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<title><![CDATA[Ronald Brownstein - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14849.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Ronald Brownstein]]></description><category domain="14849">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The GOP's Blue-State Blues]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/oMzUf</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ronald Brownstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After President Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s unexpectedly competitive showings in big blue states around the country, Republicans emerged from the 2024 election expressing optimism about their prospects in places that Democrats have dominated for years. But as the midterm election approaches,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why 'Late Regime' Presidencies Fail]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/why-late-regime-presidencies-fail/ar-BB1rabpT</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ronald Brownstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Presidents whom most voters view as failures, justifiably or not, have frequently shaped American politics long after they leave office'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'notably, by paving the way for presidencies considered much more successful and consequential. As President Joe Biden nears his final days in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What the Harris Team Thinks Went Wrong]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/what-the-harris-team-thinks-went-wrong/ar-AA1v7vrN?ocid=BingNewsVerp</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ronald Brownstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the past few days, four of the senior officials who directed Kamala Harris'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s presidential campaign spoke with me about how the race unfolded, from the chaotic first weeks after President Joe Biden'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s sudden withdrawal until the final hours of Election Day.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Common Experience That Explains Trump's Gains]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-common-national-experience-that-explains-trump-s-2024-gains/ar-AA1tVeDZ</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ronald Brownstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The most impressive aspect of Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s victory over Vice President Kamala Harris last week was the uniformity of his gains across the electoral landscape.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Democratic Theory of Winning With Less]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-democratic-theory-of-winning-with-less/ar-AA1tgrsT</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ronald Brownstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For years, the dominant belief in both parties has been that Democrats need to run up a big lead in the national presidential popular vote to win an Electoral College majority.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Harris Can Tackle the Clinton Factor]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/how-harris-can-tackle-the-clinton-factor/ar-BB1r1y2L?cvid=7a021eba4bcd4c5fadb783bca37b39b4&amp;ei=13</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ronald Brownstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Amid all the Democratic excitement about Vice President Kamala Harris'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s historic presidential candidacy, Hillary Clinton'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s 2016 loss to Donald Trump lingers like the ghost at the feast.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Biden's 2024 Choice Could Reshape Senate, SCOTUS]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/09/politics/senate-races-biden-analysis/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ronald Brownstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The stakes for Democrats in their extraordinary public schism over whether President Joe Biden should withdraw from the 2024 presidential race extend far beyond the White House. A decisive loss at the top of the ticket could cost Democrats control of the US Senate for the remainder of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's Electoral College Challenge]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-s-electoral-college-challenge/ar-AA1nZPtZ</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ronald Brownstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Joe Biden won a decisive Electoral College victory in 2020 by restoring old Democratic advantages in the Rust Belt while establishing new beachheads in the Sun Belt.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A War on Blue America]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/a-war-on-blue-america/ar-AA1l8LbB</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ronald Brownstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[During his term'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' in the White House, Donald Trump governed as a wartime president'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'with blue America, rather than any foreign country, as the adversary. He sought to use national authority to achieve factional ends'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'to impose the priorities of red America onto Democratic-leaning...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Virginia Could Decide Future of GOP's Abortion Policy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/virginia-could-decide-the-future-of-the-gop-s-abortion-policy/ar-AA1hShnH</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ronald Brownstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A crucial new phase in the political struggle over abortion rights is unfolding in suburban neighborhoods across Virginia.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Red States Are Rolling Back the Rights Revolution]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/red-states-are-rolling-back-the-rights-revolution/ar-AA1gvuWe</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 10 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ronald Brownstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The struggle'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' over the sweeping red-state drive to roll back civil rights and liberties has primarily moved to the courts.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Post-Racial Republicans]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/06/nikki-haley-tim-scott-2024-election-racial-inequity/674511/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ronald Brownstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One of the core beliefs that binds the modern GOP coalition is rejection of the idea that minorities and women face structural bias in American society.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Still Haven't Received the Memo on Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/21/politics/donald-trump-indictment-gop-2024/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ronald Brownstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Amid all the other uncertainties surrounding the possible indictment of Donald Trump, the flurry of events has made one thing unequivocally clear: the former president remains the center of the GOP universe.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What's Really Going On With the Crime Rate?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/what-s-really-going-on-with-the-crime-rate/ar-AA13aXNp</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ronald Brownstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Cities with progressive prosecutors may not exactly resemble the dystopian landscapes you've heard so much about.