They came like rapid-fire rifle shots. On Friday, former national security adviser Mike Flynn copped a deal, pleading guilty to making false statements to the FBI and promising to cooperate with Special Counsel Robert Mueller in return for avoiding more-s...
While a recent Pew Research Center survey found 41% of Americans rate the overall economy as good or excellent, many of them do not yet credit President Donald Trump, with 49% saying his policies have not had much impact on economic conditions.
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Tax reform is not polling well. In a mid-October CNN survey, only 34% of Americans favored “the tax reform proposals made by the Trump administration.”
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Today Democrats lead Republicans by 8.6 points in FiveThirtyEight.com’s generic ballot aggregate, a bright red warning signal for Congressional Republicans for 2018.
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For all the talk of differences between the drafts of the House and Senate tax-reform proposals, there are remarkable similarities in their goals and many of their big-ticket items.
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Steve Bannon, the fired presidential adviser and alt-right sympathizer, has declared war on incumbent Republican Senators and assembled a motley crew of challengers.
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The Republican defeat in New Jersey is unsurprising. The deep-blue state went for Hillary Clinton by 14 points, and on Tuesday the next governor, Democrat Phil Murphy, won by 13. The Republican nominee, Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno, simply couldn’t escape the gr...
