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POLITICO's Off Message — 181 episodes

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Bonus: The Senators at the center of the 50-50 split

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Sponsored Content: How Covid-19 accelerated the future of work

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The page who took down the GOP

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"I haven't been able to get this moment out of my head"

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Cures for an Ailing Labor Market

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Sponsored Content: Greening the Global Economy

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Digging for Solutions: Securing Minerals for Green Energy

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Why green energy means mining: the case of cobalt

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Critical Minerals: The next dirty fight over clean energy

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How can the US compete with China, Inc.?

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Can we get enough vaccine?

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Introducing... Global Translations: The world's tug-of-war

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Rahm Emanuel weighs in on 2020

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A new tone from some in GOP on climate change -- but mostly behind closed doors

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Which 2020 Democrat should Donald Trump most be afraid of?

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This is what Kirsten Gillibrand hates about running for president

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Is John Hickenlooper too normal to be president?

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How it feels to win (and lose) a House majority

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David Axelrod: Voters don't want a ‘Democratic version of Trump’

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Meet the next Ted Cruz

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Steve Scalise thinks he knows who'll be the next House Speaker

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John Kerry on 2020, Trump and why we need to ask ourselves "what did you do?"

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Elijah Cummings is ready to investigate Trump

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Ken Starr: If I was Trump's lawyer, ‘I would be very concerned’

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Mazie Hirono: Brett Kavanaugh is fudging the truth

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Ben Jealous: ‘Americans are suffering under the weight of half-measures’

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Seth Meyers: Trump wanted me to apologize for making fun of him (REPRISE)

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Tony Perkins: Trump gets ‘a mulligan’ on Stormy Daniels and other past indiscretions (REPRISE)

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Why Michael Hayden says Trump is helping Russia (Reprise)

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Randi Weingarten: For unions, this is a ‘which side are you on’ moment

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Shannon Watts: How to create an ‘army of angry moms and women’ from your own kitchen

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John Dean: Nixon ‘might have survived if there'd been a Fox News’ — Reprise

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Marty Walsh: Working-class Trump voters ‘forgot where they came from’

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Francis Suarez: Miami's almost-millennial, Latino mayor doesn't like labels

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Kate Andersen Brower: Making sense of the Trump-Pence relationship

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Tom Arnold: 'Donald Trump is a D-list president, and his enemies are D-list, like Tom Arnold'

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Seth Moulton: ‘We have a commander in chief that we fundamentally can’t trust.’

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Kirsten Gillibrand: Trump is pushing the ‘devil’s schemes’

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Jenny Durkan: ‘The baton got dropped,’ and Obama alums are running to finish what he started

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John Delaney: The 2020 long-shot candidate who’s gaining ground in Iowa

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Steyer: Pelosi is ‘normalizing’ Trump by not talking about impeachment

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Jimmy Carter: ‘Democracy has reached its peak and is declining’

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Benjamin: ‘I don’t know exactly what the president cares and doesn’t care about’

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Seth Meyers: Trump wanted me to apologize for making fun of him

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Chris Matthews: ‘I’m not sure trust is what people want from Trump’

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The millennial mayor who could make universal basic income a reality

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Rubin: Trump’s GOP ‘has become the caricature the left always said it was’

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Inside Puerto Rico’s Plan to Influence the Midterm Elections

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Should Sessions wrap up the Mueller probe?

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Pete Buttigieg gets closer to a 2020 campaign

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Beto O'Rourke doesn’t want to be Democrats' next national cause

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Schwarzenegger lets loose on Trump, Big Oil and #MeToo

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Democrats Vow to Go After GOP Governors ‘Kowtowing’ to Trump

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Michael Hayden on Trump, Russia and why you can expect more from Mueller

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BONUS: Utah Gov. on Romney’s Trump Endorsement Flip: ‘Things Have Changed’

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Yes to “thoughts and prayers,” but why not action, too?

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‘Black women are realizing the power of their vote’

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Joe Kennedy could be the Democrats’ best hope. But is that what he wants?

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House Republicans struggle with what to do about Trump

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Evangelicals give Trump a ‘mulligan’ on life pre-presidency, including Stormy Daniels

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‘Washington was about to explode’: The Clinton scandal, 20 years later

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Perez: GOP must answer for "appalling silence" on Trump

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Jordan Klepper: Is what we're living through funny?

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John Dean: Trump's inner circle has no idea what’s about to hit them

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Bill de Blasio says he isn’t running for president. So why is he in Iowa?

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Joe Manchin: How Trump is losing red-state Democrats

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PREVIEW: Why Sen. Joe Manchin thinks Al Franken shouldn’t resign

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Petraeus: ‘Life is not full of high-five moments’

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Trump’s threat to take down the GOP still stands

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Capitol Hill braces for a wave of sexual harassment scandals

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Garry Kasparov on whether Trump could beat Putin in chess

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Perry: The Cabinet won’t stop Trump from launching a nuclear weapon

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What Jed Bartlet and Jack Donaghy would say to Donald Trump — Alec Baldwin & Bradley Whitford

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Eric Holder is done holding his tongue

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Nancy Pelosi isn’t going anywhere

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Preet Bharara: Trump, indictments and the Godfather

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Thom Tillis: ‘If they don’t like the process, change the rules'

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Puerto Rico's Jenniffer Gonzalez to Trump: ‘We are American citizens’

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Mark Kelly to lawmakers opposing gun laws: ‘You should quit’

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Rob Reiner tries to find the truth about Trump and Russia

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Jeff Merkley: Meet the leader of the vast left-wing conspiracy

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Will Hurd: Everybody needs to stand up

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Dolores Huerta: I think the '60s are back

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How Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan became unbeatable

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Al Sharpton & Jerry Nadler on hate in America

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Cecile Richards and the future of choice politics

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Alaska Gov. Bill Walker on the future of independents in politics

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Obama’s inner circle is urging Deval Patrick to run

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Maz Jobrani on Trump protest comedy

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Arnold Schwarzenegger's not done with politics

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Debating free journalism in Cuba

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Can Roy Cooper show Democrats how to win again?

