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The Overlooked (But Real) Possibility of a Big Democratic Win

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Democrats have spent the past year talking much more about the prospect of a Donald Trump victory than about their own. The relentless focus on Trump is understandable, but it has obscured a central reality of the 2024 election: Democrats have a real chance to sweep the presidency, House, and Senate. And if they do, their congressional majority would likely be more cohesive and progressive than during President Joe Biden’s first two years in office. Biden’s deficit in the polls is much smaller than the party’s panic suggests and has…

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Brazil’s Bolsonaro took a page from US politics by dangling the possibility of an evangelical Supreme Court Justice – Vox.com

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Brazil’s Bolsonaro took a page from US politics by dangling the possibility of an evangelical Supreme Court Justice  Vox.com Victor Moriyama/Getty Images But US evangelicals have been more loyal to Trump than Brazil’s evangelicals have been to President Bolsonaro, so this move may not work. Speaking at an Assembly of God Pentecostal church this morning, Brazil’s rightist President Jair Bolsonaro opened a new front in Brazil’s culture wars: the composition of Brazil’s Supreme Court. Decrying a recent Supreme Court ruling that hate crime legislation protects sexual minorities, Bolsonaro asked, “Isn’t it…

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