As Republican leaders scramble to stave off a Democratic wave or at least mitigate their party’s losses in November, a strategy is emerging on the right for how to energize conservatives and drive a wedge between the anti-Trump left and moderate voters: warn that Democrats will immediately move to impeach […] Read more »
12 Thoughts Without Even Knowing Who Won in Pennsylvania
The special election race for Pennsylvania’s 18th District is too close to call, but many of the takeaways are the same, no matter if Democrat Conor Lamb or Republican Rick Saccone ultimately prevails. There will be plenty of hot takes and takeaways about the impact of President Donald Trump on […] Read more »
How Trump’s campaign may have offloaded spending on polling to a nonprofit
… America First Policies does a lot of polling, which CNBC stumbled across by following a link on the group’s website. … “America First Policies, which actively advocates for policies favored by Trump, denied that any of the documents, many of which are labeled ‘confidential,’ were intended to benefit the […] Read more »
Dark money group America First Policies is running a pro-Trump polling operation. Here is an inside look at its secretive work.
America First Policies, a nonprofit group with close ties to President Donald Trump, has hired Trump’s pollsters to conduct a wide range of political polling and research that experts say resembles the kind of expensive work the Republican National Committee has performed for prior GOP administrations. Such a practice breaks […] Read more »
How Republicans Can Win the Midterms
There are so many signs of a coming rout in the House in November that’s it’s almost impossible to envision any way for Republicans to hang on to their 24-seat majority. And yet a faint outline of how the party might pull it off is nevertheless taking shape. … It’s […] Read more »
The True Source of the N.R.A.’s Clout: Mobilization, Not Donations
… Far more than any check the N.R.A. could write, it is this mobilization operation that has made the organization such a challenging adversary for Democrats and gun control advocates — one that, after the massacre at a school in Parkland, Fla., is struggling to confront an emotional student-led push […] Read more »