Carville Warns His Party That a Small Majority Is a Trap.

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James Carville has spent 40 years telling Democrats how to win. This week he told them what kind of winning he can’t stand. It isn’t losing. It’s winning small. “I would rather the Republicans keep the House by five than the Democrats win by five,” Carville told Bill Kristol on The Bulwark’s “Bulwark on Sunday” podcast, posted Oct. 18. “Because if that happens, they’re hostage to the DSA.” That’s the Democratic Socialists of America. And that’s a party strategist, two weeks before the Nov. 3 midterms, saying out loud that his own side’s left flank scares him more than the

One Week, Three Questions, and a Gentle Shove.

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The president did it gently. In Washington, that’s sometimes the hardest way to hear it. On the South Lawn Friday, President Trump told reporters he’d pulled his new press secretary aside just before walking out. His message to her: “You don’t have to do this if you don’t want to… I think you should reconsider.” Then, almost to himself: “Maybe it’s not for her.” Katie Zacharia had held the job for one week. Asked whether that meant she was fired, Trump waved it off. “No no. I want her to have a good life.” She’d “been brutalized by the media,”

You Can Dismiss a Tweet. A Sister Is Harder.

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Abdul El-Sayed has a sister. She has been talking about their family for years. He says he’s never listened. That was the gist of a tense exchange this week between the Michigan Democrat, now running for the U.S. Senate, and NBC’s Tom Llamas. Llamas asked about posts from El-Sayed’s sister, Eman Abdelhadi, first surfaced by the Washington Free Beacon. In them she says the family has “long been” in the Muslim Brotherhood. She says relatives in Egypt went to jail over it. She says their mother, Fatten Elkomy, was active in the group as a college student in Egypt in

A One Year Difference — and Everything Riding on It.

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Most of us know what year we were born. It’s the first fact we ever own. Ilhan Omar’s office, it turns out, had to fix hers. And it fixed it after she got to Congress. For years the record was plain. Her birthdate was listed as October 4, 1981 in the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library, on Wikipedia, and by major outlets including the BBC. That date stayed put through her time in the Minnesota House and her first run for Congress. Then came the spring of 2019. She’d been in Washington four months. A video from a political rival was

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