President Trump’s relentless effort to overturn the result of the election that he lost has become the most serious stress test of American democracy in generations, led not by outside revolutionaries intent on bringing down the system but by the very leader charged with defending it. In the 220 years […] Read more »
The Case For Republicans In Georgia vs. The Case For Democrats
The two Senate runoffs in Georgia are tighter than a 35-minute connection at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. … These races could go either way. In fact, between the polls, the fundraising numbers, the early-voting data and the November results, both parties can find reasons to be optimistic heading into election […] Read more »
Georgia Senate Runoffs: Paths to Victory for Both Parties
On Tuesday, voters in Georgia will have the chance to dramatically shape the course of the Biden presidency. If both Democrats (Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock) emerge victorious in the state’s Senate runoff elections, Democrats will control the legislative and executive branches of government. But if just one of the […] Read more »
One Day Out: Will Trump Torpedo Republican Chances in the Georgia Runoffs?
… Tomorrow, Republicans will see whether there are real electoral consequences to Trump’s continued rage and myopic focus on overturning the legal results of the election. We will finally learn if the civil war within the Republican Party, especially in Georgia, will have harmed the chances of incumbent Sens. David […] Read more »
Trump knows no limits as he tries to overturn the election
There are but 16 days left in President Trump’s term, but there is no doubt that he will use all of his remaining time in office to inflict as much damage as he can on democracy — with members of a now-divided Republican Party acting as enablers. That there are […] Read more »
Republicans Begin New Congress Feuding Over Bid to Overturn Election
After four years of enabling and appeasing President Trump, Republicans find themselves at the end of his tenure in exactly the place they had so desperately tried to avoid: a toxic internecine brawl over his conduct and character that could badly damage their party. With their Senate power on the […] Read more »