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Will Happen in Georgia?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/what-will-happen-in-georgia/ar-AA12Hpro</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ronald Brownstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The three dozen young Black men and women who gathered in a church meeting room last Friday night were greeted with a rousing exhortation that had the added benefit of being true.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Does the Philadelphia D.A. Do Now?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/what-does-the-philadelphia-d-a-do-now/ar-AA129ERW</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ronald Brownstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Depending on whom you ask, Larry Krasner is either embattled or thriving.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Abortion vs. Inflation Election]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-abortion-vs-inflation-election/ar-AA11Rick</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ronald Brownstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Instead of offering voters contrasting solutions to the same problems, the two parties are highlighting entirely different issues.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Dems Break the GOP Stranglehold on the States?]]></title>
							<link>https://edition.cnn.com/2022/09/13/politics/state-politics-democrats-republicans-2030-fault-lines/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ronald Brownstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Over the past two years, Republicans have used their dominant hold on most state legislatures to advance a polarizing agenda moving social policy sharply to the right on issues from abortion and voting to book bans and classroom teaching of race and gender.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the Forecast for November Is Changing]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/30/politics/fault-lines-forecast-november-republicans-democrats/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ronald Brownstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was a referendum. Now it's a choice. For political professionals in both parties, that's the capsule explanation for why the Democratic position in the midterm elections appears to have improved so much since summer began.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Liz Cheney Already Has a 2024 Strategy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/liz-cheney-s-kamikaze-campaign/ar-AA10LIkV</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ronald Brownstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[To save the Republican party, the defeated Wyoming representative may first have to destroy it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Are Latinos Really Realigning Toward Republicans?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/are-latinos-really-realigning-toward-republicans/ar-AAZPlQq</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ronald Brownstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Once the backbone of the Democratic base, working-class white voters have been migrating toward the Republican Party since the 1960s, largely out of alienation from the Democrats'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' liberal stands on cultural and racial issues. Half a century later, those working-class white...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Still Have Options To Fight Climate Change]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/mother-nature-dissents/ar-AAZBpYw</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ronald Brownstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[From Texas to California, voters are enduring rude wake-up calls about the future of our country.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Democrats Might Be Able To Blunt a Red Wave]]></title>
							<link>https://edition.cnn.com/2022/07/12/politics/democrats-prevent-red-wave-midterm-elections-analysis/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ronald Brownstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[To avoid the worst-case scenario in November, Democrats must defy one of the most powerful trends shaping modern congressional elections. Recent polls have provided them a glimmer of optimism that they might do just that.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is the Biden Administration Out of Time?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/is-biden-a-man-out-of-time/ar-AAZ33Ly</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ronald Brownstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democrats have a growing sense of panic about conservative advances but are not seeing a president who shares their urgency.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America Is Growing Apart, Possibly for Good]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/america-is-growing-apart-possibly-for-good/ar-AAYOl0V</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ronald Brownstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The great convergence of the mid-20th century may have been an anomaly.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[House Democrats Reach Stunning Milestone for Party Unity]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/21/politics/house-democrats-vote-unity/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ronald Brownstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It may be cold comfort as a stormy midterm election approaches, but House Democrats have achieved a modern milestone in this legislative session that crystallizes a fundamental transformation in how Congress operates.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is This the End of the George Floyd Moment?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/is-this-the-end-of-the-george-floyd-moment/ar-AAYe3yr</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ronald Brownstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Los Angeles and San Francisco election results add pressure on Democrats to balance criminal-justice reform with public safety.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Democrats' Midterm Identity Crisis]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-democrats-midterm-identity-crisis/ar-AAX908A</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-democrats-midterm-identity-crisis/ar-AAX908A]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ronald Brownstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Biden's agenda is stuck. His party hasn't figured out how to replace it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the GOP Offensive on Abortion Is Escalating]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/19/politics/abortion-laws-red-states-republicans/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ronald Brownstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When three red states finalized severe restrictions on abortion over consecutive days last week, they highlighted the GOP's rising militancy on the issue -- and the political and legal calculations underpinning it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Life Feel Even Remotely Normal by the Midterms?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/biden-e2-80-99s-uncertainty-principle/ar-AAVe3v0?ocid=BingNewsSearch</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ronald Brownstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'return to normalcy'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' in American life is starting to look something like the horizon: It recedes whenever you approach it. For President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats anxious about the November midterm elections, nothing could be more ominous.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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