… There has been a bit of a debate in recent days about how Republicans skeptical of Trump’s presidency should respond to it. Is it incumbent on those who oppose him to boycott the GOP? Should Republicans instead agree with his policies while keeping a wary eye on his behavior? […] Read more »
The GOP Catch-22 — Donald Trump
Even if you think Republican leaders in Congress have shown no spine in responding to President Donald Trump’s more outrageous and inappropriate comments, you ought to be willing to acknowledge that GOP legislators are caught in a no-win situation. It’s always tempting to tell incumbents of an unpopular president’s party […] Read more »
Taking back the House will be harder than Democrats think
Democrats are feeling cheery at the prospect that this fall will bring an end to the power outage they suffered in 2016 and the near-irrelevance they have endured since. Conditions look particularly good for taking back the House. Off-year elections in a president’s first term nearly always cost his party […] Read more »
Nunes’ real revelation: Trump is changing the GOP, not the other way around
The real message of the memo released last week by Rep. Devin Nunes assailing the FBI and Department of Justice is that Donald Trump is changing the Republican Party far more than it is changing him. The memo from Nunes, chair of the House Intelligence Committee, failed to deliver revelations […] Read more »
Sound the alarm: National GOP breaks glass in Pennsylvania race
The day after Conor Lamb won the Democratic nomination to run in this very pro-Donald Trump House district, Republican strategist Corry Bliss knew his party had another special election problem on its hands. … Since that November morning, the Republican Party has launched a massive campaign to save a House […] Read more »
FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcast: Has Trump Remade The GOP?
This week, the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast discusses whether the Nunes memo was much ado about nothing — and even if it is, whether it could still cause political consequences. The crew also discusses whether Trump has molded the GOP in his image and what it takes to shift a party’s […] Read more »