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<title><![CDATA[Phil Wegmann - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/40333.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Phil Wegmann]]></description><category domain="40333">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[John Fetterman Under Attack]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Phil Wegmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Thursday, May 8th on the RealClearPolitics Podcast'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Senate Dems Are Trying To Block Tulsi Gabbard]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/01/27/phil_wegmann_democrats_are_trying_to_appeal_to_old_guard_neocon_republicans_to_block_tulsi_gabbard.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Phil Wegmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[RCP reporter Phil Wegmann broke down the strategy for and against Donald Trump's nominee for Director of National Intelligence, Sunday on FOX News, as Tulsi Gabbard begins confirmation hearings this week:]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Anyone Replace Speaker Johnson?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/12/26/realclearpolitics_can_anyone_replace_speaker_johnson_trumps_message_to_death_row_inmates_.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Phil Wegmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Thursday on the RealClearPolitics radio show -- weeknights at 6:00 p.m. on SiriusXM's POTUS Channel 124 and then on Apple, Spotify, and here on our website -- Andrew Walworth, Tom Bevan, and RCP White House correspondent Phil Wegmann discuss reports that House Republicans are taking...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Pardons and Resignations]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/12/12/realclearpolitics_pardons_and_resignations_save_the_ned_from_doge.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Phil Wegmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Thursday on the RealClearPolitics radio show -- weeknights at 6:00 p.m. on SiriusXM's POTUS Channel 124 and then on Apple, Spotify, and here on our website -- Andrew Walworth, Carl Cannon, and RCP White House correspondent Phil Wegmann discuss President Joe Biden's announcement that he...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Survives Assassination Attempt, Shooter Dead]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/07/14/trump_survives_assassination_attempt_shooter_dead__151259.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Phil Wegmann</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump: 2024 Is a Referendum on Political System]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/06/03/wegmann_trump_conviction_makes_2024_a_referendum_on_the_american_system_itself.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Phil Wegmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[RCP White House reporter Phil Wegmann commented on President Biden's and Donald Trump's reactions to the former president's conviction in the case of New York vs. Donald Trump on Friday's edition of the RealClearPolitics radio show.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Strategy Behind Trump's Bronx Rally]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/05/23/realclearpolitics_strategy_behind_trumps_bronx_rally_nikki_haley_voting_for_trump_who_will_lead_senate_gop_after_mcconnell.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Phil Wegmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Thursday on the RealClearPolitics radio show, Andrew Walworth, Tom Bevan, and White House correspondent Phil Wegmann discuss the strategy behind Donald Trump's campaign rally in the Bronx tonight and Nikki Haley revealing that she plans to vote for Trump.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What To Watch in New Hampshire]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/01/19/what_to_watch_for_in_new_hampshire_the_role_of_third_parties_in_2024_and_is_davos_man__ready_to_retire.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Phil Wegmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[RealClearPolitics president and co-founder Tom Bevan, Washington bureau chief Carl Cannon and White House correspondent Phil Wegmann join Andrew Walworth on today's RCP Takeaway podcast.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[RNC Moves To Scuttle 2024 Iowa 'Thanksgiving Family Forum']]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/11/08/rnc_moves_to_scuttle_2024_iowa_thanksgiving_family_forum_150029.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Phil Wegmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, an influential Christian conservative leader invited each of the Republican presidential candidates to attend a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Thanksgiving Family Forum'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' in Iowa. Candidates who accept wouldn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t stand behind podiums. Instead, they would be encouraged to gather around...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[DeSantis Accuses Trump of &lsquo;Mailing In&rsquo; Campaign]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/10/03/desantis_accuses_trump_of_mailing_in_campaign_149840.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Phil Wegmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Confident and relatively unscathed through two debates, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis looked and acted like former President Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s leading challenger for the Republican nomination. All that is missing now is the frontrunner himself.
