Ronald Brownstein
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Analysis: A wave is building for Democrats. Republicans are building a wall to stop it. | CNN Politics (opens the original)
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The 2026 election will be decided where the wave meets the wall. Signs are accumulating that the blue wave of Democratic support this year may be even higher than in the 2018 election, when a backlash against President Donald Trumpâs tumultuous first term carried the party back into control of the House of Representatives. But the defensive wall that Republicans are constructing against that Democratic tide also looks bigger than in 2018. The height of the wave gives Democrats legitimate reaso
Analysis: Why the middle of the country is back in the center of American politics | CNN Politics (opens the original)
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The heartland Democrat is making a comeback. Democrats this year are seriously contesting more races for governor and senator across the industrial Midwest and Farm Belt than at any point since the early years of Barack Obamaâs presidency. The party still faces substantial skepticism from many heartland voters, especially on cultural issues, but frustration over the high cost of living has loosened the GOPâs grip on the middle of the country. The two parties are locked in competitive governo
Democrats reshape their 2028 presidential race with new primary schedule | CNN Politics (opens the original)
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The new calendar for the 2028 primaries that Democrats finalized on Saturday will dramatically shake up the race for the partyâs next presidential nomination. On the last day of its annual summer meeting, the Democratic National Committee approved a primary schedule that replaces Iowa and New Hampshire, the small and preponderantly white states that held the first contests for nearly 50 years, with two racially diverse battlegrounds: South Carolina and Nevada. Under the new calendar, South Car
Michigan, Missouri primaries will again lay bare the Democratic divide over Israel | CNN Politics (opens the original)
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Fiercely fought primaries on August 4 in Michigan and Missouri will provide the next crucial tests in the debate over American policy toward Israel that has convulsed the Democratic Party this year. Arguments about Israel have marked a sharp dividing line in both the Michigan Senate primary between centrist Rep. Haley Stevens and progressive Abdul El-Sayed, and a Missouri rematch between firebrand former US Rep. Cori Bush and Rep. Wesley Bell, a more mainstream figure, who ousted her in a primar
Why the Trump effect is different in 2026 than 2018 | CNN Politics (opens the original)
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The brightest warning light for Democrats in this yearâs election is the consistent finding in early national and state polls that they are not winning nearly as large a share of voters who disapprove of President Donald Trumpâs performance as they did during his first term. Paradoxically, that dynamic also could represent a major danger for Republicans if it proves unsustainable through November. Views about the incumbent presidentâs performance have become arguably the most powerful fact
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