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<title><![CDATA[Dan Balz - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14418.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Dan Balz]]></description><category domain="14418">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[After 47 Years at The Post, It's Transition Time]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/after-47-years-on-the-political-beat-for-the-post-it-s-transition-time/ar-AA1JOnNH</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dan Balz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I plan to remain affiliated with The Post and, after a break, will continue to report and write about what has been a lifelong education in politics and government. The story of this moment in America compels continued attention. But I will go at a different pace, in recognition of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. Strikes Iran Hard and World Waits for What's Next]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trump-strikes-iran-hard-and-the-world-waits-for-what-comes-next/ar-AA1Hbgjx</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dan Balz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There is no way to overstate the significance of what Trump has set in motion or to predict how it will end. The attack, both extraordinary and unprecedented, represents a watershed moment in the history of the Middle East.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Musk &amp; DOGE a Metaphor for Early Months of Trump 2.0]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/musk-and-doge-are-a-metaphor-for-early-months-of-trump-s-administration/ar-AA1FRTO8</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dan Balz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Elon Musk said Friday that he is mostly done with Washington, but he leaves behind unfinished business, considerable damage and lowered expectations for his U.S. DOGE Service. He and the cost-cutting initiative are a metaphor for the first months of President Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s second...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' a Big Risk for House GOP]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-big-beautiful-bill-is-a-big-risk-for-house-republicans-many-of-them-hope-otherwise/ar-AA1FqZO1</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dan Balz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The 2026 midterm elections are still far into the future, but Republicans are placing a big and risky bet that they can survive the coming attacks on President Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s spending and tax cut bill and the potential impact of his erratic tariff policies. History is not on their...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[For Dems, No Escaping (For Now) Biden 2024 Hangover]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/for-democrats-there-s-no-escaping-for-now-the-biden-hangover-from-2024/ar-AA1EZzAb</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dan Balz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The verdict is in. Joe Biden is to blame. So too are the advisers who protected him in the White House by hiding his frailties. Together they unwittingly choreographed the comeback of President Donald Trump. The country is living with the consequences, and the Democratic Party is looking...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[An Unpopular President Continues To Push Radical Changes]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/an-unpopular-president-continues-to-push-radical-changes-on-the-country/ar-AA1DHkLK?ocid=BingNewsVerp</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dan Balz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Headlines this weekend describe Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s presidency as in decline. His poll numbers are falling. His Pentagon is in disarray over its leader.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Claims Unfettered Presidential Power on Immigration]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-claims-unfettered-presidential-power-on-immigration/ar-AA1DfT68</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dan Balz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[From the day he came down the escalator to announce his candidacy for the White House, President Donald Trump has had one go-to issue in his political playbook: immigration. He rode it to the White House in 2016 and again in 2024. He has now ridden it into a major confrontation with the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Trump Just Winging His Radical Agenda?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/trump-is-pursuing-a-radical-agenda-does-he-have-a-strategy-or-is-he-winging-it/ar-AA1CPhww</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dan Balz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For the first weeks of the new administration, it was possible to believe, whatever anyone thought of the specific initiatives and actions, that President Donald Trump and his team had a plan of action with specific goals in mind and the discipline to implement it. So much for that.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Starts Trade War, GOP Held Hostage to Outcome]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/trump-starts-a-trade-war-and-republicans-are-hostage-to-the-outcome/ar-AA1CnRCK</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dan Balz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump has long campaigned against endless wars. Now, he has started one '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' not a shooting war but a'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' trade war'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' of unforeseeable length that is upending the global economic system and already punishing consumers and investors.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Trump Talk of Shuttering Education Dept a Con Job?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/trump-wants-to-shut-the-education-department-is-it-sleight-of-hand/ar-AA1z9aUl</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dan Balz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Speaking to reporters last week, President Donald Trump described the Education Department as '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'a big con job,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' adding, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'d like to close it immediately.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' But is all the talk by administration officials about shuttering the department the real con job?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Shocks System. Will He Solve Problems Voters Care About?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/trump-shocks-the-system-will-he-solve-problems-voters-care-about-most/ar-AA1xSBSx</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dan Balz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For President Donald Trump, the first week of his second term was everything he had promised, with multiple attacks on executive agencies, undocumented immigrants, perceived enemies and other obstacles. It was, however, only Week 1 of a four-year term and far too early for him to hang up...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[J6 &amp; Trump&rsquo;s Subversion Took Center Stage. Will It Sway Voters?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/jan-6-and-trump-s-subversion-took-center-stage-will-that-sway-voters/ar-AA1rM0Kd</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 06 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dan Balz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Nobody planned it this way, but the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, former president Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s role in attempting to subvert the 2020 election and the issue of protecting democracy emerged as the theme of the presidential campaign last week.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[After Bad Debate, Trump Spirals Into Conspiracy Theories]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-can-t-accept-his-poor-debate-so-he-s-spiraled-into-conspiracy-theories/ar-AA1qAJBV</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dan Balz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump tried again, saying, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'But, the people on television saying their dog was eaten by the people that went there.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Muir countered once more. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Again, the Springfield city manager says there is no evidence of that,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' he said. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'We'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ll find out,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' an...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Arizona Supreme Court Upends Trump's Gambit on Abortion]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/the-arizona-supreme-court-just-upended-trump-s-gambit-on-abortion/ar-BB1llUyh</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dan Balz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It took little more than a day for'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' political gambit on'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' abortion'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' to come undone.