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While a clear political distinction between Federalists and Republicans had emerged during Washington’s second term, and fervent editorialists were blazing away as partisans from both sides in the popular press, party labels and issue-oriented platforms were less important than a prospective candidate’s revolutionary credentials.

In interviews with The Associated Press, party leaders and activists described widespread missteps in planning and running one of the nation’s signature and most high-stakes political contests.

After the NPR issued a statement supporting Kelly’s reporting, the state department stopped an NPR correspondent from the traveling press party flying with Pompeo to Europe this week.

The near-universal condemnation of her premiership — not only from her rivals and the opposition party, but also from the Conservative press, party activists and the colleagues who shoved her from office — is as public as it is withering.

Democratic lawmakers and 2020 presidential candidates have largely avoided the quickly escalating national debate over late-term abortions prompted by state bills that would roll back those restrictions – and by controversial comments from supportive officials – as conservatives press party leaders to take a stand.