The first five months of President Joe Biden’s term show the moderate wing of the Democratic Party still has a lot of juice left. We see that in the Senate, where moderates like Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona are standing in the way of […] Read more »
Virginia and New Jersey Governors 2021: A First Look
Key Points• Virginia Democrats are trying to win three consecutive gubernatorial races, a feat the party has not accomplished since the 1980s.• Former Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D-VA) is the favorite for his state’s Democratic nomination, though he faces a diverse field.• In a move that’s ruffled some feathers on their […] Read more »
Trump loyalists facing a political reckoning
The biggest miscalculation Republicans made throughout the Trump era is conflating the president’s base of hard-core supporters with the larger swath of Trump sympathizers, who share the president’s populist instincts but always held reservations about his temperament. They’re middle-class voters who have been turned off by the Democratic Party’s elitist […] Read more »
Armed poll watchers: New Jersey’s cautionary tale ahead of the 2020 presidential election
Democrats filed suit against Republicans in 1981 for allegedly sending armed patrols to polling stations during the New Jersey gubernatorial race. Megan Jelinger/AFP via Getty Images Mark Krasovic, Rutgers University Newark In the history of voter suppression in the United States – including attempts to stop Black and Latino people […] Read more »
Wisconsin: 2020’s Ground Zero
As 2019 closes out, it may be worth looking to one of the states that is expected to play an outsized role in next year’s presidential election: Wisconsin. The Badger State was truly decisive in 2016: While it’s easy to lump it in with Michigan and Pennsylvania as the three […] Read more »
Representative Jeff Van Drew, Anti-Impeachment Democrat, Plans to Switch Parties
Representative Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey, a moderate Democrat who is among his party’s staunchest opponents of impeaching President Trump, told aides on Saturday that he is planning to switch parties and declare himself a Republican as soon as next week, just as the House is casting its historic […] Read more »