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<title><![CDATA[Michael Kruse - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/30383.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Michael Kruse]]></description><category domain="30383">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Most Feared and Least Known Political Operative in U.S.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/04/26/susie-wiles-trump-desantis-profile-00149654</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kruse</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Susie Wiles, the people who know her the best believe, is a force more sensed than seen. Her influence on political events, to many who know what they'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re watching, is as obvious as it is invisible. The prints leave not so much as a smudge. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a shock when she shows up in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Chris Christie Is Not Going To Apologize, OK?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/08/22/chris-christie-donald-trump-critic-00112106</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kruse</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Before he became Donald Trump's sharpest critic, he was an important early booster. He's not sorry for that.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Trump Do to DeSantis What He Did to Bush?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/11/18/can-trump-take-out-another-florida-governor-00069163</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kruse</author>
							<description><![CDATA[He toppled one Florida governor to a win in 2016. He'll likely need to do it again to win in 2024.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Warnock Make the Case in Georgia?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/08/05/raphael-warnock-georgia-senate-2022-profile-00049352</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kruse</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Raphael Warnock won his seat running as an activist preacher. To keep it he'll have to persuade voters he's the rare senator who actually gets stuff done.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['He's Dangerous. So Is His Book.']]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/05/06/jd-vance-book-dangerous-00030374</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 07 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kruse</author>
							<description><![CDATA[An Appalachian writer says Hillbilly Elegy played to bogus notions on the left and right about the impoverished region. The only thing that benefited was Vance's political career.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Roiling Discontent Over Schools Is Scrambling U.S. Politics]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/11/09/the-parental-revolution-we-all-saw-coming-but-still-missed-520450</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kruse</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There's roiling discontent over schools that is scrambling political maps across the country.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Caitlyn Jenner Wants to Turn Celebrity Into Power. But Why?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/06/04/caitlyn-jenner-governor-california-profile-2021-491773</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kruse</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The gubernatorial campaign of the world's most famous transgender woman has blurred the boundaries between celebrity and politics in ways even Donald Trump never imagined.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ron DeSantis Is Very Pleased With Himself]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/03/18/ron-desantis-profile-covid-florida-2024-476777</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kruse</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The much-criticized and combative Florida governor has survived the Covid pandemic and Donald Trump. And that makes him unique in the GOP.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Antipope of Mar-a-Lago]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/29/trump-antipope-president-mar-a-lago-463238</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kruse</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What a medieval religious schism can teach us about Donald Trump's unprecedented and radically antagonistic approach to the ex-presidency.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Donald Trump Survive 'Virtual Impeachment'?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/08/donald-trump-capitol-insurrection-riot-impeachment-456352</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kruse</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Stripped of his most powerful social media weapons, the president faces an existential crisis at a moment of maximum peril.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Trump Cracking Under the Weight of Losing?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/12/20/trump-white-house-losing-448903</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kruse</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Getting the boot from the White House is an undeniable ego blow for a man who has never admitted defeat.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Trump Won One of Most Diverse Counties--By a Lot]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/12/10/robeson-county-rural-rainbow-coalition-north-carolina-trump-republicans-443978</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kruse</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In North Carolina, a rainbow coalition of voters shifted sharply to the GOP this year. Can the party hold onto them for good?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Amy Barrett Boost Trump With Female Voters?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/09/28/trump-women-voters-422346</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kruse</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With only weeks before the election, there aren't many voters who haven't made up their minds already about the president's long and checkered history with women.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Is Riding High. Can He Keep From Blowing It?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/09/19/trump-is-riding-high-can-he-keep-from-blowing-it-418570</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kruse</author>
							<description><![CDATA[History says it's the moments when Trump feels emboldened that he is most prone to overreach.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Scare Tactics Aren't Working on Women in Suburbs]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/08/25/trump-republican-convention-suburban-women-401449</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kruse</author>
