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The Question That Wasn’t a Gotcha: Hawks, Hawkeyes, and The Schmittification of the GOP (opens the original)
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During today’s Substack LIVE conversation with , we discussed:Sen. Eric Schmitt’s attempted perjury trap on Jack Smith.The Atlanta Hawks vs. Iowa Hawkeyes mix-up, the poster-board texts, Katie Britt’s face, and why Smith pausing made it worse for Republicans<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!08L7!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1fb0c6db-cd1f-4195-b7e7-0df4720aba
Why GOP Panic is Real — 35 Days Out (opens the original)
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On this week’s Substack LIVE discussion, Charlie Sykes and I discuss:Jack Smith testifies before Congress, and Charlie contrasts Smith’s courage with author Jacob Weisberg’s list of cowards (Bezos, Bush, Roberts, McConnell, Megyn Kelly, and more)Why tribal loyalty beats reason — and why George W. Bush fundraising for Senate Republicans — and Karl Rove’s “Nazi problem” discovery — still fall shortPeter Thiel and the tech oligar
‘We’re All Gonna Die!’ (opens the original)
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Did you happen to see the Tucker Carlson interview that was swirling around Twitter yesterday? According to Tucker, when he raised the perils of a war with Iran, Donald Trump’s response was this:“In the end, we're all dead anyway.”It’s a scary quote, but it reminded me of Sen. Joni Ernst’s response to a voter who was concerned about the rising price of healthcare costs:“We’re all going to
Republicans Are Quietly Dumping Trump Before the Midterms — And It Tells You More Than Any Poll (opens the original)
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During this week’s LIVE conversation, Chris Cillizza and I discuss:Multiple Republicans in competitive midterm races are publicly distancing from Trump for the first time in years. Why candidate behavior and ad strategy are more revealing than polls. Trump assembled an unusually broad 2024 coalition (Hispanics, young men, farmers, MAGA, some America First doves, podcast audiences) and then chose fights that fractured it. Read my latest column in The Washington Sun. <p c
How Trump Blew Up His Coalition, Group by Group (opens the original)
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If you want to know why Republicans are (probably) about to get trounced in the midterms, look no further than the increasingly strange relationship between President Donald Trump and the various factions of voters who put him in office. The Trump coalition, like any political coalition, always had internal tensions; satisfying everyone was never going to be simple. But on issue after issue, Trump has gone to surprising — and in many cases, difficult to explain — lengths to infuriate his backers
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