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Why I Support Chris Christie’s (Doomed) 2024 Presidential Bid Will he be president? No. Should he be president? Probably not. But we’re going to have a lot of fun before he crashes and burns once again.
By Margaret Hartmann
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Yesterday at 4:47 p.m.
Doug Burgum Bets That 2024 Voters Don’t Care About Culture Wars The wealthy North Dakota governor and presidential candidate thinks plenty of voters are mostly interested in the economy and national security.
By Ed Kilgore
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Yesterday at 1:20 p.m.
Pence’s Presidential-Launch Video Doesn’t Even Mention January 6 — or Trump The former veep’s record is dull, and his path to the nomination is very narrow.
By Ed Kilgore
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June 6, 2023
Republican Debates Will Most Likely Just Benefit Trump Rivals fantasize about taking down the ex-president in upcoming debates. But Trump will be hard to out-debate, assuming he bothers to participate.
By Ed Kilgore
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June 6, 2023
Chris Christie Is Running. What Is He Even Thinking? The former governor is unpopular both nationally and in New Jersey, and bombed against Trump in 2016. Nevertheless, he’s launching a 2024 bid today.
By Ed Kilgore
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June 5, 2023
Sununu Decides GOP Presidential Race Is Better Off Without Him The New Hampshire governor will endorse one of Donald Trump’s rivals rather than splitting the vote as a candidate himself.
By Ed Kilgore
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June 3, 2023
Evangelicals Are Trump’s Firewall Against Primary Losses Many Evangelical voters remain grateful for how Trump delivered for them. And a growing subset see him as a key figure in their spiritual warfare.
By Ed Kilgore
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June 2, 2023
Trump Promises to Hold Yearlong ‘Great American State Fair’ in Iowa Maybe it’s just a pander, but Trump is smart to play on Iowa’s love for its annual festival of fried food, big livestock, and butter sculptures.
By Ed Kilgore
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June 2, 2023
Donald Trump’s Nasty Ron DeSantis Nicknames, Ranked Trump has been workshopping his DeSantis nicknames, floating “Meatball Ron,” “Tiny D,” and “Ron DeSanctimonious.” Here’s some constructive feedback.
By Margaret Hartmann
Kevin McCarthy Is a Survivor, Not a Strategic Genius Once Biden blinked on taxes, the Speaker was playing with house money.
By Ed Kilgore
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June 1, 2023
2024 Presidential Candidates Side With Far Right on Debt Deal Trump, DeSantis, Haley, Pence, and Scott all seemed cavalier about risking a debt default to please the most extreme elements of the party base.
By Ed Kilgore
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June 1, 2023
MAGA World Dismisses Ken Paxton Impeachment As Political Persecution Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and Marjorie Taylor Greene say the Texas attorney general’s impeachment on 20 articles was a RINO-led “witch hunt.”
By Ed Kilgore
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June 1, 2023
Kevin McCarthy Really Did It The debt-ceiling deal passed the House by sweeping bipartisan margins, leading the Speaker to dunk on his haters.
By Ben Jacobs
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May 31, 2023
DeSantis Aims to Convince Voters That Trump Is the Real RINO The governor’s strategy may seem strange, but it’s the path to victory in Iowa.
By Ed Kilgore
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May 31, 2023
Is Trump the New Nixon? Analogies between the two presidents liberals love to hate only go so far.
By Ed Kilgore
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May 31, 2023
The Quirky Conservative Who Saved the Economy and McCarthy Thomas Massie broke with fellow far-right Republicans, who are determined to make the House Speaker hurt.
By Ben Jacobs
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May 30, 2023
Did We Just Trade a Debt Default for a Government Shutdown? Most of the debt-limit deal must be implemented via future fights over appropriations, which could trigger shutdowns and even deeper cuts.
By Ed Kilgore
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May 30, 2023
It Turns Out ‘Trump Bucks’ Aren’t Actually Legal Tender It seems Trump has nothing to do with this online scam — though his PAC selling worthless fake credit cards probably added to the confusion.
By Margaret Hartmann
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May 30, 2023
How Diia Is Becoming the Ukrainian Government’s Real Everything App Kara Swisher talks to Ukrainian deputy PM Mykhailo Fedorov and Samantha Power about how the app has evolved into a wartime digital Swiss Army knife.
By Intelligencer Staff
The Debt Ceiling Bill Faces Its First Test: Live Updates Before the deal goes to a full House vote, it has to pass a GOP-controlled committee where far-right members could potentially slow things down.
By Intelligencer Staff
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May 29, 2023
The Contradiction at the Heart of DeSantis 2024 The Florida governor wants Republicans to know he is more electable and more extreme than Donald Trump.
By Eric Levitz
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May 28, 2023
The Rise of Religious ‘Nones’ Won’t Save Democrats While atheists and agnostics are a strong Democratic constituency, voters who believe “nothing in particular” tend to be politically disengaged.
By Ed Kilgore
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May 28, 2023
By Eric Levitz
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May 26, 2023
House Members’ Griping on Debt-Limit Deal Shows Bipartisanship Lives As soon as leaders reach a deal, congressional Democrats and Republicans alike will line up to beg for permission to vote against it.
By Ed Kilgore
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May 26, 2023
Poll: Californians Deem Dianne Feinstein Unfit to Serve Her political capital is finally running out, though Californians are unsure about what should happen next with her Senate seat.
