The lawyer’s self-sure ways and penchant for media spectacle have led some to characterize him as the anti-Trump.
Tag: Democrats
🎧 The Daily: The Democrats’ Comeback Plan | New York Times
The party’s seemingly narrow strategy for the 2018 midterm elections belies its big hopes for the future.
🎧 The Daily: The Battle for Missouri, Part 1: The Anti-Abortion Democrat | New York Times
As the Democratic Party struggles to establish its identity in Missouri, the issue of abortion has taken center stage.
🎧 The Daily: The Dilemma for Red-State Democrats | New York Times
How the showdown over the Supreme Court is affecting crucial midterm races in the nation’s heartland.
🎧 ‘The Daily’: A Crossroads for the Democratic Party | New York Times
In Georgia, two women were locked in a close race for the Democratic nomination for governor. What does this primary tell us about the future of the Democratic Party?
On today’s episode:
• Jonathan Martin, a national political correspondent for The New York Times.
Background reading:
• Stacey Abrams, a former minority leader of the Georgia House, made history by becoming the first black woman to be a major party nominee for governor in the United States, defeating Stacey Evans in Georgia’s Democratic primary.
• The race between Ms. Abrams and Ms. Evans, two well-regarded candidates with starkly different campaign strategies, was viewed as a weather vane for the Democratic Party’s prospects in the midterm elections. Ms. Abrams banked on the support of young people, women, and African-American and Hispanic voters, while Ms. Evans reached out to moderate and conservative-leaning white voters.
• Here are the results for Tuesday’s primaries in Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky and Texas.
• Record numbers of women are running in the midterm elections, but the road to Capitol Hill is a hard one.
The party turned Trumpy before the 2016 election, not after
DONALD TRUMP is not a traditional Republican. His breaks with the party’s orthodoxy on several issues, and above all on free trade, have caused many Republican officials and conservative intellectuals to denounce his leadership. But although most party officials have embraced the president only half-heartedly, Republican voters seem to have far fewer reservations.