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<title><![CDATA[David Drucker - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/18973.xml</link><description><![CDATA[David Drucker]]></description><category domain="18973">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Do Michigan Democrats Want Populism or Pragmatism?]]></title>
							<link>https://thedispatch.com/article/michigan-el-sayed-stevens-democrats-senate-primary/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Drucker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The state's Senate primary pits progressive Abdul El-Sayed against the more traditional Rep. Haley Stevens.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Appeal to 'Normies' and Populists Hard To Recreate]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2026/03/18/drucker_trumps_appeal_to_normies_and_populists_built_a_coalition_republicans_may_struggle_to_recreate.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Drucker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday's "Morning Joe," David Drucker discussed President Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s political ability to unite "normies" and populists in a way other Republicans could likely never do again, likening it to the challenge Democrats faced with the Obama coalition.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump in Better Political Shape Than His Opponents Think]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/Gg1zA</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Drucker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump is not as popular as he claims. But neither is he as unpopular as his opponents might like to think.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Opposed to Trump Grapple w/Consolidation]]></title>
							<link>https://thedispatch.com/article/republicans-opposed-to-trump-grapple-with-consolidation/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Drucker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The still-crowded GOP primary continues to shield the former president.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Called To Do It': Blake Masters Plots Senate Rise]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/patriotism-unity/called-to-do-it-blake-masters-plots-senate-rise</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Drucker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Blake Masters looks at a dysfunctional, leadership-driven Congress and imagines a junior Republican senator from Arizona can be effective.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's Job Approval Plummets in Swing-State Arizona]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/bidens-job-approval-plummets-in-swing-state-arizona</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 20 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Drucker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Roughly 12 months ago President Joe Biden became the first Democratic nominee to win Arizona's Electoral College votes since 1996. Today, his job approval rating in the state is cratering.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Great Model': Education Now a Winning GOP Issue?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/great-model-republicans-see-education-issue-as-winner-no-matter-outcome-in-virginia</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 30 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Drucker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Win or lose in Virginia, Republicans are convinced education is their ticket to recovering lost ground in the suburbs and reclaiming control of Congress in 2022.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[VA Governor Race: GOP Sees Harbinger of '22 Success]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/in-virginia-governors-race-gop-sees-harbinger-of-2022-success</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Drucker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republican Glenn Youngkin is surging in the Virginia governor's race as President Joe Biden's job approval ratings tumble, forecasting a brutal 2022 for Democrats across the country absent a major political turnaround.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Causing Political Heartburn for Vulnerable Dems]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/joe-biden-causes-political-heartburn-for-vulnerable-democrats-with-rocky-afghanistan-withdrawal</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Drucker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Swing district Democrats are gently distancing themselves from President Joe Biden's embattled Afghanistan withdrawal, resisting outright rebukes that would anger grassroots liberals but offering constructive criticism as an olive branch to frustrated Republicans and independents.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Credit 'Woke-ism' for Gains With Hispanics]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/republicans-credit-woke-ism-for-gains-with-hispanics</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Drucker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Former President Donald Trump garnered 38% of the Hispanic vote in 2020, a major improvement with this key bloc that some Republicans attribute to the Democratic Party's embrace of progressive woke-ism.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Newsom Recall Moves Closer to Qualifying for CA Ballot]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/gavin-newsom-recall-moves-closer-qualifying-california-ballot</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Drucker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The campaign to recall California Gov. Gavin Newsom is moving closer to reality as Republicans behind the signature-gathering expect to announce the collection of more than 2 million petitions.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[2020 Losses Put House Dems in Bad Position for 2022]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/redistricting-house-gop-edge-win-house-majority-2022</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Drucker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Republican Party is poised to win the House majority in 2022, boosted by the rare combination of President Trump's ouster and down-ballot victories that put the GOP in command of the decennial redrawing of district boundaries.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Senate Republicans in Strong Position for 2022 Cycle]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/with-florida-going-red-senate-republicans-in-a-strong-position-for-2022-cycle</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Drucker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Senate Republicans begin the 2022 cycle defending more seats than the Democrats, with the added liability that President Trump plans to remain politically active after exiting the White House.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Riots Hurt Democrats in the Pennsylvania Suburbs?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/republicans-look-to-philadelphia-riots-to-bolster-trump-in-pennsylvania-suburbs</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Drucker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Pennsylvania Republicans believe rioting in Philadelphia could lend President Trump badly-needed support among frightened suburban voters in a contest so close that every vote in the state will count.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Intense Outreach by Trump Yields Growing Latino Support]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/republicans-credit-trumps-intense-outreach-for-growing-latino-support</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Drucker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republicans say President Trump's decision to make Hispanic voters a priority is boosting his support with this critical bloc in public opinion polls and threatening Democratic nominee Joe Biden's prospects in key battleground states.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Jobs Report Lifts Trump Strategy to Woo Black Voters]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/shockingly-bright-jobs-report-lifts-trump-strategy-to-woo-black-voters-with-economy</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Drucker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump is stumping for black votes with a promise to deliver racial equality through economic prosperity, linking an unexpectedly bright jobs report Friday to George Floyd, a black man who died after a white police officer knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is the Dem Establishment Gravitating to Bloomberg?