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Journalist David Drucker reported on Herschel Walker during the 2022 Georgia U.S. Senate election cycle, highlighting his early campaign strategy, low initial public visibility, and his backing by Donald Trump. [1, 2, 3]
Campaign Coverage
- Slow Start: Drucker noted that after launching his Senate bid in August 2021, Walker spent his first couple of weeks holding no public events and avoiding local press. [1]
- Trump Endorsement: Walker ran as a hand-picked, pro-Trump candidate, which Drucker and other analysts noted carried both high primary enthusiasm and general election electability questions. [1, 2]
A video discussion reflecting on the outcomes of 2022 midterm candidates including Herschel Walker:
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‘Where is the line?’: Trump admin under fire for ‘bizarre memeification’ of Iran war
Mar 15, 2026 #iran #trump #politics
President Trump is facing scrutiny over his alarming messaging on the war in Iran and his misplaced priorities to pass the restrictive voting bill before the midterms. David Drucker and Adam Serwer join The Weekend to discuss the “memeification” of the war and more.
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out of the Trump administration. We have a nation at war now in its third week.
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People are concerned about their economic well-being. Gasoline prices continue to rise by the day.
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But we have a president whose priorities seem to be pushing through a restrictive voting bill before this year's election, this this year's election.
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Posting last week that he will not sign any other bills into law until the Save America Act is passed.
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This is a bill that critics claim will disenfranchise millions of eligible Americans from registering to vote.
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And when this administration does talk about the war, or little excursion, as Trump likes to call it.
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What is presented is beneath the dignity of any White House, like portraying the grave acts of the military as nothing more than a kid's video game.
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And in another stunning example, President Trump is fundraising off the war.
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Trump's political action committee sent out a fundraising email featuring a photo from last Saturday's dignified transfer honoring six fallen U .S.
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service service members promising donors, quote, private national security briefings by the president himself.
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The White House and Pentagon did not respond to MSNOW on what those briefings would entail joining us now david drucker senior
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writer at the dispatch and msnow contributor and adam serrer staff writer at the atlantic adam david welcome back to
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the weekend um adam since you're not at the table i'm going to start start with you and just ask you considering the president's
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uh passion for sharing classified information in public settings that i'm I'm thinking of that time when he shared news
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of launching missile strikes in Syria while publicly dining with the Chinese president on his patio at Mar-a-Lago.
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Should we give President Trump the benefit of the HE WON'T ACTUALLY SHARE PRIVATE NATIONAL SECURITY, CLASSIFIED NATIONAL
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SECURITY INFORMATION WITH THOSE DONORS AS HE'S PROMISED. I THINK IT'S WORSE THAN THAT.
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IT'S FAIR that he uses national security information the way you might, you or I might use an anecdote about meeting a famous person at a party.
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He just doesn't consider it important.
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And that's an extension of a larger problem, which is that he sees the U .S. government as his property. And it's not his property.
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It's the public's property. It doesn't belong to him. The presidency does not belong to him.
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The federal government and the federal government is not an extension of the Trump corporation.
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It's something he is administering, not something he owns.
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And treating all the assets of the federal government as though they were assets of the Trump organization is impeachable behavior.
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It's the kind of thing that's not supposed to happen.
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But unfortunately, there have been no consequences for all of Trump's actions thus far, which is why he feels like he could get
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away with brazen behavior like trying to fundraising off the corpses of dead American service members.
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David, there is the mean videos that the administration has put out basically pretending as if though
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at this war where Americans actually that I will add, in that fundraising.
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Is there a line for this administration? Like what is the line? Has there ever been a line for this administration?
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And if there's not a line, why Why are Republicans doing anything about it? I know.
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Listen, I wrote about this last week for The Dispatch.
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Listen, I wrote about this last week Both the fundraising email appeals and the meme videos.
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They started happening within a few days of the war.
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And presidents have always, when we've been at war, the presidents that have ordered us to war have always tried to
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make a political case for that WAR, INCLUDING TO TRY AND WIN REELECTION, TRY AND PRESSURE CONGRESS FOR FUNDING IF NECESSARY.
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SO THE IDEA THAT YOU WOULD INCORPORATE A WAR into your sales pitch, for lack of a better word, is not new.
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What is new are email fundraising appeals, at least they appear new, because they seem so trite, Yeah.
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Right?
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I mean, you know, some of these email appeals have tried to gain advantage over Democrats.
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Some of them have tried to actually push back against some of the Republican criticism of the president's decision to go to
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And so it just strikes a lot of people as off-putting.
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The meme videos in particular because you could say, well, it's the president's political operation. That's what political operations do.
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These meme videos are coming directly from the White House with the White House stamp, so to speak.
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And so I don't think you're going to see pushback from Republicans because I just think they look at it as part and parcel of the way the president communicates.
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And most of them I THINK A LOT OF THEM ARE ON BOARD WITH THE POLICY AT LEAST FOR NOW BUT IT IS SOMETHING SOMEWHAT UNUSUAL
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EVEN THOUGH YOU KNOW I WAS TALKING TO AN ACADEMIC ABOUT THIS AND YOU KNOW THEY POINTED TO PRESIDENTS GOING ALL THE WAY BACK TO
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WOODROLE WILSON AND DURING WORLD WAR ONE LOOKING FOR UNUSUAL WAYS TO COMMUNICATE OR NOVEL AND INNOVATIVE WAYS TO COMMUNICATE AND
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SELL A WAR POLICY SO THIS IS THE CONCEPT IS NOT NEW I THINK WHAT IS NEW AND WHAT IS VERY TROUBLING FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT I'VE SPOKEN
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TO NOT ON THE REPUBLICAN SIDE BUT JUST PEOPLE IN GENERAL IT IS THAT THESE SORTS OF THINGS I'VE SPOKEN TO TAKE A LOT OF PEOPLE IN GENERAL
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IT IS THAT THINGS SEEM SOPHOMORISH AND THEY DON'T SEEM TO, THEY DON'T FIT WITH THE GRAVITY OF BEING AT
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WAR AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT'S DIFFERENT YEAH IT IS JUST SORT OF POST-MODERN PROPAGANDA BUT IT ALSO INDICATES THAT THE WHITE HOUSE POTENTIALLY DOESN'T THINK THAT HIGHLY
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OF THE PEOPLE THAT THEY'RE TRYING TO MESSAGE AND SPEAK TO RIGHT AND I THINK ACTUALLY ADAM THAT'S IT'S A PERFECT segue to what you just wrote in The Atlantic,
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in a very beautifully written piece called Gullible, Cynical America.
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You write the spread of anti-vax conspiracies as just another example of the gullicism that defines our age. The cynicism is highly selective.
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Gullicists see everyone's hidden motives except when they don't.
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They're able to reject any claim rooted in actual evidence, whether in science, politics or history, while embracing the most breathtakingly absurd assertions on the same topics.
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Indeed, documentation is often taken as further evidence of conspiracy, while assertion that this or that will detoxify your blood,
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or that COVID deaths were exaggerated, is taken as gospel.
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This rejection of empiricism makes selling falsehoods easier and contradicting them harder, which creates a fertile environment
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for anyone with something to sell, whether shady businesses or authoritarian governments. Adam, does this argument apply to war?
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I mean, I think it does apply to war because the idea is that if you think, assume that everyone is corrupt, everyone is on the take,
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that relieves you of the cognitive burden of distinguishing when this is actually happening.
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So if you say, oh, well, all
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the presidents do try to make the case for whatever military action they are engaging in.
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But to say that, you know, if you just say that without distinguishing between what is different about what Trump is doing with this sort of,
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you know, bizarre internet strategy of reducing war to sort of comic memes, you know, for the lulls online, you know, that is absolutely new.
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It's absolutely new for presidents to make personal profits, uh, off of the U S government and just pocket that kind of money.
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Previous presidents did not do that.
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Um, so, you know, I think it, it, the important thing here is that is not to get so cynical it's important to be you know skeptical it's important to take empiricism
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seriously but it's not it's important not to be so cynical uh that you essentially can't tell the difference between a scam and reality you know david one
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of the reasons why you know particularly the the picture of the president wearing a hat during
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the dignified transfer and then using using pictures like that in fundraising emails is why this has been so enraging to me is
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because I remember, oh, 12 years ago when another commander-in-chief
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had the temerity to to salute the service members, the Marines was coming off and think Marine One with a coffee cup in his hand.
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Let's just watch a montage of far-right outrage at President Obama.
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Denise Borka
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msnbc hires republican journalist
MSNBC have added a journalist who reports on republican politics. In my opinion, they made an error. Get rid of him, he's a republican, with republican talking points. His name is David Drucker and he was on the morning show today.
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Larry Ray
I like to hear differing opinions. Regrettably, David Drucker's opinion is always Republican leaning. He seemingly cannot be objective
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Denise Borka
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Larry Ray if i wanted to hear what a deluded republican thought i would watch fox news.
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Debra Ganshaw
Larry Ray I concur!
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Sb Kan
I don’t agree with the statements made without some challenge. I think Drucker has a great opportunity on ms now to get his conservative point across with no challenge regarding further explanation. Total lack of challenge regarding opines. Sorry msn… See more
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Wendy Freese Cromwell
I didn't see him and watching Velshi. I dont mind an opposing view on msnbc tho
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Denise Borka
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Wendy Freese Cromwell on the show before with jonathan caphart and gang
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Wendy Freese Cromwell
Denise Borka ah. I was still asleep. Lol
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Debra Ganshaw
Wendy Freese Cromwell I don't mind that either. But he's pretty obvious about his views.
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William Gazitano
On March 18, David Drucker wrote an op ed saying that the average primary voting Democrat was a white 55 year old women without a college education who identifies as a Christian, and sometimes evangelical. He stated on MSNBC that at least Trump is bei… See more
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Anne Thompson
He’s been on many times before today.
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Pat Donovan
I agree. The minute he opened his mouth he started spewing Trump apologetics. OUT. We hear that crap everywhere else -- NOT on MSNOW, please!
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Leslie Edwards
Pat Donovan same
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Chrissie Biehl
He’s been on a lot
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Leslie Edwards
I do not like David Drucker on MSNOW. I think he belongs on Fox definitely. I really can't stand listening to his right wing views. Especially about this war with Iran.
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Parker Johnsen
He is a republican and he always sees the side of things against democrats and for trump
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Sarah Caruthers
What about Scott Jennings? Total ahole!
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Linda Woods
Sarah Caruthers AGREE
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Trump is a defeated one-term president who cost the Republican party both houses of Congress. Yet three-quarters of Republicans want him to again run in 2024, polling that has other aspirants keeping their heads well down.
