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Roll Call: Will El-Sayed Play In Pontiac Come November?

In his latest column for Roll Call, The Winston Group’s David Winston writes about Tuesday’s Democratic Senate Primary in Michigan and what Abdul El-Sayed’s narrow win over establishment-supported Haley Stevens may mean for the general election in November. This was certainly not the comfortable victory that the surveys predicted. Now,

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Roll Call: Republicans – Time Is Not On Your Side

The Winston Group’s David Winston writes in today’s Roll Call about President Trump’s recent address to the nation and whether he addressed the topic voters have said is their #1 priority: the economy and cost of living. Trump missed the opportunity to help voters understand the economic progress that has

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Roll Call: Mamdani, Schumer, Jeffries: Who Is In Charge?

In his latest column for Roll Call, The Winston Group’s David Winston considers the Democratic Socialist victories in the New York City Democratic primaries and the challenges they may pose for the future of the party as a whole. What does this mean in terms of policies? Democrats are trying

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Roll Call: Unhappy Independents Will Decide This Election

The rising power of independents has been trending in national politics for decades, writes The Winston Group’s David Winston in today’s column for Roll Call. Independents now wield indisputable clout. And they aren’t happy. In the most recent Winning the Issues survey (May 30-June 2), 71 percent of independents said

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Roll Call: An autopsy of the DNC campaign autopsy

The DNC finally released its 2024 autopsy, but it was an incomplete post-mortem that failed to get to the heart of what worked, what didn’t and why. In his latest column for Roll Call, The Winston Group’s David Winston outlines six questions on politics and policy that the DNC report

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