By Ed Kilgore
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May 26, 2023
Do RFK Jr.’s Supporters Really Know Who He Is? The anti-vaxx crusader and 2024 presidential candidate has a low ceiling of support that will decline when Democrats learn more about him.
By Ed Kilgore
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May 25, 2023
5 Takeaways From Ron DeSantis’s 2024 Announcement With Elon Musk There were severe technical difficulties, many uses of the word woke , and absolutely no mention of Donald Trump.
By Matt Stieb
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May 25, 2023
The DeSantis 2024 Campaign Can’t Afford Any More Errors The governor’s glitchy launch doesn’t mean his 2024 bid is D.O.A. But now his campaign must prove its grand plans aren’t just fantasies.
By Ed Kilgore
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May 25, 2023
5 Ways Trump Trolled DeSantis Over His Disastrous Launch Donald Trump, who has never been one to take the high road, couldn’t stop gloating over Ron DeSantis’s botched 2024 campaign rollout.
By Margaret Hartmann
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May 25, 2023
CPAC Is Rocked by a Resignation The treasurer of the conference’s organizer quits, citing financial mysteries around chairman Matt Schlapp, who is being sued for alleged assault.
By Ben Jacobs
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May 25, 2023
The Case(s) Against Donald Trump It’s hard to keep track, so we made a guide.
By Nia Prater
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May 24, 2023
DeSantis’s Weak Supreme Court Pitch Is No Threat to Trump The Florida governor can’t outdo Trump’s transformation of the Court, so he’s just promising to keep it going longer.
By Ed Kilgore
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May 24, 2023
Ron DeSantis Will Announce 2024 Candidacy … With Elon Musk The Florida governor is finally making his presidential bid official on Wednesday — and he’s doing it in a talk with the Twitter CEO, for some reason.
By Margaret Hartmann
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May 24, 2023
Oregon Republicans’ Self-Destructive Culture-War Walkout GOP state senators are disqualifying themselves from reelection to block gun restrictions, abortion rights, and gender-affirming care.
By Ed Kilgore
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May 24, 2023
DeSantis Squandered His Best Chance Against Trump The Florida governor needed to make the 2024 GOP primary a one-on-one contest. Instead, his weakness drew a lot of other candidates into the field.
By Ed Kilgore
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May 23, 2023
Trump Is Going to Be on Trial in the Heat of the GOP Primary His trial for allegedly falsifying business records starts on March 25 — a busy time for an ex-president hoping to return to the White House.
By Matt Stieb
Kevin McCarthy May Have Already Won the Debt-Limit Fight No matter how the debt-limit negotiations turn out, the Speaker has clearly placated his right-wing critics by forcing Biden to the table.
By Ed Kilgore
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May 23, 2023
Lisa Blunt Rochester Is (Very Likely) Headed to the Senate The current U.S. House member, endorsed by Tom Carper to be his successor, would be the third Black woman elected to the U.S. Senate.
By Ed Kilgore
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May 22, 2023
Tim Scott Runs for President on His Autobiography Conservative audiences love Scott’s argument that it’s Biden and the left who are depriving Black and low-income Americans of opportunities.
By Ed Kilgore
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May 22, 2023
Biden Hasn’t Been Winning the ‘Fight for Our Democracy’ It’s the signature issue he chose for his reelection campaign. Weirdly, he doesn’t have much of a record on it.
By Ankush Khardori
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May 21, 2023
Jamaal Bowman Is Getting Into It The New York congressman says his spontaneous sparring with GOP colleagues is just him finally being himself in Washington.
By Ben Jacobs
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May 19, 2023
Is a 12-Week Abortion Ban a ‘Reasonable Compromise’? North Carolina’s new law is being presented as a solution. But a majority of Americans see Roe ’s fetal-viability standard as compromise enough.
By Ed Kilgore
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May 19, 2023
The Fallacy Behind No Labels’ Independent Unity Ticket Most independents are partisans and can vote in primaries. So why run a ticket that will just hand the presidency to Donald Trump?
By Ed Kilgore
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May 19, 2023
Chris Sununu Mulls Launching Doomed GOP 2024 Bid The pro-choice, anti-Trump Republican would probably just help the ex-president win in New Hampshire.
By Ed Kilgore
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May 18, 2023
DeSantis Steers Sharply to Trump’s Right As he prepares to become a candidate officially, the Florida governor is aiming at Iowa and New Hampshire with a harsh right-wing message.
By Ed Kilgore
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May 18, 2023
Nancy Pelosi’s Eldest Daughter Is Dianne Feinstein’s Secret Caretaker With her daughter at Feinstein’s side, there are worries that Pelosi could complicate California’s succession crisis if the ailing senator resigns.
By Matt Stieb
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May 18, 2023
Trump Builds Huge Lead in Polls As DeSantis Revs Engines DeSantis needs to announce and build a comeback narrative, as Trump is starting to run him off the track.
By Ed Kilgore
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May 18, 2023
House Republicans Move to Avoid Santos Expulsion Vote The House voted to have the Ethics Committee consider a measure to expel George Santos — so he won’t be getting kicked out anytime soon.
By Nia Prater
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May 18, 2023
How to Make Mass Immigration Work To make an influx of people economically beneficial and politically viable, the U.S. must build more housing.
By Eric Levitz
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May 17, 2023
Andrew Yang Advises Vivek Ramaswamy to ‘Lean Into Memes’ The 2020 quirky outsider candidate for president offers some generally bad advice to the GOP’s 2024 version.
By Ed Kilgore
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