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<title><![CDATA[Gloria Borger - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14858.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Gloria Borger]]></description><category domain="14858">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Trump &amp; McConnell's Marriage of Convenience Seeks Big Prize]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/23/politics/borger-analysis-trump-mcconnell-relationship/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gloria Borger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[No one would ever say that the political marriage between Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and President Donald Trump is a match made in heaven. It's nothing like that, and nothing near love.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Coronavirus Briefings Lack Empathy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/30/politics/borger-column-trump-empathy/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gloria Borger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump wants everyone to know it: His coronavirus briefings are a ratings hit.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Inside Steve Bannon's War Against Mitch McConnell]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/10/politics/steve-bannon-war-against-mitch-mcconnell/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gloria Borger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The next step in Steve Bannon's scorched-earth war against Republican incumbents is an attempt to cut off money to those aligned with Mitch McConnell.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump and His Cabinet Are Stuck in an Awkward Embrace]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/05/opinions/trump-cabinet-awkward-mutual-embrace-borger/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gloria Borger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Gloria Borger says administration officials like Rex Tillerson and President Trump are at odds with each other, but neither side is yet willing to call it quits.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No One Can Save Trump From Himself]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/11/opinions/no-one-can-save-trump-from-himself-borger/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gloria Borger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Gloria Borger writes that no one in the White House is able to tell the 70-year-old newbie President how to behave -- and that firing the current FBI director in the middle of the Russia investigation is a bad idea.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Sally Yates Is Suddenly 'Interesting']]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/29/opinions/why-sally-yates-is-suddenly-interesting-opinion-borger/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gloria Borger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Sally Yates, a not widely-known deputy to Loretta Lynch at the Department of Justice, has suddenly become Washington's version of a "person of interest." Of interest, first, because she got fired for refusing to defend the President's travel ban]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Does Trump's &quot;Management by Conflict&quot; Equal Chaos?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/06/opinions/does-trump-management-by-conflict-equal-chaos/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gloria Borger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There's a hope among both the President's detractors and allies that, with the confirmation of Gen. James Mattis at Defense, Gen. John Kelly at Homeland Security and former Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson at State, the circle of advice-givers will be broader and deeper, and powerful enough to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Donald's Doublethink: How to Undermine Your Own Election]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/25/opinions/donald-trumps-doublethink-orwell-borger/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gloria Borger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Gloria Borger writes that President Donald Trump might be able to believe that 3 million people voted fraudulently in this country while also believing that his win was historic in nature. Never mind that the studies he cites as evidence do not provide any evidence.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cruz: Challenges Donald Trump to File Lawsuit Against Him]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/17/politics/ted-cruz-donald-trump-marco-rubio-south-carolina/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gloria Borger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ted Cruz said he is calling Donald Trump's bluff -- and Trump is refusing to take his threat to sue Cruz off the table.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Republican Hunger Games]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/28/opinions/borger-republican-hunger-games/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gloria Borger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Is it just me, or are some Republican candidates behaving a tad aggressively these days?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton's Achilles' Heel?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/06/opinions/borger-hillary-trustworthy/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gloria Borger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[So here we are, 18 months until the next presidential election, and the situation is this: Republicans are behaving like Democrats, and Democrats are acting like a bunch of Republicans.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats' Only Choice? Defend Clinton]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/05/opinions/borger-democrats-defend-hillary-clinton/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gloria Borger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[They were not-so-affectionately dubbed the "bed-wetters" by then-Obama senior adviser David Plouffe. The definition: Democrats who run to the hills every time there's a bump in the road. The Chicken Littles. The woe-is-us crowd.Well, they're at it again. Not surprisingly, it's because of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President Obama Tries on Superman Costume]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/18/opinion/borger-obama-superman-and-clark-kent/index.html?hpt=op_t1</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gloria Borger</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' In case you haven't noticed, President Obama has been flexing his executive muscles lately. On paper, it's a head-scratcher. After all, he lost control of the Senate in the last election. His popularity is hovering near an all-time low. And, of course, he's a lame duck.Only no one...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President Obama Defeated by His Own Bureaucracy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/30/opinion/borger-obama-defeated-by-bureaucracy/index.html?hpt=op_t1</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gloria Borger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When Barack Obama was a newbie president, there was no shortage of ambition or lack of confidence in the government he was about to lead. Government should be seen as a force for good, not evil. Sure, he told us, it needed to be "smarter and better," but that could'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What the Ted Cruz Spectacle Is All About]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/25/opinion/borger-cruz-spectacle/index.html?hpt=po_c1</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gloria Borger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This isn't the idealism of "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington."It isn't as dark as "House of Cards," either.So how about settling on something lighter, like say, "Animal House," in which the dean famously says, "The time has come for someone to put his foot down. And that foot is me."]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Behind the Slide in Obama's Poll Numbers]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/17/opinion/borger-obama-privacy-vs-security/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gloria Borger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[(CNN) -- Since President Obama seems to be a reflective soul, he must be reflecting on the irony of his latest predicament: as the man who came into office promising to change everything and who instead seems to have let much of what he promised to fix only get worse.First, the good...