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Cliff Owen / AP Is the GOP Donald Trump's Party—or Paul Ryan's?
Mike Pence made a valiant effort on Tuesday night to paper over sharply divergent visions of the Republican future.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters Many of Trump’s Supporters Never Left Their Hometowns
The Republican candidate is far more popular than Hillary Clinton among people who still live where they grew up.
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Wikimedia Commons Trump Time Capsule #128: 'Against Donald Trump'
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Patrick Semansky / AP The GOP Shouldn't Wish for a Mike Pence 2020 Run
The vice-presidential candidate offers a stark contrast with Trump. That doesn’t mean he can appeal to the kind of voters the Republican Party needs to win.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters Mike Pence Embraces the Foreign Policy That Republican Voters Rejected
By sidestepping Trump’s messages on foreign policy and trade in Tuesday’s debate, the vice-presidential nominee ignored the choices GOP voters made in their primaries.
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Wikimedia Trump Time Capsule #127: A ‘Chinese’ View of the Election
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Mike Pence Pretends That Trump Never Happened
The vice-presidential nominee points to one path forward for Republicans in 2020—albeit one that seems unlikely to work.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Can Mike Pence's Denial of Reality Work for Him?
Fact-checkers are having a field day with the Republican vice-presidential nominee’s statements during the debate.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters Is Clinton Hatred Fueled by Dislike for Trump?
One way to talk yourself into supporting a candidate is to decide that the alternative is flatly unacceptable.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Abortion Returns to the Debate
The issue finally came up at the vice-presidential debate on Tuesday night, showing why religion and conscience are important in this election.
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Reuters Trump Time Capsule #126: My Brush With History, and With Supermodel Vendela
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John Locher / AP What Bill Clinton Meant When He Called Obamacare 'Crazy'
Explaining the “explainer-in-chief”: The former president offers a diagnosis and a prescription for the Affordable Care Act that is in line with the White House.
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Wikimedia You Think the Campaign Is Bad? Just Wait Until It's Over
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Brendan McDermid / Reuters Clinton and Trump Are Shuffling the Electoral Map
Democrats are increasingly looking toward Sunbelt states rather than Rustbelt states for victory in 2016 and beyond. Not long ago that would have been unthinkable.
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Trump Time Capsule #125A: 'I Never Sent That Tweet You Just Saw'
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Trump Time Capsule #125: Willie Horton
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Mike Segar / Reuters Trump Says PTSD Patients Aren't 'Strong'
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Mike Segar / Reuters The Trump Team's 'Genius' Spin on Unpaid Taxes
The idea that the Republican candidate showed his business acumen by avoiding tax obligations may resonate with many of his supporters.
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Richard Drew / AP How Hillary Clinton Learned to Govern
The Democratic nominee would enter the White House with a well-established operating style.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters A Simple Way to Think About the Election
