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Andrew Prokop

Andrew Prokop

Senior Politics Correspondent

    Latest articles by Andrew Prokop

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    It’s not just about sex — it’s a tale of financial, institutional, and political corruption. And there’s a Trump angle.

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    Why Republicans didn’t write a platform for their convention this year
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    The party’s true priority is supporting Donald Trump.

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    Here’s who’s speaking as Republican delegates renominate Trump and Pence.

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    Former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith admitted to altering the text of an email. Why’d he do it?

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    Here’s the full text of Biden’s Democratic convention address.

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    He and three others were charged with diverting hundreds of thousands of dollars from the fundraising effort.

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    5 winners and 2 losers from night 2 of the Democratic convention
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    Jill Biden stepped out, the roll call stood out, and the conventional format went out the window.

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    What’s in the platform, what’s controversial about it, and what it all means.

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    It’s strong, bipartisan pushback against the common claim that there was “nothing there.”

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    Conventions usually shake up polling in the short term, but do those effects last?

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