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Andrew Harnik / AP The Mueller Report Could Alienate the Voters Republicans Need
The special counsel’s findings validate the concerns of anyone who feared how Donald Trump would wield presidential power.
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Jacquelyn Martin / AP Trump’s Immigration Policies Unify White Republicans
As the GOP’s political power concentrates in less diverse areas, resistance to the president’s agenda keeps on shrinking.
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Acta Non Verba How to Build Community in an Era of Division
These local groups support individuals and families who are economically vulnerable and socially isolated.
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Leah Millis / Reuters Trump’s Opponents Have One Assignment Now
There’s a far better chance of uprooting the president’s influence if he’s beaten at the ballot box.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters President Trump Still Wants to Repeal Obamacare
The 2020 health-care debate won’t just be about single payer.
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Mike Segar / AP The Voters Democrats Aren’t Really Fighting Over
Far more candidates are competing for the youth vote than are trying to appeal to Boomers.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP Trump Settles on His Reelection Message
“I’ll protect you” is the new “I alone can fix it.”
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Charlie Neibergall / AP Democrats’ Two Roads to Beating Trump
The biggest battlegrounds in 2020 might require very different candidates.
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Dennis Van Tine / AP Bernie Sanders Will Hit Huge Obstacles in 2020
The challenges for his campaign are very familiar ones.
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Michael Conroy / AP Howard Schultz Is Already Helping President Trump
The former CEO has staked out a platform few Republican-leaning voters would endorse.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Trump Is Walling Off the GOP
The president isn’t able to persuade most Americans to get on board with his immigration agenda.
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Andrew Harnik / AP The Coming Democratic Drama Over Medicare for All
The policy’s supporters could run up against the same problems that Republicans faced in trying to repeal Obamacare.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters The Early States’ Stranglehold on the Presidential Primary
Changes in political fundraising and communication have the potential to shake up 2020. But Iowa and New Hampshire will likely be as influential as ever in cutting down the Democratic field.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP Trump Isn’t Even Trying to Convince Voters on the Shutdown
The president and his party have grown accustomed to representing a minority of Americans—and ignoring majority opinion.
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Gregory Bull / AP Trump’s Wall Could Cost Him in 2020
The president’s relentless effort to cement the loyalty of his base is alienating him from the ambivalent voters who provided him critical support in 2016.
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Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / Getty Why the New Democratic Majority Could Work Better Than the Last
House Democrats today are far more ideologically and geographically cohesive than they were during Nancy Pelosi’s previous speakership.
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Jacquelyn Martin / AP What President Trump Will Face in the New Year
New provocations, especially from House Democrats, are likely to trigger his most belligerent impulses—and further test his voters’ loyalty.
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Alex Brandon / Associated Press What Will 2020 Democrats Do When Crowds Chant ‘Lock Him Up’?
President Trump’s potential criminal liability could add extraordinary volatility to the 2020 presidential campaign.
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Morry Gash / AP Republicans in Wisconsin and Michigan Aim to Hobble Incoming Democrats
The GOP’s lame-duck strategy foreshadows a coming political war between urban and rural America.
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Alex Brandon / AP Republicans Didn’t Learn Anything From the Midterms
The results in the House represented one of the most emphatic repudiations of a president in modern history. But the GOP isn’t any closer to ditching Donald Trump.
