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<title><![CDATA[David Faris - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/34529.xml</link><description><![CDATA[David Faris]]></description><category domain="34529">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The GOP's Incredible Shrinking Senate Map]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/republicans-senate-2026-midterms/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Faris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump has so badly damaged the Republican Party's brand that strategists are contemplating bitter fights'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and losses'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'in races they'd been banking on as sure things.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Lost Interest in Iran, But It's Still Interested in Him]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/world/trump-iran-war-middle-east/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Faris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The United States is losing the conflict, stoking chaos in the region, and inviting economic calamity'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'all with no end in sight.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Yes, Democrats Have a Real Shot at the Senate This Time]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democrats-senate-2026-midterms/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Faris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The historic political failures of the GOP have even created openings in reliably red states.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How the Saudis Keep Sidestepping a Costly Role in Iran]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/international-relations/how-the-saudis-keep-sidestepping-a-costly-role-in-the-iran-war/ar-AA20lpPj</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Faris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The brutal Gulf monarchy has been cheerleading Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s insane war off-stage but won'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t commit to any direct role in the conflict'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Senate Race Giving Democrats Hope]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newsweek.com/the-senate-race-giving-democrats-hope-opinion-11431590</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Faris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democrats need to win some Senate races in states that Trump won by double digits to have any hope of winning the chamber.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Six Months In, Trump Has Too Many Failures To Count]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newsweek.com/six-months-trump-has-too-many-failures-count-opinion-2099198</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Faris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In six short months, President Trump has made Americans poorer, less secure, less healthy, and more isolated.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Tumultuous Tariffs]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newsweek.com/trumps-tumultuous-tariffs-opinion-2057563</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Faris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Besieged at home by a collapsing economy and overseas by countries refusing to capitulate to extortion and humiliation, President Donald Trump chose to unwind some of his capricious tariffs.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will the Decline of Mainstream Parties Come to America?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newsweek.com/will-decline-mainstream-parties-come-america-opinion-2050455</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Faris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why Democrats should be worried about the global collapse of traditional party politics.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[2025's Big Question: Can Republicans Govern?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newsweek.com/2025s-big-question-can-republicans-govern-opinion-2005202</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Faris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The country has one political party that can govern but not consistently win elections, and another that can win elections but can't seem to govern.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Can't Hide From the Culture War]]></title>
							<link>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/12/trump-president-2024-democrats-yglesias-fetterman-immigration-trans-rights-culture-war.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Faris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A consensus is emerging in liberal establishment circles about what is needed to address the ills of a beleaguered and defeated Democratic Party. It goes something like this: Democrats have allowed advocacy groups to drive their agenda too far to the left. On issues like trans women in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[One Lesson Democrats Learned in 2024--Probably]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newsweek.com/one-lesson-democrats-learned-2024probably-opinion-2003078</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Faris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Vice President Kamala Harris is weighing her options, including trying to succeed Gavin Newsom as California's governor in 2026 or even making another presidential run in 2028.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[You'll Miss Having Biden To Kick Around]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newsweek.com/youll-miss-having-joe-biden-kick-around-opinion-1989741</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 24 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Faris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Since the election of Donald Trump as the 47th president on Nov. 5, the slow-building fury among Democrats against President Joe Biden has reached a fever pitch.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[All the Wrong Moves: An Early Autopsy of Harris' Campaign]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newsweek.com/all-wrong-moves-early-autopsy-kamala-harris-campaign-opinion-1981678</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Faris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Unlike in 2016, Democrats don't look like they will have the popular vote/Electoral College split to fall back on as a rationalization.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Harris Leans Into a Losing Strategy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newsweek.com/kamala-harris-campaign-leaning-losing-strategy-opinion-1974332</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Faris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is without a doubt one of the most inexplicable stretch-run decisions I've ever seen from a major party nominee, and it is a sign of deep, structural delusion inside the Harris campaign]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the Left Lost Support for Their Border Policies]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newsweek.com/why-liberals-around-world-lost-support-their-border-policies-opinion-1972202</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Faris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The past decade has seen a dramatic public opinion turn against immigration across the democratic world.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Swing-State Politics Is Rotting Our Brains &amp; Harming Democracy]]></title>
