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And Democrats are smiling | If you didn't watch Republicans' chaotic first presidential debate on Wednesday, you didn't miss much, writes Democratic strategist Max Burns. The only thing clear by the end of it was that "[Donald] Trump has little to fear from anyone who actually attended the debate." |
The debate underscored that the GOP is only a shadow of its pre-Trump self, Burns writes. "Americans would be hard pressed to find a single serious policy mind in the bunch, save perhaps former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, who seemed completely out of place amid her colleagues' incoherence." Burns thinks only three candidates made any impression at all: Haley, former Vice President Mike Pence and billionaire investor Vivek Ramaswamy. "Unfortunately," he writes, "none of those three have a meaningful chance at dethroning Trump unless the field narrows quickly and sharply." Burns believes that "a functional Republican Party would be rallying around Nikki Haley as a dream challenger to President Joe Biden." "Fortunately for Democrats, the modern GOP is anything but a functional party. In the current MAGA-fied GOP, Ramaswamy's bombastic infomercial style has a better chance of perking Trump's ears than any of Haley's boring policy talk." "That's just fine with Team Biden." Read the op-ed at TheHill.com. |
Welcome to The Hill's Views & Opinions newsletter, it's Friday, August 25. I'm Daniel Allott, bringing together a collection of key opinion pieces published from a wide range of voices. |
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By Dov Zakheim, former deputy undersecretary of Defense |
Yevgeny Prigozhin's death hardly comes as a surprise; the only issue was when it would occur. Shortly after the Wagner Group's failed mutiny in June, President Joe Biden quipped that Prigozhin had better watch what he was eating. The remark surely shot home, since Prigozhin had once been Putin's chef. |
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By Michael Starr Hopkins, Democratic strategist |
On a debate stage in Milwaukee, candidates for the Republican nomination spoke to Republicans and only Republicans. They didn't speak to independents or disillusioned Democrats, they spoke to just Republicans. That may work in a primary, but for two hours, Republicans created attack ads for every Democrat running in the 2024 general election. |
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By Steven Lubet, Williams Memorial Professor Emeritus at the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law |
While violations differ in severity — dozens of undisclosed luxury junkets are far more serious than asking staff to boost book sales — judicial ethics principles must still be politically neutral, applied equally to the modest Justice Sotomayor, the affable Justice Thomas and the dour Justice Alito. |
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By Merrill Matthews, resident scholar with the Institute for Policy Innovation |
While it's unlikely, we can't rule out the possibility that one or both of the current leading presidential candidates could, in the next year or two, be convicted of one or more crimes. That possibility means voters may wake up next summer or fall and see a new bumper sticker: "Vote for the lesser of the two crooks: It's important." |
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