Steve Kornacki
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Biden plans to pick a female running mate. Would it make a difference if she's black?
Joe Biden has committed to selecting a female running mate. But will he also decide that, more specifically, he needs to pick an African American woman? → Read More
Remember when Bernie Sanders was on his way to the Democratic nomination
There was good reason to think Bernie Sanders was on the verge of running away with the Democratic presidential nomination. Then along came Biden. → Read More
Can Donald Trump win reelection despite the coronavirus outbreak?
A look at what happened to presidents' approval ratings and campaigns for a second term during national crises. → Read More
4 key questions about the political fallout from the Trump impeachment inquiry
A formal impeachment inquiry — the third in modern history — now looms. And so do questions about the political fallout. → Read More
Is America ready for an 80-year-old commander in chief?
The question of how old a president should be has been with the country for decades. It has come to 2020, too, as Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Donald Trump are all in their 70s. → Read More
Journey to power: The history of black voters, 1976 to 2020
NBC News has assembled for the first time a state-by-state record of the black vote for the nine Democratic presidential campaigns since widespread exit polling began. → Read More
Not your father's campaign trail: What might have happened to Buttigieg a generation ago
Larry Agran from Irvine, Calif., was the last candidate before the South Bend mayor to attempt the leap from a midsize city hall to the White House. It didn't go well. → Read More
The six words that changed the presidency of George H.W. Bush
It became the most famous broken promise in modern political history and George H.W. Bush made it inside the New Orleans Superdome on August 18, 1988. He was there to accept the Republican presidential nomination and to launch his fall campaign against Democrat Michael Dukakis. → Read More
'Nightmare in Florida II': The odd ballot that could cost Sen. Nelson the race
Did a critical chunk of voters in Broward County miss the Senate race because of the ballot's layout? It's deja vu for Democrats who recall the 2000 recount. → Read More
Steve Kornacki: When Trump ran against Trump-ism: The 1990s and the birth of political tribalism in America
The version of Trump who dipped his toe into the presidential ring almost two decades ago was a jarringly different man ideologically. → Read More
Ohio special election emerges as Democrats' next best chance to stun GOP
In the dead of the summer, a wave test looms -- in Ohio's 12th Congressional District, where a special election on Aug. 7 will fill the seat vacated by Republican Rep. Pat Tiberi. → Read More
California Democrats had a nightmare in 2012. They hope it's not back to haunt them.
In the Tuesday primaries, the big question is whether "candidate clutter" will cost Democrats in California, this time potentially jeopardizing their House takeover math. → Read More
Is there a peanut farmer from Plains in the field of 2020 Democrats?
The signs are everywhere that the 2020 Democratic presidential field will be much larger than usual — maybe larger than ever. → Read More
For Trump and Republicans, these red flags are hard to miss
If a Democratic wave ends up washing over Republicans in 2018, history will record that 2017 was full of warning signs. → Read More
Is Hillary Clinton Really to Blame for Trump?
Just about every party that's ever lost an election has tried to make sense of why it happened. Getting it right is tricky, and maybe not even fully possible. Voters are fickle, one-size-fits-all explanations are elusive, and there's the very human tendency to embrace self-exonerating answers. → Read More
The Next Republican Uprising Is Underway
Roy Moore’s victory in Alabama’s Republican Senate runoff says something about President Donald Trump, who tried and failed to sell Moore’s opponent to the party base. But it says a lot more about the toxic disconnect between the GOP’s Washington establishment and its grassroots voters. → Read More
A Pro-Trump Backlash? Midterm Elections Will Be the Test
The 2018 midterm election looms as a test of a potential new dynamic of Trump-era politics – the possibility of a quiet backlash against the media and popular culture that compensates for slack in Trump’s support. → Read More
Polls Show Trump Cratering? Not So Fast
Diagnosing the state of President Trump’s political health should be a simple matter. The story that the traditional metrics tell is straight-forward enough. → Read More
The Sanders Coalition: Not What We Thought it Was
Bernie Sanders' coalition may be quite different -- and much bigger -- than has been assumed. → Read More
High Stakes for Clinton and Sanders Going Into Sunday's Debate
Sunday night's showdown between Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Martin O'Malley will be only their fourth debate, it could also be their last. → Read More