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							<title><![CDATA[Can Michigan Democrats Find Peace Over the Middle East?]]></title>
							<link>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/08/abdul-el-sayed-needs-jewish-voters-in-michigans-senate-race-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict-is-making-that-more-difficult.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Jacobs</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's not easy, but it is critical if Democrats are going to hold a Senate seat.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Long, Strange Trip for Democrats in Maine Is Almost Over]]></title>
							<link>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/07/maine-senate-troy-jackson-graham-platner-susan-collins.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Jacobs</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This weekend's convention is a surprisingly low-key end to a truly wild ride.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Rep. Stefanik Is Leaving Politics]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/stefanik-quits-governor-s-race-will-not-run-for-reelection/ar-AA1SHb91</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Jacobs</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Congresswoman'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Elise Stefanik'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' says she is dropping out of the New York governor'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s race and will not run for reelection to the House after finishing her term in office.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Republican Party Is Out of Control]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-republican-party-is-out-of-control/ar-AA1whnCb?ocid=BingNewsSerp</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Jacobs</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s first term in office was a shitshow on Capitol Hill. Congress was constantly turned upside down with sudden missives from the president. (In 2018, he even egged on the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.) Based on the past week, those will be considered the good old...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Senate Race Dems Absolutely Have To Win]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/186658/maryland-senate-race-angela-alsobrooks</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Jacobs</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s an overcast Saturday morning at what outwardly appears to be a rural county fairground in Maryland. But it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s not. It may have once been rural, but Howard County Fairgrounds is now in the middle of the sprawling Baltimore-Washington metroplex, and no livestock is being...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Election Could Come Down to...Omaha?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-election-could-come-down-to-omaha/ar-AA1rmqfJ?ocid=BingNewsSerp</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 29 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Jacobs</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The center of the political universe this month has been in Omaha, Nebraska.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Election Will Be Decided Here]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/the-election-will-be-decided-here/ar-AA1qTsnz</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Jacobs</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Congressman Scott Perry is eating chocolate ice cream in the shadow of Newt Gingrich'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s childhood home in Hummelstown, Pennsylvania, during a street festival on a warm late-summer weekend, when his mood turns sour.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How the Iowa Caucuses Fell Apart]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/how-the-iowa-caucuses-fell-apart/ar-AA1mZlWW</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Jacobs</author>
							<description><![CDATA[No one in the state wants to admit the truth about what its grand tradition has become.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ron DeSantis Is Being Left Out in the Cold]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/ron-desantis-is-being-left-out-in-the-cold/ar-AA1mXv0d</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Jacobs</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Iowa is poised to be the first and last stand of the Florida governor's presidential campaign.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Plan To Get NH Liberals To Vote for Haley]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/the-plan-to-get-new-hampshire-liberals-to-vote-for-nikki-haley/ar-AA1mv4W8</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Jacobs</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s hard to think of a scenario where Republicans reject Donald Trump as their presidential candidate. Despite his 91 criminal charges and one attempt to overturn an election, enough GOP voters have remained loyal to the former president that he has wide leads over his rivals for...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Rallies Aren't Even Really About Politics at This Point]]></title>
							<link>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/11/trump-rallies-2024-presidential-campaign-biden-desantis-haley.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Jacobs</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's fan culture in action.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mike Johnson, the Nice Guy Who Finished First]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mike-johnson-the-nice-guy-who-finished-first/ar-AA1iQnId</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Jacobs</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At 12:17 p.m. on Tuesday, Tom Emmer became the Republican nominee for House Speaker. At 4:27 p.m. that same day, the No. 3 Republican in the House dropped out because of yet another internal rebellion.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What's Driving the House's Changing Power Structure?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vox.com/politics/23913171/congress-kevin-mccarthy-house-speaker-democracy</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Jacobs</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The US House is acting like a parliament. That's not great for America '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' or for you.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Race for Speaker Is About To Get Real]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-race-for-speaker-is-about-to-get-real/ar-AA1hVcr4</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Jacobs</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Steve Scalise and Jim Jordan face off in the Capitol Thunderdome. Here's how they match up and who else might win the gavel if chaos ensues again.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[McCarthy's Ouster Was Inevitable From the Start]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/what-doomed-kevin-mccarthy/ar-AA1hGUaQ</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 05 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Jacobs</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The marvel of Wile E. Coyote isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t that he eventually falls off the cliff but that he makes it so long running in midair.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What DeSantis and Warren Have in Common]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vox.com/2024-elections/2023/8/25/23845763/ron-desantis-republican-debate-elizabeth-warren-comparison</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Jacobs</author>
