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Is Nancy Pelosi worth the trouble?

  • Written by Kathryn L. Pearson, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Minnesota
imageA recent poll found Nancy Pelosi's favorability at 39 percent – about on par with Trump'sREUTERS/Yuri Gripas

Democrats in Congress are struggling to keep up a unified front.

As the minority party, Democrats have spent the past six months standing by, mostly powerless, as President Donald Trump has made haphazard progresstoward dismantling many...

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