Bloomberg.com • 19th August 2025

Abolishing Voting by Mail Will Hurt Republicans More Than Help

If President Donald Trump were to issue an executive order to abolish mail-in voting, as he announced he would on social media on Monday, it would almost certainly be unconstitutional. It would also be baffling — because eliminating vote-by-mail would probably hurt Republicans more than it would help them in next year’s midterm elections.

Bloomberg.com • 14th August 2025

To Beat Paxton, Cornyn Is Relying on a MAGA Makeover

The Senate primary in Texas has turned another well-respected establishment Republican into a MAGA culture warrior who has traded civility for theater: Senator John Cornyn.

Bloomberg.com • 9th August 2025

Texas Is Betting Latinos Will Swing Republican. That’s a Risk.

Republicans are making a risky assumption as they attempt to rewrite the Texas Congressional map with a mid-decade power grab designed to net five additional seats: They’re betting that Latino voters who voted for President Donald Trump in record numbers last year will elect Republican congressional candidates in the midterms.But Texas’ Latino voters have soured on the president.

Bloomberg.com • 5th August 2025

The DOJ’s Push to Collect Your Data Is a Fishing Expedition

With his approval rating sinking lower and lower, and facing the prospect of losing control of the House to Democrats, President Donald Trump is engaged in an unprecedented attempt to manipulate the midterm elections. Not only has he demanded that Texas redraw its congressional districts, he’s now got Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Department of Justice embarking on another insidious strategy: Building a dossier of private information on every voter that Trump can use for political advantage.

Bloomberg.com • 31st July 2025

Roy Cooper’s Senate Bid Could Do More Than Flip a Seat

Former North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper’s entry into the US Senate race this week was a rare bit of good news for Democrats in the run-up to the 2026 midterms. Cooper is a well-liked and well-known moderate — a former attorney general and state legislator with a record of competence.

Bloomberg.com • 23rd July 2025

The Texas Redistricting Fight Is a Four-Alarm Fire

President Donald Trump is attempting a massive power grab in Texas and most Americans aren’t aware of it. That’s a very bad sign.If, by the end of August, most Americans don’t know that the president is trying to use Texas to manipulate the results of the 2026 midterm elections by changing three to five congressional seats in his favor, it’s a loud signal that the decline of democracy isn’t capturing public attention — and that Democrats are failing, again. President Donald Trump is attempting...

Bloomberg.com • 20th July 2025

Georgia Republicans Have Gone Full ‘Knives Out’

The MAGA-world blow-up over the Trump administration’s about-face in handling the Jeffrey Epstein files isn’t the only conspiracy-fueled dispute splintering Republicans. Another feud is playing out in the state of Georgia, where a group of ultraconservative Republicans that rose to power with the backing of a wealthy financier is at war with the GOP leadership over control of the party.

Bloomberg.com • 10th July 2025

The GOP’s Medicaid Cuts Have a Very Convenient Timeline

Voters in swing states are unlikely to punish lawmakers for slashing health-care benefits next year. Why? The pain is postponed until after the election. Voters in swing states are unlikely to punish lawmakers for slashing health-care benefits next year. Why? The pain is postponed until after the election.

Bloomberg.com • 1st July 2025

Thom Tillis Knew What the GOP Refused to Hear

Earlier today, Republican Senator Thom Tillis became one of only three GOP senators to cast a vote against President Donald Trump’s budget bill. Ultimately, his vote was mostly symbolic — the measure passed on a 51-50 vote, with Vice President JD Vance casting the tiebreaker.But the vote has already had consequences for the two-term lawmaker from North Carolina. On Sunday, he made the announcement that he would not be running for re-election in 2026. His decision came a day after he took to the...

Bloomberg.com • 20th June 2025

The White House Plans for Texas Could Backfire

President Donald Trump’s push for Texas lawmakers to redraw the state’s congressional districts in hopes of preserving the slim Republican majority in the US House is yet another example of the president putting his own fortune above his party’s.In an ideal world, it’s also a good idea — because it could lead to more competitive elections and a more representative democracy. Of course, that’s the opposite of Trump’s intention: He wants to make it more difficult for voters to punish him for his u...