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Bottom Line Is the Public Was Misled]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/13/opinion/borger-obama-benghazi-truth/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gloria Borger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Washington (CNN) -- Ever since Watergate became the shorthand for a government run amok, the political clich'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('©').';' of our time has been about the political lesson of that era: That the coverup can be worse than the crime.Apply that clich'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('©').';' to Benghazi -- and questions about the motive...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The New Republican Reality Show]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/06/opinion/borger-republican-reinvention/index.html?hpt=op_t1</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gloria Borger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[No matter how hard politicians try, party reinventions are never pretty -- and hardly ever subtle. The trick is twofold: First, tell voters you weren't really wrong -- your message just wasn't getting through. Next, shift positions, without admitting you had to change positions to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What's Wrong With Romney the Candidate]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/18/opinion/borger-romney-weakness/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gloria Borger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In watching Mitt Romney's painful -- and self-destructive -- gaffe about the "47 percenters," it at first seemed inexplicable, as if the man was writing off half of the electorate.Never mind that the self-declared "victims" he's talking about include seniors (who actually voted...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Obama's Attacks on Romney Backfire?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/23/opinion/borger-bain-obama/index.html?hpt=op_t1</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gloria Borger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the presidential campaign veers off onto the Bain Capital ramp, the predictable arguments ensue: Is the turn simply a political attack meant to distract from bad economic news? (So says Mitt Romney). Or is it an important, valid argument at the heart of the contest? (So says President...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Rivals Awkwardly Snuggle Up to Romney]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/04/opinion/borger-romney-rivals/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gloria Borger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the saying goes about political parties and their candidates: Democrats fall in love and Republicans fall in line.And that's exactly what Republicans are doing, or trying to do.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Epic Failure by Washington Sets Nation Adrift]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/04/opinion/borger-washington-fail/index.html?hpt=op_t1</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gloria Borger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There are plenty of ways to game the upcoming Supreme Court decision on health care reform, and they've all been said: President Obama loses in court, he wins with his base. Or it's a severe blow, potentially fatal. Or Republicans benefit if they win, because they were "right" all along....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cain's Best Damage Control: Release Everything]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/10/opinion/borger-cain-harassment-response/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gloria Borger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When you consider the array of public men who have been forced, in one way or another, to come clean on their bad behavior, the list is not insubstantial: a president (Bill Clinton), presidential candidates (John Edwards, Gary Hart), governors (Mark Sanford, Eliot Spitzer), senators...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Conservatives Back Imperfect Romney?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/13/opinion/borger-romney/index.html?hpt=op_t1</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gloria Borger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After watching the GOP presidential debate the other night, it was hard to avoid this conclusion: Mitt Romney looks more and more like the GOP presidential nominee. He's the best debater. He's got his issues and his rejoinders down pat. He brushes away his opponents like lint on his...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Are Republicans Ready to Date Romney?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/04/opinion/borger-romney-waits/index.html?hpt=op_t1</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gloria Borger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[So now that the Republican Party has dated just about everyone in the field, the question remains: What about the fellow your parents tried to fix you up with in the first place? Does he look any better now? Are you ready to get serious about him?Mitt Romney is still at the door, waiting...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Who's &quot;Leading&quot; the Country? Apparently No One]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/06/29/borger.leadership.debt/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gloria Borger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Call me old-fashioned, but when the president and congressional leaders get into a tussle over who should be "leading" the country in matters of real national consequence, I feel like sending them to their rooms."Call me naive," President Obama said at his news conference today. "But my...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Attack on Bin Laden Was Years in the Making]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/05/02/borger.ksm.bin.laden/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gloria Borger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the aftermath of the killing of Osama bin Laden, a picture is  emerging of a long, complex, dangerous and circuitous route to the  compound that was the site of the special forces attack.It was  years in the making, involving interviews with high-value detainees like  Khalid Sheik...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Run Away From 2012 Race]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/04/27/borger.republican.field/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gloria Borger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In conversations with Republican strategists and officeholders, the  importance of the upcoming election is never understated: Historic, some  say. A must-win for the GOP. An election of great consequence for the  nation.All of which may be true. And all of which leads to the  next...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Obama Be a Clinton--or a Carter?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/09/01/borger.white.house.challenges/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gloria Borger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There are just times, when you are president of the United States,  that formally speaking to the American people is part of the job.Not  because it's politically wise, or even politically advisable -- but  because you have something important to say. As in, the ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Court Battle is a Whole New Ball Game]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/04/14/borger.supreme.court/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gloria Borger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Washington (CNN) -- It was no surprise over at the White House that Justice John Paul Stevens has decided to retire from the court after nearly 35 years. And they're clearly ready with a list of names -- some fully vetted and even interviewed by the president -- after the Sonia Sotomayor...]]></description>
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