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<title><![CDATA[Alexander Burns - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/16979.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Alexander Burns]]></description><category domain="16979">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Hungary's Election Sends a Jolting Message - To Dems]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/hungarys-election-sends-jolting-message-040100272.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alexander Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The defeat of Hungary'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s prime minister, Viktor Orb'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¡').';'n, should deliver a sharp jolt to one of America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s two major political parties.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump: Europe Led by 'Weak' People, Needs Change]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-thrashes-european-leaders-wide-110000828.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alexander Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump denounced Europe as a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'decaying'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' group of nations led by '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'weak'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' people in an interview with POLITICO, belittling the traditional U.S. allies for failing to control migration and end the Russia-Ukraine war, and signaling that he would endorse...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Elon Musk&rsquo;s Third Party Gamble Could Succeed]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/07/07/how-elon-musks-third-party-gamble-could-succeed-00441597</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alexander Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Musk'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s plan can only work if he learns from the most successful political disruptors, including Donald Trump on the right and Bernie Sanders on the left.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Keir Starmer&rsquo;s Advisers Told Dems in Washington]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/09/12/what-keir-starmers-advisers-told-democrats-in-washington-00179007</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alexander Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Two advisers to the British Labour Party pushed Kamala Harris allies to focus squarely on immigration and the cost of living.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Forget Harry and William. I'm Pro-Charles]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/05/05/king-charles-coronation-day-political-reporter-analysis-00094885</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 06 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alexander Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Britain's 74-year-old monarch followed a path at once daring and yet increasingly familiar.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Looming Conflict: Red Judges vs. Blue Governors]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/04/18/pritzker-judges-governors-column-00092461</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alexander Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As conservative judges strike down liberal policies, state lawmakers are left to decide how to get around adverse rulings.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Stop Overthinking It: Indictment Would Be Bad for Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/03/20/indictment-trump-bad-vote-00087892</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alexander Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Yes, the Trump diehards can be expected to rise up against Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg. But that still wouldn't earn him a single additional vote.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Are Solidly Behind Biden - And There's No Plan B]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/12/us/politics/biden-democrats-2024.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alexander Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Leaders with White House aspirations all say they'll support the president for another term. But there is no shortage of chatter about the options if he continues to falter.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Politics Are Stubbornly Fixed, Despite Huge Changes]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/04/us/politics/biden-infrastructure-trump-republicans-democrats.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alexander Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The country is recovering from a pandemic and an economic crisis, and its former president is in legal and financial peril. But no political realignment appears to be at hand.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Beat Trump. Now They Ask: What Went Wrong?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/20/us/politics/democrats-house-races-trump.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alexander Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Disappointed by down-ballot losses, Democratic interest groups are joining forces to conduct an autopsy of the election results. Republicans do not yet seem willing to reckon with the G.O.P.'s major defeats.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Inside Biden's Struggle to Manage Factions in His Party]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/inside-bidens-struggle-manage-factions-195427786.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alexander Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The competition for senior offices has strained valuable political alliances, vexing some of Joe Biden's key supporters from the Democratic primary contest.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats &amp; GOP Face Unsettled Electoral Map]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/with-trench-warfare-deepening-parties-face-unsettled-electoral-map/ar-BB1b1Iry?li=BBnb7Kz</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alexander Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s two major parties had hoped the 2020 presidential election would render a decisive judgment on the country'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s political trajectory. But after a race that broke records for voter turnout and campaign spending, neither Democrats nor Republicans have achieved a dominant...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Runs the Campaign He Likes, Not the One He Needs]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/18/us/politics/trump-2020-campaign.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alexander Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With little time left to change the trajectory of the race, there is a large gulf separating the president's experience of the campaign from the more sobering assessments of party officials.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Final Stretch, Biden Moves to Defend His Lead]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/in-final-stretch-biden-defends-lead-against-trumps-onslaught/ar-BB18KPHj?li=BBnb7Kz</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alexander Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A presidential campaign long muffled by the coronavirus pandemic will burst into a newly intense and public phase after Labor Day, as Joseph R. Biden Jr. moves aggressively to defend his polling lead against a ferocious onslaught by President Trump aimed chiefly at white voters in the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden, Dems Hunting for Big Ideas to Meet Pandemic Moment]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/17/us/politics/joe-biden-economy-democrats.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alexander Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[By the end of primary season, the Democratic Party had all but settled on a conventional center-left agenda. But the pandemic is forcing the Biden campaign and other leaders to redraw plans for 2021.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Biden's Choice of VP Has Momentous Implications]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/03/us/politics/joe-biden-vice-president-pick.html?smid=tw-share</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alexander Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Joe Biden has hinted that he might serve only one term if he wins. That would set up a woman as the front-runner for 2024 and perhaps define the Democratic agenda for the next decade.