Transcript The next election is still two years away, but if you asked me today who will win the Senate in 2024, I would say Republicans. Why? It doesn’t have anything to do with the polls, or the candidates, or the economy. It’s because the 2024 Senate map is justContinue Reading
If Michigan passes an extreme risk protection order, it would be the 20th state to have some sort of red flag law on the books. Rebecca Cook / REUTERS A year ago, Democrats in the Michigan state Senate introduced a bill designed to create an extreme risk protection order law,Continue Reading
This week Nikki Haley became the first major candidate to challenge former President Donald Trump in the 2024 Republican presidential primary. She is a former state legislator and two term governor of South Carolina and former ambassador to the U.N. under Trump. If she were to win the nomination, sheContinue Reading
Fourteen states prohibit or restrict foreign ownership of private agricultural land, but that number may soon grow. ROBYN BECK / AFP via Getty Images The spy balloon spotted over Montana wasn’t the first recent incident to spark fears about national security and espionage in the U.S. Only a few yearsContinue Reading
SAUL LOEB / AFP via Getty Images It’s easy for one party to look unified when members of the other party constantly appear to be at each other’s throats. As stories of fissures among Republicans have made front-page news since the party narrowly took control of the House of Representatives,Continue Reading
PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY EMILY SCHERER / GETTY IMAGES Former President Donald Trump is no longer the only candidate in the 2024 Republican primary. On Tuesday Nikki Haley announced that she’s running for president too. Haley was the United Nations ambassador under Trump and a governor of South Carolina — andContinue Reading
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and former Speaker John Boehner both face or faced contentious negotiations over the debt ceiling, but as the leaders of two very different Republican caucuses. Al Drago / CQ Roll Call Political battles in Washington sometimes feature the hallmarks of a bad sequel that uses theContinue Reading
Robert Voets / CBS via Getty Images Looking for a last-minute Valentine’s Day reservation? It might be easier to get one this year than it was before the COVID-19 pandemic — and not just because some people are still avoiding dining indoors. A new survey from the American Enterprise Institute’sContinue Reading
In Part 3 of this week’s FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcast, the crew wonders whether the Republican Party can coalesce around an alternative to former President Donald Trump for the 2024 elections.Continue Reading
The U.S. shot down at least three unidentified flying objects over the weekend. We’re still waiting to find out what the deal is, but this focus on slow moving objects in U.S. airspace was kicked off by a Chinese spy balloon that the U.S. shot down earlier this month. TensionsContinue Reading
