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early Dem 2028 calendar will most advantage candidate who appeals both to Black voters (who comprise a large share of electorate in SC, MI and VA) and college-educated Whites (who likely outnumber non college Whites everywhere but NM and maybe MI). @ronbrownstein.bsky.social
Bloomberg Opinion@opinion.bloomberg.com · last wk.Democrats' new 2028 primary map sets up a confrontation between the center and the left
Interesting conversation if you like data and elections. @ronbrownstein.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/vIKJHQP...
Trump Is at 35%. Why Aren’t Republicans Panicking? (w/ Ron Brownstein) | Bulwark on Sunday
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Tuesday's MI Senate primary is the culmination of the fiercest struggle b/twn left & center across Dem primaries in recent memory. It's also another sign that Dem voters are more alienated from their party leaders than at any point since the Vietnam era. My take. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Michigan Could Be Progressives’ Biggest Prize — and Regret
In a year of divisive Democratic primaries, Michigan’s Senate contest has been the most extended, expensive and acrimonious. A progressive win here tomorrow would give the left its biggest victory yet...
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As I've written, Trump has lost virtually every attempt to w/hold federal dollars from blue states & cities unless they adopt red state policies-on DEI, immigration enforcement, abortion & other issues. More here www.cnn.com/2025/10/12/p...
Troops aren’t Trump’s only weapon against big blue cities | CNN Politics
The Trump administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement and National Guard deployments have ignited searing conflicts between the federal government and local officials in Democratic-run cities....
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The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 4w agoTrump’s attempt to block federal grants would have affected things like disaster response. trib.al/rBBtbId
As I wrote in June, smart strategists in Maine considered Hannah Pingree the best possible replacement to Platner, but she's otherwise committed at the moment.
Caliban ( Call Congress Daily)@wolfsprings.bsky.social · 4w agoThe working class roots you speak of benefit men. @hannahpingree.bsky.social is a far superior candidate. Troy is a Bernie bro which helped get Trump elected. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_...
It took a panoramic failure among Democrats for the Platner mess to reach this point. But the collapse of his campaign amid the most serious allegations yet could save the party from itself & restore its chances to oust Susan Collins. My take. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Platner’s Fall Could Save Democrats From Themselves
The latest allegation against Graham Platner, the Maine Democratic Senate nominee, is forcing the party’s state and national leaders to finally hold the serious conversation they have been avoiding al...
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"Especially in his second term, Trump has governed more as the field marshal of a faction than as the leader of a unified nation. He has sought to mobilize federal power in unprecedented ways against the states and cities that voted against him."
@ronbrownstein.bsky.social · last mo.America has been divided before. But today's separation of red & blue rivals the deepest divisions of our history apart from the civil war era-circa 1800s & 1960s. One key reason: a president who believes he benefits from widening the chasm. My take. www.cnn.com/2026/07/05/p...
America has been divided before. But today's separation of red & blue rivals the deepest divisions of our history apart from the civil war era-circa 1800s & 1960s. One key reason: a president who believes he benefits from widening the chasm. My take. www.cnn.com/2026/07/05/p...
Analysis: America has been deeply divided before. Here’s why today’s divisions are different | CNN Politics
At 250 years, America’s fault lines are showing. Partisan and regional divisions rival the most intense internal conflicts it has faced since the Civil War.
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OPINION TODAY featured podcast — @ronbrownstein.bsky.social on what’s ahead in 2026—and in 2028. (Conversations with @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social) opiniontoday.substack.com/i/183037344/...
Iraqozuela (with @ronbrownstein.bsky.social): Trump’s Venezuela takeover rhetoric and the politics of oil, Tim Walz bowing out of Minnesota’s gubernatorial race, rising health care costs and what they could mean for the midterms—and much more. (Hacks On Tap) opiniontoday.substack.com/i/183773933/...
While many are dissatisfied with aspects of the medical system, it’s far from clear the GOP can sustain public support for an agenda that simultaneously challenges mainstream medicine and retrenches the federal govt’s role in promoting health. (@ronbrownstein.bsky.social) www.cnn.com/2025/09/28/p...
