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The admission horrified the media and politicians on both sides of the spectrum, spurring Noem’s unpopularity and likely damaging her standing as a vice presidential candidate.

Had Biden announced at the beginning of the cycle that he wouldn’t seek a second term, Democrats could’ve run a full-field primary, and maybe a skilled candidate who wasn’t hamstrung by the administration’s unpopularity, or a more battle-tested Kamala Harris, could’ve emerged.

She was thrust into an impossible situation: facing extraordinary headwinds on the economy and the border and inheriting the administration’s unpopularity without having been the decisionmaker.

While legal scholars and divorce lawyers are unsure if legislation striking no-fault grounds for divorce will ever take hold due to its widespread unpopularity, the effort to make that a reality in places like Oklahoma and South Dakota presents a looming threat to advocates who, in a post-Dobbs America, fear the worst.

“One of the great questions about Ted Cruz,” said Jim Henson, who heads the Texas Politics Project and co-directs the University of Texas poll, “is just how deep is his unpopularity?”