In his third consecutive election as the Republican Party’s nominee for president, former President Donald Trump is something he’s never been before: The favorite. Either by his own strength, President Joe Biden’s weakness, or some combination of the two, Trump…
WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell announced last week that he will step down from his Republican leadership position after the November election. The Kentucky Republican nonetheless plans to serve as a senator through the end of his term…
As I write this, Super Tuesday is ongoing, and we don’t know the results yet, but whatever. Whatever the elections, there is one thing we have already learned: Donald Trump wins, if the system lets him. There is a sense…
It is unheard of in the history of presidential primaries that winning a primary can serve as instant proof of why you are losing the race overall — but Nikki Haley has accomplished just that. This week, Haley managed to…
Nikki Haley doesn’t get it. The majority of Republicans love former President Donald Trump. My own time this last week at the annual CPAC gathering made it crystal clear that the thousands of conservatives in attendance were not just supporting…
Call it a Trump Triumph. There is no special wisdom in noting that my own Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the fifth-largest state in the Union, will be playing a central role in the 2024 presidential race. Pennsylvania’s 19 electoral votes are…
A new slate of polls has definitively made Donald Trump the favorite. Trump, who has been gaining ground since October, now has a long enough string of winning polls in key states by different pollsters to give him a clear…
You can’t make it up. Writer E. Jean Carroll has won a preposterous $83 million in a defamation lawsuit — her second — against former President Donald Trump for allegedly defaming her in 2019. She had written back there in…
WASHINGTON — The question New Hampshire Democrats have to be asking themselves: Why has the Democratic Party machine been pushing them to vote for a candidate who isn’t even on the ballot? That’s part of the argument Rep. Dean Phillips…