Joe Biden is politically vulnerable, his job approval underwater, his coalition fraying. He could meet the same fate as Trump – sans residual enthusiasm.
The next Republican nominee could easily be the next president. Against this backdrop, David Drucker’s Baedeker to the current crop of wannabes is a perfectly timed and well-informed contribution.
As senior political correspondent for the Washington Examiner, a conservative paper, he knows of whom and what he writes. Better yet, he has access. In Trump’s Shadow is chock-full of tidbits and trivia, the stuff on which political junkies and journalists thrive.
Drucker names an array of Republican presidential hopefuls, among them long-shots such as the Texas governor, Greg Abbott; the Nebraska senator Ben Sasse; and Trump’s last national security adviser, Robert O’Brien.
Drucker delivers deeper dives on former vice-president Mike Pence; the Florida senator Marco Rubio and governor, Ron DeSantis; Nikki Haley, Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations; the Arkansas senator Tom Cotton; and the governor of Maryland, Larry Hogan. In doing so, he covers the Republican ideological spectrum.
Drucker also reports on an interview with Trump at Mar-a-Lago, his Florida resort and retreat. Not surprisingly, Trump has kind words for Mike Pompeo, his former secretary of state; contempt for Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader; and disdain for Liz Cheney, the congresswoman from Wyoming and daughter of former vice-president Dick Cheney who turned against Trump over the Capitol riot.
“She’s a psycho,” says the very stable genius.
Trump has, however, had time to grow appreciative of “Lyin’ Ted” Cruz, the Texas senator whose father and wife Trump attacked viciously during the primaries in 2016.
Amid such Trumpian cacophony, Drucker reminds us of just who within the GOP is laying groundwork for runs for the White House, and how realistic their hopes might be. It is a tricky and contorting dance. But though Trump can dominate coverage, he cannot completely extinguish ambitions. Drucker pulls back the curtain on other figures’ schemes, dreams – and hard political infrastructure.
Take Pence. Once a congressman from Indiana, then its governor, he began preparing for the top step on the ladder the moment he was elected Trump’s VP. Pence established a separate political operation within the White House and a fundraising Pac of his own, the Great America Committee. He used it to pay expenses while stumping for Republicans around and across the country.
Trump was fine with that. It meant Pence would not look to his boss to pay his travel bills. The veep had a stash of his own.
Since leaving office, Pence has also launched Advancing American Freedom, a political non-profit which touts “conservative values and policy proposals”. More importantly, it is stocked with Trump loyalists. Kellyanne Conway, the mother of “alternative facts”. Larry Kudlow, chief White House economic adviser. Newt Gingrich, once speaker of the House, a colleague on the right. All are there.
Drucker also sheds light on Pence’s defiance of Trump and service to the republic, in the aftermath of a defeat by Biden which Trump sought to overturn with lies about electoral fraud. As a traditional conservative, Drucker writes, Pence was skeptical of the power of the vice-president to unilaterally steal an election. Before he certified results, he sought a legal opinion, which debunked Trump’s false claim that he could.
When Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol, on 6 January, some chanted “Hang Mike Pence”. Others erected a makeshift gallows. Pence was forced to hide, but he refused to leave.
Ten months on, Team Pence seems not to know what to think or say. It was “a dark day in the history of the US Capitol”, Drucker records Pence telling one crowd. But Pence later told Fox News “the media wants to distract from the Biden administration’s failed agenda by focusing on one day in January”.
The political momentum is clear. Pence’s own brother, a congressman from Indiana, voted against certifying the election. This week, Greg Pence was the only no-show in the House on the vote to hold Steve Bannon in contempt for defying the 6 January committee. Two-thirds of Republicans deny that the Capitol riot was an attack on the government. The right has a new Lost Cause.
Drucker also does justice to Rubio, capturing the senator’s tendency to “chase the latest shiny object”, be it immigration reform in 2013 or police reform after the murder of George Floyd. He’s “the butterfly”, according to one Republican strategist.
“Marco goes to every brightly colored flower and sticks his nose right in the middle of it, [then] takes a little bit of honey and stands in front of it to see if anyone’s looking at the flower.”
Rigged review: shameless – and dangerous – catnip for Trump’s base
In 2016, Rubio won three Republican nominating contests but was battered by Trump in his home state, losing the Florida primary by nearly 20 points. Before 2024, he will face a stern Senate challenge from Val Demings, an African American ex-cop and impeachment floor manager.
Demings has out-raised Rubio recently but Rubio has $3m more in the bank. This, remember, is a politician who once purportedly told a friend: “I can call up a lobbyist at four in the morning, and he’ll meet me anywhere with a bag of $40,000 in cash.”
He also has a history of credit card problems. Imagine what a President Rubio might do with the national debt.
If nothing else, Drucker reminds us that though Trump rules Red America, like rust, ambition never sleeps. The starter’s flag on the race for the Republican nomination has yet to fall. In Trump’s Shadow is fine preparatory reading.
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Drucker: Money isn’t the root of all political evil
- David M. Drucker
- PUBLISHED: July 23, 2026 at 3:15 AM PDT | UPDATED: July 23, 2026 at 4:38 AM PDT
- Categories:Opinion, Opinion Columnists
Demonstrators march in the snow through Lafayette Park, outside the White House, during a rally against the Supreme Court's decision in favor of Citizens United in Washington, D.C. in 2015.
At the risk of turning myself into a pariah, I don’t think money in politics is a problem.
Voters on the right and left don’t seem to agree on much these days. But they tend to share the belief — it’s an article of faith, really — that campaign donations, especially corporate cash, are a corrupting force in American politics. Simply put, voters tend to believe politicians would do the “right thing” (whatever that is) if not for money and its influence on their positions on issues big and small.
That view is misguided. It’s the result of a fundamental misunderstanding of the political gravity governing the flow of campaign contributions and the strict limits on donations imposed by federal law. Let’s start with the law. (Full disclosure: My wife is a Republican fundraiser.)
Individuals are prohibited from giving more than $7,000 to a (challenger or incumbent) candidate’s campaign — $3,500 for the primary and $3,500 for the general — per limits established by the Federal Election Commission for the 2026 election cycle. Wealthy donors interested in writing bigger checks can contribute up to $44,300 annually to a national party organization, such as the Democratic National Committee or the National Republican Senatorial Committee. And the most a big-money contributor can give to federal candidates and national party committees in total is $132,900 per year.
Corporate donations are prohibited. “Corporate political action committees” — technically called “separate segregated funds” — are funded by the voluntary contributions of employees and subject to donation limits similar to the caps placed on individuals.
Does corruption exist in the system? Inevitably. Are alleged violators prosecuted? All the time. Ask former New York Mayor Eric Adams and ask Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former fixer.
But the law is a sideshow.
Money flow
Think of money in politics like water flowing in an aqueduct situated at an angle. The same way gravity will pull the water downhill, donors contribute cash to the Democratic and Republican politicians who already share their views as a form of affirmation and encouragement. This is true of wealthy donors who give in large amounts and grassroots donors who contribute a few dollars at a time. In other words, donors by and large don’t use campaign cash to manipulate policymaking they don’t like — to essentially bribe politicians into changing their minds.
Republicans, DONORS? POLS? for instance, aren’t staunch supporters of the Second Amendment because of campaign donations from groups that oppose gun control. Republicans protect gun rights because A) they tend to personally believe in doing so and B) most GOP voters are as passionate on this issue as any I’ve covered in nearly 25 years of political reporting. The donations stem from there.
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Everything I’ve just described is true for Democratic voters and their chosen candidates regarding abortion rights.
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And it’s true for both parties regarding Israel: Donations from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) are given to politicians who back the Jewish state and deployed against those who don’t.
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Yes, but what about the scourge of super PACs and so-called dark money groups?
Both can accept donations in unlimited amounts from individuals and corporations. Super PACs must disclose their donors in FEC filings; issue advocacy groups or organizations — political nonprofits known as 501(c)4s under the US tax code — are not required to, hence the term “dark money.” That’s an advantage for deep-pocketed donors and big business that strikes most voters as unfair, and it’s a valid concern to an extent. In reality, the edge is smaller than presumed because of the various legal constraints placed on these two kinds of groups.
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Super PACs are prohibited from coordinating spending with candidates’ campaigns on advertising messaging or strategy.
Political nonprofits are limited in the amount of political activity they can engage in; total expenditures on politics must amount to less than 50% of all the money such a group spends.
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Regardless, the principle of political gravity applies.
Money from super PACs and 501(c)4s flows to politicians that those entities already agree with and only helps as much as the candidate uses it to earn the support of rank-and-file voters.
As I’ve written before, no amount of money can sell a bad product. Every election cycle, the political terrain is littered with candidates who lost despite raising more money than their opponents and enjoying the backing of super PACs and issue-advocacy organizations that were flush with cash.
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No matter; as I conceded earlier, the lure of getting money out of politics is strong for most voters.
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I’ve witnessed Democrats and Republicans receive hearty applause for advocating for it. One of Trump’s most potent messages with GOP voters has been his vow to “drain the swamp” in Washington, D.C. — despite the perception of granting favors in exchange for donations.
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This election cycle, Democrats like Senator Jon Ossoff of Georgia and Michigan Senate contender Abdul El-Sayed are running on platforms that include eliminating money from politics (all while raising tens of millions of dollars for their campaigns, of course.)
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Unhelpful reforms
Putting aside First Amendment protections for political speech as money, more laws could make things worse from the perspective that money in politics is bad.
The rise of the super PAC and 501(c)4, for example, is a direct result of a 2000s-era campaign finance reform law designed to — you guessed it — get money out of politics. What the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (BCRA) did, instead, was empower wealthy and grassroots donors at the expense of political parties.
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Before BCRA, the Democratic and Republican parties had greater control over resources, as they were able to raise money in unlimited amounts. Candidates then tended to rely on the parties for those resources, granting the parties significant sway over who represented them on the ballot. After BCRA, donors big and small wield resources through outside groups like super PACs and fundraising platforms like ActBlue and WinRed that function as a pipeline to finance candidates that the parties often oppose.
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Money in politics certainly didn’t recede with more restrictions, and partisanship and extreme candidates, right and left, increased.
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Which is why fans of a more civil, functional politics ought to cheer the recent US Supreme Court decision in NRSC v. FEC.
The court in this case didn’t strike down contribution limits on party committees or make it easier for corporations — or public employee unions, for that matter — to attempt to steer policymaking. There is still regulation, and there should be. Rather, the ruling returned some of the authority the Democratic and Republican political committees enjoyed pre-campaign finance reform by enabling them to coordinate more directly, via advertising and messaging, with their respective candidates.
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That could make the political parties more attractive to donors, as their contributions, while still subject to limits, might now be used more efficiently by the party committees than previously.
