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Friday, Apr 19

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The Real Youth-Vote Shift To Watch

Are young people turning away from the Democratic Party in 2024? Will turnout be as high as it was last time around? What about the gender gap? Today I'll do my best to address some pressing questions about how young folks will behave in…

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Time for a Bipartisan Presidency

Although Joe Biden is a lifelong Democrat, his political career was long defined by bipartisan compromises and reaching out to the Republican Party with legislative compromises, budget battle solutions, foreign policy consensus, and,…

Trump Campaigns From the Courtroom

Thursday on the RealClearPolitics radio show (Monday through Friday on SiriusXM's POTUS Channel 124), Andrew Walworth, Carl Cannon, and Emily Jashinsky (culture editor of The Federalist) discuss Donald Trump's strategy for campaigning…

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What's Most Important to Young Voters

For the last decade, top Democratic politicians, most notably Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden, have struggled to re-create the coalition of voters who elected Barack Obama twice.

Thursday, Apr 18

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This Year's Dem Convention Won't Be Replay of 1968

When the Democratic National Committee chose Chicago as the site of the party's 2024 national convention a year ago, no one knew incumbent presidential nominee Joe Biden would become the target of major antiwar demonstrations.

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If GOP Loses House Majority, It's Speaker Johnson's Fault

And actually, we'd be better off with a Democrat-controlled Congress (and an actual GOP opposition) than whatever this is.

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The Problem With Calling on Justice Sotomayor To Resign

As Justice Sonia Sotomayor approaches the 15th anniversary of her historic appointment to the Supreme Court, some liberal pundits and lawmakers want her to consider stepping down. They think that Sotomayor's health, and the possibility…

Will Johnson's Border Betrayal Produce a Democrat House?

When Mike Johnson was elected speaker, there were 222 Republicans and 213 Democrats: a nine-seat majority that allowed Republicans to lose the votes of four members but maintain a majority.

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How Trump Used New York Bodega Visit To Return to Form

There was Donald Trump, the former president, back in his element and enjoying himself in a crowd, posing for photographs, overstating his standing in the polls and suggesting that he is serious - truly - about winning an impossibly…

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GOP Bill Cracks Down on Foreign Dark Money 'Loophole'

A new bill aims to crack down on foreign billionaires using dark money networks to fund ballot measures in the United States using a workaround that critics say violates federal law.

A Quick End to Republicans' Mayorkas Impeachment Stunt

Senate Democrats put a quick end to Republicans' political stunt.

Democrats Lie About Biden Corruption, Put Trump on Trial

The Get Trump Democrats are beside themselves with glee about the former president being stuck in a Manhattan courtroom for the Stormy Daniels hush-money trial.

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Mike Johnson's Gambit Could Blow the GOP's Chances

Right-wing backlash in the House threatens Speaker Johnson's job - but blowback in the Senate could risk GOP seats

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Dems Probing Court 'Ethics' Face Charges of Hypocrisy

Senate Democrats investigating Leonard Leo and other conservative activists over their ties to Supreme Court justices pocketed donations from a wealthy businessman bankrolling organizations behind the high court "ethics" campaign -…

Wednesday, Apr 17

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Biden Has To Win Back His 2020 Voters

He has lost support in key voting blocs that helped him secure the White House last time.

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Senate Can Stop Expansion of Govt Surveillance

When the U.S. House passed the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act (RISAA), which reauthorizes the FISA Section 702 surveillance authority, it overlooked something big - an amendment that would drive the greatest expansion of…

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The Senate Should Dismiss Mayorkas Impeachment

Republicans' articles of impeachment fail to allege an impeachable offense and denigrate the Constitution.

Tuesday, Apr 16

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'Don't': Biden's Failed Foreign Policy Legacy

President Biden's foreign policy and leadership legacies were cemented in American voters' minds back in the summer of 2021, just months into his term.

It Took One Day for Trump To Get in Trouble at Trial

On Monday, People of New York v. Trump got underway in lower Manhattan. The substance of the day so far has been relatively routine-a final set of arguments over preliminary evidentiary motions and the start of jury selection.

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Day One of Trump's 'Hush Money' Trial

Monday on the RealClearPolitics radio show, Andrew Walworth, Tom Bevan, and Carl Cannon talk about the first day of Donald Trump's New York criminal trial and the Biden administration's response to the Iranian attack in Israel over the…

N.Y. Gives Trump the Anne Boleyn Treatment

Jury selection is underway in the case of The People of the State of New York vs. Donald J. Trump, which alleges that the defendant lied to his own check register, and lied to the general ledger of his own company, when the invoice given…

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The Fight To Curtail TikTok's U.S. Influence

One hundred and twenty minutes. That's how much time more than 40 percent of American children spent on TikTok every day last year

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Biden Needs To Worry About Voters in the Center, Not the Left

President falls behind with independents; ‘they don't see the White House for what it's actually doing'

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How Team Trump Will Approach Jury Selection in New York

The deception practically leaps off the pages of the documents at the core of the Trump hush money trial.

Rural Voters Are Not Out of Reach for Democrats

... is dismissing them as out of reach for Democrats.

A Striking Contrast on Trump Trial Day

Monday has been Trump Trial Day in the media, especially for those outlets openly cheering the prosecution of the former president on felony charges relating to recordkeeping for an NDA he made with a former porn actress.

Monday, Apr 15

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Trump Owns the Working Class Vote

The good news is that working class voters still outnumber highly educated voters by a large margin. That's bad news for Biden.

Why You Should Take Trump's Hush Money Trial Seriously

The deception practically leaps off the pages of the documents at the core of the Trump hush money trial.

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Trump's Best Defense in the Hush-Money Trial

Commentary on the case has consisted of accusations against Bragg and Merchan, but Trump has a strong defense on the merits.

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Empathy Was Biden's Superpower in 2020. Will It Be Again?

Whatever happened to the empathetic Joe Biden who won the 2020 presidential election?