What hurts Republicans more: Trump, or extreme abortion bans?

It’s been a busy couple of weeks for the marquee Republican issues: Trump and abortion. Former President Trump has been indicted, a liberal justice who ran largely on preserving abortion rights won by 11 points in Wisconsin’s Supreme Court election, and federal court judges have issued opposing rulings on mifepristone, […] Read more »

With Protasiewicz win, Democrats flip the Wisconsin Supreme Court

Key Points• In last night’s high-stakes state Supreme Court race in Wisconsin, Democratic-aligned Janet Protasiewicz comfortably dispatched former Justice Daniel Kelly, giving liberals a 4-3 majority on the court.• Compared to some previous Democratic-aligned judges, Protasiewicz had a more “nationalized” voting coalition, although she still carried several Republican-leaning parts of […] Read more »

No Labels is considering a dangerous game

You might have missed it amid all the hubbub about former President Donald Trump’s indictment, but news broke this weekend that the organization No Labels is considering running a third party “moderate” candidate for president in 2024. … What’s stunning to me about the No Labels bid is that they […] Read more »

We need another Republican primary-poll reality check

Y’all are doing it again. Not all of you. But a good number of you are obsessing over Republican primary polls. What’s more, some of you are getting lured in by operatives pushing polls from a certain angle that doesn’t provide the full picture. I know better than to hope […] Read more »

Inside the Panic at Fox News After the 2020 Election

A little more than a week after television networks called the 2020 presidential election for Joseph R. Biden Jr., top executives and anchors at Fox News held an after-action meeting to figure out how they had messed up. Not because they had gotten the key call wrong — but because […] Read more »