👤 Lauren Egan

2026-09-10 · The Bulwark · Politics

Dems to Trump: Please, Sir, the Stage Is Yours

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2026-09-03 · The Bulwark · Politics

Trump Hands Dems Their Best Gift Yet

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2026-11-02 · The Bulwark · Politics

Inside the Wargaming to Foil Trump’s Election Meddling

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2026-10-29 · The Bulwark · Politics

Republicans Tried to Undercut Black Voters. It’s Blowing Up in Their Faces.

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2026-10-25 · The Bulwark · Politics

What a Blowout Dem Win in ’26 Would Mean for ’28

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2026-10-25 · The Bulwark · Politics

Bulwark on Sunday: South Carolina? Florida? Mississippi?! Democrats Test the Limits of a Blue Wave

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2026-08-24 · The Bulwark

🔮 Even as poll after poll shows Cooper leading Trump-backed Republican Michael Whatley, making North Carolina increasingly look like it could be the Democratic party’s best pickup opportunity this year, his campaign seems to be flying under the national radar. assertive

2026-08-31 · The Bulwark

🔮 They also have been quietly courting campaign staffers—a seemingly mundane task but one taking on early urgency because the ability to woo top-tier operatives will be seen as an early sign of a candidate’s perceived viability. assertive

2026-09-03 · The Bulwark

🔮 IF YOU WERE THE PRESIDENT and were purposefully trying to tank your party’s chances of retaining control of Congress in an election year, you might say something like: “The only reason that communities throughout the U.S.A. should not want Data Centers is if they want to end up being backwards and poor.” assertive

2026-09-07 · The Bulwark

🔮 Because this coming cycle, black voters in the South will have an outsized impact. assertive

2026-09-10 · The Bulwark

🔮 THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE decided this spring against hosting a midterm convention to counterprogram the one Republicans are set to have this evening and the next. assertive

2026-09-14 · The Bulwark

🔮 Would it be better to embrace moderation or progressivism? assertive

2026-09-21 · The Bulwark

🔮 WITH JUST OVER SIX WEEKS TO GO until Election Day, things couldn’t be going better for the Democrats. assertive

2026-09-28 · The Bulwark

🔮 The mission at hand, he would tell them, is like landing a plane in a hurricane. assertive

2026-10-01 · The Bulwark

🔮 AS DEMOCRATIC OPERATIVES brace for the final weeks of the midterm campaign, they’ve been pleased to discover that they may not need to actually get above 50 percent of the vote to win in several key races. assertive

2026-10-05 · The Bulwark

🔮 Prairie Village, Kansas STANDING IN FRONT OF A CROWD of roughly a hundred people on Friday evening, Adam Hamilton didn’t have the aura of a man whose entire life was about to be picked apart, whose political ambitions were set to be battered by millions of dollars of negative TV ads, whose campaign had become a vector of immodest hope for Democrats dreaming of an unfathomably successful midterm election. assertive

2026-10-07 · The Bulwark

🔮 Lauren talks with Hamilton supporters about why they think Kansas could finally be ready to elect a Democrat to the Senate for the first time in nearly a century, and asks Hamilton how he plans to win over Republicans and voters who remain skeptical of the Democratic Party. Join Bulwark+ to unlock the rest Become a paying member of The Bulwark to get access to this post and other subscriber-only content. assertive

2026-10-19 · The Bulwark

🔮 Today, though, there’s reason to believe that the public’s earlier ambivalence has faded, and that Trump’s corruption is not only breaking through in a big way, but could sway the course of this year’s midterms. assertive

2026-10-25 · The Bulwark

🔮 Democrats Test the Limits of a Blue Wave A recording from The Bulwark’s live video Could Democrats really flip Senate seats in deep-red states like Mississippi, South Carolina, and Florida? mixed

2026-10-25 · The Bulwark

🔮 The polls were largely correct, and maybe they even underestimated the party’s strength in a few races. assertive

2026-10-29 · The Bulwark

🔮 AS DEMOCRATIC OFFICIALS AND STRATEGISTS mapped out their game plan for the midterms earlier this year, they speculated that the Supreme Court’s ruling gutting Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act—and the ensuing rush to carve up the electoral power of black voters in the South—could help drive black voter turnout. mixed

2026-11-02 · The Bulwark

🔮 For two and a half days, the group walked through twenty-five variations on how Donald Trump and his allies might mess with the midterm elections. assertive