Key Points• While increasingly salient issues like abortion could change the political environment, Republicans still appear on track for a strong showing in the U.S. House.• Recent midterms have hollowed out the presidential party’s holdings of districts where the president either did the same or worse than he did nationally […] Read more »
The Democrats’ Midterm Identity Crisis
President Joe Biden arrived in office with a throwback theory of how to expand his party’s support. He sought to focus his presidency on delivering kitchen-table benefits to low- and middle-income families—for example, with stimulus checks and an expansive child tax credit—while downplaying his involvement in high-profile cultural disputes and […] Read more »
Personality Politics, with Jonathan Martin & Alex Burns
We’ve reached maximum Hacks capacity this week with not one but two guest Hacks, Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns of The New York Times. They join Axe and Murphy to discuss the MAGA-fication of Republican primary races, the politics of Roe v. Wade, and Martin and Burns’ new book, This […] Read more »
With six months left, ominous outlook remains for Democrats
Three-quarters of the way through the midterm election cycle, it doesn’t look like anything will change the ominous forecast for Democrats. And Republicans remain well-positioned to take back Congress this fall. There’s a difference between historic events and game-changing events (events that change the trajectory of an election cycle). A […] Read more »
Biden pushes ‘ultra-MAGA’ label on GOP as he defends record
President Joe Biden on Tuesday warned voters unhappy with soaring inflation and his stalled domestic agenda against turning power over to “ultra-MAGA” Republicans in the midterm elections as he increasingly tries to cast former President Donald Trump and his adherents as a political foil. … Biden’s branding of his opposition […] Read more »
GOP’s midterm bet: Voters will care more about inflation than abortion
One week after the leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion that would eliminate the constitutional right to abortion, Republican candidates and strategists are increasingly confident that such a decision would not seriously harm the GOP’s chances of regaining House and Senate majorities come November, as Democrats have suggested it […] Read more »