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Jim Kessler

Washington, D.C.
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Democratic Candidates Should Shred Interest-Group Questionnaires

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By Jim Kessler, Lanae Erickson
| Washington Monthly
Last month, the organization where we work, Third Way, urged Democrats to reject the policy and political pledges myriad progressive groups demand of the Party’s officeholders and candidates.
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Democrats: Be a fox, not a possum, on the budget

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By Jim Kessler
| The Contrarian
By Jim Kessler With consumer confidence plummeting, inflation back on the rise, and the specter of Trump tariffs sparking a global recession, the last thing the American public needs is a government shutdown to add new uncertainty into the economy. But that is a very real possibility as a short-term, stopgap government funding bill passed in the final weeks of the Biden administration expires March 14.
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Don’t Buy The Trump Camp’s Spin

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By Matt Bennett, Jim Kessler
| The Bulwark
ON THURSDAY, THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN leaked a polling memo entitled, in their customary all-caps shout, “PRESIDENT TRUMP ON THE VERGE.” To use language Team Trump would understand, this memo is bullshit masquerading as serious analysis. The race, as any neutral observer would agree, is tied, bouncing around inside the margin of error in almost every swing state. And, as we detail below, there is ample reason to believe that Vice President Harris can—and perhaps will—win.
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