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<title><![CDATA[Tim Alberta - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/23926.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Tim Alberta]]></description><category domain="23926">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Dean Phillips Has a Warning for Democrats]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/dean-phillips-has-a-warning-for-democrats/ar-AA1iX0dQ</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 28 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Alberta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[To spend time around Dean Phillips, as I have since his first campaign for Congress in 2018, is to encounter someone so earnest as to be utterly suspicious.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Is on the Wrong Side of the Religious Right]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-ph/news/politics/donald-trump-is-on-the-wrong-side-of-the-religious-right/ar-AA191Odc</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 25 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Alberta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Evangelical leaders are abandoning the former president, and his Republican rivals are scrambling to win their support.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trumpism Is Toxic]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/four-lessons-republicans-must-learn-before-2024/ar-AA13Y7r7</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Alberta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Across the country, Democrats won races that many in the GOP expected to carry. Why?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Political Education of Peter Meijer]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/01/peter-meijer-freshman-republican-impeach/620844/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Alberta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After January 6, Peter Meijer thought he could help lead the Republican Party away from an abyss. Now he laughs at his own na'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¯').';'vet'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('©').';'.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Nikki Haley's Choice]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/interactives/2021/magazine-nikki-haleys-choice/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Alberta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The 2024 hopeful can't decide who she wants to be'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'the leader of the post-Trump GOP or a friend to the president who tried to sabotage democracy.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[There Was No Widespread Voter Fraud to Help Michigan Dems]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/11/24/michigan-election-trump-voter-fraud-democracy-440475</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Alberta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How a state that was never in doubt became a 'national embarrassment' and a symbol of the Republican Party's fealty to Donald Trump.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[This Place Has Picked Every President Since 1952]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/11/02/valencia-new-mexico-election-bellwether-433756</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Alberta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the desert of New Mexico, Valencia County has become the embodiment of the polarization it once defied.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the 2020 Election Will Be Nothing Like 2016]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/10/27/alberta-final-feelings-2020-election-432718</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Alberta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With seven days to go until Election Day, we've reached the end of the limb.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Unspectacular Excellence of Biden's Campaign]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/10/23/joe-biden-slow-and-steady-campaign-432042</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Alberta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Thursday's debate was one more example of a candidate whose deficits have become assets at exactly the right moment.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Wealthy White Suburbs Where Trump Is Still on Top]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/09/17/trump-suburbs-wisconsin-415148</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Alberta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The very wealthy and very white communities around Milwaukee show little sign of the defections plaguing the president's campaign in more diverse suburbs.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Grand Old Meltdown: Republicans Have Given Up On Ideas]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/08/24/republicanmeltdown-trump-convention-400039</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Alberta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, while speaking via Zoom to a promising group of politically inclined high school students, I was met with an abrupt line of inquiry. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'m sorry, but I still don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t understand,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' said one young man, his pitch a blend of curiosity and exasperation....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[After a Virtual Campaign, Can Dems Turn Out the Vote in MI?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/08/13/elissa-slotkin-covid-campaigning-michigan-393608#431</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Alberta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a key Michigan district, Rep. Elissa Slotkin is rewriting her playbook to overcome the limits of campaigning in a pandemic.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Biden Survive the Despair of the Black Democrat?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/06/24/letter-to-washington-grosse-pointe-woods-325641</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Alberta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In suburban Detroit, a cookout full of Democratic voters bubbles into outrage, frustration at being taken for granted'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and certainty that 2020 is in the bag for Trump.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is This the Last Stand for 'Law and Order' Republicans?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/06/08/last-stand-law-and-order-republicans-306333</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Alberta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A punitive brand of conservatism embraced by Trump and some GOP hardliners is rapidly falling out of step with public opinion.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Letter From a Struggling Restaurant Owner in Michigan]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/05/07/letter-washington-coronavirus-hartland-heartland-240238</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Alberta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A restaurant owner in small-town Michigan wonders if the government bailout will get him long before coronavirus does.