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  • Senior Executive Editor, North America, POLITICO
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The Biggest Threat to JD Vance Is Spencer Pratt Original

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By Alexander Burns 
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The third threat to Vance is Spencer Pratt. The reality-soap performer has emerged as a disruptive force in the race for mayor of Los Angeles, churning up the city’s inert politics with performance artistry, authentic grievance and high-tech vapor. Pratt, 42, has delivered a slashing message about Democratic mismanagement of homelessness and crime, and an evocative-if-embellished personal story about losing his home in the Palisades wildfire.
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Hungary's Election Sends a Jolting Message — to Democrats Original

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By Alexander Burns 
| POLITICO
The outcome is a setback for the White House and a humiliation for its best friend in Europe. But the sharpest message from Budapest should be for the Democrats, strange as that may sound. That is because Orbán’s ouster represents a new triumph for a particular brand of disruptive politics: one defined by reformist candidates who launch new parties and blow up old ones, winning elections by rendering traditional political structures obsolete.
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Trump Buries the 20th Century Original

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By Alexander Burns 
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His Supreme Court appointees struck down Roe v. Wade, ending the seething political and legal stalemate on abortion rights that governed America since the 1970s. His military interventions in Latin America have brought the Cuban government, one of the last surviving Cold War regimes, to the brink of collapse. His tariffs and trade threats have blown apart the Reagan-Clinton policy consensus on free trade, upending half a century of global commercial arrangements and diplomatic relations.
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