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How Trump Is changing the Washington game

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Is Trump a Conservative? Mike Lee says yes

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Wrestling with the Trump White House

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Gerard Araud: Europeans can't build a future without the Americans

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Mitch Landrieu: The President of the United Mayors of America

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Ben Cardin: America in danger of stumbling into war

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How Jason Kander won by losing

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Terry McAuliffe looks past the Clintons

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Chad Griffin & Paula Vogel

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Linda McMahon complains of White House 'bottleneck'

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Wyclef Jean: I might run for office someday

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Ben Sasse on Trump and being an adult

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Problem Solvers insist it's not too late for tax reform

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Eric Garcetti isn’t running for president (wink, wink)

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Rahm Emanuel: 'America’s reliability is now in question'

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Sophia Bush: 'I have a right to take up space'

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Tom Cotton has no problem with Donald Trump

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Gov. John Kasich on a "post-truth" America

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‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ crashes up against Trump

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Elliott Abrams: Steve Bannon 'not a good influence'

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Ed Murray: Meditating in the age of Trump

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Roger Stone on Russian claims: "They have no proof"

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Dave Brat: 'There's primaries coming' off Obamacare repeal

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Adriano Espaillat: Trump has ‘permeated this toxic environment’

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Michael Chertoff: 'I’d be guessing' on Trump's ability to handle crisis

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Donna Brazile on DNC hack: 'I was scared'

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Tom Perez: "Trump is anathema to America"

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Jon Karl: Trump White House "incredibly open"

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Congressmen Marc Veasey and Brendan Boyle: Reaching out to blue collar voters

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Hakeem Jeffries: 'Every racist' voted for Trump

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John Malcolm: Is Trump a Constitutional conservative?

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Chuck Todd: What makes Donald Trump laugh?

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Keith Ellison's one-man march

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Tim Ryan: Lessons in losing

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David Brock: Clinton campaign allowed her image "to be destroyed"

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Grover Norquist: The anti-tax man's take on Trump

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Maggie Haberman: How New York tabloids shaped Trump

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Best of Off Message

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Mark Stephenson and John Hagner on early voting

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Mark Kelly: Everyone deserves to be heard on guns

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Kris Kobach: Trump’s immigration whisperer

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Michael Che, Colin Jost: What SNL's weekend anchors really think of 2016

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Jen Palmieri: 2016 is 'a harrowing experience'

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Jill Stein: Trump may have 'memory problem'

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Ann Coulter: The Doyenne of the Deplorables

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Neera Tanden: Hillary Clinton's anger translator

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Tony Blair: Centrism may be dead

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John Dickerson: Don't blame media for Donald Trump's rise

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Chris Murphy: Newtown gave me a mission

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Jeff Weaver on the Bernie Sanders surrender

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Robby Mook on how to sell Hillary

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Nancy Pelosi's advice to Hillary Clinton: 'Be yourself'

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Mike DuHaime: Christie 'wasn't expecting' veep nod

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Bill Kristol to Democrats: Don't underestimate Trump

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Chuck D takes on Rudy G

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Ted Cruz talks: He's not ready to endorse ... yet

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Playbook passes the torch

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Nate Silver: Primary whiff made me humbler, smarter

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Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Trump’s political godfather

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Jeff Roe: Allergy to analytics could be fatal for Trump

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Joe Scarborough dishes on Donald Trump, Jeff Zucker

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Gary Johnson on Zen and the art of Trump trolling

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Jeff Sessions to GOP: Adapt to Trump or die

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Paul Ryan: Trump could win, but I’m not ‘betting’ on it

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Mark Salter on Trump: 'I think he could come apart'

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Larry Wilmore is not joking around

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Roger Stone on Trump campaign: 'You don't manage Donald'

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Kirsten Gillibrand's tearful plea to Bernie: Give up your guns

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Tim Miller: ‘Hillary would beat him from jail’

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Hillary Clinton has had enough of Bernie Sanders

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Alan Gross on Bernie Sanders, 'failure' of socialism in Cuba

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Gen. Michael Hayden: Hillary Clinton second choice on national security

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Jill Abramson on NYT email stories: 'Why is that a big deal?'

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Joel Benenson: No path for Donald Trump in November

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Sanders strategist Tad Devine: Losing Nevada was a game-changer

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Former top Ted Cruz adviser: Conservatives won't stop making case against Trump

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David Plouffe: Hillary Clinton has 98% chance of beating Bernie Sanders

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Ben Carson: Obama was ‘raised white’

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Rev. Al Sharpton: Donald Trump is the white Don King

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'The Big Short' director on supporting Bernie Sanders and avoiding politics with his parents

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Jeb goes after Marco: 'He's never been challenged in his life'

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Martin O'Malley insists he won't play Iowa kingmaker, tells supporters "hold strong"

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Glenn Thrush interviews President Obama on Iowa, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and the 2016 race

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Hugh Hewitt gives Donald Trump 25 percent chance of winning nomination

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George Pataki: The underdog's take

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Axe on Hillary: I would have nixed paid speeches, book tour

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Nicolle Wallace's advice to Carly Fiorina: Hands off Hillary

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Paul Ryan's advice to Hillary: Figure out who you are

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50 Shades of Barney Frank