Bloomberg.com • 8th June 2025

US Democracy Is Sicker Than Many Realize. Look at These States.

Political scientists are issuing stark warnings about the way they see President Donald Trump’s second term pushing the US into authoritarianism, with its sweeping executive orders, defiance of court rulings, threats and coercion to enforce ideology, and steamrolling of a Congress that appears only too willing to give up its power.But to focus only on the White House ignores the broader picture: the gradual rise of illiberal instincts in US politics, and especially on the right. It began with th...

Bloomberg.com • 8th May 2025

Normie Republicans Like Brian Kemp Have It Rough

Even before Georgia Governor Brian Kemp announced he would not be challenging Democrat Jon Ossoff in that high-stakes US Senate race in the state next year, he had already emerged as one of the most interesting Republicans on the national stage. Kemp knows what a liability Trump can be for Republicans and has learned how to choose his battles carefully. For the last four years, the two-term governor endured Trump’s threats and bullying because he refused to illegally overturn the 2020 election r...

Bloomberg.com • 1st May 2025

Who Can Save Florida Democrats? Former Republicans

Florida is becoming a testing ground for desperate centrists. The Democratic leader of the Florida Senate, Jason Pizzo, abruptly resigned his leadership post last week with just two weeks to go in the legislative session. “The Democratic Party in Florida is dead,” he said as he made the announcement on the Senate floor. “There are good people that can resuscitate it. But they don’t want it to be me.” Florida is becoming a testing ground for desperate centrists. The Democratic leader of the F...

Bloomberg.com • 23rd April 2025

GOP's Voting Reform Is Paperwork, Not a Solution

Listen closely to the arguments of the House Republicans pushing the so-called “Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act” and you realize they aren’t interested in solving the problem the bill purports to address: non-citizens voting in federal elections.If you take the proponents of the bill at their word — that the measure is needed “to increase integrity of elections” because “non-citizen voting decreases confidence in our elections” — you’d expect a targeted proposal aimed at increasi...

Bloomberg.com • 27th March 2025

Forget Polls. Watch the Florida Special Election Results.

Florida holds two special congressional elections on Tuesday in districts where President Donald Trump won more than 60% of the votes. They’ll be closely watched to see if that margin — which months ago seemed effortless for Republicans to sustain in the president’s home state — has melted away.

Bloomberg.com • 20th March 2025

North Carolina’s Ongoing Election Dispute Is Dangerous

The 2024 election still isn’t over in North Carolina. On Friday, the state Court of Appeals will hear arguments in a dispute over a judicial election for the state Supreme Court.

Bloomberg.com • 17th March 2025

Are GOP Leaders Afraid to Listen to Their Own Voters?

No politician will ever admit they have zero interest in hearing what their constituents have to say. But from Washington, DC to Wichita, Kansas elected officials are cancelling meetings with constituents and systematically undermining citizen-led ballot initiatives — the one tool the public has to make change when elected officials won’t listen.It is profoundly hypocritical — and dangerously shortsighted.

Bloomberg.com • 11th March 2025

This GOP Fight Will Determine How Many Kids Go Hungry

A group of Republican lawmakers in the White House and Congress don’t believe it’s the government’s job to feed people. But at the state level, the GOP is heading in a different direction.

Bloomberg.com • 7th March 2025

Florida Deserves Better Candidates for Governor

For nearly half a century, Florida has been America’s ultimate political bellwether. Now, the race to replace Governor Ron DeSantis in 2026 is flashing a warning sign about the influential state’s shallow leadership pool.DeSantis can’t run again because of term limits, but he wants to run for president again so he’s looking for a way to stay relevant. He’s propping up his wife Casey and President Donald Trump endorsed Congressman Byron Donalds. Florida can do better, and it should.

Bloomberg.com • 27th February 2025

Even Steve Bannon Knows Cutting Medicaid Is a Mega-Risk

Republicans are taking a huge political gamble as they try to find money for tax cuts by threatening to slash Medicaid. As Congress has learned repeatedly, most recently in 2018, when the party in power messes with Americans’ health care, things don’t go well for them in midterm elections.