President Trump’s claim during a rally in New Mexico on Monday that he could win the state based on Hispanic votes caused much eye-rolling among Washington pundits. They are likely right about New Mexico, but Trump has a better chance to increase Hispanic support than the pundits think. The common […] Read more »
All Eyes Are Shifting to the Senate
This column argued six months ago that to the extent the focus of the political world wasn’t trained on the presidential election, it was on whether Democrats would retain their newly won House majority. It then argued that the Senate would eventually become the biggest non-presidential story—and that appears to […] Read more »
Democrats wary of litmus tests inch back from the cliff on their left
At the outset of the presidential campaign, Democratic Party elders worried about an epidemic sweeping from one primary state to the next: a sudden plague of litmus tests. … That set off alarms for operatives focused on winning the nomination and the election next year. President Trump already is casting […] Read more »
Don’t vote? The Trump campaign would like a word with you
… Less than 14 months before Election Day, the president’s team is banking his reelection hopes on identifying and bringing to the polls hundreds of thousands of Trump supporters … people in closely contested states who didn’t vote in 2016. The campaign is betting that it may be easier to […] Read more »
The Houston debate changed few minds but may have opened a few
Everything you need to know about the Democratic debate in Houston is the fact that there isn’t much agreement on exactly what happened. The debate on Thursday was either punctuated by personal attacks and sharp ideological exchanges or marked by expressions of Democratic unity and camaraderie among the 10 candidates. […] Read more »
Democrats are missing an opportunity to brand Trump as too conservative, poll suggests
In his 2016 campaign, President Trump ran as a relative moderate among Republicans — opposing cuts to Social Security and Medicare, talking up federal efforts to rebuild the nation’s roads and bridges, staying away from culture war issues such as same-sex marriage. But in office, Trump has aligned himself firmly […] Read more »