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- Welcome to the Year of the Mom
Several female candidates spent the cycle talking about how rising costs are squeezing their families. It’s a notable messaging shift from past election cycles.
- Business leaders and Washington prepare for a Democratic Congress
- Wes Moore wants immigration reform. Can he work with Stephen Miller?
The possible 2028 contender told POLITICO that Democrats should try to work with the president’s new chief of staff despite a “well of distrust.”
- Democrats plot their course on national popular vote
Democrats have won unified control of enough swing states — Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan — to sidestep the Electoral College. Will they back the effort?
- A new set of Democratic power brokers just dropped before 2028
Presidential hopefuls are already working the phones to build relationships with the new slate of Democratic figures in key early states.
- The Democratic Party’s new 2028 powerbrokers
- Court filing alleges Trump adviser received cash, luxury gifts from foreign interests
The filing from Alex Bruesewitz’s ex-business partner Derek Utley is a response to an earlier lawsuit claiming Utley embezzled millions from their firm, X Strategies.
- Josh Shapiro says Texas won’t replace Pennsylvania as the ‘ultimate swing state’
The governor romped to a 22-point reelection victory last week.
- The Bloc wants a bold agenda. Can Jeffries deliver?
- ‘Old ideas are for old people’: A new MAGA group looks to push GOP further right
American Ascent promises to recruit and elect a new generation of young ‘America First’ candidates.
- Democratic thrashing redraws the map of state power
Dems picked up more than 500 seats (and counting) and flipped at least 12 legislative chambers.
- How Hinojosa’s win in Texas could bite Beshear
Latino operatives for months pressured Andy Beshear and the Democratic Governors Association to back Gina Hinojosa. Now her win is blowing back on them.
- Why this GOP governor thinks his party got ‘worse than a butt whipping’ on Tuesday
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt blamed the lack of ‘civility’ from President Trump as a reason Republicans got shellacked.
- Inside the early GOP reckoning after historic defeat
Stephen Miller's rise to chief of staff exacerbated GOP fears that there will be no party-wide reckoning after their midterm wipeout.
- The size of Democrats’ wave surprised even their top House super PAC
House Majority PAC President Mike Smith said Democrats’ gains are “on the very high end” of the group’s expectations.
- The Clyburn test
- Poll: Republicans split on whether they’re split
POLITICO’s polling before Election Day showed that both parties would be left without clear direction amid a blue wave. And then the blue wave hit.
- The midterms blew open the 2028 map. Republicans are panicking.
Strategists on both sides agree: Ohio, Texas and Iowa should be competitive in 2028.
- The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics
Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in the world of politics. The fruits of these labors are hundreds of cartoons that entertain and enrage readers of all political stripes. Here's an offering of the best of this week's crop, picked fresh off the Toonosphere. Edited by Matt Wuerker.
- Jim Clyburn gives his reaction to Dems’ historic midterm win
- How Abdul El-Sayed actually did with Jewish voters
Yes, he ran behind. In an interview, the senator-elect acknowledged Israel was a source of disagreement, but said he’s not changing his position.
- Bernie Sanders lost the fight in 2016. A decade later, he won the war.
Bernie Sanders’ focus on economic populism once faced criticism within the party. Now it’s winning in Michigan, Texas, Montana and Wisconsin.
- Bernie’s populist moment
- ‘This is an earthquake’: Latino voters rush back to Democrats
The Latino inroads Trump made over the last decade have been completely reversed