Philip Elliott

This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. For those living inside the bubble of presidential politics, the last three months  could give one a […]

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This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. If you read the coverage—and campaign finance toplines—you might think Kamala Harris has rocketed to a commanding

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This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. When some of the biggest donors to conservative causes made explicit their electoral opposition to a second

This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. No poll is predictive. Every single one of them is a measure of a specific window inside

This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. Kamala Harris understood the assignment.  At once a biography and a promise, Harris’ speech on Thursday accepting

This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. For the top strategists from both parties, there’s one number that dominates their thinking every four years: