A new Mike Downs Center for Indiana Politics poll shows Ted Cruz leading the GOP presidential race with 45%, followed by Donald Trump at 29% and John Kasich at 13%.


A new Mike Downs Center for Indiana Politics poll shows Ted Cruz leading the GOP presidential race with 45%, followed by Donald Trump at 29% and John Kasich at 13%.
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“President Trump is molding D.C. into his own personal Epcot — a political theme park where troops keep the peace, the White House glitters like Mar-a-Lago and museums answer to…
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Nate Silver: “Democrats don’t merely have to reciprocate — tit-for-tat might be a game-theory optimal strategy over the long run, but it doesn’t work as well if you’re always a…
Paul Krugman: “Donald Trump is threatening to fire Lisa Cook, a member of the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, over allegations that she made false claims on mortgage applications before…
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This year’s most far-reaching immigration case is likely to decide if immigration agents in Los Angeles are free to stop, question and arrest Latinos they suspect are here illegally, the…
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) ontinued to pull huge crowds in Wisconsin and Chicago this weekend for his “Fight Oligarchy” tour, the Chicago Sun Times reports. Sanders said the nation is…
“Ken Martin is in the fight of his life,” the AP reports. “The low-profile political operative from Minnesota, just six months on the job as chairman of the Democratic National…
Playbook: “The silence from Putin is still deafening, 10 days on from his tête-à-tête with Trump in Alaska. Trump had initially hoped a follow-up summit with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky…
President Trump explicitly suggested last night that former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie could be next in line for “justice” after watching Christie criticize him on ABC News. Save to…
Ankush Khardori: “Donald Trump’s second term in office has been marked by a series of unprecedented and highly controversial law enforcement decisions — everything from mass pardons to an immigration…
National Guard members in Washington are now carrying weapons and “detentions may occur leading to arrests,” potentially deepening the military’s involvement in President Trump’s federal takeover of D.C. police, the…
A posthumous and “unsparing” memoir by one of Jeffrey Epstein’s most prominent accusers, Virginia Giuffre, will be published this autumn, Politico reports. Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and…
“As Republicans look to flip House seats through redistricting in Texas and other red states, they have a pickup opportunity in what was once deep blue North Jersey, without having…
“Democrats on Sunday pushed back against President Trump’s characterization of blue-state cities as crime-ridden and lawless, which the White House has used to justify calling up National Guard troops and…
“Officials in a large North Texas county decided this week to cut more than 100 Election Day polling sites and reduce the number of early voting locations, amid growing concern…
President Trump lashed out at Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) — accusing him of taking a “nasty and provocative tone” in a letter inviting Trump to a public safety walk…
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