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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.
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Ringo H.W. Chiu / Associated Press California Has Become a Crisis for the Republicans
For years, the state’s massive congressional delegation was highly competitive, but not anymore. Of 53 House seats, Democrats now hold at least 45.
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Evan Vucci / AP The Midterms Sent an Unmistakable Message to Republicans
So long as the GOP stays loyal to President Trump, its prospects on the electoral map will be sharply restricted.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Tuesday Showed the Drawbacks of Trump's Electoral Bargain
Important segments of his coalition stood by him, but Democrats made inroads with urban and suburban white voters uncomfortable with his style and values.
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John Bazemore / AP The Ghosts of the 1960s Haunt the Georgia Governor’s Race
A widening array of conflicts over voting rights in the state have revived memories of the civil-rights era.
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Chris O'Meara / AP Trump Is in Triage Mode
The president’s offensive on immigration is linked to his party’s struggle to build support for key pieces of its economic agenda.
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Susan Walsh / AP The Coming Clashes Between Democrats and Republicans
It’s not hard to envision the tension ahead: The Democrats are becoming more diverse at the same time that greater numbers of GOP candidates are embracing President Trump’s nationalism.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The 2018 Midterms Are All About Trump
Republicans are surging in pro-Trump rural areas as a Democratic wave gathers in many anti-Trump suburbs, continuing a long-term shift toward nationalized congressional elections.
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Melissa Daniels / AP The Epicenter of Republican Vulnerability in the House
The GOP’s chances are dim in the districts Hillary Clinton won in 2016—and it’s all Donald Trump’s fault.
