The election is less than four weeks away. Now is when the politically desperate typically try to fight despondency with flights of fancy, which might explain House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s optimism on Stephen Colbert’s “The Late Show” last week.
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Senate races are different from other midterm contests: Only a third of Senate seats are up every two years, so generally one party has more to defend than the other.
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Among the more grating parts (and there were many) of President Biden’s Independence Hall speech last week were his repeated references to election deniers.
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It sounded like an ironclad promise when Jared Bernstein of President Biden’s Council of Economic Advisers told Fox News’s Neil Cavuto on Aug. 16 that the $45.6 billion in the Inflation Reduction Act to expand Internal Revenue Service compliance efforts “...