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That in turn could give the parties more say over who their candidates are. And that, over time, could reduce extremism and increase cooperation in American politics, which voters of all stripes claim to want.
David M. Drucker is a columnist covering politics and policy. ©2026 Bloomberg. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency.
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Drucker: Money isn’t the root of all political evil
David M. Drucker
PUBLISHED: July 23, 2026 at 3:15 AM PDT | UPDATED: July 23, 2026 at 4:38 AM PDT
Categories: Opinion, Opinion Columnists
OpEd: Money is the root of most political evil
As is common with right-wing pundits and Op-Ed authors, David M. Drucker’s recent Opinion piece about money in politics uses cherry-picked data to conclude “Money isn’t the root of all political evil”. His case rests upon a true principle, but ignores the reality of big money’s impact on politics and policies.
The principle is political gravity governs the flow of campaign contributions because donors contribute cash to the “politicians who already share their views as a form of affirmation and encouragement.” And while that is true, he ignore the difference between big money and small donor money. Clearly, Elon Musk’s $250M invested in electing Trump president made a bigger difference than thousands of small donors. Although the author mentions AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, he overlooks the fact it has become one of the biggest spenders in American elections, and is controlled by foreign entities. Another reality ignored is _{Trump’s request in 2024 of oil industry executives}_ to donate $1 billion to aid his campaign to retake the White House; they came through for him, and he keeps rewarding them.
According to a _{Brennan Center for Justice report}, “The 2024 federal election cycle was the most secretive since the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision in 2010. Dark money groups, nonprofits and shell companies that spend on elections without revealing their donors, plowed more than $1.9 billion into last year’s election cycle, a dramatic increase from the prior record of _{$1 billion} in 2020.”
Others report that billionaires contributed nearly $2 billion to the 2024 elections, with 150 families significantly outspending previous records, primarily supporting Republican candidates, in a successful effort to amplify their political influence while overshadowing the voices of ordinary voters.
Ignoring the undue influence of billionaires and other countries in our elections and politics seems a deliberate misdirection by the husband of a Republican fundraiser.
Another feint is saying that donors don’t “by and large don’t use campaign cash ... to essentially bribe politicians into changing their minds.” That disregards the small percentage of donors who do, and who legally can because the Republicans on the Supreme Court said they could. While the author maintains that “no amount of money can sell a bad product”, the current occupant of the White House is a prime example of a bad product that was sold to us by big money interests and the billionaire class.
Failing to mention _{Musk’s $2}_90M to sway the 2024 election, and the billions of dark money from billionaires is not an accident. It is disinformation, designed to confuse people like Big Oil has done about Global Warming for decades.
Republicans on the Supreme Court have established and expanded two Court-created doctrines: money is a form of speech, and corporations have constitutional rights (CCR).
The CCR doctrine is founded on a lie as explained in Thom Hartmann’s book "Who Killed the American Dream: The Greatest Political Crime Ever Told". He points out what isn’t taught in law school: In 1886, the Supreme Court never ruled that corporations have constitutional rights (CCR). That “precedent” came from a single fraudulent sentence inserted by a court reporter working with a corrupt justice. One headnote. One lie. The greatest legal heist in American history.
The remedy is reversing both corrupting Court decisions with a Constitutional Amendment, just as we have done in the past to correct other Supreme Court errors.
We at MoveToAmend.org have been offering a Constitutional Amendment since before the Citizens United decision.
Over a half million people agree,
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Americans agree there is too much money in politics. In a robust democracy, we would change that. And to regain our democracy, we must reverse both corrupting Court decisions with a Constitutional Amendment.
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The author’s solution is to funnel more money to the political parties, giving them “more say over who their candidates are. And that, over time, could reduce extremism …”. This again ignores the reality of the Republican Party’s purge of rational candidates in favor of Trump cultists.
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the political fallout from President Donald Trump’s mass deportation program has damaged his job approval ratings, led to the firing of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, and prompted the White House to urge Republicans in Congress to abandon the issue and instead tout administration efforts to remove criminal aliens.
But the main architect of mass deportations, Stephen Miller, remains the White House deputy chief of staff because of his unquestionable loyalty to Trump and personal popularity among GOP voters. Few if any Republicans in Washington, D.C.—elected officials, lobbyists or operatives—are demanding Miller’s ouster, or even that immigration be removed from his portfolio. That’s despite the boost the mass deportation operation has given to the Democratic Party’s bid to recapture the House of Representatives and Senate in midterm elections.
A key reason why: The White House aide enjoys a following all his own inside the GOP.
“He’s the Holy Grail of MAGA,” a Republican lobbyist told The Dispatch, requesting anonymity to speak candidly, as did most who were interviewed for this story. “He’s the true north of MAGA for the president.” In a January Quinnipiac University poll, Trump’s job approval among Republican voters was 88 percent. Miller scored an impressive 73 percent rating in the same survey.
John Fredricks, a conservative talk radio host and a Trump supporter since the president first sought the GOP nomination a decade ago, has known Miller for 15 years. He explained Miller’s rise in the Make America Great Again movement, and White House staying power, to The Dispatch this way: “He’s got balls and a plan—most people have one without the other. He’s got them both, and you can quote me on this. He’s got balls and he’s got a plan. And that’s why he is revered within MAGA.”
“Stephen Miller is the guy, that if he were to leave the administration, everybody would doubt the sincerity of the other administration people,” Fredricks, who is based in Washington, D.C., added.
Many Republicans who work in the nation’s capital view Miller with “a combination of admiration and hate, but mostly fear,” a second GOP lobbyist said. This party insider added that Miller’s adept management of his close relationship with Trump is among the reasons the long knives haven’t come for Miller the way they did Noem, a Senate-confirmed Cabinet secretary, and others who have been in the president’s orbit as long as he has.
“He operates in a fiefdom with almost unlimited power and he’s smart enough not to overstep—a very dangerous combination for such an opportunistic hardliner,” this lobbyist said.
That keen sense to avoid big-footing Trump has made Miller an elusive figure for many Republican professionals in Washington. Even Republican lobbyists supportive of the president, or at least not openly hostile, have told The Dispatch they have had no interaction with Miller, despite his broad sway over domestic and foreign policy. “Stephen is way more focused internally than externally,” a GOP operative said. However, this experience is not universal.
Miller has been in town, and involved in Republican politics, for years. He has relationships that predate Trump. And so some Republicans with business or concerns related to the administration’s agenda have, from time to time, used Miller as a high-level White House conduit. Given Miller’s deep involvement in immigration policy, he is often sought after for help on that issue. “People backchannel to Miller all the time,” a Republican who works on K Street said. “The consensus is, unless immigration-related, it usually isn’t a useful backchannel.”
Miller, 40, is something of a MAGA wunderkind.
Well before Trump first campaigned on a platform of securing the border and limiting immigration—both legal and illegal—Miller was making a name for himself fighting the fight on Capitol Hill. In 2013, Miller was a communications aide to then-Sen. Jeff Sessions, an Alabama Republican. As many Republicans in Congress negotiated with Democrats to pass a bipartisan overhaul of federal immigration law, Miller worked furiously to kill the legislation and at times seemed more emotionally invested in the legislation’s defeat than Sessions. (The bill cleared the Senate but died in the House.)
During Trump’s 2016 campaign, Sessions was among the first congressional Republicans to endorse, precipitating Miller’s move to the populist candidate’s campaign and eventually, Trump’s first White House. Throughout that period and in the years since, Miller’s power in Trump’s circle, and his stature in the MAGA movement, has grown. He played a key role in planning Trump’s second administration during the four years out of power, became a regular warmup act at the president’s campaign rallies, and now exercises inordinate influence—far more than his title, deputy chief of staff for domestic policy, suggests.
This has made Miller a unique force to contend with in Washington, a phenomenon appreciated by Republican operatives supportive of Trump.
For instance, one Republican government relations executive friendly with the White House conceded that Miller is often a terrible messenger for Trump’s agenda, causing supporters like this individual to gripe privately among themselves about his television appearances and preference that he leave on-camera interviews to more capable voices in the administration. The same is occasionally said of the president. But observe how Trump and Miller are viewed through a similar lens: “The benefit of the doubt is given to Trump at every turn—and that applies to Miller,” the government relations executive said. WHY?
Republicans in town who lack the same affection for Trump tend to find Miller’s political durability frustrating. The generic ballot gauging which party voters would prefer to be in control of Congress has worsened for Republicans over the past few months, suggesting the GOP’s 2026 turbulence is at least partially related to the public backlash against the mass deportation program. While midterm elections are historically challenging for the president’s party, some Republicans argue Miller is making matters worse.
“It’s probably time for him to move on. I don’t think he’s helping the president,” a veteran GOP lobbyist said. “There was a victory here: Trump sealed the border. Let’s get rid of—using Trump’s words, not mine, the ‘bad hombres,’ and call it a day. This is a classic example of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.”
The White House did not respond to an email requesting comment.
David M. Drucker is a senior writer at The Dispatch and is based in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining the company in 2023, he was a senior correspondent for the Washington Examiner. When Drucker is not covering American politics for The Dispatch, he enjoys hanging out with his two boys and listening to his wife's excellent taste in music.
David M. Drucker is married to Jenny Sheffield Drucker, who previously served as the Finance Director for the National Republican Congressional Committee. They have been married for over 15 years and reside in Washington, D.C., with their two sons, Jake and Ronnie.
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Jenny Sheffield Drucker is a prominent Republican political fundraiser and strategist who served as the Finance Director for the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) from 2011 to 2014. [1]
Her key roles and professional background include:
- NRCC Leadership: During her tenure at the National Republican Congressional Committee, she managed a large staff to raise over $400 million. She previously worked for the organization as a PAC Director and Deputy Finance Director before being promoted to Finance Director in 2010. [1, 2]
- Consulting Career: She currently serves as a Founding Partner at Drucker Lawhon, a Washington, D.C.–based political consulting and fundraising firm. [1]
- Prior Experience: Before her work at the NRCC, she was the PAC Director for the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) during the 2008 election cycle. []
- Personal Life: She is married to political journalist and author David Drucker. [1, 2, 3]
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Finance Director Jenny Sheffield Drucker
(announced Dec. 14, 2010) Served as NRCC deputy finance director in the 2010 cycle. PAC director at the NRSC during the 2008 cycle. PAC director at the NRCC in the 2006 cycle. Worked on the 2000 and 2004 Bush/Cheney campaigns, the 2004 Republican National Convention, and the 2001 and 2005 Presidential Inaugural Committees. Staff assistant, then office manager for Rep. Sessions from 2000 to May 2004. Graduate of Texas A&M University, 1999.
