While the 2020 census is still three years away, the fight for control of the congressional redistricting process is underway — in developing gubernatorial contests in a handful of key states. Yes, there are plenty of unknowns about reapportionment and redistricting, since the courts, the Trump Justice Department and state legislators will each play a […]
Americans who liked Donald Trump’s swagger during the campaign are pleased with his first two weeks in office. Really pleased. A veteran Republican campaign strategist told me he just saw a poll of GOP primary voters in a Southern state that found the president’s image as 93 percent favorable/3 percent unfavorable. Yes, you read that […]
During the campaign, there probably weren’t enough full-throated Donald Trump supporters on Capitol Hill to fill a minivan. But two Trump campaign aides could get elected in House special elections later this year, while another adviser may challenge a Republican senator in a primary next year. Their candidacies will test the popularity and allure of […]
President Donald Trump is off to a fast start, but that aggressiveness could produce the same sort of reaction that Barack Obama’s fast start did in 2009: It could lead to a midterm election in which voters apply the brakes. In 2010, voters told President Obama that he had gone too far, too fast, with […]
Donald Trump’s critics believe the new president is clueless (or worse), but he might be on track to avoid repeating former President Barack Obama’s biggest political mistake. Trump’s pre-inaugural press conference was widely panned, but his comments on the future of health care legislation were instructive. “The easiest thing would be to let it implode […]