Climate change and immigration will be two areas of policy that will be sharply different from what we have seen during the Trump administration.
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Though election officials in all of the six battleground states dispute the claim, the Trump campaign nevertheless alleges that there was massive election fraud.
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It’s not really even about six states. It’s about the one largest metro county in each of those states – all of which are run by Democrats.
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Neither side can claim victory. Neither side can even start processing the idea of losing.
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But Election Day has already happened for most voters. As of last evening, just under 100 million U.S voters have already cast their
ballots – a number that represents approximately 78 percent of the total votes cast in 2016.
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Ten months of unprecedented tumult precede an election day that promises to be like none we have ever experienced.
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There are reasons for both sides to be optimistic with less than two weeks to go before Election Day.
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Ten months of unprecedented tumult precede an election day that promises to be like none we have ever experienced.
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While it’s true that Donald Trump is down in almost all of the brand name polls, it is also true that he is polling even or ahead of where he was in those same
polls at this point in the 2016 campaign.
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For the sake of a complete record when this election is at last, finally over, let’s have a rundown of events since we met last week. In the wee, small hours of
the morning last Friday we learned that President Trump tested positive for COVID-19. Later that day, he walked...
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While it’s true that Donald Trump is down in almost all of the brand name polls, it is also true that he is polling even or ahead of where he was in those same
polls at this point in the 2016 campaign.
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We have said in our weekly reports over these two cycles that events also dictate the courses of campaigns. So it is following the death last Friday of Supreme
Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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Most of the brand-name polls have Joe Biden in the lead but it doesn’t feel that way in light of recent events. We start with yesterday. On the south lawn of the
White House President Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the foreign ministers of Bahrain and United Arab...
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The experts – including the brand name pollsters – got it wrong four years ago and could very well be setting themselves up to get it wrong again.
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We have said many times in covering presidential elections that events set the agenda. To illustrate that point, let’s jump in the Wayback Machine and dial it in
for March 18 of this year. Joe Biden had just won big in Democratic primaries over the two previous weeks – including...
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The Republican National Convention is underway this week and just like last week’s Democratic National Convention, it is greatly scaled down and largely
“virtual.” The Republicans got the main business out of the way Monday night by formally re-nominating Donald Trump for president and Mike Pence for vice
president. The...
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Is it Biden the centrist moderate? Or is it Biden of the ascendant left in the Democratic Party?
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Mail-in balloting is a contentious issue in an election cycle that is certain to be the most contentious in history.
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The 2020 campaign – indeed virtually every aspect of daily life – continues to be dominated by the coronavirus.
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Few campaign events. Little resembling the clichéd “campaign trail.” No massive Trump rallies. This election cycle will be remembered as the “soundbite
campaign.”
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The COVID campaign is not entirely without precedent. In 1980, a beleaguered Jimmy Carter tried to campaign from the Rose Garden.
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The president gave a speech that wasn’t a campaign speech but yet may turn out to be the most important speech of his campaign.
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Four months is an eternity in politics. But it is clear that the president’s reelection bid has hit a low ebb.
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The Bernie Sanders wing of the party isn’t giving up in its quest to pull the party sharply to the left even as President Trump continues to promote law and
order.
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It’s now Biden v. Trump – mano a mano – between now and November.
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The Dems are currently set for Aug. 17 in Milwaukee. The Republicans are set for a week later in Charlotte. Every bit of that could change.
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Biden and Trump are relegated by the coronavirus to making campaign news from their respective home bases.
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Polls don’t really mean a lot right now. Yet, they’re out there and it’s hard not to see them and take note of what they say.
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A campaign locked in the home basement. An incumbent robbed of his two best weapons. It’s advantage no one in the 2020 presidential campaign.
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It wasn’t long ago that Joe Biden was on top of the world. Today, he’s dealing with headwinds, the velocity of which may be increasing.
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Sanders knows he’s not going to win but he wants to be a name on a ballot at a primary election anyway.
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A campaign will eventually have to happen and things attendant to it are happening – mostly out of public view.
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In a normal world, the news cycle would be filled with Biden events, Trump events, talk of the coming debates, Biden firing off at Trump and Trump firing back hard and in signature style.
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Since Super Tuesday, Joe Biden has been eclipsed by the COVID-19 story and is struggling to generate enthusiasm even among committed Democrats – never mind the much coveted “independents.”
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In a normal world, the news cycle would be filled with Biden events, Trump events, talk of the coming debates, Biden firing off at Trump and Trump firing back hard and in signature style.
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There is really no precedent for an American presidential election like this one. We cannot look to history for guidance.
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The math is now daunting for Bernie Sanders. Increasingly, it is daunting for Donald Trump, too.
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What we have witnessed in the past two weeks is likely the most dramatic political comeback any of us will ever see in our lives.
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This morning, former Vice President Joe Biden is waking up at the end of the best week of his political life.
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If Biden doesn’t win South Carolina, the race will likely quickly winnow down to a two-man contest between Bernie Sanders and Mike Bloomberg.
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Another presidential election, another never-been-seen-before candidate.
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It’s a long way to November. But for Democrats, it may be an even longer way to the convention in July.
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The candidates have made their cases. Now it’s up to the voters.
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If you’re paying attention at all you cannot deny that the Democratic Party has moved far to the left since the 2016 election.
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Even if Cynthia Nixon is far too liberal for your taste, she speaks the truth today at a Bernie Sanders rally on the campus of Franklin Pierce University in Rindge, NH.
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Establishment Democrats were counting on Biden. With Biden’s fortunes falling, the Dems are now in a scramble.
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The Iowa Caucuses were held Monday night. At this writing Wednesday morning, the Democratic Party in Iowa still cannot say officially who won.
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