Deputy Finance Director Ryan Carney
(Jan. 20011) Served as a regional finance director in the 2010 cycle. Owner at The Carney Group, 2005-mid-2009. National finance director on Brownback for President, Dec. 2006-Oct. 2007. Manager of the Washington office of Steve Gordon and Associates, 2000-05. B.A. in politics from The Catholic University of America, 2002.
Deputy Finance Director Alex Lawhon
Experience includes a regional finance director on the John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign.
Direct Mail Manager Jesse Roman
Started at the NRCC in donor services in Sept. 2007. Bachelor's degree in industrial organization psychology from from Point Loma Nazarene University, 2007.
Director of Telemarketing Brandon Gravley
(May 2007) Previously fundraising coordinator at the Free Enterprise Fund, 2006-07. Graduate of the University of Memphis.
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Fundraising for Favors? Linking Lobbyist-Hosted Fundraisers to Legislative Benefits Amy Melissa McKay1
Abstract Do legislators and lobbyists trade favors?
This study uses uncommon data sources and plagiarism software to detect a rarely observed relationship between interest group lobbyists and sitting Members of Congress. Comparison of letters to a Senate committee written by lobby groups to legislative amendments introduced by committee members reveals similar and even identical language, providing compelling evidence that groups persuaded legislators to introduce amendments valued by the group. Moreover, the analysis suggests that these language matches are more likely when the requesting lobby group hosts a fundraising event for the senator. The results hold while controlling for ideological agreement between the senator and the group, the group’s campaign contributions to the senator, and the group’s lobbying expenditures, annual revenue, and home-state connections.
Figure 1. Example of a fundraiser invitation. This invitation (Figure 1) describes a “private dinner” in January of 2017 at a Washington restaurant with “special guest Majority Whip Steve Scalise” benefiting the Scalise Leadership PAC (political action committee). The invitation describes “requested contribution levels” of $5,000 or $2,500 for PACs and $1,000 for individuals. The event is hosted by several PACs representing the health care insurance industry—the companies Aflac and Cigna and the professional associations America’s Health Insurance Plans and the National Association of Insurers and Financial Advisors. All four of these groups gave $5,000 to the Representative’s campaign plus $5,000 to the Scalise leadership PAC in the 2018 cycle. The RSVP information indicates that Drucker Lawhon, a known organizer of Republican fundraiser events (see https://www.opensecrets.org/expends/vendor. php?year=2016&vendor=Drucker+Lawhon), is supporting the event. The invitation was found in Eskow (2017).
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1Scalise Leadership Fund$1,123,511312023-01-242024-11-08
2Project Rescue America$646,816252023-04-202024-12-23
3Mike Rogers for Congress$290,124312023-01-182024-12-30
4American Security PAC$253,583262023-01-112024-11-13
5Dan Crenshaw Victory Cmte$237,661382023-01-312024-12-24
6Scalise Leadership Fund 2024$228,37322024-04-292024-08-26
7John Carter for Congress$187,816192023-01-012024-11-01
8Hardworking Americans Inc$177,625332023-02-162024-12-28
9Rick Scott for Florida$152,694232023-02-152024-10-31
10National Republican Senatorial Cmte$117,84422023-01-062023-01-25
11Lets Get to Work PAC$112,722242023-03-162024-12-31
12Team Rick Scott$98,32732024-05-062024-10-08
13Ted Budd for Congress$37,22422024-04-262024-07-11
14Ted Budd Majority Cmte 2028$32,82622024-07-122024-09-23
15Mike Haridopolos for Congress$29,44572024-06-212024-12-30
16Mike Rogers Victory$25,22042023-08-152024-10-16
17CARTER PAC$24,82992023-04-022024-12-03
18Budd North Carolina Victory Fund 2028$6,71812024-08-272024-08-27
19Team Marshall II$6,29612023-10-172023-10-17
20Friends of Andy Barr Cmte$1,41012023-04-032023-04-03
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|---|---|
| 1 | Holtzman, Vogel et al |
| 2 | Republican National Cmte |
| 3 | CCDC HOTEL LLC |
| 4 | HYATT REGENCY |
| 5 | National Republican Senatorial Cmte |
| 5 | House Freedom Fund |
| 7 | Drucker Lawhon LLP |
| 8 | GTOWN LLC |
| 9 | Majority Makers Fund |
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KEEP THE SENATE RED 2026LETS GET TO WORK PACPRIMARYFL03/31/2026$13,680.03
HEBENSTREIT, JAMES B. MR.LETS GET TO WORK PACPRIMARYMO03/18/2026$5,000.00
S. CLARK BUTLER PROPERTIES LTD.LETS GET TO WORK PACFL02/25/2026$5,000.00
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DOSORETZ, DANIEL E. DR. M.D.LETS GET TO WORK PACPRIMARYFL02/23/2026$5,000.00
TEAM RICK SCOTTLETS GET TO WORK PACPRIMARYDC12/31/2025$4,826.42
HUIZENGA, HEIDI A.LETS GET TO WORK PACPRIMARYIL12/12/2025$3,000.00
YESSIN, BRENT W.LETS GET TO WORK PACPRIMARYFL11/24/2025$1,100.00
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FOWLER, CHARLES MR.LETS GET TO WORK PACPRIMARYFL09/05/2025$3,000.00
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MACNEIL, DAVID MR.LETS GET TO WORK PACPRIMARYFL05/26/2025$5,000.00
FORSYTHE, GERALD R. MR.LETS GET TO WORK PACPRIMARYIL05/02/2025$1,505.99
TEAM RICK SCOTTLETS GET TO WORK PACPRIMARYDC03/31/2025$33,306.43
PETERS MARITAL, NICHOLAS MR.LETS GET TO WORK PACPRIMARYFL03/25/2025$5,000.00
RICK SCOTT VICTORY FUNDLETS GET TO WORK PACPRIMARYDC02/14/2025$855.03
PFAUTCH, ROY MR.LETS GET TO WORK PACPRIMARYMO01/22/2025$5,000.00
TEAS, CHRISTOPHERLETS GET TO WORK PACPRIMARYNY01/16/2025$3,400.00
MURGADO, MARIO MR.LETS GET TO WORK PACPRIMARYFL01/13/2025$3,400.00
ZENOZ, MARIA E. MRS.LETS GET TO WORK PACPRIMARYFL01/10/2025$3,400.00
OMANOFF, DENNISLETS GET TO WORK PACPRIMARYFL01/10/2025$3,400.00
BARRON, BRUCE N. MR.LETS GET TO WORK PACPRIMARYFL01/09/2025$3,400.00
SCHNEIDER, GREGGLETS GET TO WORK PACPRIMARYFL01/06/2025$3,400.00
PATTERSON, DONALD R.LETS GET TO WORK PACPRIMARYFL01/06/2025$3,400.00
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1Scalise Leadership Fund$1,052,972312021-01-192022-11-28
2National Republican Senatorial Cmte$823,684232021-03-012022-11-22
3Dan Crenshaw Victory Cmte$312,429362021-01-272022-12-29
4Mike Rogers for Congress$253,442272021-01-122022-11-17
5American Security PAC$167,702282021-01-012022-11-14
6John Carter for Congress$123,335182021-02-062022-12-04
7Lets Get to Work PAC$33,000172021-02-192022-12-09
8Rick Scott for Florida$29,524172021-02-192022-11-14
9Dan Crenshaw for Congress$22,50012021-04-052021-04-05
10CARTER PAC$20,00072021-02-062022-12-04
11Rick Scott Victory Fund$11,80932021-05-252022-03-16
12Fight to Win America$7,50032022-08-232022-10-27
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Let's Get to Work is the independent political action committee[3] funding the 2014 re-election campaign of Florida Governor Rick Scott.[4][5] In 2014, the organization ran a US$2 million advertising campaign critical of Scott's opponent, Charlie Crist, for raising state college tuition rates during Crist's previous governorship.[6]
As of May 2014, Let's Get to Work has raised $28 million in campaign funding.[7][8]
References
- Bousquet, Steve (May 24, 2014). "Meredith O'Rourke". Tampa Bay Times. Retrieved June 6, 2014.
- "Committee Tracking System". Florida Division of Elections. Retrieved June 6, 2014.
- Hamburger, Tom (May 7, 2014). "Adelson's political beneficiaries adopt casino magnate's cause to ban Internet gambling". Washington Post. Retrieved June 6, 2014.
- Caputo, Marc A. (November 4, 2013). "Rick Scott's Let's Get to Work donor lays people off". Miami Herald. Retrieved June 6, 2014.
- Bousquet, Steve; Van Sickler, Michael (May 29, 2014). "Light vetoes predicted when Gov. Rick Scott signs Florida budget". Tampa Bay Times. Retrieved June 6, 2014.
- Derby, Kevin (June 2, 2014). "Rick Scott Slams Charlie Crist on Raising Tuition in New Ad". Sunshine State News. Archived from the original on June 4, 2014. Retrieved June 6, 2014.
- "Scott campaign, committee collect $1.3M". Clearwater Gazette. May 15, 2014. Archived from the original on July 14, 2014. Retrieved June 6, 2014.
- "Let's Get to Work: Campaign Finance Activity". Florida Division of Elections. Archived from the original on September 30, 2013. Retrieved June 6, 2014.
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Trump's narrow defeat of Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election only tightens his stranglehold on the GOP. The Dispatch's David M. Drucker, in an article published on December 17, stresses that when he returns to the White House on January 20, 2025, he will be "flanked by an army of outside enforcers prepared to squeeze any Republican who resists his agenda."
READ MORE:'Damning information mounts': Trump's 'worst' nominees could be in for a rude awakening
"Once Trump is inaugurated," Drucker reports, "this MAGA-aligned network will shift to strong-arming obstinate House and Senate Republicans to support the president-elect's agenda, be it executive orders or legislative proposals. Critically, MAGA insiders tell The Dispatch, they won't be sitting around waiting for direction from Trump to join a particular fight."
One of those MAGA insiders is "War Room" host Steve Bannon, who told The Dispatch, "The ecosystem on the right is going to be a force multiplier…. What I think you're seeing now is the institutionalization of what had been a self-organizing effort."
Bannon, according to Drucker, is "describing" what "amounts to the rise of a new Republican establishment, complete with well-funded activist groups and influential media figures."
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Joe Kent is a cautionary tale.
When Kent resigned as director of the National Counterterrorism Center to protest the Iran war, critics of the conflict — especially opponents of President Donald Trump — quickly cast the decorated military combat veteran as a principled dissenter. Superficially, that tracks. And yet those tracks are laid on quicksand.
