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Posted by Mary Chastain on January 27, 2020 13 Comments
An ABC News-Washington Post poll found out that the thriving and robust economy has helped President Donald Trump against the 2020 Democrat presidential hopefuls. Buried lede: The Democrats lead shrink a lot when you only count registered voters.

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on January 24, 2020 33 Comments
When Beto was still in the race, he was mocked for having what became a test balloon campaign, throwing anything and everything at the wall to see what stuck. His campaign turned into a joke and he was viewed (is viewed) as wholly unserious. Elizabeth Warren seems to be following an adjacent path. Most recently, Warren vowed to release all Trump documents related to the impeachment inquiry.

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 06, 2020 31 Comments
Readers of Legal Insurrection know who Linc Chafee is. For several years we covered the once-upon-a-time Republican Senator (in a seat he inherited from his father), and Independent former Governor of Rhode Island, is quirky, to put it mildly.

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 18, 2019 119 Comments
Despite the Democrat-Media-NeverTrump vapors of how historic tonight's vote to impeach Trump is, it's being met mostly with a shrug of the shoulders by a nation that has heard Democrats demand impeachment since before Trump took office, and every day since then. Tonight is the real start of the 2020 campaign.

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 14, 2019 25 Comments
What does the massive British Conservative Party victory, which will keep Boris Johnson as Prime Minister but this time with a huge mandate to "get Brexit done," mean for the U.S.? There are many parallels between what drove the 2019 British election, and those driving the 2020 U.S. presidential election. First among them, is a party (Democrats) whose political agenda has been to repudiate and unwind the 2016 presidential vote, much as the "remainers" (chief among them Labour) sought to repudiate and unwind the 2016 Brexit vote.

Posted by Leslie Eastman on November 23, 2019 12 Comments
The California Supreme Court has just struck down a state law that required President Trump to release his tax returns in order to appear on the state’s primary ballot.
Justices in Sacramento said that the law – which required all candidates for president and governor to submit five years’ worth of personal income tax returns in order to be included on primary ballots – was unconstitutional.
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