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Inside Joe Biden's Cloistered Campaign]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/25/us/politics/joe-biden-coronavirus-quarantine.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alexander Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Walled off from voters in a distinctive kind of lockdown, Mr. Biden has developed a routine, of sorts, as he seeks the presidency from his basement.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How It All Came Apart for Bernie Sanders]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/elections-2020/how-it-all-came-apart-for-bernie-sanders/ar-BB11uW8I?li=BBnb7Kz</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alexander Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In mid-January, a few weeks before the Iowa caucuses, Senator Bernie Sanders'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s pollster offered a stark prognosis for the campaign: Mr. Sanders was on track to finish strong in the first three nominating states, but Joseph R. Biden Jr.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s powerful support from older...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[With Wins in MI &amp; 3 Other States, Biden Takes Command]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/elections-2020/biden-takes-command-of-race-winning-four-states-including-michigan/ar-BB110ZE4?pfr=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alexander Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Joseph R. Biden Jr. took command of the Democratic presidential race in decisive fashion on Tuesday, marshaling a powerful multiracial coalition in the South and the Midwest that swept aside Senator Bernie Sanders and completed Mr. Biden'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s rapid transformation from a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[NH Usually Winnows the Field. This Year Might Be Different]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/elections-2020/analysis-new-hampshire-usually-winnows-the-field-this-year-may-be-different/ar-BBZRwyS</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alexander Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[EXETER, N.H. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' The Democratic presidential candidates amplified their attacks on one another on Monday in the final hours before polls open in New Hampshire, highlighting the deep divisions between the party'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s left and center even as their campaigns prepared for a set of even...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Kamala Harris&rsquo;s Campaign Unraveled]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/elections-2020/how-kamala-harriss-campaign-unraveled/ar-BBXvfO8?li=AAJUkZb</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 01 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alexander Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' In early November, a few days after Senator Kamala Harris'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s presidential campaign announced widespread layoffs and an intensified focus on Iowa, her senior aides gathered for a staff meeting at their Baltimore headquarters and pelted the campaign manager, Juan...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Populist Dems Gaining the Upper Hand in Primary Race?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.enmnews.com/2019/10/11/why-populist-democrats-have-gained-the-upper-hand-in-the-primary-race/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 12 Oct 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alexander Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[ENM NEWS - As next week's debate looms, polls and donor contributions suggest a party seeking candidates for 2020 who will push the boundaries, while moderates argue]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Kamala Harris Believes]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/what-kamala-harris-believes/ar-AAEWN21?li=BBnbfcL&amp;utm_source=fark&amp;utm_medium=website&amp;utm_content=link&amp;ICID=ref_fark</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jul 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alexander Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' At her strongest, Senator Kamala Harris is forceful and pragmatic. She elates crowds in Iowa and South Carolina with her denunciations of President Trump, and spells out her policy agenda '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' on matters like restricting gun sales, reducing prescription drug prices...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Joe Biden's 2020 Plan Is Almost Complete]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/07/us/politics/biden-2020.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alexander Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s entry into the 2020 Democratic primary could provide voters with a clear front-runner.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Seek the Best Route to the White House]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/25/us/politics/democrats-2020-midwest-voters.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alexander Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At the very first event of her first full day in Iowa as a presidential candidate, Senator Kamala Harris was greeted by a Democratic voter who delivered a pointed recommendation about the best path to the White House.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Sees Himself as Dems' Best Hope in 2020]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/06/us/politics/joe-biden-2020-president.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alexander Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. is in the final stages of deciding whether to run for president and has told allies he is skeptical the other Democrats eyeing the White House can defeat President Trump, an assessment that foreshadows a clash between the veteran Washington...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Nation In Turmoil Prepares to Deliver Verdict on Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/03/us/politics/elections-trump-congress.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alexander Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The tumultuous 2018 midterm campaign, shaped by conflicts over race and identity and punctuated by tragedy, barreled through its final weekend as voters prepared to deliver a verdict on the first half of President Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s term, with Republicans bracing for losses in the House and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Nationalism a Break Point for Some Suburban Voters]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/01/us/politics/republicans-trump-house.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alexander Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Tuesday'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s House election may turn on an equally significant and opposite force: a generational break with the Republican Party among educated, wealthier whites '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' especially women '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' who like the party'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s pro-business policies but recoil from President Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Revolution Is Brewing on the Left. Dems Are Bracing]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/21/us/politics/democratic-party-midterms.html?hp&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;clickSource=story-heading&amp;module=first-column-region&amp;region=top-news&amp;WT.nav=top-news</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alexander Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Voters like Ms. Conner may not represent a controlling faction in the Democratic Party, at least not yet. But they are increasingly rattling primary elections around the country, and they promise to grow as a disruptive force in national elections as younger voters reject the traditional...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Speaker's Exit Fuels Republican Midterm Fears]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alexander Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' Fifteen months after Republicans took full control of Washington, the man long seen as central to the party'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s future is abandoning one of the most powerful jobs in the capital, imperiling the G.O.P. grip on the House and signaling that the political convulsions of...]]></description>
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