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<title><![CDATA[Max Burns - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/40791.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Max Burns]]></description><category domain="40791">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[President Trump&rsquo;s Delusional State of the Union Address]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/5753968-trump-state-union-delusion/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Max Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Tonight'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s State of the Union address was not the speech'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' President Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' wanted to give.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Harris' Book Pinpoints One of Democrats' Biggest Problems]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/kamala-harris-book-107-days-biden-election-democrats-rcna230450</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Max Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The former vice president is no longer willing to take incoming fire for a White House team that apparently showed little loyalty or decency to her.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Virginia Republicans Are Reeling]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/virginia-republicans-john-reid-scandal-glenn-youngkin-rcna205883</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Max Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Today's MAGA-fied Republicans have entirely forgotten how to govern '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' or even how to police their own bad behavior.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Pritzker&rsquo;s 'Mad as Hell' Moment Marks Turning Point for Dems]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5273067-jb-pritzkers-mad-as-hell-moment-marks-a-turning-point-for-dems/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Max Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[That was the message New Hampshire Democrats received loud and clear on Sunday, when Pritzker rocked the room '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' and'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' went viral'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' across the Internet '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' with his fiery condemnation of his party'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s middle-of-the-road pushovers.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Does Butchering State Department 'Make America Great'?]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/5259408-trump-state-department-cuts/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Max Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Back in 2019, I wrote a column on how President Trump had intentionally weakened and fractured the State Department.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Buckle Up: The Trump Show Is Back and Bigger Than Ever]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5099171-trump-chaos/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Max Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After four years covering a White House that prided itself on the clockwork predictability of process and routine, political reporters awoke on Tuesday morning to the familiar feeling of Trumpian chaos.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Must Work With Trump--Strategically]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5072031-democrats-debate-working-with-trump/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Max Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Since election night two months ago, Democrats on Capitol Hill have been quietly wrestling with a question that will define the next four years of their political world. With anti-Trump resistance politics'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' in ruins'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' and large portions of the Democratic coalition shifting right, to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Does an America Without Democracy Look Like?]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5061174-trump-2025-america-democracy/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Max Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Whatever you think 2025 will bring, you'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re most likely wrong. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Democrats Can Reengage After Their Drubbing]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5019865-democrats-media-messaging/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 05 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Max Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The media industry was already facing serious financial headwinds and corporate restructurings before'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' cruised to victory'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' on Nov. 5. Now executives at both legacy media outlets and social media companies are facing an unexpected aftershock from this year'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s nonstop...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can a Fractured Democratic Party Learn the Lessons of 2024?]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4998060-democratic-dysfunction/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Max Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After a bruising campaign season and a humiliating defeat at the polls, this week saw Dems'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' internal conflicts'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' spilling out into public view. Party insiders are now engaged in tit-for-tat Twitter battles that do nothing to offer the party a'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' roadmap back to political contender...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Harris' Closing Argument Could Not Have Been Clearer]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/kamala-harris-ellipse-speech-pushed-back-trumps-division-rcna177932</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Max Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Harris hammered Trump on trade, abortion rights and the economy in her closing campaign speech Tuesday night.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Harris' Surrogate Strategy Has a Glaring Problem]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/kamala-harris-surrogate-speaker-strategy-says-campaign-rcna175391</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Max Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With political polarization at historic highs, it's unclear whether there are enough undecided or persuadable voters to make up for an underperforming Democratic base.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Vance vs. Walz: Who Will Win?]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4906837-vice-presidential-debate-walz-vance/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Max Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The last big spectacle of the 2024 presidential campaign is on the horizon. On Tuesday, vice presidential nominees'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Tim Walz'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' and'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' JD Vance'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' will'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' face off'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' in New York in a live debate that is likely to be the final time the two opposing campaigns will meet on stage.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Voters Aren&rsquo;t Buying Into Trump&rsquo;s Fantasy World Anymore]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4896509-trump-campaign-reality-check/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Max Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' won the presidency in 2016 in part by creating a parallel universe where everything was going wrong.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Violent migrants'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' were flooding into the country, Trump argued. Crime was at an'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' all-time high. Democrats are scheming to'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' rig elections'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' and mandate'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' socialism'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Debate Meltdown Was Spectacular]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/donald-trump-debate-meltdown-kamala-harris-rcna170551</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 11 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Max Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Even by his standards, the former president was shockingly incoherent and quick to rage.