Caitlin Huey-Burns - Articles - RealClearPolitics

Election officials across the country and in key battleground states say there could be a delay in reporting election night results in November given the likely surge in mail-in absentee ballots ...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/election-day-mail-in-voting-ballots-election-week/

Part 4 in a series Democrats eying a potential White House run in 2020 have been eager to lend their star power to party candidates up and down the ballot in this year''.ord('Ã').';'''.ord('¢')...

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/08/29/for_likely_2020_candidates_midterms_offer_a_leg_up_137925.html

The first in a series on the risks and rewards of garnering party leaders' campaign trail support As with real estate, the value of a Donald Trump endorsement tends to hinge on three things: loca...

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/08/08/benefit_--_or_liability_--_of_trump_support_depends_on_where.html

Barack Obama formally weighed in on the 2018 midterm elections by backing 81 Democratic candidates running for federal and local offices in 14 states, and indicated that more endorsements are on ...

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/08/01/obama_issues_endorsements_in_81_midterm_races_137692.html

A handful of Senate primary contests in August could put some Republican women on history-making paths in their states. But in a year that figures to be record-breaking for female candidates, GOP...

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/07/30/female_gop_candidates_eschew_the_gender_card_137657.html

Ron DeSantis is a Trump-endorsed congressman running in a Republican primary for governor of Florida. But during a recent campaign stop, he took aim at an opposition party candidate more than 900...

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/07/27/ocasio-cortez_the_gops_midterm_boogeyman.html

As President Trump continues to stumble past his press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier this week, Republican voters are handing him a lifeline. Though many GOP lawmakers ...

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/07/20/republican_voters_buoy_trump_on_russiaputin_137577.html

With sharp statements that underscored a deep disconnect between the president and his party's orthodoxy in dealing with Russia, GOP lawmakers condemned Donald Trump's apparent appeasement of Vla...

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/07/17/trump_feels_gop_heat_on_putin_but_will_it_linger_137543.html

Democrats know the odds of preventing President Trump's Supreme Court justice nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, from confirmation are extremely long. So they are focusing their opposition efforts on an i...

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/07/11/democrats_focus_court_messaging_on_health_care_137484.html

If all goes according to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's plan, Judge Brett Kavanaugh will be confirmed as the next Supreme Court justice and in place for the start of the October session...

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/07/10/gop_dems_ramp_up_midterm_messaging_on_kavanaugh_137475.html

When Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement last week, Democrats immediately rallied together in urging their colleagues to delay the confirmation of a successor until aft...

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/07/02/with_little_leverage_on_court_pick_dems_eye_plan_b_137402.html

As President Trump reveled Tuesday in the Supreme Court's 5-4 travel ban decision ''.ord('Ã').';'''.ord('¢').';'''.ord('Â').';'''.ord('€').';'''.ord('Â').';'''.ord('“').';' a ruling the W...

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/06/27/court_decisions_provide_gop_with_midterm_rallying_cry_137359.html

After claiming to have no legal authority to unilaterally amend a recent Justice Department directive that resulted in the separation of migrant children from their parents along the U.S.-Mexico ...

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/06/20/trump_signs_executive_order_on_border_policy_137323.html

President Trump's defiance in the face of widespread criticism of his border policy has left members of his own party scrambling to find legislative fixes and increasingly fearful of midterm elec...

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/06/20/gop_lawmakers_seek_border_policy_fix_as_trump_holds_firm_137314.html

Facing widespread backlash to its "zero tolerance" policy that has resulted in the separation of migrant families at the southern U.S. border, the Trump administration have settled into a defensi...

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/06/19/white_house_digs_in_on_family_separation_policy_137304.html

As President Trump touts the historic nature of his meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, calling it the start of a "terrific relationship," lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are sou...

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/06/13/political_watchword_from_trump-kim_meeting_caution__137263.html

President Trump's most recent spat with the National Football League seemed to signal how he plans to feature the culture wars in his midterm campaign messaging. And for some GOP candidates whose...

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/06/11/gop_candidates_echo_trumps_culture_war_battle_cry_137242.html

Democrats are breathing a sigh of relief after California's ''.ord('Ã').';'''.ord('¢').';'''.ord('Â').';'''.ord('€').';'''.ord('Â').';'''.ord('œ').';'jungle''.ord('Ã').';'''.ord('¢').';'...

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/06/06/democrats_avoid_lockouts_in_key_california_races_137206.html

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has railed against Obamacare for years and pledged as a presidential candidate to send repeal legislation to Congress on Day One, if elected. But now running for a thi...

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/06/05/walker_ad_touts_stabilization_of_health_law_he_assailed_137195.html

Republicans would ordinarily dread an intra-party challenge to one of their most endangered incumbents in an already difficult election year. But in California''.ord('Ã').';'''.ord('¢').';'''.o...

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/06/04/crowded_primaries_could_dash_dems_california_dreams_137181.html

While Democrats face an uphill climb defending seats held by a handful of incumbent senators in states Donald Trump won overwhelmingly, they are hoping to flip the script in Tennessee. Former Gov...

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/05/30/trump_visit_spotlights_competitive_tennessee_senate_race_137148.html

A group backed by the billionaire Republican donors Charles and David Koch is launching an ad campaign urging lawmakers to pass a permanent solution for DACA recipients. The Libre Initiative, a c...

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/05/24/koch_group_pushing_lawmakers_for_daca_fix_137111.html

With the special counsel investigation into Russian election interference now in its second year, Democratic pollsters are offering the party a way to hone a persuasive counterargument to Preside...

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/05/24/pollster_to_dem_candidates_focus_on_mueller_indictments_137110.html

As part of their midterm pitch to voters, congressional Democrats are unveiling a series of policy proposals Monday aimed at cleaning up a "culture of corruption" in Washington. In other words: D...

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/05/21/democrats_roll_out_anti-corruption_message_for_2018_137085.html

How do you compete in a Republican primary for a border state Senate seat? Martha McSally is offering one clue. The Arizona congresswoman took to the House floor last week to ask unanimous consen...

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/05/15/mcsallys_daca_flip_lays_bare_az_senate_race_dynamics_137041.html

Democratic campaign operatives have acknowledged that running against Donald Trump and the White House controversy du jour -- at the expense of more substantive policy issues -- could weaken thei...

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/05/11/democrats_economic_quandary_in_2018_messaging_137019.html

Republicans breathed a collective sigh of relief Tuesday night as primary contests for the U.S. Senate produced a trio of candidates they consider effective challengers to Democratic incumbents i...

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/05/09/morrisey_wins_as_gop_gets_its_wish_in_wva_ind_ohio_137003.html

President Trump is leading a last-ditch Republican effort to prevent a convicted former coal executive from winning Tuesday's GOP primary in West Virginia and jeopardizing the party''.ord('Ã').'...

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/05/08/did_gop_create_room_for_spoiler_blankenship_in_wva_136993.html

Donald Trump's shake-up of his legal team this week suggested he is prepared to go to war with special counsel Robert Mueller. As observers of all stripes assess potential outcomes for the presid...

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/05/04/mueller_probe_could_boost_gop_midterm_candidates_136977.html

As a Democrat running for re-election in a state Donald Trump won by 20 percentage points, Jon Tester should have been among the most vulnerable incumbents in the upper chamber this year, but Rep...

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/05/01/trump-tester_dust-up_could_heat_up_mt_senate_race_136943.html