Kent risked his life for the U.S. for decades: He served in the Army Special Forces in Iraq and as a paramilitary officer for the Central Intelligence Agency. Kent’s first wife, Shannon, also wore the uniform and was killed in Syria by a suicide bomber in 2019. Those experiences led Kent, a Republican, to turn against the war on terrorism and overseas military operations. And like many voters who grew suspicious of projecting American power abroad after years of fighting in the Middle East, Kent found a political champion in Trump.
The 45th and 47th president has staked three White House campaigns, in part, on resisting so-called forever wars and regime-change wars. What better example of the unraveling of the Trump coalition and — from the naysayers’ point of view — the shaky premise of the Iran war than Kent’s defection? A couple of lines from his resignation letter to Trump:
“I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation,” Kent wrote, adding: “Until 2025, you understood that the wars in the Middle East were a trap that robbed America of the precious lives of our patriots and depleted the wealth and prosperity of our nation.”
Except that Kent, 45, is a conspiracy theorist of such questionable character that he lacks almost all credibility, rendering him useless as an avatar for foes of the Iran war and Trump. This shouldn’t necessarily be a revelation. Kent was twice rejected by the voters of Washington state’s 3rd Congressional District. They chose Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez over Kent for the swing seat in 2022 and opted for her again in their 2024 rematch.
Maybe Kent was spurned because he was (and is) an outspoken proponent of Trump’s stolen election conspiracy theories.
Kent echoed claims that former President Joe Biden’s 2020 victory was illegitimate and, as The New York Times reported, referred to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol as an inside job. Or maybe Kent lost because during one of his congressional campaigns, he played footsie with Nick Fuentes, the antisemitic and racist influencer who recently sat for a friendly interview with Tucker Carlson, and others of that right-wing ilk.
That brings us back to the folly of lionizing Kent as a conscientious objector to Trump and the president’s hawkish foreign policy as of late.
In his resignation letter, Kent also said, “It is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby” and that “high-ranking Israeli officials and influential members of the American media deployed a misinformation campaign that wholly undermined your (Trump’s) America First platform.”
It’s perfectly fine to criticize the Israeli government, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the policies coming out of Jerusalem. I have, and do, frequently. But this sort of conspiratorial blarney that Israel and its paid domestic agents (i.e. lobbyists) are puppeteers of the American president is the mother’s milk of an age-old philosophy best described as antisemitism. (Many political observers who might have lauded Kent have, in fact, rebuked him for this line of thinking and cooled to him as some sort of heroic MAGA defector.)
And of course, where did Kent run to bask in his newfound notoriety? Carlson, a stoker of animosity toward Israel and Jews.
During an appearance on his show last week, Kent hinted that the Jewish state was behind the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Kent also sought refuge with Candace Owens, a blatantly antisemitic influencer on the far right, and her podcast audience. Kent also appeared at a Washington gala of Catholics for Catholics, where he was celebrated — and where Owens delivered a keynote speech. The group has been dismissed as a fringe organization by mainstream Catholic leaders.
Regardless of opinions on Kent personally, might his resignation signal a crackup of Trump’s Make America Great Again base inside the Republican Party? At the very least, might these voters be on the cusp of abandoning the president because he turned into one of those so-called neocon warmongers he swore he wasn’t? Well — no.
“Beyond MAGA,” a project completed earlier this year by the research initiative More In Common, explored Trump’s unique coalition in depth and identified four types of voters: MAGA Hardliners, Anti-Woke Conservatives, Mainline Republicans and the Reluctant Right. Stephen Hawkins, More in Common’s global director of research, told me about an online community of a “couple of hundred” GOP voters his organization keeps an eye on. In a recent surveying, “MAGA Hardliners” were the most supportive of the Iran war. In fact, Hawkins said none of the voters in this cohort voiced opposition to the war.
“Among American voters, the critics (of the war) seem to be coming from the groups that are already critical of Trump,” Hawkins told me. “The alignment, support and enthusiasm seem to be echoing from the same groups that were already supportive of him, so it’s continuity, not change — as opposed to breaking open a new fissure.” (These findings mirror the other public polling since the Feb. 28 start of the Iran war.)
Given Kent’s quackery and his lack of a constituency other than some very loud podcasters sympathetic to his worldview, it might be worth asking Trump why Kent was hired for such a plum position. The president now claims he knew Kent was essentially unqualified for the job. Indeed, it might be worth asking Republican senators why they confirmed Kent, rather than demanding the administration nominate more equipped personnel.
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Column: The US could ‘abolish ICE.’ Then what?
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It would be political folly for the Democratic Party to fully embrace calls to “abolish ICE,” at least without adopting a substitute blueprint for strong immigration enforcement.
That’s not to say Immigration and Customs Enforcement hasn’t abused its power during President Donald Trump’s second term. American citizens have been harassed, detained, even killed. Immigrants with legal status or those that lived in the U.S. for years have suffered similarly, as happened yet again this month with the killings of Johan Sebastian Guerrero in Maine and Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Texas. Even the conditions and safety of detention have come under scrutiny after several in-custody deaths.
Not surprisingly, many voters have soured on ICE. Half of U.S. adults said they were at least “somewhat” supportive of “abolishing ICE,” including 77% of Democrats and 52% of independents, according to a YouGov survey published in March.
That explains why several Democratic congressional candidates are campaigning to “abolish ICE,” in upcoming midterm elections. Among them is Michigan Senate contender Abdul El-Sayed, who like many progressive Democrats pushing to dismantle ICE, has not offered an alternative agency or strategy for handling immigration enforcement. Ditto Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, who is running for reelection and is a rumored 2028 contender. That’s a mistake.
Voters’ opposition to bad immigration enforcement doesn’t mean they want lax enforcement. Failing to provide a detailed proposal for ICE’s legitimate functions after the agency were to shut down only compounds that political miscalculation. It stokes lingering voter suspicions that Democrats don’t have a problem with ICE but with the enforcement of U.S. immigration law more broadly.
That’s not just my analysis. Some veteran Democratic insiders worry the party is exceedingly vulnerable on this front: Republican campaigns are sure to air advertising this fall that accuse Democrats of opposing the deportation of immigrants in the U.S. illegally who have committed violent crimes. That’s a policy that remains popular.
Proponents of abolishing ICE usually argue that they’re not opposed to immigration enforcement, that criminals in the U.S. illegally don’t deserve to stay, that ICE is irreparably damaged and reforming the agency is impossible and that the abuses can only be stopped by starting from scratch with a new approach. They often emphasize that ICE is only 23 years old, a product of the government reorganization spearheaded by President George W. Bush in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Immigration reform occurred pre-ICE and can continue post-ICE.
“ICE, as we know it, is an infant government agency. And I have no problem whatsoever, personally, abolishing it,” Ethan Fauré, a senior research analyst at the progressive Political Research Associates told me. “The reality is that when you talk about changing ICE in some way to only find the bad people [immigrants] — however that’s conceived — the reality is that … the police departments and sheriffs throughout the country are ostensibly doing that already, so ICE itself is a redundant agency.”
I’m not questioning the sincerity of Democrats who are troubled by ICE and want the agency abolished. Nor am I suggesting politicians aren’t justified in being aghast at the agency’s misconduct. What I am questioning is the feasibility. Simply put, calls to “abolish ICE” versus “reform ICE” aren’t politically viable — especially if presented without a comprehensive alternative. And Democrats should know better.
President Joe Biden’s response to Trump’s first-term immigration tactics, which never rose to the level of his second administration, was initially to reduce enforcement — at the border and within the country. The perception of chaos, crime and unfairness sent voters scurrying back to the current president. (Yes, inflation and the economy played a major role in Trump’s reelection but so did immigration policy.)
Ultimately, voters’ dissatisfaction with Trump, the Iran war and persistent inflation may reward Democrats with control of Congress regardless of how many of them hop on the “abolish ICE” bandwagon. But if the party wants to be in the strongest position to win the White House in 2028, it needs to reconsider, or at least develop a plan, for what happens next.
David M. Drucker is a Bloomberg columnist covering politics and policy. He is also a senior writer for The Dispatch and the author of “In Trump’s Shadow: The Battle for 2024 and the Future of the GOP.”
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No amount of advertising money can sell a bad product – or at least, a product that consumers have determined they don’t want (see: New Coke). This time-tested business principle also applies to American politics.
That’s helpful to remember as midterm elections proceed.
The Democratic and Republican parties, their candidates and their aligned outside groups are – collectively – raising and spending billions on the 2026 campaign. In heated battles for control of the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, both sides are already accusing the other of trying to buy the election.
But here’s the thing: That’s not how campaigns work.
Having deep pockets is helpful; and in close contests in competitive districts and states, spending more money can tilt the outcome – not only through TV ads and social media campaigns, but through direct-mail, canvassing and get-out-the-vote activities.
But the broader political atmospherics, including a president’s job approval rating, voters’ views of the economy and other priorities, and candidate quality often weigh more heavily.
As a political writer who has covered campaigns for more than two decades, I’ve seen this dynamic play out time and time again.
We obsess over fundraising totals and can’t help but think that he or she with the biggest war chest wins. And then he or she with the most resources loses, sometimes rather spectacularly.
- For example, in 2020, Maine Senator Susan Collins, a Republican, won reelection in a landslide, defeating Democratic challenger Sara Gideon by 8.6 percentage points despite being outraised by nearly $50 million. Indeed, Gideon vacuumed up so much cash from Democratic donors eager to retire Collins that she couldn’t spend it all. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump won the White House twice even though he was significantly outraised by his Democratic opponents – Hillary Clinton (2016) and Kamala Harris (2024).
“Money means less and less every year with the vast amounts being spent per targeted race. It gets to a point where every TV ad looks the same,” Jeff Burton, a Republican lobbyist and experienced campaign hand, told me. “The Democrats have more than enough money to compete for the majority and, after the GOP’s loss in Virginia and cost of living going up, the landscape for the House has definitely shifted in their direction.”
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This cycle, Republican-aligned outside groups are raising more than their Democratic counterparts – substantially more when accounting for the container ships of cash being hauled in by Trump and his constellation of political action committees. That’s a reversal from some past campaigns that saw Democratic-aligned groups winning the money chase.
On the flipside, Democratic candidates for the U.S. Senate are raising appreciably more than Republican candidates. That’s significant, because under current campaign finance law, candidates pay far less for television advertising and receive better ad placement than do outside groups like super PACs and 501(c)(4) organizations. It’s a dynamic that, along with a political environment turning sharply against the GOP, is putting the party’s 53-seat majority in greater jeopardy.
