Analysis | Trump gets caught in the weave and hands Democrats a target

The president’s misinterpreted comments about Los Angeles and San Diego created opportunities for his foes and confusion for his allies.

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Another sign of rapidly expanding political map: Pollsters can’t keep up

Increased demand for polling has strained call centers that conduct surveys, squeezed capacity and complicated the task of getting accurate reads on public opinion, according to pollsters.

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Another sign of rapidly expanding political map: Pollsters can’t keep up

Increased demand for polling has strained call centers that conduct surveys, squeezed capacity and complicated the task of getting accurate reads on public opinion, according to pollsters.

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An election chief lost. Then he padlocked the ballots and called the FBI.

Shasta County, California, where election doubts run so deep that some don’t trust results even when their choice prevails, offers a glimpse of what happens when distrust in voting systems takes root.

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Trump’s opponents are planning efforts to reverse his changes to presidency

As the midterms approach, some of the president’s foes are working to ensure his aggressive approach to executive power doesn’t outlast him.

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Analysis | Trump’s playing his greatest hits. They don’t work as well as they used to.

With midterm elections a month away, the president is turning the audacity up to 11 as he labors to reverse his party’s decline in the polls.

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In Trump’s White House, China’s Dictator Is Welcome. American Media, Less So.

The showdown over President Trump’s partial media ban played out as he welcomed President Xi Jinping, whose government is ranked among the most repressive in the world.

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Analysis | Republicans are breaking from Trump on Iran. So what will they do about it?

Congress has rendered itself powerless to start and stop wars, despite the Constitution.

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‘I am the code’: Trump clashed with ballroom architect over safety issues

James McCrery II resigned in October after warning that the president was insisting on designs that violated fire and safety codes.

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How Trump turned a refugee bureau into a $410 million deportation operation

Inside the secret deals powering the president’s push to deport migrants to countries not their own.

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Trump is sober about the midterm prospects for Republicans, advisers say

In private, President Trump has been hearing blunt news from advisers about the GOP's poor chances in the midterms and has accepted that some of the problem is of his making.

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The nativist provocateur who keeps pushing the Texas GOP further right

Republican leaders criticized a recent post by Bo French attacking South Asian UT students. But many in the party have felt compelled to embrace parts of his ideology.

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She’s survived four gerrymanders and a car crash. Can her luck hold?

Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio), 80, has been unbeatable, even as her district gets redrawn again and again.

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Analysis | Why Karl Rove, a father of the modern Texas GOP, is voting for a Democrat

How Texas Republicans abandoned their immigrant-welcoming tradition.

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Senate control could hinge on this ex-lawmaker’s ability to win back working-class voters

Democrat Sherrod Brown is seeking to return to the chamber two years after losing his seat when many blue-collar voters embraced Donald Trump.

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Opinion | Longhorns fans are a Texas-size win for American assimilation

Diversity at a football game is not a "problem."

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This Democrat’s comeback saga began long before his primary upset

David Crowley had a surprising path to becoming his party’s nominee for governor of Wisconsin. His life before that was even more unlikely.

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He was cleaning his garage. Then he found a file marked ‘SECRET.’

A surprise discovery unearthed a large cache of World War II documents that had been lost to history.

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Analysis | How much does Trump care about the GOP?

The president’s own public comments and actions have called his motivation into question.

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With Ohio’s governorship up for grabs, a toxic race turns violent

An alleged assailant forced his way Sunday toward Democratic candidate Amy Acton at a county fair, officials and witnesses said. Authorities said he was carrying two pistols and a Taser.

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Armed individual ‘lunged’ at Democrat nominee for Ohio governor, campaign says

Amy Acton’s campaign said multiple people were injured at the event at a county fair in Canfield, Ohio.

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A former Mike Collins staffer posted KKK and Nazi images. Some Republicans see a pattern.

Rep. Mike Collins (R-Georgia) is challenging Sen. Jon Ossoff (D). The former Collins staffer posted a swastika and shared an image of himself in what appear to be KKK robes.

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Analysis | Democrats are moving past the resistance. They want a new kind of fighter.

Prominent Democrats from President Donald Trump’s first-term battles are losing in primaries, a signal their party wants something else as it looks to 2028.

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The Wrong Kind of American

The Trump White House needed me—until the fact that I am trans became public.

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Navy weighs major warship redesign to match Trump’s preferences

The president wants the new fleet of aircraft carriers to more resemble those from World War II. Such a change could cost billions.

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Ben Mullin (@BenMullin) on X

Matt Murray, the executive editor of The Washington Post, emails staff about the journalistic heater the newsroom is on:

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A Cold War Movie That Gives Too Much Credit to Ronald Reagan

The Brink of War, a new film about the Reykjavik summit, is too kind to the Gipper.

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