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Would Mark Cuban Please Shut Up?
If the number one issue is economy and the way to solve people and make people feel good about what she’s doing is to talk business and talk economy...
The Democrats Are the Only True Defenders of the Constitution
Apart from clinging to an outdated mindset, there is a deeper, less tractable impediment to liberals’ donning the mantle of the Constitution—ideological hostility. In many quarters of the left,...
Inside Our Wildly Expensive, Dubiously Effective Political Ad Machine
In a given week in July in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, for example, Republicans had outspent Democrats by more than 600 gross rating points, a unit that measures the reach of...
The Consultants Who Lost Democrats the Working Class
American politics, Timothy Shenk quips in his newest book, Left Adrift, “used to be simple: Republicans were for business, Democrats for labor.” But since the 1970s, class dealignment—the delinkage...
Trump’s Angry Rant on Fox News Instantly Wrecks JD Vance’s Latest Spin
Over the weekend, JD Vance tried to argue that Donald Trump will not target his political enemies if he’s reelected president. Yet at around the same time, Trump was...
JD Vance Awfully Quiet After Report on How His Mom Got Health Care
JD Vance credited Donald Trump for his family being able to get off of Medicaid and onto private health insurance at the vice presidential debate earlier this month. But,...
Elon Musk’s $100 Million Plan to Help Trump Has a Hilarious Flaw
Elon Musk’s super PAC has already hit a major bump in the road in its canvassing operations for Donald Trump. A glitchy door-knocking app means Musk’s America PAC is...
The Glaring Truth About That Man With Guns Arrested at a Trump Rally
MAGA Republicans have begun touting the arrest of an armed man outside Donald Trump’s rally Saturday as a “thwarted” third assassination attempt, but federal investigators said that there was...
GOP Candidate Targets Black Voters With Appalling Election Lie
A Michigan Republican listed the wrong election date in an ad aimed at Black voters, according to a legal complaint filed on Sunday. Tom Barrett, who is running for...
Trump Is Raising Money for Hurricane Relief—But Where Is It Going?
Donald Trump’s campaign has begun raising money for hurricane relief—but it’s not exactly clear how that money will be used. Two weeks ago, the Trump campaign created a GoFundMe...
Josh Hawley Hit by Two Terrible Reports Back-to-Back
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s editorial board endorsed Hawley’s Democratic challenger, Lucas Kunce, on Sunday, calling Hawley the “worst sitting senator in America right now.” The Missouri newspaper of record...
Ted Cruz Is Hanging On by the Skin of His Teeth, Republican Poll Warns
Ted Cruz is hanging on by a thread in his Texas Senate race, according to internal polling from a GOP super PAC. A memo from the Senate Leadership Fund...