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Isn't Speaker Johnson Acting on His Priorities?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/speaker-johnson-says-he-has-priorities-so-why-hasn-t-he-acted-on-them/ar-BB1ir67H</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dan Balz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has held his position for barely four months, not long by anyone'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s standards, but long enough to ask this question: Does he have any major priority other than survival?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Haley Taunts Trump. He Takes Bait. Will She Keep It Up?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/nikki-haley-taunts-trump-and-he-takes-the-bait-will-she-keep-it-up/ar-BB1hm9wo</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dan Balz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' doesn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t respond well to women who challenge, question or mock him. They bring out the worst in him.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Nikki Haley'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' is'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' doing all three'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' and has turned the Republican nomination contest into something worth watching.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Haley Needs a NH Jolt To Stop Trump. But Where&rsquo;s the Energy?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/haley-needs-a-new-hampshire-jolt-to-stop-trump-but-where-s-the-energy/ar-BB1gZYM3</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dan Balz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Something is missing in New Hampshire. If there is real competition here, few can sense it. On this final weekend before Tuesday'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s first-in-the-nation primary election, a time when presidential candidates should be in a frenzied push to persuade voters, the state is unusually quiet.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Haley Poised for 2nd Place in Iowa. But Can She Deliver Her Voters?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/haley-seems-poised-for-second-place-in-iowa-but-can-she-deliver-her-voters/ar-AA1mXZgB</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dan Balz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was another big crowd that greeted Nikki Haley at a barbecue restaurant here on Sunday afternoon. Onlookers unable to squeeze in peered through the windows of the room where she was speaking. On the eve of Monday'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s caucuses, her candidacy continues to draw attention.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Haley Has 'Mo,' But Can She Pass DeSantis To Take On Trump?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/nikki-haley-has-momentum-but-can-she-pass-desantis-to-take-on-trump/ar-AA1jLnEV</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/nikki-haley-has-momentum-but-can-she-pass-desantis-to-take-on-trump/ar-AA1jLnEV]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dan Balz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Nikki Haley'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s stock has risen in the Republican Party, and recent polls bolster her claim that she would be the party'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s strongest general election candidate against President Biden next November. Right now, however, she is on a collision course with Ron DeSantis in a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Phillips&rsquo;s Challenge to Biden Makes Dems Ask if 80 Is Too Old]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/dean-phillips-s-challenge-to-biden-makes-democrats-ask-if-80-is-too-old/ar-AA1j0x7e</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/dean-phillips-s-challenge-to-biden-makes-democrats-ask-if-80-is-too-old/ar-AA1j0x7e]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dan Balz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Half a century ago, a politician from Minnesota challenged a sitting president for the Democratic presidential nomination. His name was Eugene McCarthy, and the U.S. senator'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s candidacy helped drive then-President Lyndon B. Johnson to the sidelines in 1968. Rep. Dean Phillips...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Border Crisis a Burden Biden Carries Into 2024 Election]]></title>
							<link>https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/07/record-border-crossings-are-burden-biden-carries-into-2024-election/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dan Balz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The administration announced that it will build new border wall in South Texas while insisting that it still believes that a wall is not a solution]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[McCarthy Turns Impeachment Into Political Score-Settling]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/kevin-mccarthy-turns-impeachment-into-political-score-settling/ar-AA1gOQt7</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 17 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dan Balz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said the reasons he decided to open an impeachment inquiry into President Biden were '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'allegations'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' involving Hunter Biden'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s business dealings that suggest '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'a culture of corruption'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' by the Biden family. He provided nothing...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[At GOP Debate, &lsquo;Democracy&rsquo; Wasn't In the Conversation]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/democracy-was-on-the-wall-at-the-gop-debate-it-was-never-in-the-conversation/ar-AA1fNUyT</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 27 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dan Balz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The word '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'DEMOCRACY'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' was emblazoned in all-capital letters on the back wall of the stage at the Republican presidential'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' debate in Milwaukee'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' on Wednesday, a seeming reminder of what is at stake in the 2024 election. Yet during two hours of bickering and disagreement among...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why 2022 Broke for Dems &amp; What It Means for 2024]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 21 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dan Balz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Turnout in critical states in 2022 favored Democrats. Can the party replicate that in 2024?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[For Biden, Navigating Debt Ceiling an Early Test of 2024 Plan]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dan Balz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president wants the strongest possible economy in 2024, but a misstep in handling the faceoff against House Republicans could hurt that goal.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Key Demographics for the Midterm Elections]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dan Balz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The four groups of voters that will prove critical to results in the 2022 midterm elections.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Pennsylvania, Michigan &amp; Wisconsin Still Hold Keys to 2020]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dan Balz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Barely a week out from Election Day, the electoral map is a sprawling landscape, larger than predicted as the campaigns took shape a year ago. But if things are close in the end, the election is still likely to be decided by the trio of northern industrial states that broke the back of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Texas the Most Intriguing State in America This Year]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dan Balz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There are the known battleground states that will decide the presidential race this fall, and then there's Texas, which might just be the most politically intriguing state in the country right now. Whichever way it goes in November, there's no question that President Donald Trump is a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Government Is Bigger Than Ever. What Comes Next?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dan Balz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The role of government has changed overnight, in ways no one imagined as this election year began. Despite a broad consensus behind this emergency surge in government spending and power, a huge debate over what government does and should do lies ahead.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Do Dems Have Message on the Economy? Do They Need One?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 22 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dan Balz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Do 2020 Democrats have a message on the economy? Do they need one?]]></description>
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