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							<title><![CDATA[Dems' Foreign Policy Group Prepping For 2028]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/scoop-dems-foreign-policy-group-prepping-for-2028/ar-AA22iUcV</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Thompson</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[NYT Columnist Ezra Klein Becomes Advisor to Dems]]></title>
							<link>https://www.axios.com/2025/11/16/ezra-klein-power-play-democrats</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[New York Times columnist'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Ezra Klein'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' isn't content with opining about the Democratic Party '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' he's positioned himself as a powerbroker inside of it.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Harris-Newsom Rivalry Builds to Possible 2028 Showdown]]></title>
							<link>https://www.axios.com/2025/10/12/kamala-harris-gavin-newsom-rivalry</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Since they entered California politics over 20 years ago, Kamala Harris and Gavin Newsom have ducked a one-on-one showdown. Now the Democratic rivals are barreling toward what could be a contest on the biggest stage: the 2028 race for the White House.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Fretting Over New Jersey Gov Race]]></title>
							<link>https://www.axios.com/2025/10/04/democrats-worry-new-jersey-governors-race</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Top Democrats are increasingly alarmed the party could lose the governor's race in traditionally blue New Jersey next month because of a series of stumbles by the Democratic nominee, U.S. Rep.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Mikie Sherrill.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Biden Handed the Election to Trump]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At a fateful event last summer, Barack Obama, George Clooney, and others were stunned by Biden'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s weakness and confusion. Why did he and his advisers decide to conceal his condition from the public and campaign for re'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('«').';'lection?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Tensions Rise Between Harris, Biden Teams as Nov 5 Nears]]></title>
							<link>https://www.axios.com/2024/10/13/kamala-harris-biden-campaign-tension</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Some on the Harris team say that top White House aides aren't sufficiently coordinating Biden's messaging and schedule to align with what's best for the vice president's campaign.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Backs Harris, But Doubts Her Election Chances]]></title>
							<link>https://www.axios.com/2024/07/22/biden-kamala-harris-election-chances</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Biden'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' hesitated to drop his re-election campaign in part because he and his senior advisers worried that'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Vice President Kamala Harris'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' wasn't up to taking on'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Donald Trump, according to three Biden aides familiar with recent talks about his plans.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's Rescue Operation: Leap Left To Survive]]></title>
							<link>https://www.axios.com/2024/07/17/biden-rescue-operation-lean-left</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Since his disastrous debate last month, President Biden has embraced a laundry list of left-wing policy proposals, strong-armed the party's nomination process and still tried to limit spontaneous, unscripted moments.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Harris Risked Her Own Credibility Validating Biden's Health]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/07/05/axios_alex_thompson_kamala_harris_risked_her_own_credibility_validating_bidens_health.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Axios reporter Alex Thompson made the argument Thursday on CNN that Vice President Kamala Harris has a "credibility" problem over her public validation of President Biden's health status.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Aides Have Shielded Biden Since Beginning of Presidency]]></title>
							<link>https://www.axios.com/2024/06/30/top-aides-shielded-biden-white-house-debate</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Joe Biden's close aides have carefully shielded him from people inside and outside the White House since the beginning of his presidency.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[RFK Jr. Sounds Like Trump As He Courts MAGA Voters]]></title>
							<link>https://www.axios.com/2024/04/10/kennedy-trump-maga-biden-voters</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' is making targeted appeals to'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' supporters, pledging to "seal the border" from undocumented migrants and investigate the prosecutions of pro-Trump rioters who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Biden Botched the Border]]></title>
							<link>https://www.axios.com/2024/02/12/how-biden-botched-border</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Aboard Air Force One en route to tour the southern border in January 2023,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' President Biden'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' sat at the head of his conference table and exploded with fury.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's Team Tells Nervous Dems: Just Chill]]></title>
							<link>https://www.axios.com/2023/09/20/biden-nervous-democrats-calm-2024-election</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Biden White House has a blunt message for doomscrolling Democrats fretting about the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' president's old age'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' and bad poll numbers: Clam up and chill out.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ramaswamy Drives the GOP Debate in Trump's Absence]]></title>
							<link>https://www.axios.com/2023/08/24/trump-ramaswamy-gop-debate</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Businessman Vivek Ramaswamy has been rising in GOP presidential polls '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' and judging by the target on his back here Wednesday night, his rivals have noticed.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's Re-election Bid Is Slow Out of the Gate]]></title>
							<link>https://www.axios.com/2023/05/03/biden-election-bid-slow-out-of-gate</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 03 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Biden's re-election campaign is off to a slow start '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' months behind the 2012 pace of Barack Obama, the last president to win re-election.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Inside the 36-Year Biden &amp; McConnell Relationship]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/22/joe-biden-mitch-mcconnell-relationship-460385</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The two 78-year-old deal-makers have been parties to the collapse of Capitol culture. Now they'll need to make Washington work again.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Behind Bob Woodward's September Surprise]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/09/trump-bob-woodward-book-411225</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president's participation in Woodward's latest book is triggering a wave of unease inside the White House.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will 'White Guilt' Shake Up the 2020 Election?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/09/white-voters-2020-biden-304804</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The killing of George Floyd has prompted a reckoning with racism not only for Joe Biden, but for a wide swath of white America.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dem Pollster: Warren as VP Would Lead to Biden Victory]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/28/famed-democratic-pollster-pushing-biden-pick-warren-for-vp-285659#431</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Contrary to conventional wisdom, Stan Greenberg says the Massachusetts senator would bring the biggest political upside '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' and he's making the case to Biden.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Inside Story of Elizabeth Warren's Collapse]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/06/warren-team-wonders-how-they-blew-it-122628</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Two dozen aides and allies let loose on what might have been.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Warren Thinks She Can Still Win the Nomination]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/01/warren-hail-mary-strategy-nomination-118319</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The senator might end Super Tuesday having not won a single of the 18 states that have voted. But she insists she's not going anywhere.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Total Meltdown': Democrats Bungle Iowa Caucus Results]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/03/iowa-caucus-2020-election-110600</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Iowa caucus results appear to be indefinitely delayed, leaving the Democratic candidates in a lurch.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Most Consequential Moment of the Dem Primary]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/05/medicare-for-all-2020-democratic-primary-075034</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A Kamala Harris town hall meeting in August 2017 is reverberating in the Democratic presidential race to this day.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Warren Blows Up the 'War Room,' &amp; It Baffles Dem Rivals]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/08/elizabeth-warren-campaign-067768</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 09 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The candidate rejects the James Carville approach to campaigning, and her opponents are baffled.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Warren Win Without Majority Black Support?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/18/biden-black-women-voters-2020-048703#431</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 20 Oct 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Interviews with black female pols suggest there'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s an opening for her and other Democrats to cut into Biden'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s lead among a critical voting bloc.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rock Star vs Rock: Warren, Biden Headed for Collision]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/26/elizabeth-warren-joe-biden-2020-1475220</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A clash of opposites was on full display on the campaign trail the past week.]]></description>
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