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There’s Actually a Good Reason Nikki Haley Hasn’t Dropped Out Yet

There’s Actually a Good Reason Nikki Haley Hasn’t Dropped Out YetNikki Haley’s presidential campaign started as an excellent adventure, but it now appears to many Republicans to be a bogus journey. Why is she still in the race after six consecutive stinging defeats? I have a theory: The answer might be buried in the Republican National Committee’s rules and their potential effect on her voice at the July convention. Haley will arrive in Milwaukee in possession of a cache of delegates — how many is unclear; at the moment, she has 20. The rules don’t simply give power to a candidate based on the number of delegates they possess. Candidates cannot have their names placed into nomination, and thereby get television airtime at the convention, unless they have a plurality of delegates in at least five states. That threshold makes a big difference for Haley in terms of her clout…


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In Alabama, Abortion and IVF Helped Flip A Red Seat in a Special Election

In Alabama, Abortion and IVF Helped Flip A Red Seat in a Special ElectionOn Tuesday, Alabama provided even more evidence of what we already know to be true: Abortion rights win elections.  Democrat Marilyn Lands won a special election for an Alabama state House seat, flipping a Republican-held seat by campaigning on abortion rights in the deep-red state that bans abortion with no exceptions for rape or incest. Lands won 62 percent of the nearly 6,000 votes cast, while her challenger, Republican Teddy Powell, won 37.5 percent, according to the unofficial election night results from the Alabama Secretary of State. The candidates were running to replace Republican David Cole, who resigned last year after he was arrested on a voting fraud charge. (Lands ran against Cole in 2022 and lost by just under 1,000 votes, or about 7 percentage points—making her win last night all the more significant.) Lands—a licensed…


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The Arab American Lawmaker Leading the Charge Against Joe Biden

The Arab American Lawmaker Leading the Charge Against Joe BidenIn late October, the Democratic floor leader of the Michigan House of Representatives, Abraham Aiyash, stood in front of thousands gathered in downtown Detroit to denounce a man who is vying to win another four years in the oval office. He spoke with the same urgency he had in 2020, when he addressed another crowd in Detroit to condemn then-President Donald Trump’s attempt to halt the vote count in the critical swing state. But now, he had a different target in mind. “We’re talking about Joe Biden,” Aiyash bellowed from a raised platform into a sea of red, white, green and black flags rippling in the wind — the colors of the Palestinian flag. “He stood with no spine and did not demand peace for the Palestinians, did not demand peace for the Israelis — but instead, continues to fund a…


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Trump Repeats Obama’s Mistake

Trump Repeats Obama’s MistakeDonald Trump has long detested Barack Obama and sought to present himself as the opposite of his presidential predecessor in every way. But in his takeover of the Republican National Committee, he risks echoing one of Obama’s biggest political mistakes.Last night, Trump’s handpicked leadership of the RNC took charge and conducted a purge. The new regime, led by the new chair, Michael Whatley; the vice chair, Lara Trump; and the chief of staff, Chris LaCivita, fired about 60 employees—about a quarter of the staff—as part of “streamlining.” The “bloodbath” includes members of the communications, data, and political departments. Insiders told Politico they anticipate that existing contracts with vendors will be voided.When the new leaders were announced last month, I suggested that the GOP was ceasing to function as a political party, and becoming another subsidiary of Trump Inc. But there is another way to view it. For…


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Will RFK, Jr. and Other Third Party Candidates Help Doom Democracy?

Will RFK, Jr. and Other Third Party Candidates Help Doom Democracy?In the summer of 2000, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the Democratic Party dynasty, took time out of his schedule as an environmental attorney to write an op-ed for the New York Times. In the piece, Kennedy hailed consumer advocate Ralph Nader as his “friend and hero,” but he lambasted him for mounting a third-party run for president. Nader could “siphon votes” from Vice President Al Gore, who was running against Texas Gov. George W. Bush, Kennedy warned, saying it was “irresponsible” for Nader to argue that there was “little distinction” between the Democratic and Republican nominees. A vote for Nader, Kennedy asserted, “is a vote for Mr. Bush” and for what he considered a disaster: the Republicans’ anti-environment agenda. That was then. Twenty-four years later, now an anti-­vaxxer and conspiracy theorist, Kennedy has broken with the Democratic…



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