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2020 Election

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Tara Palmeri • April 25, 2024

Trump’s Favorite Pollster Measures the Drapes

A MAGA-inflected conversation with John McLaughlin, Mar-a-Lago’s go-to pollster, on winning Biden voters, debating R.F.K., the hush-money trial impact, and the abortion a-bomb.
Tara Palmeri • March 28, 2024
Trump Fundraising Fears & The R.N.C. Horror Show
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The R.N.C.’s post-Ronna mass-firing, coupled with Biden’s ability to haul $25 million in a single night, frame the latest anxieties within Trumpworld and the donor elite.
Baratunde Thurston • February 27, 2024
Biden’s Black Voter Dilemma
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The president’s reelection problem is deeper than his team realizes. If Biden wants to hold on to the White House, and defeat Donald Trump, he’ll need to understand the Black community in a whole new way.
The biggest hurdle to a televised Trump trial is the history of the judiciary, itself.
Eriq Gardner • October 23, 2023
Will the Trump Trials Be Televised?
NBC and other media companies are petitioning the court to allow cameras inside the courtroom, a move that could turn Trump’s criminal trial in D.C. into the O.J. Simpson circus on steroids.
If anything, what the indictments truly emphasize is that Trump was never a solo act.
Baratunde Thurston • August 20, 2023
Trump Fatigue & The Slow Arc of Justice
A fourth indictment of the former president doesn’t appear to be moving the needle on public opinion. But it is finally providing an accounting, if not accountability, of Trump’s most pernicious crimes.
Biden has a lot of work to do to stir up enthusiasm and remind voters of the choice on the ballot once the election rolls around.
Peter Hamby • July 10, 2023
Biden’s “Double-Hater”-itis
There’s one simple rule of presidential politics: If you lose independents in swing states, you lose the election. And Biden is increasingly vulnerable.
The wallet buster for Fox and the Murdochs in Dominion v. Fox News will whittle down to two calculations: putative damages, and alleged “diminution of enterprise value.”
Eriq Gardner • March 13, 2023
Inside the Murdoch-Dominion Settlement Chatter
Right now, either Dominion or Fox is misjudging the financial situation. So which side is it?
Now that Biden’s re-election campaign looks inevitable, how will the dynamic between himself and Kamala Harris change?
Tara Palmeri & Peter Hamby • February 6, 2023
The Kamala Question & Biden’s Political Challenge
As the State of the Union looms, Biden’s candidacy is inevitable, and yet little else is equally certain. Herewith, a candid tea leaf reading about what keeps his team up at night.
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Tina Nguyen • August 3, 2022
Trump’s ‘22 Plans Run Through the 2020 Truthers
Tuesday’s primaries make clear that election denialism is becoming an increasingly critical voting issue on the right, and one that will impact the midterms, ‘24 presidential primary, and possibly the general.