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Column: Biden’s big speech didn’t move the needle. What will?

WASHINGTON —  Two weeks after President Biden’s State of the Union address, it’s clear the speech hasn’t shifted the presidential race. Much as they did before the speech, polls show a very close contest: Biden leads by 1 point in a new survey by YouGov for the Economist, former President Trump leads by 1 point in

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Column: Trump has big plans for California if he wins second term

WASHINGTON —  Donald Trump is running against California — again. In his campaign to win a second term, the former president frequently excoriates the state as a terrifying dystopia — the inevitable product, he claims, of Democratic policies. “The place is failing,” he told a conservative conference last month. “It has become a symbol of our

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Column: Polls get it right most of the time. Here’s what to be wary of

WASHINGTON —  Without polls, you can’t understand politics; with them, you can misunderstand a lot. With both major party presidential nominations sewn up, we’re deep into the season in which fretting over polls can become an obsession. That’s especially true this year, as former President Trump holds a small but persistent edge over President Biden in

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Column: GOP State of the Union response puts women in kitchen

A woman’s place is in the kitchen, even if she is a U.S. senator delivering the most important speech of her career. Intended or not, that was the message conveyed by the GOP’s opposition response to President Biden’s State of the Union address on Thursday, when Alabama‘s Sen. Katie Britt spoke for Republicans from a

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Column: When it comes to women in power, quality counts

The primaries are over and California has made one decision for certain: For the first time in 30 years, the Golden State will not send a woman to the Senate. Welcome to women’s history month 2024, where even in California, progress feels like finding tampons in the public bathroom, then realizing they’re the kind with

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