Kyle Trygstad
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Past articles by Kyle:
Emmer, NRCC Start to Rebuild for 2020
The incoming chair doesn't think the GOP is doomed in the suburbs or that Trump will be a liability in 2020. → Read More
Hotline's Senate Power Rankings
A third Republican seat is now among the 10 most likely to flip. → Read More
A Farmville Thrill in Blue Virginia
With Tuesday’s vice presidential debate in Farmville, Va., Mike Pence is spending three straight days courting voters to the Republican ticket in a state that for months has been conspicuously absent from most of the discussion surrounding the competitive presidential battlefield. It was just eight years ago that the Old Dominion voted Democratic for president for… → Read More
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Quote of the Day “ rankly, if Gary Johnson hadn’t called me, this would not have occurred to me.” — Former Republican Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld, on switching to the Libertarian Party, National Journal, 9/6. → Read More
Hotline’s Senate Power Rankings
Evan Bayh’s decision to run in Indiana increases the Democrats’ chances of winning the upper chamber. → Read More
The First Dude Does Not Abide
If the opening night of the Democratic National Convention was about formally inviting Bernie Sanders supporters to the Hillary Clinton party, Tuesday’s program, titled, “A Lifetime of Fighting for Children and Families,” is about shoring up the middle. The lead actor is a certain former president who is not one to stand idly by and let fate determine an election… → Read More
Bernie’s Democratic National Intervention
The only favor Wikileaks did Democrats with its release of thousands of internal DNC emails on the eve of the national convention was to do it on a Friday. But a weekend designed to feature the rollout of Hillary Clinton’s running mate also culminated in enough embarrassment for the party that Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz stepped down just as the convention… → Read More
The Future is Now For Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz returns to the national stage Wednesday for the first time since dropping out of the presidential race in May following a disappointing finish in the Indiana presidential primary and with the prospect of a crushing loss coming a week later in Nebraska. While November 2016 is still more than three months away, it’s hard to miss how Cruz is already building for… → Read More
Podcast Episode 73: Not a Second to Waste
Episodes of TwentySixteen are also available on iTunes and Stitcher. Adam, Kyle, and Ben discuss the latest in the Hillary Clinton email saga, Donald Trump’s missed opportunities, and President Obama’s return to the campaign trail. → Read More
Keeping Trump at Arm’s Length
With Hillary Clinton still dealing with the fallout from an FBI investigation that may have altered the narrative of the race with any other opponent, Donald Trump spent a considerable amount of time at his campaign rally Wednesday night in Cincinnati discussing his feelings about the reaction to a controversial image he or someone on his campaign posted on… → Read More
Hotline’s 2016 Senate Rankings
The Senate seats most likely to flip. → Read More
Where Things Stand at the Midpoint of the Year
After four months of House and Senate primaries, today marks the start of a four-week hiatus, as both parties prepare to officially nominate their candidates for president. Other than a single congressional runoff in Georgia on July 26, the candidate rosters for November won’t be filled in completely until the nominating contests pick up again in the first week of… → Read More
Walking in Obama’s Tar Heel Blue Footsteps
While the atmospherics of this election cycle currently has the feel of 2012, Hillary Clinton is clearly aiming for a winning map that more closely resembles 2008. Of the 24 states President Obama lost in 2012, none appear as winnable for Democrats in this year’s presidential election as North Carolina, where he will campaign next week for the first time alongside… → Read More
Colorado Is No Downstream Swing State
Colorado is in the spotlight this week as it receives visits from both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, and hosts a Senate primary to decide who will take on Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet. But a lingering question is whether Trump’s presence on the ballot will jeopardize for Republicans the competitiveness of one of the country’s swingiest states, in a year when… → Read More
Look Who’s Coming to Congress: Dwight Evans
Pennsylvania state Rep. Dwight Evans could enter Congress sooner than expected now that Rep. Chaka Fattah has resigned from the House. Evans defeated Fattah in the April primary for the solidly Democratic 2nd District, and he would be favored if a special election is called to fill the seat ahead of the next Congress. — Evans, who turned 62 last month, has served in the state House… → Read More
Trump’s Fundraising Isn’t Just Bad News for Trump
Grave concerns among Republican strategists about how voters will respond in November to Donald Trump’s temperament and controversial rhetoric is now multiplied by new evidence that their presumptive presidential nominee is incapable of executing the nuts and bolts of a successful campaign. Ending the first month after securing a spot on general election… → Read More
What Could Be Sanders’s Most Enduring Imprint on the Party
Buried deep within the address Bernie Sanders delivered to his supporters last week via livestream was a call to arms that has the potential to affect the Democratic Party at many levels for years to come. — Sanders’s own hopes of becoming president are dashed, but he has not yet given up on moving the party to adopt some of his progressive proposals and to transform the… → Read More
Podcast Episode 70: On to November
Episodes of TwentySixteen are also available on iTunes and Stitcher. Adam, Josh, and Kyle discuss the impact of the Orlando massacre on the campaign, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump’s battleground state strategies, and Bernie Sanders’s list of demands. → Read More
Republican Anti-Trump Ads Will Come
If we learned nothing else from this week, it’s that congressional Republicans whose careers are to some extent tied to the fortunes of Donald Trump are growing increasingly tired of having to answer for their presumptive presidential nominee’s various controversial remarks. And with Trump’s unpopularity on a remarkable incline with one month to go before the… → Read More
How the Primary Losses Stack Up
We’ve reached the halfway point of the congressional primary season, and so far three House incumbents have had their tickets involuntarily booked for home. Two of the three resulted directly from court-ordered redistricting, and it’s possible they won’t be the last. But the cycle may not see any more primary losses than usual. — In the last six elections, the number of… → Read More