							<description><![CDATA[North of Charlotte, N.C., voters of both parties can see through the GOP's strategy of frightening them about an urban crime wave.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Donald Trump's Long, Losing War With the NFL]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/07/17/donald-trump-long-losing-war-with-the-nfl-366000</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kruse</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president has turned a decades-long grudge with the National Football League into a centerpiece of his campaign's culture war strategy.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Sen. Moseley Braun Helped Save Joe Biden]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/06/19/the-first-time-joe-biden-chose-a-black-woman-to-make-history-328426</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kruse</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In 1993, Carol Moseley Braun, the first black woman in the Senate, joined Biden's Judiciary Committee. It solved an image problem for Biden. The results were groundbreaking.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Trump Rode to Power by Parroting Fringe Ideas]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/01/10/donald-trump-art-of-the-steal-096841</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kruse</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How Donald Trump rode to power by parroting other people's fringe ideas, got himself impeached for it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and might prevail anyway.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Harvard Made Buttigieg the Moderate the Left Loves to Hate]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2019/12/18/pete-buttigieg-background-harvard-president-2020-086640</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kruse</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A bitter presidential election, a terrorist attack, two wars and four years in Cambridge forged the centrist message propelling Buttigieg's rise.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Town Hall That Impeachment Blew Up]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2019/11/27/mikie-sherrill-impeachment-tearing-apart-her-district-074097</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kruse</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Moderate Democrat Mikie Sherrill returned to her district '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' and a wave of anger.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rep. Sherrill: 'It Feels Like a 1776 Kind of Fight']]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/09/27/trump-impeachment-national-security-house-democrats-moderate-mikie-sherrill-228430</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 28 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kruse</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A freshman congresswoman reckons with the historical weight of standing up to the president.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Maybe You Haven't Noticed, But Andrew Yang Is...Surging?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/08/22/andrew-yang-2020-president-profile-227631</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kruse</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Turns out delivering a message of economic doom with a little self-deprecating humor can win over some people. Even a few disenchanted Trump voters.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How San Francisco's Wealthiest Launched Harris' Career]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/08/09/kamala-harris-2020-president-profile-san-francisco-elite-227611</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 11 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kruse</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At splashy weddings, charity balls and all the right restaurants, she hobnobbed with San Francisco'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s moneyed elite'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and made lasting allies who backed her at every stage of her political career.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Beto O'Rourke's Long History of Failing Upward]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/05/10/beto-orourke-2020-president-campaign-profile-failing-up-226866</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kruse</author>
							<description><![CDATA[His band didn't catch on, his alt-weekly flopped and he lost his highest-profile race. Inside the long, risk-free rise of Beto O'Rourke.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Has Grief Made Biden a More Formidable 2020 Candidate?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/01/25/joe-biden-2019-profile-grief-beau-car-accident-224178</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kruse</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Two tragedies, 43 years apart, have defined the former vice president's life. Have they also made him a more formidable presidential candidate?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Roger Stone's Last Dirty Trick]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/01/25/roger-stone-last-dirty-trick-224217</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kruse</author>
							<description><![CDATA[He promoted Donald Trump's political rise decades before anyone. Now he's been indicted for the bruising style of politics he wielded gleefully on Trump's behalf.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Making of Elizabeth Warren]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/11/30/elizabeth-warren-dr-phil-222725</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kruse</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In 2004, she was a well-respected but little-known academic with an obscure specialty. Then Dr. Phil called.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Weekend at Yale That Changed American Politics]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/08/27/federalist-society-yale-history-conservative-law-court-219608</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kruse</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's not too extreme to say that one wonky student group founded in 1982 has reshaped the Supreme Court, and the nation. What actually happened at the birth of the Federalist Society?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Long War With Justice]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/08/23/donald-trump-jeff-sessions-justice-department-war-219592</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 26 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kruse</author>
							<description><![CDATA[He fought the law and won. Could he do it again?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['He's Unraveling': Why Cohen's Betrayal Terrifies Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/08/22/michael-cohen-donald-trump-plea-betray-flip-219381</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kruse</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Perhaps for the first time, an insider has bitten back - hard.]]></description>
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