Six months before Election Day, the 2018 midterms look like a contest that’s up for grabs – both for control of Congress, and for which arguments will dominate the campaign. More voters say they’d prefer to see Democrats take control of Congress than for Republicans to keep it, but voters […] Read more »
GOP primaries gauge the anti-establishment fervor Trump helped unleash
Republican primary voters in West Virginia and Indiana are set to shape the future of Donald Trump’s anti-establishment political revolt on Tuesday, while testing the president’s own ability to steer the passions he helped unleash. … “That dynamic that elected Donald Trump that I thought was going to dissipate after […] Read more »
Macomb and America’s new political moment
On the one-year anniversary of the Trump presidency, Democracy Corps traveled to Michigan to speak with the white working class Obama-Trump voters of Macomb County, the African American women of Detroit and the college educated women of suburban Southfield. Each, in their own way, had contributed to one of the […] Read more »
An Urgent Debate for California Republicans: How to Get Back in the Game
For anyone wondering about the state of the Republican Party in California these days, consider this: There may be no Republican candidate for governor or United States senator on the state’s ballot this November. That dispiriting possibility is beginning to sink in for California Republicans, against the backdrop of a […] Read more »
Iowa Is a Crucial Test for Any Blue Wave
No state changed its political colors more sharply in the past two election cycles than Iowa. Once a Democratic-leaning purple-blue state that backed Barack Obama, it is now a deeply Republican, Donald Trump-supporting red one. Was that a permanent shift or an aberration with unique conditions and candidates? That question […] Read more »
In Red State primaries, candidates out-Trump each other
In West Virginia and Indiana, the Republican Senate primary fights have morphed into multi-candidate battle royals with the combatants focused on one mission: out-Trumping their opponents. CONT. Dante Chinni, NBC News Read more »