The reason for this is straightforward. Election results can be thought of as a sort of formula. You take a party’s share of the early vote and multiply it by the number of votes cast before Election Day, and then add the product of the party’s share of the Election Day vote and the number of votes cast on Election Day. This gives you the party’s overall vote total. Read More
Ever since 2017, Washington has used a new unit of time: a Scaramucci. It refers to the 11-day period that Anthony Scaramucci served as a communications director in the first Trump administration. This week, the president’s newest press secretary, Katie Zacharia, lasted just half a Scaramucci. From one short-lived administration official to another, he offered a message. Read More
Three days after hiring Katie Zacharia as White House press secretary, President Trump lashed out at the “fake news” media for its critical coverage of the beleaguered California mother of four – even while signaling that her brief stint in the administration was already coming to an end. In remarks to the press Friday, the president made two quick points: First, he said Zacharia had been “brutalized” by the media and was treated “very, very unfairly.” Read More