Analysis: Why Democrats see health care as a prescription for revival | CNN Politics
While health care was not a major focus in the 2024 presidential election, it has become a central front between the parties during President Donald Trump’s tumultuous second term, as the government s...
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If none of this has happened in 12 months, the odds are pretty high Cruz will find some rationale to avoid breaking with Trump at that point.
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · last yr.Cruz: Tariffs are a tax on consumers, and I'm not a fan of jacking up taxes on American consumers.
Really feel like I’m losing my mind: government OBVIOUSLY cannot punish an individual law firm for hiring someone it disfavors! It’s ludicrously unconstitutional and I feel like without a day of law school I could argue the case. And yet the best paid lawyers in the country are folding?
“What history has shown us is that it’s easy to dismantle areas of science and technology,” said Joanne Padrón Carney, AAAS chief government relations officer, “but it’s difficult to rebuild.” Read the full story from @ronbrownstein.bsky.social in @cnn.com ⤵️
Analysis: Trump’s moves to hollow out government could be difficult to undo | CNN Politics
Americans have grown accustomed to dramatic shifts in policy each time control of the White House changes between parties. But across a wide range of domestic and foreign policy issues, President Dona...
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Gene Hackman has died at 95. I recently wrote about his performance in Night Moves for a Criterion release that will arrive in a few weeks. Like anyone who writes about Hackman's acting, I had to come up with novel ways to avoid the word "perfect." It wasn't easy. >
House conservs are demanding GOP push big spending cuts when extending Trump's tax cuts. That departs from the GOP's tax only-sugar not spinach-strategy for the 01/03/17 tax cuts and echoes the plan that allowed Bill Clinton to revive his presidency in 95-96. More here. www.cnn.com/2025/02/04/p...
Analysis: GOP’s plans to enact Trump agenda may face a big vulnerability | CNN Politics
As they try to enact President Donald Trump’s agenda, congressional Republicans face the same political risk as a generation ago: that tying together tax cuts and spending cuts will backfire.
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I wrote about this too. Bottom line is it was hard to convince voters that prices in the future would be higher under Trump when they believed that life was more affordable under him so recently in the past-despite all the warnings from economists of every ideological stripe about his Trump II plan
Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 2y agoThe most surreal and maddening feature of the campaign was that everyone agreed that high prices were the main issue but the guy explicitly, consistently running on a platform of raising everyone’s prices won voters most concerned about high prices. We hammered this time and time again and yet.
This is a constitutional crisis: the President doesn't have the power to cancel funds appropriated by Congress. Also, the math is insane; there is NO way to cut $4B/day by getting rid of "fraud". Cuts of that magnitude will dangerously undermine the core functions of government.
“The number 1 thing: family separation..Individuals are really worried about who is going to take care of their children” if they're detained or deported. As Trump launches his enforcement offensive, immigrant advocates are mobilizing too edition.cnn.com/2025/01/28/p... @ronbrownstein.bsky.social
Analysis: As Trump launches his enforcement offensive, immigrant advocates are mobilizing too | CNN Politics
Far beyond the Washington clamor of executive actions and lawsuits, and the dueling press releases between Donald Trump allies and adversaries, the arrival of the new president’s immigration regime is...
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I listen to and support @volts.wtf because of his many wonderful perspective-widening episodes, usually focussed on clean energy, but sometimes on other topics. Like this one on something I'd never considered before--worth your attention, I promise! www.volts.wtf/p/chris-haye...
Chris Hayes on the attention economy
A conversation about how attention was commodified, why it's so easy to steal, where industry is looking for new supplies, and whether democracy can survive this.
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"Some 50% of poll respondents said the country was on the wrong track when it came to the cost of living, compared to 25% who said it was moving in the right direction."
Brad Heath@bradheath.bsky.social · 2y agoA new @reuters.com poll finds Americans have a dim view of many of the Trump administration's blizzard of executive actions, including the Jan. 6 pardons and his effort to limit birthright citizenship. But they *really* don't like the Gulf of America thing. www.reuters.com/world/us/ame...
Before the election, voters also were most likely to name "the economy" as their most important issue news.gallup.com/poll/651719/...