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/this-guy-has-some-guts-democratic-establishment-eyes-bloomberg-as-biden-falters</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 09 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Drucker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Democratic establishment may be gravitating toward Michael Bloomberg after Joe Biden finished a disappointing fourth in the Iowa caucuses and appears to be flatlining in New Hampshire.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Working to Break Democratic Lock on Black Vote]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/trump-uses-state-of-the-union-as-part-of-strategy-to-break-democratic-lock-on-black-vote</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Drucker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump made an unapologetic bid to break the Democratic Party lock on the black vote with a State of the Union address that featured black people and highlighted administration policies geared toward the black community.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Racks Up Wins as Impeachment Grips D.C.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/it-hasnt-stopped-him-trump-rolls-up-wins-even-as-impeachment-grips-washington</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Drucker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump enjoyed an extraordinary period of policy successes over the past two weeks, even as Democrats seeking to remove him from office moved articles of impeachment through the House.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Some Republicans Fear Harris Could Be the Next Obama]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/07/gop-insiders-fear-kamala-harris</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jul 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Drucker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Rattled by her deft vivisection of Joe Biden at the last debate, Republicans wonder how Harris might do against a real villain like Trump. She doesn't come across as a nutjob, worries one GOP operative. Kamala is a nightmare, says another.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hispanics Stick w/Trump Despite Tough Border Stance]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/hispanics-like-trump-the-same-as-other-republicans-despite-tough-border-stance</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Drucker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump is poised to launch his 2020 reelection as popular with Hispanic voters as other Republicans, bucking predictions that provocative nationalist rhetoric and hard-line border policies would crater his support with this critical bloc.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Inside the GOP Operation to Take Down Biden]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/05/inside-the-gop-operation-to-take-down-joe-biden#'&#'.ord('~').';'o</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Drucker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republican operatives have begun a vast, coordinated opposition-research effort to derail Biden in the primary or, at the very least, make sure he hobbles into the general election. There's a lot of material on Biden says one R.N.C. strategist. It's sort of a gold mine of content.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Still in the Fight to Hold the House]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2018/10/20/the-republicans-are-still-in-the-fight-to-take-the-house/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Drucker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Control of the House of Representatives is teetering on a razor'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s edge, poised to fall to the Democrats on Nov.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('‰').';'6, but hardly a lost cause for the Republicans.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Kennedy Retirement Is Golden Ticket for GOP in Midterms]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/republicans-see-ticket-to-midterm-election-success-in-anthony-kennedys-retirement</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Drucker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Senior Republicans are predicting that the opportunity to replace Kennedy, a swing vote on the narrowly divided high court, with a young conservative who could tilt the court to the right and serve for decades, will galvanize the conservative base and motivate rank-and-file GOP voters to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[After VA, NJ Losses, Republicans Recalibrate Strategy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/after-november-losses-the-gop-recalibrates-its-strategy/article/2640293</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Drucker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For the first 10 months of the Trump administration, the GOP weathered his missteps, batting 1,000 in five elections and creating confidence...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Wins the Civil War Where It Counts--With Voters]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-has-won-the-civil-war-where-it-counts-with-voters/article/2638654</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Drucker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[But for the most part, the voters that empower those institutions feel differently. To be sure, some Republican voters would prefer that Trump calm his Twitter habit and act more presidential. Eventually, their patience could run out. But for the most part, the president is giving...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Has Tons of Political Capital, Despite Unpopularity]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-has-reams-of-political-capital-despite-his-unpopularity/article/2612289</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Drucker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump will be inaugurated Friday as a historically unpopular new president elected in a close election but one with a landslide level of political capital to spend with Republicans in Congress. Trump's approval rating is underwater in nine public opinion polls conducted since Jan....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Begin to Realize Obama Decimated Their Party]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/dems-begin-to-realize-obama-decimated-their-party/article/2609789</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Drucker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democrats are coming to grips with President Obama's failure as a party leader. The Democratic Party has lost majorities in the House and Senate and been obliterated by the Republicans at the state and local level since Obama assumed office in 2009. Democrats vying for leadership of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Scalia's Death Will Reshape 2016]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/how-scalias-death-will-reshape-2016/article/2583410</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Drucker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The battle for control of the Supreme Court is putting an urgent premium on presidential electability, political strategists on both sides of the aisle told the Washington Examiner on Tuesday.Voters always value electability in presidential contests. But the consideration has assumed...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Chris Christie Go the Distance?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/can-christie-go-the-distance/article/2579583</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Drucker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Chris Christie hopes that the New Hampshire primary marks the beginning of his presidential campaign, not the end.The New Jersey governor's shoestring campaign is banking exclusively on a strong finish in New Hampshire, where he spends most of his time, to propel him into contention for...]]></description>
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