Republicans are in somewhat better shape in the House, where their party is laboring to preserve a razor-thin majority of just a handful of seats. According to Politico, “top fundraisers are split roughly evenly between the two parties” in the districts likely to decide which party wields the speaker’s gavel next year. But particularly because of the Democratic Party’s financial edge among Senate contenders, to say nothing of favorable political winds nationally, party operatives are pleased with the competition for money among congressional candidates generally.
“If you’re a Democrat, you’ve got to like what you see with fundraising – especially with our candidates,” Doug Thornell, a veteran of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and now chief executive officer of SKDK, a government relations firm in Washington.
That doesn’t mean the Republicans’ financial dominance in money raised by party-affiliated and aligned groups is nothing to worry about for the Democrats. The GOP’s superiority in this category, although negligible when comparing the cash positions of the four congressional campaign committees, includes the Republican National Committee besting the Democratic National Committee’s war chest heading into April $117 million to $14 million – and that’s before the DNC’s $18 million in debt is accounted for.
But as I asserted at the beginning of this column: “You need enough; you don’t always need more,” Thornell explained. “You need enough to be able to deliver your message.”
Of course, the Democrats wouldn’t be able to lean on this principle if it was their party’s president who was sporting a 40.5 percent job approval rating, as is Trump, or if they were on the wrong side of generic ballot polling gauging which party voters would prefer be in control of Congress, as are the Republicans.
Having lots of money, and more of it than your opponent, is comforting – and preferable. I’m the last person to argue otherwise. But even if that turns out to be the case for Republicans when all the votes have been tallied, it won’t have done them much good if voters don’t like what they’re selling.
Just ask presidents Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris.
David M. Drucker is a columnist covering politics and policy. He is also a senior writer for The Dispatch and the author of “In Trump’s Shadow: The Battle for 2024 and the Future of the GOP.”
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Lawmakers passed major legislation transferring power from California’s superintendent to an appointed commissioner.
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July 14, 2026 at 4:28 a.m.
Healthy wages and generous benefits make Scandinavia the true home of the American dream.
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July 11, 2026 at 3:15 a.m.
El Niño combined with extreme drought threatens to bring immense Northern Plains crop failures.
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July 11, 2026 at 3:00 a.m.
'When Waymos are involved in accidents, it's almost always the other (human) guy's fault.'
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July 11, 2026 at 2:45 a.m.
'A Boston University researcher estimated that the aid cuts have cost more than 750,000 lives...
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By Brigitte Bren
July 11, 2026 at 2:15 a.m.
Establishing wireless electricity platforms before foreign rivals will secure our national security and economic growth.
President Donald Trump rings the opening bell for the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq.
Friedman: Trump is fleecing us
By Thomas L. Friedman
July 10, 2026 at 4:21 a.m.
The president is exploiting supporters for billions through memecoins. Democrats must expose this massive fraud.
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California voters will decide 14 ballot measures, billionaire tax included. There could’ve been more.
By Dan Walters
July 10, 2026 at 4:22 a.m.
While lawmakers negotiated several compromises, the controversial 5% levy on billionaires remains.
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By Ann Oliva
July 10, 2026 at 4:22 a.m.
An initial decrease in the unhoused population offers hope, but proposed federal funding slashes could...
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July 9, 2026 at 4:44 a.m.
California officials boast a finalized spending plan, yet nonpartisan analysts warn of a massive ongoing...
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July 9, 2026 at 4:45 a.m.
Democrats need to shake things up. Maybe start by promoting a more inspiring message than:...
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July 8, 2026 at 4:09 a.m.
'In the past few years, that beautiful balance has tipped back toward fear and misunderstanding.'
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Goldberg: Lessons from the Graham Platner disaster
By Michelle Goldberg
July 7, 2026 at 10:45 a.m.
A desperate desire for an uncompromising working-class populist blinded progressives to obvious warning signs.
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July 7, 2026 at 4:10 a.m.
By striking down campaign finance limits, a conservative majority is making it easier to buy...
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Feldman: How was the birthright citizenship decision this close?
By Noah Feldman
July 7, 2026 at 4:10 a.m.
A 5-4 Supreme Court ruling narrowly saved constitutional citizenship from political ideology.
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Leubsdorf: From Ford to Trump — A contrast in anniversary celebrations
By Carl Leubsdorf
July 4, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.
Fifty years after a unifying milestone, the semiquincentennial has been hijacked by one man.
President Donald Trump speaks as Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick listens alongside a poster of the Trump Gold Card in the Oval Office of the White House in 2025.
Dowd: Is fairness still an inherently American trait?
By Maureen Dowd
July 4, 2026 at 3:30 a.m.
Chronicling the sharp descent from a foundational culture of mutual respect into a new era...
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Crisp: Let’s remember what we’re celebrating on July 4th
By John M. Crisp
July 4, 2026 at 3:15 a.m.
As the republic marks its 250th birthday, citizens must prioritize honoring shared values over massive...
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Opinion: 19th century reformers made this country more equal, inclusive and strong
By Brian DeLay
July 6, 2026 at 10:45 a.m.
Marginalized activists transformed America’s original founding ideals into a powerful tool to demand genuine equality.
James Lambuer wears a Guy Fawkes mask during a "Taxpayer Day" rally outside the State Capitol in Denver. He says the Gadsden flag and the phrase Don't Tread on Me symbolize the Tea Party movement, "I'm tired of Government taking what I earn... leave us alone."
Taves: July 4 isn’t our only birthday. Surviving another 250 years requires we celebrate the other, too.
By Max Taves
July 6, 2026 at 11:06 a.m.
If the U.S. wants to live to see its 500th anniversary, it needs to understand...
A person holds a sign about protecting voting rights during a protest near the White House.
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By Dick Durbin
July 3, 2026 at 3:15 a.m.
'The SAVE America Act is part of the president’s larger scheme to sow doubt in...
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Kristof: America’s public lands remain our greatest democratic ideal
By Nicholas D. Kristof
July 3, 2026 at 2:45 a.m.
Billionaires cannot buy the pristine forests or majestic trails our ancestors preserved for everyone.
The California Bicentennial Fourth of July Parade in Huntington Beach on July 4, 1976.
Opinion: July 4th and the American faith we’ve watched slip away
By Lynn Schmidt
July 2, 2026 at 4:18 a.m.
We once believed the presidency served the public good, but blatant self-dealing shattered that baseline...
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A Bay Area mayor sexually harassed City Hall workers. For one, it triggered something even darker.
By Daniel Borenstein
July 1, 2026 at 2:30 p.m.
While it seems much has changed since Concord’s Byron Campbell mistreated women, there are too...
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Skelton: California pushes for affordable housing while the president plays games
By George Skelton
July 1, 2026 at 4:17 a.m.
'Trump was victimized by his own self-centered obstinance and inhumanity. And Republican congressional leaders were...
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Opinion: As debate rages over Iran deal, let’s acknowledge how much we have already lost
By Scott W. Patton
July 1, 2026 at 4:24 a.m.
'After you've seen what war asks of the people sent to fight it, it's hard...
A protester holds an anti-Brexit sign during a rally calling for the UK to rejoin the EU in central London in 2023.
Bloomberg: New leadership can move the UK past Brexit
By Michael R. Bloomberg
July 1, 2026 at 4:25 a.m.
A decade after the vote, economic costs are clearer than ever and they keep piling...
UC Berkeley's commencement ceremony at California Memorial Stadium in Berkeley in May.
Sen: This demographic cliff is reshaping universities. Cities are next.
By Conor Sen
July 1, 2026 at 4:25 a.m.
As fewer high school graduates pursue degrees, metros face looming economic struggles for young workers.
Students at Cal State Los Angeles in March 2017.
Academic turf war between California colleges underscores need for new higher education plan
By Dan Walters
June 30, 2026 at 4:10 a.m.
The decades-old framework fails as rival institutions fight for control over degree programs.
California City Immigration Processing Center is California's largest ICE detention facility.
Opinion: ICE detention is as bad as it sounds. I’ve been living it for 2 years.
By Brady Tillett
June 30, 2026 at 4:10 a.m.
A detainee reveals how private prison corporations profit from the cruel mistreatment of migrants.
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Mathews: United Scammers of America celebrates 250
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June 30, 2026 at 4:10 a.m.
The U.S. should ditch its birthday celebrations and embrace its true legacy as a paradise...
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Goldberg: Democrats are done with caution
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June 27, 2026 at 3:00 a.m.
Angry Democratic voters are abandoning establishment pragmatism to embrace an aggressive, unfiltered populist agenda.
The Trump administration's budget cuts and layoffs in federal agencies like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which oversees the National Weather Service (NWS), have been criticized by scientists.
Jarvis: Trump’s war on science is being waged in the fine print
By Lisa Jarvis
June 27, 2026 at 2:30 a.m.
New accountability rules could permanently politicize research grants and curtail academic freedom.
Residents drive past buildings destroyed in previous Israeli airstrikes in Nabatiyeh, Lebanon.
DePetris: Israel is the wild card as the US and Iran work to ink a lasting peace deal
By Daniel DePetris
June 26, 2026 at 4:14 a.m.
The White House faces a tough task in keeping Netanyahu aligned with this new diplomatic...
A person votes at the Santa Clara County Registrar in San Jose on June 2, 2026.
Voters in deep blue California are souring on ballot measures that add new taxes
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June 26, 2026 at 4:15 a.m.
In June's primary, nearly 58% of the 92 local measures that would raise taxes were...
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Instead of tackling inflation ahead of November, he is doubling down on a push to...
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Will Democrats win congressional seats Newsom’s gerrymander made competitive?
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California's reshaped congressional map puts several key races in play for the midterms.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom attends the dedication ceremony for the opening of the Barack Obama Presidential Center in John Lewis Plaza on June 18, 2026, in Chicago.
Behested payments aren’t illegal, but they are a problem. Especially for Newsom.
By Anita Chabria
June 25, 2026 at 4:15 a.m.
While entirely permitted, these solicited charity funds are a massive vulnerability for the governor.
U.S. Marine Corps. Lt. General Francis Donovan in a Senate Armed Services Committee Confirmation Hearing in January in Washington, D.C.
Opinion: US military leaders are enabling Trump’s lawlessness
By Jon Duffy
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By executing an indicted gang leader in Venezuela, the Pentagon is violating the Constitution instead...
A woman waves an Iranian flag on June 15 in Tehran, Iran.
Crisp: Why doesn’t Iran have a right to a nuclear weapon?
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June 25, 2026 at 4:15 a.m.
Dismissing the ayatollahs as fanatical zealots ignores their legitimate fears and regional security concerns.
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Roll Call associate politics editor David Drucker has been assigned to "beef up" coverage of the Republican House leadership, a move that presents a potential conflict of interest given that his wife is Finance Director for the National Republican Congressional Committee.
