[ad_1] Saul Martinez for The Washington Post via Getty Images In 2016, when then-Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio was asked a question about Donald Trump’s complaints of a rigged election in Iowa, the Florida senator went to great lengths to avoid attacking Trump directly. He instead focused his ire on another then-presidential contender: Texas Sen.…

[ad_1] Welcome to FiveThirtyEight’s politics chat. The transcript below has been lightly edited. nrakich (Nathaniel Rakich, senior elections analyst): On Tuesday, former President Donald Trump was arraigned in a Manhattan courthouse and we finally learned the nature of the charges against him. Trump pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records stemming…

[ad_1] Tuesday was quite the day in American politics. Former President Donald Trump was arraigned in Manhattan and pleaded not guilty to 34 charges of falsifying business records in the first degree. It was also Election Day in one of the country’s purplest states and its third-largest city. In Wisconsin, voters chose the liberal state…

[ad_1] On the day of former President Donald Trump’s arrest, FiveThirtyEight’s Galen Druke spoke with people outside of the courthouse. He asked both pro- and anti-Trump protesters whether they thought the indictment was politically motivated and which of the investigations into Trump is the most important. [ad_2]

[ad_1] U.S. President Joe Biden walks along the U.S.-Mexico border fence in El Paso, Texas, during a visit in January. JIM WATSON / AFP via Getty Images President Biden’s administration recently announced new asylum restrictions and other proposed stringent initiatives to deter an influx of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border. But for some Democrats, the…

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[ad_1] PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY FIVETHIRTYEIGHT / GETTY IMAGES America’s cities are some of its most solidly Democratic areas — but that doesn’t mean they are solidly liberal. Over the past two years, the mayoral elections in our two biggest cities have boiled down to surprisingly tight contests between a moderate Democrat and a more liberal…

[ad_1] In Part 1 of this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcast, the crew discusses former President Donald Trump’s indictment and talk about new challengers to the Republican primary like former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson. [ad_2]

[ad_1] In Part 2 of this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcast, the crew talks about the Wisconsin Supreme Court election on Tuesday. [ad_2]