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Political analysis from The Washington Post's @aaronblake, @byamberphillips, @eugene_scott and @riegerreport.

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The Fix@thefix
2 Apr 2025
The Elon Musk experiment looks like a political failure wapo.st/4j8ncrM

Analysis | The Elon Musk experiment looks like a political failure

The Wisconsin Supreme Court race just made it so Republicans could no longer ignore something right in front of their eyes.

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2 Apr 2025
3 takeaways from the Wisconsin and Florida elections wapo.st/4ceAvVr

Analysis | 3 takeaways from the Wisconsin and Florida elections

Democrats won a Wisconsin Supreme Court race and lost two Florida special elections Tuesday, but the trends are clearly pointing in their direction.

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1 Apr 2025
JD Vance’s strained claims about a wrongly deported man wapo.st/3E2HDHM

Analysis | JD Vance’s strained claims about a wrongly deported man

Vance cast the man as being acceptable collateral damage, but his summary takes some real liberties.

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31 Mar 2025
What if the Trump administration deports the wrong people? wapo.st/443VfNs

Analysis | What if the Trump administration deports the wrong people?

The downside of ditching due process.

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31 Mar 2025
Trump allies said for years talk of a third term was a joke. Now it isn’t. wapo.st/4hY5eY9

Analysis | Trump allies said for years that talk of a third term was a joke. Now it isn’t.

Trump allies often wrongly downplay his intentions. Here’s what many of them have said about his frequent musings on serving a third term.

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28 Mar 2025
So are we actually taking Greenland? Vance doesn’t seem too sure. wapo.st/3FMNMsg

Analysis | So are we actually taking Greenland? Vance doesn’t seem too sure.

Vance on Friday spoke of this idea more as a security alliance than an annexation. That doesn’t align with Trump.

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28 Mar 2025
A telling poll on GOP tolerance for Trump’s authoritarian actions wapo.st/4j5LfHI

Analysis | A telling poll on GOP tolerance for Trump’s authoritarian actions

The vast majority of Republicans say a president should obey court orders. It comes with a “but.”

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27 Mar 2025
Stefanik’s pulled nomination points to GOP electoral fear wapo.st/42aHw4Z

Analysis | Stefanik’s pulled nomination points to GOP electoral fear

Trump carried Rep. Elise Stefanik’s district by 21 points. But there was increasing reason to believe a special election there might not have been a slam dunk.

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26 Mar 2025
Poll: Signal chat leak more serious than Clinton emails, Trump documents wapo.st/4iHso63

Analysis | Poll: Signal chat leak more serious than Clinton emails, Trump documents

The Trump team is treating this as no big deal. Early polling shows more Americans see it as a big deal than ever said the same of Clinton’s and Trump’s previous controversies.

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26 Mar 2025
The Trump team keeps digging wapo.st/3FIdzBJ

Analysis | Trump team keeps digging on Signal chat leak

It’s new conspiracy theory targets the journalist who revealed the Signal scandal. But it only reinforces how dangerous the administration’s actions could be.

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26 Mar 2025
How the Signal transcript undermines key Trump administration claims wapo.st/3DWuxvD
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26 Mar 2025
Was classified info on Signal? Trump team doesn’t seem totally sure. wapo.st/3XUjLgr

Analysis | Was classified information on Signal? Trump team doesn’t seem totally sure.

A Senate hearing Tuesday highlighted the apparent internal uncertainty -- if not an attempt to focus blame on one figure.

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25 Mar 2025
The Trump team’s strained spin on its war plan leak, broken down wapo.st/4j1vAcH
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24 Mar 2025
Trump’s shocking military plan leak epitomizes a sloppy operation wapo.st/426m1Cy

Analysis | Trump’s shocking military plan leak epitomizes a sloppy operation

The administration inadvertently shared plans for strikes on Yemen’s Houthi rebels ahead of time with a prominent journalist. It’s of a piece with all that came before it.

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24 Mar 2025
Why Charles Schumer could be in trouble wapo.st/4bXt2df

Analysis | Why Charles Schumer could be in trouble

Polling shows the Senate Democratic leader is in a historically bad position for a party leader, as some call to replace him.

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20 Mar 2025
On concessions to Russia, Trump and Americans are on different pages wapo.st/4ht0MAv

Analysis | On concessions to Russia, Trump and Americans are on different pages

Polling has shown Americans don’t like Trump’s kid-gloves approach to Russia. And a new poll shows they might not like his potential concessions.

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20 Mar 2025
More than a dozen judges have said Trump and Co. probably broke the law wapo.st/41CJdYJ

Analysis | More than a dozen judges have said Trump and Co. probably broke the law

Trump is now averaging one such finding about every four days.

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13 Mar 2025
Americans are primed to blame Trump and the GOP for a shutdown. But. wapo.st/3FoGESw

Analysis | Americans are primed to blame Trump and the GOP for a shutdown. But.

A new poll shows many more Americans would blame President Trump and Republicans than Democrats. But it’s not just as simple as that.

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13 Mar 2025
The right shows growing signs of concern with Trump’s moves wapo.st/41QOnAm

Analysis | The right shows growing signs of concern with Trump’s moves

A new poll shows 3 in 10 Republicans say Trump has been “too erratic,” and it’s of a piece with other recent polls.

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12 Mar 2025
Democrats’ impossible choice on the shutdown wapo.st/3R3Udt9

Analysis | Democrats’ impossible choice on the shutdown

Gaming out the pros and cons of a very difficult vote for the blue side.

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