Jennifer Drucker joined the NRCC in 2005 as a PAC Director and was named Deputy Finance Director in 2008 after a brief stint with the National Republican Senatorial Committee. She was promoted to Finance Director in 2010.
But in a statement to POLITICO, Roll Call editor David Rapp said Drucker's new assignment did not present a conflict of interest.
"David is a consummate professional, both as a reporter and editor, and he covers the Hill and campaigns with a critical and objective eye," Rapp said. "He has excelled at Roll Call in his various positions, from covering the Senate to being on the politics team covering campaigns to covering House leadership. He has always maintained a strict firewall and a fiercely transparent approach in his work, and he separates his contacts within the campaign committee, as his reporting clearly shows. We do not see a conflict of interest in this role."
Needless to say this is one of many political-media relationships in Washington, D.C. Drucker has been at Roll Call since moving to the Beltway in 2005, and his ties to the NRCC have not yielded any notable bias to date.
Drucker's move to the House leadership beat was announced last week along with news that Lauren Whittington would take over as House leadership editor "in anticipation of a larger newsroom role."
Reached for comment, Drucker referred POLITICO to a Roll Call spokesperson, who provided POLITICO with Rapp's comment.
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At the risk of turning myself into a pariah, I don’t think money in politics is a problem. Voters on the right and left don’t seem to agree on much these days. But they tend to share the belief — it’s an article of faith, really — that campaign donations, especially corporate cash, are a corrupting force in American politics. Simply put, voters tend to believe politicians would do the “right thing” (whatever that is) if not for money and its influence on their positions on issues big and small.
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David M. Drucker: The US could ‘abolish ICE.' Then what?
Jul 23, 2026
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By David Drucker Verified
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Miami Herald Verified
It would be political folly for the Democratic Party to fully embrace calls to "abolish ICE," at least without adopting a substitute blueprint for strong immigration enforcement. That's not to say Immigration and Customs Enforcement hasn't abused its power during President Donald Trump's second term. American citizens have been harassed, detained, even killed.
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The US could ‘abolish ICE.’ Then what? | David M. Drucker
Jul 23, 2026
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By David Drucker Verified
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Muscatine Journal Verified
Drucker is a Bloomberg columnist, senior writer for The Dispatch and author of "In Trump's Shadow: The Battle for 2024 and the Future of the GOP."
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The US could ‘abolish ICE.’ Then what? | David M. Drucker
Jul 23, 2026
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By David Drucker Verified
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Bryan-College Station Eagle Verified
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The US could ‘abolish ICE.’ Then what? | David M. Drucker
Jul 23, 2026
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By David Drucker Verified
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch Verified
New subscriber benefit! Copied to clipboard Out of gifts for the month Unfortunately you've used all of your gifts this month. Your counter will reset on the first day of next month. Share this article paywall-free Email Copy Link Prefer us on Google Facebook Twitter Bluesky WhatsApp SMS Email Print Save It would be political folly for the Democratic Party to fully embrace calls to “abolish ICE,” at least without adopting a substitute blueprint for strong immigration enforcement.
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The US could ‘abolish ICE.’ Then what? | David M. Drucker
Jul 23, 2026
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By David Drucker Verified
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The Times of Northwest Indiana Verified
It would be political folly for the Democratic Party to fully embrace calls to “abolish ICE,” at least without adopting a substitute blueprint for strong immigration enforcement. kAm%92E’D ?@E E@ D2J x>>:8C2E:@? 2?5 rFDE@>D t?7@C46>6?E 92D?’E 23FD65 :ED A@H6C 5FC:?8 !C6D:56?E s@?2=5 %CF>A’D D64@?5 E6C>] p>6C:42? 4:E:K6?D 92G6 366? 92C2DD65[ 56E2:?65[ 6G6? <:==65] x>>:8C2?ED H:E9 =682= DE2EFD @C E9@D6 E92E =:G65 :? E96 &]$] 7@C J62CD 92G6 DF776C65 D:>:=2C=J[ 2D 92AA6?65 J6E 282:?
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Money isn’t the root of all political evil
Jul 22, 2026
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By David Drucker Verified
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The Japan Times Verified
At the risk of turning myself into a pariah, I don’t think money in politics is a problem. Voters on the right and left don’t seem to agree on much these days. But they tend to share the belief — it’s an article of faith, really — that campaign donations, especially corporate cash, are a corrupting force in American politics. Simply put, voters tend to believe politicians would do the “right thing” (whatever that is) if not for money and its influence on their positions on issues big and small.
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Money isn’t the root of all political evil
Jul 22, 2026
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By David Drucker Verified
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At the risk of turning myself into a pariah, I don’t think money in politics is a problem. Voters on the right and left don’t seem to agree on much these days. But they tend to share the........
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COMMENTARY: Money isn’t the root of all political evil
Jul 21, 2026
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By David Drucker Verified
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Jefferson City News Tribune Verified
At the risk of turning myself into a pariah, I don't think money in politics is a problem. Voters on the right and left don't seem to agree on much these days. But they tend to share the belief -- it's an article of faith, really -- that campaign donations, especially corporate cash, are a corrupting force in American politics. Simply put, voters tend to believe politicians would do the "right thing" (whatever that is) if not for money and its influence on their positions on issues big and small.
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Our Best Stuff on Lindsey Graham, the Iran War, and More
Jul 18, 2026
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By Rachael Larimore Verified, Kevin D. Williamson Verified, David Drucker Verified
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The Dispatch Verified
Turn any article into a podcast. Upgrade now to start listening. Members can share articles with friends & family to bypass the paywall. Hello and happy Saturday. Sometimes the news cycle lends itself to focusing on one big story—war overseas or domestic political squabbles or scandal and outrage.
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‘Cuban drone crisis?’ FIU experts, policy leaders discuss security at United Against Nuclear Iran event
Jul 16, 2026
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By David Drucker Verified, Irene Ferradaz
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Florida International University
The first-ever public display in Florida of an Iranian-made Shahed-136 drone was held during a press conference by United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI), a nonprofit policy organization formed to combat threats posed by the Islamic Republic of Iran. Joining former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, who chairs the group, and other officials for follow-up discussion were FIU engineering faculty with expertise in the technology.
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Money isn't the root of all political evil
Jul 16, 2026
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By David Drucker Verified
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The Brunswick News Verified
At the risk of turning myself into a pariah, I don't think money in politics is a problem. Voters on the right and left don't seem to agree on much these days. But they tend to share the belief - it's an article of faith, really - that campaign donations, especially corporate cash, are a corrupting force in American politics. Simply put, voters tend to believe politicians would do the "right thing" (whatever that is) if not for money and its influence on their positions on issues big and small.
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Money isn’t the root of all political evil
Jul 16, 2026
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By David Drucker Verified
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The Mountain Press Verified
At the risk of turning myself into a pariah, I don’t think money in politics is a problem. Voters on the right and left don’t seem to agree on much these days. But they tend to share the belief — it’s an article of faith, really — that campaign donations, especially corporate cash, are a corrupting force in American politics. Simply put, voters tend to believe politicians would do the “right thing” (whatever that is) if not for money and its influence on their positions on issues big and small.
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David M. Drucker: Money isn't the root of all political evil
Jul 16, 2026
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By David Drucker Verified
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ArcaMax
At the risk of turning myself into a pariah, I don’t think money in politics is a problem. Voters on the right and left don’t seem to agree on much these days. But they tend to share the belief — it’s an article of faith, really — that campaign donations, especially corporate cash, are a corrupting force in American politics. Simply put, voters tend to believe politicians would do the “right thing” (whatever that is) if not for money and its influence on their positions on issues big and small.
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Drucker: Is this socialist wave the left’s Tea Party moment?
Jul 15, 2026
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By David Drucker Verified
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The Mercury News Verified
The Democratic establishment, shaken by the rise of progressive socialists, is right to wonder where this wave might lead. The similarly populist movement of Tea Party Republicans, however muddled, foreshadowed President Donald Trump. Republican candidates for Congress backed by the GOP establishment were pushed to the limit beginning in the 2010 election cycle and continuing through 2012 and 2014. Some even fell in key primaries to conservative populists who identified as Tea Party candidates.
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Birthright Primary Participation | Interview: Seth Masket
Jul 15, 2026
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By Jonah Goldberg Verified, David Drucker Verified, Kevin D. Williamson Verified
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The Dispatch Verified
Longtime listeners of The Remnant know well Jonah Goldberg’s hatred of the extremist, oligarchic, necromantic political conclaves holding our nation hostage, otherwise known as primaries. Nonetheless, listeners are left with many questions unanswered: How did populists seize the GOP in 2016? What should replace primaries for candidate selection? What will go down in 2028? Will Yuval Levin be on the ticket?
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Do Michigan Democrats Want Populism or Pragmatism?
Jul 15, 2026
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By David Drucker Verified
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The Dispatch Verified
The state’s Senate primary pits progressive Abdul El-Sayed against the more traditional Rep. Haley Stevens. Illustration by Noah Hickey/The Dispatch (Photos via Getty Images). Illustration by Noah Hickey/The Dispatch (Photos via Getty Images). Turn any article into a podcast. Upgrade now to start listening. Members can share articles with friends & family to bypass the paywall.
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Is this socialist wave the left’s Tea Party moment?
Jul 14, 2026
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By David Drucker Verified
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The Eagle-Tribune Verified
The Democratic establishment, shaken by the rise of progressive socialists, is right to wonder where this wave might lead. The similarly populist movement of Tea Party Republicans, however muddled, foreshadowed President Donald Trump. Republican candidates for Congress backed by the GOP establishment were pushed to the limit beginning in the 2010 election cycle and continuing through 2012 and 2014. Some even fell in key primaries to conservative populists who identified as Tea Party candidates.
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Commentary: Is this socialist wave the left’s Tea Party moment?
Jul 13, 2026
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By David Drucker Verified
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Yakima Herald-Republic Verified
The Democratic establishment, shaken by the rise of progressive socialists, is right to wonder where this wave might lead. The similarly populist movement of Tea Party Republicans, however muddled, foreshadowed President Donald Trump. Republican candidates for Congress backed by the GOP establishment were pushed to the limit beginning in the 2010 election cycle and continuing through 2012 and 2014. Some even fell in key primaries to conservative populists who identified as Tea Party candidates.
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Is this socialist wave the left’s Tea Party moment?
Jul 12, 2026
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By David Drucker Verified
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Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Verified
The Democratic establishment, shaken by the rise of progressive socialists, is right to wonder where this wave might lead. The similarly populist movement of Tea Party Republicans, however muddled, foreshadowed President Donald Trump. Please log in, or sign up for a new account and purchase a subscription to continue reading. We have used your information to see if you have a subscription with us, but did not find one.
