[ad_1] “She’s running as a conservative. Trump’s running as a populist,” said Alex Conant, a Republican strategist and former adviser to Marco Rubio’s 2016 and Tim Pawlenty’s 2012 presidential campaigns. “Haley’s challenge is that the party is increasingly a populist party.” It was a pre-Trump, conservative ideology that marked Haley’s rise as a tea party … Read more
[ad_1] To explore how Swift’s influence has grown and how the attacks could backfire on the GOP, POLITICO Magazine reached out to Brian Donovan, a University of Kansas professor who teaches a popular college course called “The Sociology of Taylor Swift.” “The Swiftie fan is arguably the most immersive and intense fandom in the U.S. … Read more
[ad_1] The McCarthy revenge campaign is ready to marshal the former speaker’s considerable donor network on behalf of Republican primary candidates who are deemed strong enough to pose a credible threat to one of the eight. “These traitors chose to side with Nancy Pelosi, AOC and over 200 Democrats to undermine the institution, their fellow … Read more
[ad_1] Trump’s restraint made it easier for House Republicans to steer the deal to overwhelming bipartisan passage. By contrast, the president’s vocal opposition has essentially put the Senate’s emerging border deal on life support. With every day that Trump draws closer to the GOP’s presidential nomination, his voice carries more weight within the party. The … Read more
[ad_1] Infrastructure Fixing bridges, building tunnels and expanding broadband Successive presidents tried for so many years to pass infrastructure legislation that it became a running joke in Washington. Maybe that’s one reason polls show that voters don’t know that Biden finally broke that logjam, and did it with support from lawmakers of both political parties. … Read more
[ad_1] Trump had his biggest online fundraising day right after Haley — and his brought in nine times as much money as hers had. Haley and Trump are now the only major candidates left in the GOP primary. And fundraising data from the campaigns and the Republican online donation platform WinRed, filed with the Federal … Read more
[ad_1] Cartoon Carousel Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in the world of politics. The fruits of these labors are hundreds of cartoons that entertain and enrage readers of all political stripes. Here’s an offering … Read more
[ad_1] Let’s go back to December: A wild theory gained traction on far-right corners of social media after Swift was named Time magazine’s person of year on Dec. 6. Last month, Fox News host Jesse Watters did a segment about the idea, playing a clip from a NATO conference that he said backed up the … Read more
[ad_1] Relations between the world’s two largest emitters seem relatively stable right now, with a continued thawing of U.S.-China tensions and President Joe Biden’s pick Wednesday of John Podesta, a climate heavy hitter with deep experience in U.S.-China diplomacy, to succeed John Kerry as U.S. climate envoy. But former President Donald Trump looms, as do … Read more
[ad_1] “We are currently seeing what I’ve called the holy grail of non-inflationary growth,” EY-Parthenon chief economist Gregory Daco said before the report. “We have an environment where the economy’s still moving forward at a relatively decent clip, and we have inflation that’s falling back toward the Fed’s target. It’s the best of both worlds … Read more