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“The Run-Up” is your guide to understanding the 2024 election. Host Astead W. Herndon talks to the p

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Heading into the 2024 presidential election, a big part of the Democratic Party’s approach is to win

The Dobbs decision upended political calculations on both sides of the abortion debate. Democrats us

Two things are true: Bothsidesism can flatten the realities of political extremism in this country.

This episode contains strong language. A central reality of the 2024 presidential election is taking

The 2016 Republican primary field was crowded. At one point, 17 people were vying for the nomination

Outside a Manhattan courtroom, on the day of former President Donald Trump’s arraignment, Astead spo

Throughout our reporting inside the Republican Party over the past few months, one person kept showi

For Republican presidential hopefuls, the Conservative Political Action Conference has played a very

A few weeks after the midterms, something happened that largely flew under the radar. Democrats were

It may feel too early to be thinking about the 2024 presidential election — but it’s the perfect tim

It may seem way too early to be thinking about next year’s presidential election — and it is too soo

The midterm elections have left both parties in a moment of reflection. For Republicans, it’s time t

The votes are still being tallied across the country — but we’re starting to get a picture of what t

This moment in politics will be defined by shifts at the grass-roots level. It wasn’t long ago that

This moment in politics will be defined by shifts at the grass-roots level. Today, we talk to conser

How a 12-year project to lock in political power in Wisconsin could culminate in this year’s midterm

When Georgia flipped blue in the 2020 election, it gave Democrats new hope for the future. Credit fo

How the Republican grass roots got years ahead of a changing country, and whether the Democrats can

Why we can’t understand this moment in politics without first understanding the transformation of Am

In kicking off the midterms, Joe Biden talked about American democracy as a shared value, enshrined