Trump skipped the first two debates, and his...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden and Trump Court Labor]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2023/09/21/biden_and_trump_court_labor_the_second_gop_debate_and_new_polling_on_the_first_amendment.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Phil Wegmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[RealClearPolitics Washington bureau chief Carl Cannon, White House correspondent Phil Wegmann, and Director of Emerson College Polling Spencer Kimball join Andrew Walworth on today's RCP Takeaway podcast.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Should McConnell Step Down?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2023/08/31/should_mitch_mcconnell_step_down_should_desantis_and_newsom_debate_and_kristi_noem_for_veep.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Phil Wegmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[RealClearPolitics president and co-founder Tom Bevan, White House reporter Phil Wegmann, and national correspondent Susan Crabtree join Andrew Walworth on today's RCP Takeaway podcast.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Game On: Trump vs. DeSantis]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2023/05/25/does_ron_desantis_twitter_failure_matter_and_is_it_time_to_take_the_debt_ceiling_seriously.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Phil Wegmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[RealClearPolitics president and co-founder Tom Bevan, Washington bureau chief Carl Cannon and White House correspondent Phil Wegmann join Andrew Walworth on today's RCP Takeaway podcast.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Basks in Poll Surge, Warns Gag Order Would &lsquo;Backfire&rsquo;]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/04/04/trump_basks_in_poll_surge_campaign_warns_gag_order_would_backfire_149068.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Phil Wegmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Even as Donald Trump prepared to fly to New York for his arraignment, those close to the former president were crediting the man who put him in so much legal jeopardy for the best polling bump he has seen in years: The Trump campaign tells RealClearPolitics that Manhattan District...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[WH: Biden Can&rsquo;t Negotiate Until GOP &lsquo;Finish Negotiating With Themselves&rsquo;]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/04/03/wh_biden_cant_negotiate_until_gop_finish_negotiating_with_themselves_149065.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Phil Wegmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In public, President Biden is rather frustrated. More specifically, White House aides say he was disappointed to watch House Republicans leave Washington for a two-week recess without anything close to a budget resolution or a plan for avoiding a catastrophic default on the national...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Campaign: DeSantis Staff Need Not Apply]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/03/24/trump_campaign_desantis_staff_need_not_apply_149029.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Phil Wegmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As Ron DeSantis emerges as a prospective rival for the Republican nomination, Donald'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Trump campaign has put word out that anyone who works for the Florida governor will be blackballed.
According to sources with direct knowledge of the edict, Justin Caporale, who helps lead the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Politics of Classified Docs]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2023/02/02/emily_jashinsky_joins_the_panel_to_talk_about_kevin_mccarthy_the_latest_twitter_files_and_the_politics_of_classified_documents_.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Phil Wegmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Culture editor of The Federalist website Emily Jashinsky, RCP White House correspondent Phil Wegmann, and Washington bureau chief Carl Cannon join Andrew Walworth on today's RealClearPolitics Takeaway podcast.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Paul Ryan: Entitlement Reform &lsquo;Not As Toxic As It Used To Be&rsquo;]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/11/17/paul_ryan_entitlement_reform_not_as_toxic_as_it_used_to_be_148486.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Phil Wegmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Things can always get worse. Without significant change, it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s inevitable that they will. So says Paul Ryan, the former Republican speaker of the House, who warns that while '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'we think our country is pretty ugly and divided now, politically speaking,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' our current national...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Laxalt Keeps It Simple, Keeps It Close in Pivotal Senate Race]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/10/20/laxalt_keeps_it_simple_keeps_it_close_in_pivotal_senate_race__148350.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Phil Wegmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At the Howard Theatre in Washington, three weeks before Election Day, President Biden tried bolstering his party'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s chances around the country. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Here is the promise I make to you and the American people,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' he said. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'The first bill I will send to Congress will be to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[US Export-Import Bank To Follow Biden&rsquo;s Lead, &lsquo;Formally Close&rsquo; in Russia]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/03/14/us_export-import_bank_to_follow_bidens_lead_formally_close_in_russia__147326.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Phil Wegmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Export-Import Bank'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' is closing for business in Russia.