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Is socialist wave with Francesca Hong the left’s Tea Party moment?
Jul 10, 2026
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By David Drucker Verified
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The Journal Times Verified
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Is socialist wave with Francesca Hong the left's Tea Party moment?
Jul 10, 2026
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By David Drucker Verified
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Wisconsin State Journal Verified
Wisconsin candidate for governor one of many democratic socialists running across the country and challenging Democratic Party establishment
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Is this socialist wave the left's Tea Party moment?
Jul 09, 2026
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By David Drucker Verified
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The Brunswick News Verified
The Democratic establishment, shaken by the rise of progressive socialists, is right to wonder where this wave might lead. The similarly populist movement of Tea Party Republicans, however muddled, foreshadowed President Donald Trump. Republican candidates for Congress backed by the GOP establishment were pushed to the limit beginning in the 2010 election cycle and continuing through 2012 and 2014. Some even fell in key primaries to conservative populists who identified as Tea Party candidates.
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David M. Drucker: Is this socialist wave the left's Tea Party moment?
Jul 09, 2026
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By David Drucker Verified
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Miami Herald Verified
The Democratic establishment, shaken by the rise of progressive socialists, is right to wonder where this wave might lead. The similarly populist movement of Tea Party Republicans, however muddled, foreshadowed President Donald Trump. Republican candidates for Congress backed by the GOP establishment were pushed to the limit beginning in the 2010 election cycle and continuing through 2012 and 2014. Some even fell in key primaries to conservative populists who identified as Tea Party candidates.
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Is This Socialist Wave the Left’s Tea Party?: David M. Drucker Original
Jul 07, 2026
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By David Drucker Verified
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Bloomberg Tax Verified
The Democratic establishment, shaken by the rise of progressive socialists, is right to wonder where this wave might lead. The similarly populist movement of Tea Party Republicans, however muddled, foreshadowed President Donald Trump. Republican candidates for Congress backed by the GOP establishment were pushed to the limit beginning in the 2010 election cycle and continuing through 2012 and 2014. Some even fell in key primaries to conservative populists who identified as Tea Party candidates.
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Conspiracy Hypothesis | Interview: Andrew McKenzie-McHarg
Jul 06, 2026
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By Jonah Goldberg Verified, Grayson Logue Verified, David Drucker Verified
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The Dispatch Verified
June was a long month, and Jonah Goldberg is feeling entitled to a little bit of self-indulgence. Instead of turning to the bottle, however, he has opted for a rollicking, frolicsome ramble through the deep history of conspiracy theory.
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The Paradox of Gavin Newsom
Jul 06, 2026
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By David Drucker Verified
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The Dispatch Verified
He's a leading Democratic presidential contender for 2028, yet he's a mystery even to those in his party. Illustration by Noah Hickey/The Dispatch (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images). Illustration by Noah Hickey/The Dispatch (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images). Turn any article into a podcast. Upgrade now to start listening. Members can share articles with friends & family to bypass the paywall.
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Pravica sa začína štiepiť aj v otázke Izraela
Jul 01, 2026
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By David Drucker Verified
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Denník SME Verified
Dodávatelia môžu pomocou vašich údajov poskytovať služby. Odmietnutím dodávateľa môžete zastaviť jeho používanie vašich zdieľaných údajov. Dodávatelia v rámci transparentnosti a súhlasu Exponential Interactive, Inc d/b/a VDX.tv Trvanie súboru cookie: 90 (dni).
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How Miami's top cybercrime unit is teaming up with FIU to fight back
Jun 29, 2026
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By David Drucker Verified
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Florida International University
Miami has a cybercrime problem unlike any other city in the U.S. Wealth flows through it from around the world. Tourists arrive by the millions. And bad actors have taken notice. To fight back, FIU's College of Engineering & Computing has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office Cyber Crimes Bureau, pairing the region's leading public research university with one of the largest cybercrime task forces in the country.
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David M. Drucker: Trump’s economic pivot isn’t coming. He’s made that clear
Jun 27, 2026
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By David Drucker Verified
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Wenatchee World Verified
For Republicans in Congress who’ve been clinging to hope that President Donald Trump might finally focus on the economy ahead of the midterm elections, their time might be better spent searching for proof that the tooth fairy is real. The same day Trump reaffirmed support for an agreement with Iran to end the war, he turned his attention to Capitol Hill. Did he demand or introduce legislation addressing voters’ No. 1 priority, what they believe is an unacceptably high cost of living?
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Trump’s economic pivot isn’t coming. He’s made that clear
Jun 27, 2026
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By David Drucker Verified
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The Eagle-Tribune Verified
For Republicans in Congress who’ve been clinging to hope that President Donald Trump might finally focus on the economy ahead of the midterm elections, their time might be better spent searching for proof that the tooth fairy is real. The same day Trump reaffirmed support for an agreement with Iran to end the war, he turned his attention to Capitol Hill. Did he demand or introduce legislation addressing voters’ No. 1 priority, what they believe is an unacceptably high cost of living?
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Drucker: Trump’s economic pivot isn’t coming. He’s made that clear.
Jun 26, 2026
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By David Drucker Verified
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The Mercury News Verified
For Republicans in Congress who’ve been clinging to hope that President Donald Trump might finally focus on the economy ahead of the midterm elections, their time might be better spent searching for proof that the tooth fairy is real. The same day Trump reaffirmed support for an agreement with Iran to end the war, he turned his attention to Capitol Hill. Did he demand or introduce legislation addressing voters’ No. 1 priority, what they believe is an unacceptably high cost of living?
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El giro económico de Trump no se producirá y él lo ha dejado claro
Jun 25, 2026
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By David Drucker Verified, Alex Wong
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Bloomberg Línea Verified
Para los republicanos en el Congreso que se han aferrado a la esperanza de que el presidente Donald Trump finalmente se centre en la economía antes de las elecciones de mitad de mandato, tal vez sería mejor que dedicaran su tiempo a buscar pruebas de que el hada de los dientes existe. El mismo día que Trump reafirmó su apoyo a un acuerdo con Irán para poner fin a la guerra, centró su atención en el Capitolio.
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Democrats’ populist bargain looks familiar to Republicans | David M. Drucker
Jun 25, 2026
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By David Drucker Verified
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Ravalli Republic Verified
“Oh no, not us — not ever.” For 10 years running, that’s been the Democratic response to any suggestion that grassroots liberals are like Republican voters and equally susceptible to supporting scandal-plagued populists like President Donald Trump. kAm%96 @?=J 5:776C6?46[ :E EFC?65 @FE[ H2D E:>:?8]kAm kAm%CF>A 2??@F?465 9:D a_e AC6D:56?E:2= 3:5 ` J62CD 28@ E9:D H66< 2?5 2=>@DE :>>65:2E6=J G2F=E65 E@ E96 E@A @7 2 4C@H565 7:6=5 @7 E@A\E:6C #6AF3=:42?
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Drucker: Trump’s economic pivot isn’t coming. He’s made that clear
Jun 25, 2026
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By David Drucker Verified
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Batavia Daily News Verified
For Republicans in Congress who’ve been clinging to hope that President Donald Trump might finally focus on the economy ahead of the midterm elections, their time might be better spent searching for proof that the tooth fairy is real. The same day Trump reaffirmed support for an agreement with Iran to end the war, he turned his attention to Capitol Hill. Did he demand or introduce legislation addressing voters’ No. 1 priority, what they believe is an unacceptably high cost of living?
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David M. Drucker: Democrats’ populist bargain looks familiar to Republicans
Jun 25, 2026
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By David Drucker Verified
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Kingman Daily Miner Verified
“Oh no, not us — not ever.” For 10 years running, that’s been the Democratic response to any suggestion that grassroots liberals are like Republican voters and equally susceptible to supporting scandal-plagued populists like President Donald Trump. The only difference, it turned out, was timing. kAm%CF>A 2??@F?465 9:D a_e AC6D:56?E:2= 3:5 ` J62CD 28@ E9:D H66< 2?5 2=>@DE :>>65:2E6=J G2F=E65 E@ E96 E@A @7 2 4C@H565 7:6=5 @7 E@A\E:6C #6AF3=:42? 4@?E6?56CD] uF6=65 3J A@AF=:DE 6?6C8J C2>A2?E :?
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David M. Drucker: Democrats’ populist bargain looks familiar to Republicans
Jun 25, 2026
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By David Drucker Verified
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Today’s News-Herald Verified
“Oh no, not us — not ever.” For 10 years running, that’s been the Democratic response to any suggestion that grassroots liberals are like Republican voters and equally susceptible to supporting scandal-plagued populists like President Donald Trump. The only difference, it turned out, was timing. kAm%CF>A 2??@F?465 9:D a_e AC6D:56?E:2= 3:5 ` J62CD 28@ E9:D H66< 2?5 2=>@DE :>>65:2E6=J G2F=E65 E@ E96 E@A @7 2 4C@H565 7:6=5 @7 E@A\E:6C #6AF3=:42? 4@?E6?56CD] uF6=65 3J A@AF=:DE 6?6C8J C2>A2?E :?
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Trump’s economic pivot isn’t coming. He’s made that clear
Jun 25, 2026
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By David Drucker Verified
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Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Verified
For Republicans in Congress who’ve been clinging to hope that President Donald Trump might finally focus on the economy ahead of the midterm elections, their time might be better spent searching for proof that the tooth fairy is real. Please log in, or sign up for a new account and purchase a subscription to continue reading. We have used your information to see if you have a subscription with us, but did not find one.
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David M. Drucker: Trump’s economic pivot isn’t coming. He’s made that clear
Jun 25, 2026
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By David Drucker Verified
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The Indiana Gazette Verified
For Republicans in Congress who’ve been clinging to hope that President Donald Trump might finally focus on the economy ahead of the midterm elections, their time might be better spent searching for proof that the tooth fairy is real. The same day Trump reaffirmed support for an agreement with Iran to end the war, he turned his attention to Capitol Hill. Did he demand or introduce legislation addressing voters’ No. 1 priority, what they believe is an unacceptably high cost of living?
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Drucker: Trump’s economic pivot isn’t coming. He’s made that clear
Jun 25, 2026
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By David Drucker Verified
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Livingston County News Verified
For Republicans in Congress who’ve been clinging to hope that President Donald Trump might finally focus on the economy ahead of the midterm elections, their time might be better spent searching for proof that the tooth fairy is real. The same day Trump reaffirmed support for an agreement with Iran to end the war, he turned his attention to Capitol Hill. Did he demand or introduce legislation addressing voters’ No. 1 priority, what they believe is an unacceptably high cost of living?
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