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is It Finally Game Over for Trump?]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4825893-trump-campaign-spiral/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Max Burns</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Is Betting Big on Trump's Conviction]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/watch-biden-ad-trump-convicted-felon-rcna157620</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Max Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's not a subtle message, but it's one the campaign hopes will resonate especially with crucial independent voters.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Biden's Immigration Backpedal Is a Big Mistake]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/4703176-bidens-immigration-backpedal-is-a-big-mistake/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Max Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Nothing marks the start of the summer campaign season quite like Democrats'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' frenzied race to the political right. This year is no different, with'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' President Biden'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' announcing on Monday a'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' tough new executive order'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' sealing the U.S.-Mexico border and sharply restricting which...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump&rsquo;s Crumbling Empire Gives Biden a Golden Opportunity]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4559163-trumps-crumbling-empire-gives-biden-a-golden-opportunity/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Max Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Here'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a phrase I never thought I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'d say: Donald Trump, Bible salesman.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Democrats Won Big in NY-3]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/13/opinions/tom-suozzi-new-york-election-results-burns/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Max Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Democrats'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' winning streak continues. Despite concerns about President Joe Biden'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s low approval ratings and inability to pull away from leading Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in the polls, the Democrats claimed another victory in a closely watched off-cycle...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Debate Exposed the Fractured Soul of the GOP]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4347415-debate-exposed-the-fractured-soul-of-the-gop/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Max Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Rarely in the manicured and stage-managed world of modern politics do voters get the chance to see who their presidential candidates truly are. They got that chance in spades at last night'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s NewsNation-hosted fourth Republican presidential debate, where America finally got its...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Need To Calm Down About Biden]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4299253-democrats-need-to-calm-down-about-joe-biden/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Max Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Honey, the Democrats are freaking out about some polls again. Do you remember what we did to calm them down last time?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How DeSantis Became 2024's Presidential Punchline]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4287190-bootgate-and-pudding-fingers-how-ron-desantis-became-2024s-presidential-punchline/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Max Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The past few months haven'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t been easy sailing for the crew of the S.S. DeSantis, tossed around as they were by senior staff firings, a super PAC that seems to be actively hurting its candidate and the disappearance of nearly every major DeSantis megadonor.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Proves Democrats Can Deliver for Labor]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/4223906-joe-biden-proves-democrats-can-deliver-for-labor/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Max Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Joe Biden'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' made history on Tuesday, becoming the first president in at least a century to'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' walk a picket line'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' with striking labor workers. Biden intended for his visit to erase any doubts about where he stands on the United Auto Workers'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' historic strike'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Government Isn't Broken. The Republicans Are]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/22/opinions/trump-government-shutdown-mccarthy-congress-burns/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Max Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For the second time in as many days, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy watched Thursday as his best effort to prevent a government shutdown collapsed in humiliating fashion, the result of entrenched opposition from extremists within his own party. As Congress tries to get a stop-gap funding...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Are the Party of Nonstop National Crisis]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4210334-an-out-of-control-gop-is-the-party-of-nonstop-national-crisis/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Max Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Stop me if you'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve heard this one, but congressional Republicans are once again careening toward internal crisis and a'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' damaging government shutdown. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Vivek Ramaswamy&rsquo;s Lightweight Campaign]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4177498-vivek-ramaswamys-no-good-very-bad-week/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Max Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[First-time presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy emerged from 2024'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s first Republican primary debate as the party'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s most talked-about candidate.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[To Win in 2024, Biden Must Highlight VP Harris, Not Hide Her]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/kamala-harris-joe-biden-florida-slavery-takedown-rcna97592</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Max Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Harris was Biden's history-making choice. That's why it's so confusing Team Biden hasn't used her talents more.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ron DeSantis Is Not Making Things Easy for Himself]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/desantis-iowa-gaffe-indicative-bigger-problem-rcna93273</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Max Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The DeSantis campaign has so far been a slow reveal of every awkward habit the governor has developed over years cloistered in the GOP echo chamber.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the Democratic Party Won't Miss Tulsi Gabbard]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/tucker-carlson-hosts-tulsi-gabbard-quits-democratic-party-good-riddanc-rcna51950</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Max Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Just three years ago, then-Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard stood on the Democratic presidential debate stage and pitched herself as a leader committed to moving the party forward. That Gabbard is tough to square with the bitter also-ran who told the world on Twitter on Tuesday morning that'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'...]]></description>
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