He Isn’t Running. He’d Like You to Vote Like He Is.

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Donald Trump’s name won’t appear on a single ballot today, and he knows what that usually means. Midterms are when a president’s voters relax. They won the big one two years ago. They figure the rest will take care of itself. So on Monday night, a few hours before the polls opened, he went on Hannity and asked them for something a little unusual. “I’m just asking everybody to pretend that I’m on the ballot.” When you think about it, that’s a modest request. He didn’t say “save the country” or “vote the party line.” He said: imagine I’m there.

When the Party Shows You the Door For Doing What’s Right.

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Election Day in Michigan is Tuesday. On Sunday morning, Haley Stevens was supposed to be sitting next to Abdul El-Sayed. That was the plan Democrats had worked all week to arrange. The two were going to attend a Souls to the Polls event at a church in Detroit. The moderate congresswoman and the progressive who beat her in August would appear side by side. They would look united, or close enough. Instead, Stevens went to Perfecting Church, Pastor Marvin Winans’s congregation, and spent the morning worshipping with Mike Rogers, his wife, and her own fiancé, attorney Jason Turkish. Rogers is

Mr. Obama, Meet Mr. Obama’s FBI.

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Former presidents have one big advantage over the rest of us. When they speak, people assume they’ve done the homework. So when Barack Obama broke his long, comfortable silence this month to defend Rep. Ilhan Omar, it landed. He called the Trump administration’s investigation into her “so appalling.” He said the full weight of the federal government was crashing down on a law-abiding congresswoman because she’d dared to criticize the president. He told Americans they should be outraged. Strong words, delivered with the cool authority of a man defending a principle. Then came Thursday. The New York Times reported that

What’s in a Name? In Alaska, Maybe a Crime.

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Politics has always had its tricks. The misleading mailer, the dawn robocall, the rumor started at the diner counter. But it takes a particular kind of nerve to go looking for a man whose main qualification for the U.S. Senate is his name. According to the New York Times, that’s what people around Mary Peltola’s campaign did. On Wednesday night, Alaska’s Republican governor, Mike Dunleavy, ordered an investigation into whether criminal charges or civil penalties should be brought over alleged Democratic efforts to confuse voters by recruiting a Senate candidate with the same name as GOP incumbent Dan Sullivan. The

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