Republicans who made deal with Democrats are familiar ; The seven GOP senators who agreed this week to deny some Bush nominees a vote fit a particular mold.M.D. Harmon staff columnist
One development that has Democrats concerned and Republicans thrilled is Trump's relative strength with minority voters. In 2020, President Biden got 90% of the Black vote while Trump received only 9%. But in 2024, polls show Harris is not doing as well and Trump has made gains. Harris has...
And with Democrats moving Iowa back on their primary calendar after a counting fiasco marred their own caucuses four years ago, that left the first votes of 2024 solely in the hands of Iowa Republicans — who left the distinct first impression, even amid a turnout lower than in most years...
The Senateacquitted Trump in a 57-43 voteon the charge of inciting insurrection for his role in the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Democrats needed 17 Republicans to join them to convict Trump. Some Republicans who voted for acquittal based their vote largely on procedural grounds, not the merit...
Sen. Mullet also had the political courage to speak out and vote against the long-term care payroll tax, called WA Cares, during the 2019 legislative session, and he supports the initiative that will be on the ballot this year to make that tax optional. It is rare to find an elected of...
So now, many voters who had been inclined to sit out the election—or to vote Republican to send Democrats a message over ephemeral disgruntlement—suddenly realize that Republicans mean what they say. When Republicans say theyintend to privatize Medicare and Social Security, they mean it. They...
who all fall within the range of normal political views and none of whom oppose democracy or support violence. People like AOC aren’t “provocative,” so much as they appeal to a bunch of normie Democrats who have a positive and progressive view of politics — and the negative attention th...
In this 1876 Nast cartoon, the Republican vote, represented by Uncle Sam riding an elephant, tramples a tiger representing the Democrats. Kean Collection/Archive Photos/Getty Images By that point, however, he seems to have lost some of the creative momentum he’d gained at Harper’s, and...
“The president has his own agenda, which clearly is chaotic and at the same time is racist and bigoted for his own political gain,” said Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, who chairs the Democrats’ campaign arm. Voters “don’t like it. But they also want somebody who is going ...
Rep. John James of Michigan made a quip referring to Joe Biden during his remarks at the convention: “If you don’t vote for Donald Trump, you ain’t Black.” The comment from James, who is Black, refers to remarks Biden made in 2020 where he stated in an interview, “If ...