regaining the House in 2020 even if Trump is reelected aren’t great.
By Ed Kilgore
Why ‘Election Night’ Is an Outdated and Dangerous Relic of the Past More and more, the traditional media-driven drama of single-day voting and vote counting is out of line with reality. And that’s bad for democracy.
By Ed Kilgore
the national interest
Dec. 9, 2018
By Jonathan Chait
house democrats
Dec. 9, 2018
Messaging or Investigating? How Should House Democrats Use Their Limited Power? Take a lesson from the GOP, Democrats, and focus on regaining power more than arguing over how it will be used.
By Ed Kilgore
2018 midterms
Dec. 6, 2018
Josh Hawley Under Investigation for Letting Campaign Run His Public Office A media probe uncovered some funny business with campaign consultants ordering his state employee staff around.
By Ed Kilgore
2018 midterms
Dec. 6, 2018
Susan Collins Is the Last New England Republican in Congress Once a rock-ribbed Republican region, New England is getting very blue, except for a couple of atypically moderate governors.
By Ed Kilgore
2020 election
Dec. 5, 2018
When Barack Met Beto The flirtation of ObamaWorld with Beto O’Rourke’s presidential ambitions is worth its weight in gold to the Texan.
By Ed Kilgore
2018 midterms
Dec. 4, 2018
John Barrow, Who Inspired No One, Loses In GA Secretary of State Runoff Georgia Democrats tried to capture Brian Kemp’s old secretary of state job on Tuesday by running a centrist, and failed.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
2020 elections
Dec. 4, 2018
Did Trump’s Win Mean Anybody Can Be President? The huge Democratic 2020 field that’s taking shape is an alarming sign that all standards of presidential viability have been eliminated.
By Ed Kilgore
2018 midterms
Dec. 4, 2018
Democratic Weakness Among Florida Latinos in 2018 a Warning A poor performance among Latinos cost Democrats the governorship and a Senate seat in this key battleground state. They’d better focus on it soon.
By Ed Kilgore
Could Kris Kobach Be Trump’s Next DHS Secretary? Trump clearly wants to dump Kirstjen Nielsen. The fiery nativist from Kansas would test GOP loyalty, but would please the president.
By Ed Kilgore
2018 midterms
Dec. 2, 2018
Total GOP Control in Washington Is About to End. What Did They Get Out of It? For two years Republicans have theoretically had the power to remake the federal government. How did that work out for them? It was a mixed bag.
By Ed Kilgore
2018 midterms
Nov. 30, 2018
Kevin McCarthy Rises to Power at Expense of His Defeated California Colleagues The new House GOP leader led his California colleagues to a slaughter in the midterms through his loyalty to Trump and his agenda.
By Ed Kilgore
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