The New York Times’s Sunday interview with Scott Pelley, formerly of CBS’s “60 Minutes” is a gobsmacker.
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The primaries Tuesday in California, Iowa, Montana, New Jersey, South Dakota and New Mexico provide insight into how the midterms are shaping up.
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Say what you will, President Trump’s endorsement is still mighty powerful in primaries. Last week, seven days before Tuesday’s Senate runoff in Texas, Mr. Trump endorsed the scandal-plagued state attorney general, Ken Paxton, over Sen. John Cornyn.
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Now that the Virginia Supreme Court has thrown out state Democrats’ attempted gerrymander, the battlefield for the House this fall is coming into focus.
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Why shouldn’t Democrats be confident of a big midterm sweep in November? Part of it is the latest battle in America’s redistricting wars.
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Hand it to President Trump. He got the Indiana scalps he wanted. He and his allies targeted seven incumbent Republican state senators up for re-election this year. At least five lost their primaries on Tuesday. A sixth leads by three votes.
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As Republicans face a tough election, they must remember the words of Zhang Yu, a commentator on the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War”: “Attack is the secret of defense.”
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The Republican Party faces problems. The Democratic Party is a mess, too. In September 2018, before Democrats flipped 42 House seats, Gallup found that 44% of Americans approved of the Democratic Party while 52% disapproved.
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