rafischwartz
Rafi Schwartz
rafischwartz
Senior writer. When in doubt he'll have the soup.

My original suggestion was “grape salad” but they evidently thought it was a little too parochial. Oh well...
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I think you’re absolutely right that MN is a lot closer to flipping than most people give it credit for: Look what happened in the Iron Range during the midterms. Still, I think at the end of the day MN will stay blue in the general, if only because Republicans haven’t won any statewide office there in almost a Read more

I can’t even begin to tell you how many other edible suggestions were nixed before my editors settled on this one. Believe me, I tried.
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Biden says Trump is the only president who has “embraced dictators” which, hmmmmmmm?
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Bernie fiercely refusing to deviate from the standard Bernie-script, and it’s, uh, really not working for him tonight.
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Bernie taking a page out of Biden’s book to try to frame this as him vs. Trump.
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This just in: Klobuchar is NOT a “magic genie.” You heard it here first, folks.
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