Ronald Brownstein
Brownstein, a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, is a senior editor at The Atlantic & a senior political analyst for CNN.
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American Migration Patterns Should Terrify the GOP
Millennial movers have hastened the growth of left-leaning metros in southern red states, like Texas, Arizona, and Georgia. It could be the biggest political story of the 2020s.
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The "drip-drip-drip of young residents trickling down into red-state suburbs is helping to turn southern metros into Democratic strongholds," argues @DKThomp
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How Pundits May Be Getting Electability All Wrong
Democrats are obsessing over which candidate is most capable of beating Trump. But how voters gauge that is far more complicated than it may seem.
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In the Democratic 2020 race everyone talks about electability. But a massive new study of Democratic attitudes from @ThirdWayTweet out this morning finds that voters may not be defining it the way most political observers do. The details are here
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The 10 counties that will decide the 2020 election
Three years after a presidential election that came down to 77,000 votes in three Midwestern battlegrounds, Democrats and Republicans are eyeing a much larger battlefield ahead of the 2020 contests, one that stretches from the picturesque coastline...
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Great @PoliticsReid here: worth filing away for 2020-The 10 counties that will decide the 2020 election
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Texas Is Changing—Quickly
The wave of House Republican retirements from the Lone Star State is exciting Democrats who want their party to compete more aggressively there.
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The dominant Dem view remains #Texas too hard & expensive for prez nominee to seriously contest in 20. But rapid movement of major metros could increase pressure to play: @BetoORourke won 5 biggest urban counties in TX by ~800k votes, 6x Obama's margin.
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L.A.’s Health-Care Reform Is a Lesson for Democrats
In 2013, Los Angeles County implemented its own version of a “public option.” It’s delivered change, but not the revolution some advocates want.
Texas Is a Leader in Mass Shootings. Why Is the Governor Silent?
Greg Abbott’s failure to respond to shootings like the one in Odessa is a moral disaster.
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“Texas actually loosened restrictions on gun ownership with eight new laws, allowing guns everywhere from schools to foster homes and churches. These new laws took effect just hours after seven people were killed”
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Farmers’ Frustration With Trump Grows as U.S. Escalates China Fight
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, a somewhat unlikely lieutenant in the president’s trade war, is tasked with fending off a revolt from the heart of the president’s base.
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Can farmers complain if they vote for it? “Lucrative contracts that farmers long relied on for a significant source of income have evaporated, with Chinese buyers looking to other nations like Brazil and Canada to get the commodities they need.”
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Poll shows Biden, Warren tied with Trump in Arizona — The Hill
Former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen.
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In AZ Trump net approval is negative & he doesn’t clear 45% against any D there, though he leads all of them except Biden. The opportunity for Ds there signaled in 2018-particularly in Maricopa, largest US county Trump won in 16-clearly continues in 20
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The Limits of Trump’s White Identity Politics
The president is casting Democrats as the real racists to energize his base, but in doing so he’s hindering his capacity to reach beyond it.
Labor Dept. Moves to Expand Religion Exemption for Hiring and Firing
The policy director for a gay-rights group said the “proposed rule would permit taxpayer-funded discrimination.”
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Ronald Brownstein
“Examples of the type of discrimination this action condones include firing unmarried pregnant workers, workers who may not be coreligionists or who can’t sign a statement of faith, unmarried cohabiting workers and L.G.B.T. workers,” Ms. Goldberg said.
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Trump Has Enabled Israel’s Anti-Democratic Tendencies at Every Turn
The president tweeted that Israel should ban Representatives Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar from entering the country. Now, Israel has barred the women from visiting.
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"At every turn, the tight alliance between the Trump administration and the Netanyahu government has facilitated Israel’s drift to the right, further widening the gap between Israel and many of its Jewish allies in the United States."
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In El Paso Shooting Suspect’s Manifesto, an Echo of Trump’s Language
If the president did not originally inspire the gunman, he has brought into the mainstream polarizing ideas and people once consigned to the fringes of American society.
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"You look at what is marching up, that is an invasion!” Trump declared at 1 rally. “That is an invasion!” 9 months later, a white man is accused of... killing 20 people after announcing “this attack is a response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas.”
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When Hate Came to El Paso
The worst massacre aimed at Latinos in American history happened in my hometown, to my people.
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When Hate Came to El Paso: "the El Paso massacre — and that’s what it is...a premeditated massacre — was the inevitable byproduct of the Trump era’s anti-immigrant, and anti-Latino invective, which with its pervasive, vile racism has poisoned our nation."
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Biden’s Rivals Helped Him More Than He Helped Himself
In the latest debates, Warren, Sanders, and Harris all vied for the party’s progressives rather than testing the front-runner’s support with moderates.
Suburban women recoil as Trump dives into racial politics
BROOKFIELD, Wis. (AP) — Carol Evans approves of Donald Trump's immigration policy. She gives him credit for the strong economy. But the Republican from the affluent Milwaukee suburbs of Waukesha...
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“I did not think it was going to be as bad as it is — definitely narcissism and sexism, but I did not think it was going to be as bad as it is,” said Kathy Barnes ]in the Denver suburb Lone Tree. “I am just ashamed to be an American right now.”
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Will Trump’s Racist Attacks Help Him? Ask Blue-Collar White Women.
His strategy rests on a bet: that these voters will respond just as enthusiastically to his belligerence as working-class white men.
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These women are the weakest link in Trump’s strategy of polarizing around race and identity.
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Fox News Poll: Biden holds commanding lead for Democratic nomination
Joe Biden is the lone top tier candidate in the Democratic nomination race, according to the latest Fox News Poll.
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Trump stuck at 42% or less vs any major D (& below 40 vs Biden!) despite 52% approval on economy more evidence that he has alienated an unprecedented number of economically satisfied voters. He’s turned to open racism not only b/c he wants to: he needs to
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Trump Is Betting on Race in 2020. He May Not Have a Choice.
The president needs the voters who approve of his record on the economy but disapprove of him overall. His racist attacks this week only hurt that cause.
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New @NavigatorSurvey study documents key swing voters for 2020: those who approve of Trump's economic record but still disapprove of him overall. They r mostly less partisan suburban men & they trust him on managing econ, but not much else. Details here.
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A Fascist Trump Rally In Greenville
Scholars say the rally — where Trump supporters chanted "Send her back!" about Muslim Rep. Ilhan Omar — is an escalation in America's slide toward fascism.
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More Trump attendees: “And also I see, just like what’s happening to Europe, they’re trying to do here: invade our country & get enough people in to have voting power to take over & control our country, and that’s what it is, an invasion” huffpost.com/entry/fascist-… via @HuffPostPol
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Trump Goes All In on Racism
The president’s tweets are an invitation to a racial conflict that pits citizen against citizen, under the calculation that racism itself is a winning political strategy.
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Ronald Brownstein
Wow this is spot on from @GrahamDavidA on the progression from Lee Atwater to Donald Trump and I say that w/the advantage of actually having interviewed Atwater many times.
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