by Jim Heath | Oct 17, 2018 | 2018, Ads, Battlegrounds, Democrats, Headlines
Proving anti-Trump fever is alive and well in 2018, Democratic candidates running for Congress this year have collectively raised more than $1 billion for their campaigns. That’s a record-shattering sum that highlights the party’s zeal to retake the House and...
by Jim Heath | Oct 17, 2018 | 2018, Democrats, Headlines
A staff member for Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.) is no longer with the campaign following an ad that named abuse victims without their permission. The gross mistake is all but certain to end Heitkamp’s ambitions of being reelected. Heitkamp is already down in...
by Jim Heath | Oct 15, 2018 | 2020, Democrats, Elizabeth Warren, Headlines
Sen. Elizabeth Warren may be a tiny bit Cherokee, but don’t trumpet a DNA test around tribal leaders. The Cherokee Nation called out Warren today for attempting to claim Native American heritage by releasing the results of a DNA test. The test, conducted by a...
by Jim Heath | Oct 13, 2018 | 2018, Battlegrounds, Democrats, Headlines
Hollywood has always raised a lot of cash for Democratic candidates, but this year there is a special urgency with Donald Trump in the White House. Fueled by GOP loathing, #MeToo and industry success, a new class of hyperactivated political activists like John Legend...
by Jim Heath | Oct 13, 2018 | 2020, Analysis, Book Excerpts, Democrats
Democrats may not want to hear that another older white guy is the best shot they have against Donald Trump in 2020. But demographics are still facts, and Brown, from battleground Ohio, has the best shot to appeal to white, working men who abandoned Democrats in 2016,...
by Jim Heath | Oct 2, 2018 | 2018, Democrats, Headlines
Former President Obama has endorsed Rachel Crooks, who has accused Donald Trump of kissing her without consent, for a state house seat. Crooks, 35, burst onto the national political scene in 2016 when she accused Trump of forcibly kissing her in an elevator when she...
