For federal races, being able to carefully navigate the Trump Era is a significant challenge. — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share Image
Candidates, of course, often claim that they want to run 'a purely positive campaign,' but this rarely materializes. — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share Image
I remember fancying myself a junior 'McCainiac' in 2000, though politics were rarely discussed in our household. — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share Image
I have written time and again about the damage the Republican Party has done to itself with the millennial generation. — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share Image
President Trump is right about at least one thing: No matter what he does, America cannot stop talking about him. — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share Image
Even when we're not talking about Trump, we're talking about Trump. — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share Image
If there is one issue where one could justifiably assume that Republicans are all in agreement, it is on lowering taxes. — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share Image
For Trump, the story is everything. There is no real plan to defeat the villains that Trump tees up, of course. — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share Image
'Trump is a mean man' is a message that Democrats used time and time and time again in the 2016 race. Airwaves… — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share Image
One thing that is fairly undeniable about Trump - love him or loathe him - is his understanding of how to manipulate… — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share Image
President Trump, who made his name in the business world and built a brand as a successful CEO via a reality TV… — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share Image
When polled on Donald Trump's agenda, though pluralities of young people oppose his policies on immigration and healthcare, there is one issue… — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share Image
Congress has been productive when focusing on bites of policy that don't inflame the divisions within the party and quietly do the… — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share Image
Federalists, Whigs, Democratic-Republicans; parties are born, parties die, and parties realign themselves to adapt to shifting demographics and attitudes. — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share Image
There's no counting the number of times the media have asked, 'Will this be the thing that drives Donald Trump's supporters away… — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share Image
Maybe President Trump will turn out to be a fabulously successful president who will endear the millennial generation to the Right anew. — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share Image
Political science has long tried to tackle a fundamental question of voter behavior: Do voters choose politicians because those politicians hold views… — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share Image
After Mitt Romney's defeat, the RNC released its official assessment of what happened - a failure to reach younger voters, nonwhite voters,… — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share Image
Donald Trump, having spent decades in the public eye as an entertainer, may not understand what the nuclear triad is, or what… — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share Image
Let's think about where things stood in December 2015. By that time, Republicans had already had such epic and long-standing struggles with… — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share Image
When people note that more and more voters are cutting their landline phones and that more and more people are refusing to… — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share Image
Election losses are always an inkblot test for partisans. If a candidate's defeat has no clear and obvious cause, if the data… — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share Image
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. — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share Image
The things that frustrate one piece of Trump's coalition often endear him to or embolden another wing of the coalition. — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share Image
Electing Democrats means nothing happens. Elect Republicans, and at least there's a chance. — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share Image
Donald Trump has had political success positioning himself as a 'law-and-order' candidate. — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share Image
It's not hard to assume that voters do not have deeply considered views on each and every policy issue before them but… — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share Image
Obama's numbers fell by a slightly larger amount over his first few months because he enjoyed much more support right at the… — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share Image
With Trump assuming the role of America's CEO, it may be chaos rather than callousness that threatens to harm his standing with… — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share Image
In the relatively short time frame of December 2015 to March 2017, nearly half of all young Republicans left their party at… — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share Image
President Trump rightly points out that law enforcement is mostly made up of good people putting themselves in harm's way to protect… — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share Image
The data - on issues and on Trump himself - keep pointing back to 'one-in-four' as the true size of Trump's base.… — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share Image
Breaking dramatically with Bush-era Republican orthodoxy, Trump ran on a message of 'America First' and of avoiding spending blood and treasure on… — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share Image
Either people are changing their minds about Trump, or increasing numbers of his supporters are deciding it is too embarrassing to admit… — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share Image
The American system is set up to have two parties competing for votes. But Americans have not had the same two parties… — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share Image
There's a lot of work to be done in the polling world, and a need to continue to rethink how we do… — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share Image
'Staunch conservatives' and 'free marketeers' are fairly typical Republicans, while the 'American preservationists' are far less reliably a part of a GOP… — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share Image
Trump was elected in part because enough Americans viewed him as a capable and strong leader, someone who is 'decisive' and 'competent.' — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share Image
There are certainly more Republicans who like President Trump than like 'Republicans in Congress,' and certainly many Republicans who already feel like… — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton famously embraced the Trump-originated label 'nasty woman' as yet another way to show just how bad Donald Trump was to… — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share Image
A compelling story requires conflict, friction, an obstacle to be overcome. — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share
For thousands of years, humans have used the art of storytelling to motivate and persuade. — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share
I remember fancying myself a junior 'McCainiac' in 2000, though politics were rarely discussed in our household. — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share
In the 2012 election, the polls that had made Mitt Romney so confident that he was going to win were his own internal polls,… — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share
Hillary Clinton famously embraced the Trump-originated label 'nasty woman' as yet another way to show just how bad Donald Trump was to women. — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share
On paper, Emmanuel Macron should be a candidate tailor-made for young voters. He himself is young. He pushes for more entrepreneurship, modernization, and a… — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share
I think 'Candy Crush' may be fading in popularity, but there's always something new that's popping up. — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share
Conservative women often make the case that 'all issues are women's issues,' and are sometimes derided by those on the Left when they do… — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share
President Trump rightly points out that law enforcement is mostly made up of good people putting themselves in harm's way to protect us. He… — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share
Obamacare itself did not become popular until the middle of 2017, when the risk of repeal was the greatest; for the bulk of 2010… — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share
It is fair to debate how much either bill - Obamacare in 2010, tax reform in 2018 - had or will have an impact… — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share
The things that frustrate one piece of Trump's coalition often endear him to or embolden another wing of the coalition. — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share
Federalists, Whigs, Democratic-Republicans; parties are born, parties die, and parties realign themselves to adapt to shifting demographics and attitudes. — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share
President Trump is right about at least one thing: No matter what he does, America cannot stop talking about him. — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share
Tax reform exists, sort of, as an outline - miles away from being actual passed legislation. — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share