							<description><![CDATA[DeSantis's debate performance illustrated what makes him most vulnerable in his quest to become the Republican nominee.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Have a Debt Ceiling Plan. Will Democrats Blink?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/4/19/23690167/debt-ceiling-bill-house-republicans</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Jacobs</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The congressional game of chicken over defaulting on America's debt begins now.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[CPAC Was a Janky Half-Empty Trump Convention]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/cpac-was-a-janky-half-empty-trump-convention/ar-AA18fyRv</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Jacobs</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The 2023 Conservative Political Action Conference lacked both conservatives and action.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Struggled With Identity at His First Public Campaign Stop]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vox.com/2023/1/28/23576097/donald-trump-south-carolina-rally-2024-campaign</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Jacobs</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In South Carolina, Trump tried cast himself as both an incumbent and an insurgent. He's neither.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Does a Criminal Referral From J6 Committee Mean Anything?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/12/18/23513093/january-6-criminal-referral-trump-eastman</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Jacobs</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Criminal referrals don't carry any legal weight. The January 6 ones will still be significant.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Democrats Have the Blue-State Blues]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/11/5/23440890/democrats-blue-state-republicans-midterms</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Jacobs</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How Democrats let blue states become GOP targets in the midterms.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Everything's Coming Up Schumer]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/everything-s-coming-up-schumer/ar-AA1182jQ</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Jacobs</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Senate majority leader has a different way of getting things done that saved Biden's agenda and maybe their party.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Iowa Fell in Love With the Republican Party]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/166775/iowa-red-state-republican-party</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Jacobs</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama won the state twice. Now Democrats are an endangered species there.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Right-Wing Super PAC Is Attacking Cheney as a 'DC Diva']]></title>
							<link>https://www.vox.com/2022/6/22/23177243/liz-cheney-wyoming</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Jacobs</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Cheney's opponents in Wyoming aren't just hitting her on her anti-Trump and January 6 work.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Madison Cawthorn's Self-Destruction Is Complete]]></title>
							<link>https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/05/madison-cawthorn-implodes-loses-gop-race-for-congress.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Jacobs</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The youngest Republican congressman in history lost on Tuesday following a series of bizarre scandals.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump &amp; CPAC Had a Different War on Their Minds]]></title>
							<link>https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/02/trump-and-cpac-had-a-different-war-on-their-minds.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Jacobs</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ukraine was mostly a side note at the annual conservative conference, where speakers were mainly vying to be America's top culture warriors.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Democrats Hope to Win by Losing]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/what-democrats-hope-to-win-by-losing/ar-AASTzSl</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Jacobs</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With the midterms looming, it was time for Democrats to make one last desperate effort to pass voting-rights legislation they consider vital not just to their political prospects in 2022, but to the future of American democracy. So last Tuesday, Joe Biden went to Georgia to give a major...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Left Is Holding]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-left-is-holding/ar-AAP2cob</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Jacobs</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democrats are furiously trying to find common ground between left and center before the rift sinks a huge portion of Biden's agenda.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Elephant in the Room]]></title>
							<link>https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/08/donald-trump-is-the-elephant-in-the-room-in-2024.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Jacobs</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republicans carefully run for president, not knowing if the last one will, too.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Kathy Hochul Ready for This Mess?]]></title>
							<link>https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/08/andrew-cuomo-impeachment-is-kathy-hochul-ready.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Jacobs</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A political survivor prepares to succeed Cuomo.]]></description>
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