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Comey’s testimony: No smoking gun, but four political bombshells
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Though former FBI Director James Comey didn’t hand over any smoking gun evidence of either collusion between aides to Donald Trump and Russian agents or obstruction of justice by...
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Trump isn’t the main issue anymore
How many times have we been through this? Donald Trump commits some colossal trespass of existing political morality (no, that is not an oxymoron), and frenzied friends and foes ask, “Is this it? Is...
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4 ways Trumpcare victory could haunt House GOP
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The House of Representatives narrowly passed a health care bill Thursday that received no votes from Democrats and barely enough from Republicans. Speaker Paul Ryan and President...
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2020 vision: Who are the Dems eyeing for next time?
After the unpredicted, shocker elections of Barack Obama and Donald Trump, predicting whom the Democrats might nominate in 2020 is a fool’s errand. But fools must run errands, too, and the lists of...
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House health care vote: Decoding the smoke signals
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The House of Representatives on Thursday is scheduled to vote on the American Health Care Act, the Republican legislation intended to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act....
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Decoding the TrumpCare plan
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Using the unofficial new White House platform of record, Twitter, President Donald Trump embraced the health care plan unveiled Monday by House Republicans as “our” package. This...
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What Trump supporters say about Trump
WASHINGTON — A few weeks ago, I asked supporters of President Trump to e-mail me their views of how he is doing so far. They did, and I thank everyone who took the time to write. This is not, of...
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A confident Trump addresses a divided GOP Congress
WASHINGTON, D.C. — It is obvious and probably redundant to say that President Donald Trump’s first address to a joint session of Congress was a political event without precedent or prototype. The...
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WATCH LIVE AT 9 P.M. ET: President Trump addresses Congress
President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress on Tuesday for the first time. “The theme will be the renewal of the American spirit,” according the White House press secretary Sean...
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Democrats can’t pussyfoot around Trump
The practice of waging legislative “total war” against a White House controlled by the opposition is fairly new to American politics. It was invented after Bill Clinton was elected in 1992. A...
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The silence of the lambs: Democrats in defeat
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Fool us once, shame on us. Fool us twice, a pox upon our house. Along with too few others, I am mortified that President-elect Donald Trump is successfully fooling the custodians...
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What our undecided voters ultimately decided
DecodeDC has followed four “voters on the fence” since early September. They graciously agreed to share with us — and you, the readers — what they were thinking as they tried to decide on which...
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The final daze of 2016 campaign: Races are tight, stomachs in knots
There was a perfect tweet during the rain delay in the epic seventh game of the World Series: “Most Americans want neither of these teams to lose. Most Americans want neither of these presidential...
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Undecided voters getting more conflicted as election nears
DecodeDC is following four undecided voters as part of “Voters on the Fence,” a series of stories about people who are struggling to make a decision about which presidential candidate is right for...
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The next Trump might win if we ignore real political reform
When this miserable but revelatory election is finally over, the country’s most serious need will not be national security or economic. It will be political: Repairing the near total erosion of public...
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2016 election roundup: Nothing is certain in this year of uncertainty
If this were a remotely normal election year, it would be over. All of the data now points to a landslide victory for Hillary Clinton. Unpredictable, however, has beaten predictable all year. The...
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Second presidential debate solidifies or moves undecided voters toward Clinton
DecodeDC is following four undecided voters as part of “Voters on the Fence,” a series of stories about people who are struggling to make a decision about which presidential candidate is right for...
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Are you an undecided voter? You’ve got company
You might find it hard to believe that after so many months and so much partisanship, and now with so little time left, an unusually large percentage of voters remain undecided —unless you happen to...
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America needs a vast leftwing conspiracy
I have good news and I have bad news. First, the bad news: The lead Hillary Clinton’s enjoyed in national polls for most of August has been cut roughly in half. The good news: Much of the #NeverTrump...
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For Trump supporters, election fraud is a real fear
It’s become one of Donald Trump’s go-to lines: If he doesn’t win in November, it will be because of a rigged election. “First of all, it [the primary season] was rigged, and I'm afraid the [general]...
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