							<link>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/10/us-presidential-election-swing-state-politics-harming-democracy.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Faris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Enough about fracking Pennsylvania!]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Americans Keep Thinking U.S. Is on the Wrong Track]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newsweek.com/heres-why-americans-always-think-us-wrong-track-opinion-1938134</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Faris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Overall, the public's mood, according to benchmark public opinion instruments, has been sour for about 20 years. What is going on out there?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Was the Problem Biden's Record or Was It Just Biden?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newsweek.com/was-problem-joe-bidens-record-was-it-just-joe-biden-opinion-1928727</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Faris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Joe Biden's abrupt Sunday announcement that he would abandon his re-election campaign instantly blew apart the dynamics of the 2024 campaign.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Lot of Democrats Will Go Down With Biden]]></title>
							<link>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/07/biden-out-trump-polls-house-senate-democrats-downballot.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Faris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There's little reason to believe congressional candidates would survive a presidential wipeout.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Prosecuting Trump Different From Persecuting the Innocent]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newsweek.com/prosecuting-trump-different-persecuting-innocent-opinion-1909300</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Faris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One accusation that you can never level at the contemporary'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Republican'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Party is "taking things in stride." Since former President'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Donald Trump's swift and unanimous'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' conviction'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' on 34 felony counts in Manhattan last Thursday,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Republicans'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' across the country, from pundits to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Key To Going After Trump Now That He's Been Convicted]]></title>
							<link>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/06/trump-president-biden-felon-alvin-bragg-democrats.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Faris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Biden's response is still too muted.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why No Labels Didn't Stick]]></title>
							<link>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/04/no-labels-biden-democrats-trump-third-party-fail.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Faris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A candidate who loves bipartisanship and has moderate policy goals, eh? Sounds familiar.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Big Abortion Gamble Won't Save Him]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newsweek.com/trumps-big-abortion-gamble-wont-save-him-opinion-1888097</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Faris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Since the Supreme Court's 2022 Dobbs decision, Democrats have overperformed expectations and have come out on top every time the question of reproductive rights has been put directly before the voters.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Should Declare an Emergency at the Border]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/biden-declare-emergency-border-handle-094005605.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Faris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president must address immigration to win in November. Here's how.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats May Keep the Senate--With a Little GOP Help]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newsweek.com/democrats-may-keep-senate-little-gop-help-opinion-1883841</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Faris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The inexplicable determination of the party's voters to pick unstable provocateurs might be the only path Democrats have to hanging onto their narrow and very much endangered Senate majority.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dangers of a 2nd Trump Term Go Far Beyond the White House]]></title>
							<link>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/03/trump-biden-election-schools-israel-immigration-abortion-courts.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Faris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How Congress and the courts would abet a radical transformation of American life.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump and Biden Should Both Be Terrified of the 3rd-Party Vote]]></title>
							<link>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/03/rfk-jr-third-party-cornel-west-jill-stein.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Faris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The presidential election is about to get much more stressful for everybody.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[2024 Primaries: Well, That Was Pointless]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newsweek.com/2024-primaries-well-that-was-pointless-now-were-screwed-opinion-1876583</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Faris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For the first time since 2004, when George W. Bush was the incumbent Republican and Democrat John Kerry eliminated what remained of his competition, the two parties' presidential primaries are completely over after Super Tuesday.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Democratic Party May Be Stuck With Biden for Good]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newsweek.com/democratic-party-may-stuck-biden-good-opinion-1874475</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Faris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Biden's brutal polling numbers against disgraced former President Trump have been causing major controversy inside the Democratic Party's big tent.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Democrats Can Hand Trump One Last Defeat]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/three-comforting-lies-democrats-stop-104500704.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Faris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Let's start with strategists saying Biden's polls are nothing to worry about.]]></description>
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