The news, first reported by RealClearPolitics, comes nearly three weeks after Russian tanks started rolling across Ukraine and after the Biden administration loosed withering financial sanctions against Moscow in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Restates His Bid to Go Big]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/04/29/biden_restates_his_bid_to_go_big__145674.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Phil Wegmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Joe Biden lived, then internalized, the lessons of the Obama era, perhaps none more important than a revealing phrase uttered by that former president'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s first chief of staff: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' This much was reflected in Biden'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s first...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Team Hopes All Is Forgiven in Neera Tanden Push]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/02/22/biden_team_hopes_all_is_forgiven_in_tanden_omb_push_145282.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Phil Wegmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Biden often professes a belief in redemption. Republicans, whose party has an elephant as its symbol, have long memories. When it comes to Neera Tanden, whom Biden nominated to head the White House Office of Management and Budget, something has to give in that tug-of-war.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden: In-Person School One Day a Week Not Enough]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/02/17/biden_in-person_school_one_day_a_week_not_enough.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Phil Wegmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There were questions from Democrats, Republicans, and independents for Joe Biden at his first presidential town hall Tuesday night. Then there was a little girl in the second grade who, with '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' help from her mother, asked when children might be able to get the vaccine.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's Attention Isn't on Trump's Second Impeachment]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/02/10/bidens_attention_isnt_on_trumps_second_impeachment_145214.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Phil Wegmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Congress lived up to its nature. On Day One of the second Senate trial of former President Donald Trump, an ignoble but historic first, almost everything was sucked into the vortex of a legislature supercharged by impeachment. The White House certainly felt the pull.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Poll: Perdue, Loeffler Score In Opposing Braves Name Change]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/12/16/poll_perdue_loeffler_could_score_in_opposing_braves_name_change_144861.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Phil Wegmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A runoff election may very well be the closest thing in politics to extra innings in baseball, and with control of the Senate at stake, the GOP in Georgia hopes an appeal to America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s pastime will help keep the majority Republican.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Less Rancor But a Still-Stark Divide in Last Debate]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/10/23/less_rancor_but_a_still-stark_divide_in_last_debate_144517.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Phil Wegmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is finished. The final debate of 2020 is done. Donald Trump walked off his last debate stage on Thursday night, and soon the country will decide whether to let him keep his job or hand the presidency over to Joe Biden.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' 
Both men were on better behavior than the last time they met,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Senate Dems Create Another Circus? Republicans Hope So]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/09/23/a_circus_senate_hearing_gop_sees_gain_if_dems_act_up_144278.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Phil Wegmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At first, the protesters were polite. They filed quietly into the back of the hearing room, sat in the two dozen or so seats reserved for the public, and waited patiently. But then, one by one, they started yelling, and then, one by one, they were hauled away by Capitol Police. On the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Gingrich to Trump: Be More Aggressive 'Than Nixon or Reagan']]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Phil Wegmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[He may be the most optimistic American abroad, and when reached by phone Friday from Rome, the former speaker of the House offers an increasingly rare message to stateside Republicans resigning themselves to an ugly November: Newt Gingrich still believes Donald Trump can win.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Amid Church-State Frictions, DoJ Stresses Religions' Rights]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Phil Wegmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[He was buried, and three days later was raised from the dead, according to Scripture. They went to church in celebration over this event two millennia later '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¦').';' and were fined $500, according to the authority of the mayor.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mnuchin in the Middle: Between Trump and Dems]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Phil Wegmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was hopeless, and he knew it, even before he started talking. The junior senator from Kentucky walked to the floor to deliver a melodramatic eulogy. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Can you hear it? Can you hear the somber notes, the feet shuffling, the solemn tones?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Rand Paul asked his colleagues last...]]></description>
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