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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There’s a point in every election when candidates realize they’re locked into their strategy and there’s no time for major changes.
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To hear Democrats tell it, the decision by Texas, Arizona and Florida to relocate aliens to sanctuary cities is a project of abject cruelty.
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When Democrats have spoken recently, it’s often sounded as if they’re living in a different reality than most Americans.
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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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Democrats are increasingly confident, even euphoric, about the midterms. President Biden’s approval numbers are rising!
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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 “...
