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Trump Got More Votes From California Than From Any Other State
Rudy Salas & Adam Gray Were The Worst Dems In Sacramento— They Want To Be The Worst In DC California may not be all that progressive, but...
Howie Klein
Jun 3, 20246 min read
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Trump Backs One RINO In Pennsylvania & Urges MAGAts In Washington To Oust A RINO Incumbent
Trump held a MAGA rally in tiny Schnecksville, Pennsylvania outside of Allentown in Lehigh County. It’s not MAGA country. In 2016, when...
Howie Klein
Apr 15, 20243 min read
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How Many Congressional Republicans Will Lose Their Seats With Trump At The Top Of The Ticket?
Arthur Engoron is on the New York Supreme Court and he’s been supervising the state’s Attorney General’s case against Trump. When she...
Howie Klein
Sep 27, 20234 min read
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The GOP Has A Big Fat Albatross Hanging Around Its Neck
With no legislative agenda— or at least not one that the public has any interest in supporting— Republicans seemed to think they would...
Howie Klein
Sep 6, 20236 min read
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Which GOP Candidates Are MAGAty (And Transactional) Enough To Earn The Trump Seal Of Approval?
I had a chat with the progressive Democrat running for a central Oregon congressional seat, Jamie McLeod-Skinner. We were wondering if...
Howie Klein
Aug 20, 20233 min read
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Republican Candidates Are Very Wary Of The Trump Kiss Of Death Going Into The 2024 Cycle
Writing for the Washington Post yesterday, Michael Scherer, Emily Guskin and Scott Clement reported what most political observers already...
Howie Klein
May 23, 20238 min read
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Trump's Ubiquitous Presence As The Face Of GOP Politics Is Dooming Their Candidates Again
The Tufts Public Opinion Lab is dedicated to studying contemporary controversies in American public opinion using quantitative data...
Howie Klein
Apr 12, 20235 min read
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Trump's Kiss Of Death For 2024 Will Be Even More Lethal For Republicans Than It Was Last Year!
The Indictment-- And More Jonathan Chait’s column on how Trump is using DeSantis’ record on Social Security and Medicare to destroy his...
Howie Klein
Mar 31, 20237 min read
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There's Not Much Of A Democratic Party In Nebraska, But There Is Quite A GOP Civil War Going On
Last May, in a nine-way Republican gubernatorial primary in Nebraska, the establishment conservative, Jim Pillen, beat the Trump-backed...
Howie Klein
Feb 9, 20233 min read
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The Democrats Are Lucky Trump Didn't Accept His 2020 Defeat And Disappear Like A Mensch
Yesterday, the Ways and Means Committee voted, 24-16, to release Trump’s tax returns from 2015 through 2020. Every Republican voted...
Howie Klein
Dec 21, 202214 min read
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Guess Who Had A Really Lousy, Anxiety-Ridden Day Yesterday
Hasn’t that been swell of Señor Trumpanzee to be paying the lawyers fees for the witnesses in his probable treason trial? On Monday...
Howie Klein
Dec 7, 20223 min read
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Don't Just Blame Trump... Blame The Pusillanimous Republican Politicians Who Enabled Him
Georgia, 2016: Trump beat Hillary by just over 5 points— 2,089,104 (50.8%) to 1,877,963 (45.6%). Democratic presidential candidates had...
Howie Klein
Dec 6, 20226 min read
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The Republican Party Is Rapidly Becoming A Dark, Forbidding Place For Trump; He'll Fight For Control
A new poll for Politico by Morning Consult, asked registered voters how important are a long series of issues-- that Fox and the GOP are...
Howie Klein
Nov 21, 20226 min read
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Why The New Jersey GOP Was Unable To Live Up To It's Expectations This Year-- One Word: Trumpanzee
Patrick Murray is the director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute. Writing for the Star Ledger this morning, he noted that in...
Howie Klein
Nov 20, 20225 min read
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A Reckonin' Is Comin' In GOP-World
Politico reported today that Trump is going ahead with his announcement tomorrow that he’s running for president. They reported that “One...
Howie Klein
Nov 14, 20225 min read
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Trump Drumming Up A Dump Mitch Drive Among Senate Republicans To Take The Onus Of Defeat Off Himself
I’m positive Trump planned to swagger out on the stage Wednesday and take credit for the red tsunami and especially congratulate himself...
Howie Klein
Nov 14, 20223 min read
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Trumpism Has Metastasized Throughout The Republican Party; It's All They Are Now
Will Trump Burn Down The Party On His Way Out? Paul Mulshine is the in-house conservative at the Newark Star-Ledger. If the Lord of...
Howie Klein
Nov 13, 20225 min read
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Will The Republican Party Establishment Get Revenge Against Trump-- Or Will He Beat Them Again?
I was just looking at the list of Pennsylvania members off Congress from 2006, when Blue America was just getting started. The last one...
Howie Klein
Nov 12, 20227 min read
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How Many House Seats Will The Republican Party's Reverse Coattails Cost Them?
Yesterday, Kevin McCarthy’s SuperPAC announced big spends amounting to $14 million in 15 target districts, including $2 million to defend...
Howie Klein
Oct 4, 20225 min read
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Dems Banking On Their Lesser Of Two Evils Strategy Again-- It's All "Trump, Trump, Trump, Abortion"
Yesterday, reporting for the Washington Post, Yasmeen Abutaleb wrote that “the Democrats’ newly dark [midterm] message is a gamble. Biden...
Howie Klein
Oct 3, 20225 min read
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