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Michigan's Whitmer in the Spotlight Against Bullying Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/04/09/gretchen-whitmer-governor-michigan-profile-2020-coronavirus-biden-vp-177791</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Alberta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Governor Gretchen Whitmer is dealing with a historic pandemic, a bullying president and a big job tryout.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Michigan Win Shows Biden Could Rebuild Dems' 'Blue Wall']]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/03/11/michigan-romp-shows-biden-could-rebuild-democrats-blue-wall-vs-trump-125489</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Alberta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A broad, convincing win should make Republicans nervous about November.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Michigan Is Looking Less Friendly to Sanders This Time]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/03/09/michigan-bernie-sanders-primary-unfriendly-123898</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Alberta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The biggest prize of Tuesday's primary contests is shaping up to be far unfriendlier to Sanders this time around.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How the Gun Show Became the Trump Show]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/01/24/2020-guns-trump-obama-michigan-voters-102790</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Alberta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The first in a series of regular election-year dispatches from anywhere but Washington, to Washington.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Who Will Betray Trump?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/11/08/trump-impeachment-republicans-congress-229904</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Alberta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump knows there are potential traitors in his midst. His presidency could depend on keeping them at bay.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Can Any of These People Beat Trump?']]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/10/17/2020-democratic-debate-candidates-michael-bennet-229856</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Alberta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Watching the Democratic debate with a serious candidate who wasn't invited to the party, and can hardly believe what's unfolding before his eyes.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Behind the Odd Couple Marriage of Pence and Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/07/the-odd-couple-marriage-between-mike-pence-and-donald-trump</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jul 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Alberta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump didn't like Karl Rove. Kellyanne Conway had worked for Lyin' Ted Cruz. And Pence was a choirboy, albeit a hyper-ambitious one. How they gamed Trump into making his choice.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Trump Survived the Access Hollywood Tape]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/07/10/american-carnage-excerpt-access-hollywood-tape-227269</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jul 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Alberta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The exclusive story of how Trump survived the Access Hollywood tape.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Unhappy With Coronation in 2016, Dems Start a 2020 Circus]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/06/30/democratic-candidates-2020-debates-227252</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jun 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Alberta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After the maelstrom in Miami, the presidential candidates and their campaign staffs are talking openly about a long, divisive primary.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Complete This Sentence: Donald Trump Wins Reelection If...']]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/06/26/trump-2020-democrats-campaign-election-strategy-227210</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jun 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Alberta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The battle-scarred Republican campaign managers of 2016 dish on how to handle a chaotic race, which Democrats have the advantage at the debates'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and who Trump should be scared of.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Democrats' Dilemma]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/03/08/ilhan-omar-dean-phillips-minnesota-democratic-party-225696</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Alberta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What Ilhan Omar and Dean Phillips tell us about the future of the Democratic Party.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Republicans Get Their Ideas Mojo Back?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/08/26/gop-party-of-ideas-policy-politics-paul-ryan-219595</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Alberta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With Paul Ryan leaving and a backward-looking president in charge, the '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'party of ideas'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' faces an innovation crisis. Is anyone ready to lead?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Raul Labrador: 'DC Is a Place That Just Sucks Your Soul']]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/06/15/raul-labrador-profile-tea-party-congress-2018-218822</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Alberta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Tea Partier Raul Labrador swept into Congress ready to dismantle Washington. Now he's going home, more disillusioned than ever.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[James O'Keefe Can't Get No Respect]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/05/04/james-okeefe-undercover-sting-profile-feature-2018-218015</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Alberta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The muckraking conservative just wanted journalists to take him seriously. They never did, and now he's out for blood.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Deep Roots of Trump's War on the Press]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/04/26/the-deep-roots-trumps-war-on-the-press-218105</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Alberta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[ou couldn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t miss it. Arriving in Cleveland for the 2016 Republican National Convention, visitors found themselves staring at an enormous white billboard, slapped across the top of a tall concrete building in the city'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s bustling downtown, screaming a simple directive:...]]></description>
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