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The Republican primary comes to an end not with a bang, but with a whimper, as all major candidates but former President Donald Trump have dropped out and he has accumulated the delegates necessary to receive the nomination. After it ...

The Postrider‘s Politics Editor Lars Emerson and Editor-in-Chief Michael Lovito hop on to talk about whether Donald Trump should be considered the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee already, after just two primary contests; how he can power through to the general ...

It’s been a whirlwind of debates, mugshots, dropouts, and notable moments; with the Iowa caucuses in spitting distance, Lars, Michael, and Chris hop back in to check on their primary draft and talk about where the race is going! Check ...

Our 2024 Republican Vice Presidential Power Index is live, so Lars and Michael flip spots on the Politics Express podcast as Mike interviews Lars on the intricacies, strengths, shortfalls, and updates to the model from its 2020 Democrat-focused iteration. In ...

The first Republican primary debate looms in August so Lars, Michael, and Chris hop back in to check on their primary draft and talk about where the race is going! Check out the lineup and trade record here and listen to the ...

If the last few elections paint any picture, it's that a blue Texas is probably a matter of when, not if. Even if takes decades for Democrats to build an advantage in the Lone Star State, a win is likely far sooner than you think.

Besides a former president, no other name dominates the 2024 GOP primary chatter more than Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. But his candidacy (and chance of being president) is incredibly inflated -- here's why.

One of the best things that the Republican trifecta in 2017 did was buried in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Some Democrats are trying to reverse it, despite the fact it is a clear tax cut for the wealthy.

President Joe Biden’s Chief of Staff Ron Klain announced that he’ll be departing from the position in the near future. Just over two years into Biden’s first term, this is by far the largest shakeup of what’s been a remarkably ...

Perpetrators returning to the scene of the crime is a familiar plot device in fiction, movies, and television. Last week, one-time reality TV star, Donald J. Trump, returned to the nation’s capital — site of the deadly January 6, 2021 ...

Former President Donald Trump gets a lot of press for wading into both federal and state elections and proclaiming his favored candidates. Of particular importance are the primary elections in which he endorsed a candidate he views as sufficiently “America ...

It’s May of 2024 and former Vice President Mike Pence appears to be the likely Republican nominee, despite Donald Trump’s victory in the Iowa caucuses only a few months earlier.  He comes out just ahead of the former president as ...

Lars and Mike rank every postwar president… starting at the bottom! Find out why we only compare postwar presidents, who the most mediocre presidents are, and the stunning choice for the worst president since World War II.

The brief and tumultuous Trump administration proves to have one of the most direct impacts on American cinema, as Lars and Michael explore through the films Hell or High Water and BlacKkKlansman.

In 2019, we ran a piece about President Trump’s upcoming reelection and his relationship with Vice President Mike Pence — who we dubbed “the one man in the administration that President Trump cannot fire.” The article centered on whether or ...