Trump Quotes by Kristen Soltis Anderson

For federal races, being able to carefully navigate the Trump Era is a significant challenge.

— Kristen Soltis Anderson

I remember fancying myself a junior 'McCainiac' in 2000, though politics were rarely discussed in our household.

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Candidates, of course, often claim that they want to run 'a purely positive campaign,' but this rarely materializes.

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I have written time and again about the damage the Republican Party has done to itself with the millennial generation.

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President Trump is right about at least one thing: No matter what he does, America cannot stop talking about him.

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Even when we're not talking about Trump, we're talking about Trump.

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If there is one issue where one could justifiably assume that Republicans are all in agreement, it is on lowering taxes.

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Trump won 44.4 percent of votes in Virginia in 2016. At press time, Ed Gillespie had won 45 percent of the vote in 2017.

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'Trump is a mean man' is a message that Democrats used time and time and time again in the 2016 race. Airwaves…

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One thing that is fairly undeniable about Trump - love him or loathe him - is his understanding of how to manipulate…

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President Trump, who made his name in the business world and built a brand as a successful CEO via a reality TV…

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When polled on Donald Trump's agenda, though pluralities of young people oppose his policies on immigration and healthcare, there is one issue…

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Federalists, Whigs, Democratic-Republicans; parties are born, parties die, and parties realign themselves to adapt to shifting demographics and attitudes.

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Congress has been productive when focusing on bites of policy that don't inflame the divisions within the party and quietly do the…

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There's no counting the number of times the media have asked, 'Will this be the thing that drives Donald Trump's supporters away…

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Maybe President Trump will turn out to be a fabulously successful president who will endear the millennial generation to the Right anew.

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Political science has long tried to tackle a fundamental question of voter behavior: Do voters choose politicians because those politicians hold views…

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After Mitt Romney's defeat, the RNC released its official assessment of what happened - a failure to reach younger voters, nonwhite voters,…

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Donald Trump, having spent decades in the public eye as an entertainer, may not understand what the nuclear triad is, or what…

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Let's think about where things stood in December 2015. By that time, Republicans had already had such epic and long-standing struggles with…

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When people note that more and more voters are cutting their landline phones and that more and more people are refusing to…

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Election losses are always an inkblot test for partisans. If a candidate's defeat has no clear and obvious cause, if the data…

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For Trump, the story is everything. There is no real plan to defeat the villains that Trump tees up, of course.

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The things that frustrate one piece of Trump's coalition often endear him to or embolden another wing of the coalition.

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Electing Democrats means nothing happens. Elect Republicans, and at least there's a chance.

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Donald Trump has had political success positioning himself as a 'law-and-order' candidate.

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Obama's numbers fell by a slightly larger amount over his first few months because he enjoyed much more support right at the…

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It's not hard to assume that voters do not have deeply considered views on each and every policy issue before them but…

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In the relatively short time frame of December 2015 to March 2017, nearly half of all young Republicans left their party at…

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President Trump rightly points out that law enforcement is mostly made up of good people putting themselves in harm's way to protect…

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With Trump assuming the role of America's CEO, it may be chaos rather than callousness that threatens to harm his standing with…

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Breaking dramatically with Bush-era Republican orthodoxy, Trump ran on a message of 'America First' and of avoiding spending blood and treasure on…

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The data - on issues and on Trump himself - keep pointing back to 'one-in-four' as the true size of Trump's base.…

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Either people are changing their minds about Trump, or increasing numbers of his supporters are deciding it is too embarrassing to admit…

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The American system is set up to have two parties competing for votes. But Americans have not had the same two parties…

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There's a lot of work to be done in the polling world, and a need to continue to rethink how we do…

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There are certainly more Republicans who like President Trump than like 'Republicans in Congress,' and certainly many Republicans who already feel like…

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Hillary Clinton famously embraced the Trump-originated label 'nasty woman' as yet another way to show just how bad Donald Trump was to…

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'Staunch conservatives' and 'free marketeers' are fairly typical Republicans, while the 'American preservationists' are far less reliably a part of a GOP…

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Trump was elected in part because enough Americans viewed him as a capable and strong leader, someone who is 'decisive' and 'competent.'

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