The press has a theory about August. Senate Republicans, we are told, would love to spend the recess hammering Democrats and defending their majority, and the only thing standing in their way is Donald Trump, looming over the caucus like weather. The framing is that an intraparty squabble over the President's top priority is the inconvenience, and that leadership deserves credit for wanting to move past it.
Larry Ward, Chairman of the Constitutional Rights PAC, has a message for Senate Republicans heading home for the August recess: the base is watching, the base is counting, and the base is done being managed.
After the Supreme Court rejected his administration's broader assault on birthright citizenship, President Trump is taking a narrower but potentially more effective approach: he's attacking the problem from a different angle using presidential immigration authority.
Abdul El-Sayed scraped out a victory in Michigan's Democratic Senate primary that should terrify the party's leadership heading into November. Not because he won, but because of how narrowly he won—and what the demographic breakdown tells us about his viability against Republican Mike Rogers.
For weeks, the chattering class insisted that Tuesday's Democratic primaries would settle once and for all whether the party's progressive wing had seized control. Instead, the results revealed something far more damaging to Democratic unity: the party is hopelessly fractured, with no clear winner in any direction.
Voters are heading to the polls today in five states around the country, and the results will provide a stunning window into which faction controls the Democratic Party heading into the general election. What we will likely see is the answer that terrifies Democratic moderates: the woke left is winning.
A new wave of data reveals a political shift so steady and surprising that even seasoned analysts are taking notice.