July 27, 2026: CBS News The Takeout with Major Garrett -- "Races to watch with 99 days until midterms"

Nov. 11, 2021: NY Times Op-Ed - "How Likely is a Democratic Comeback Next Year?"

“When parties have bucked the midterm history, they’ve sometimes had an unusually good development emerge in their favor. If there is any lesson from last week’s results, it is that the circumstances were ordinary, not extraordinary. If they remain so, the Democratic outlook for next year — as it so often is for the presidential party in a midterm election — could be bleak.”

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Aug. 22, 2020: Comments to the NY Times on Convention Bounces

“Historically the conventions have been a time for the party to unify,” Kyle Kondik, the managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said in an interview. “But the bottom line is that there are not that many undecideds, and the conventions don’t really need to unify the party because the parties are already unified.” He pointed to an average that he had calculated using four high-quality national polls taken just before the D.N.C., showing that more than nine in 10 members of each major party said they would support their nominee.

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