One thing that nearly everybody agreed upon in the lead-up to the 2024 presidential election is that it would be close. That proved wrong, as you may have heard. Former and now future President Donald J. Trump slashed into Democratic…
Three weeks prior to the election, the Wall Street Journal editorial board called transgender sports a “sleeper issue” for voters, highlighting the mismatch between the Democratic party line and voter opinion. “Media conformity is one reason the transgender sports issue…
The 2024 election results were a boon to Republicans nationwide and, in no small part, thanks to Pennsylvania. President-elect Trump and Senator-elect Dave McCormick won the state of Pennsylvania despite not winning Philadelphia County. However, the GOP still secured a…
Meghan McCain calls it “a national embarrassment.” It’s “a laughingstock,” according to Arizona Republican state Sen. J. D. Mesnard. “Our system is broken,” groused Elon Musk. Progressive Arizona Republic columnist Laurie Roberts says, “You could grow a beard” waiting to…
Everyone expected President-elect Donald Trump to win Florida’s 30 electoral votes on Tuesday night. But the defeat of ballot initiatives that would have legalized abortion and recreational marijuana in the state flew in the face of conventional electoral wisdom. What’s…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Here are two of the more surprising granular results from Tuesday’s statewide elections in California. Even though San Francisco’s voter registrations are 63 percent Democratic and only 7 percent Republican, voters there opposed a far-reaching rent-control measure…
As an observer of, and writer about, politics, I both love and hate election night. I love it because election night is the grand spectacle of American democracy playing out across TV screens and elsewhere. It’s history, math, science, and…
The eyes of the world are on Election Day’s biggest prize: The White House. Will Donald J. Trump become the first president to win nonconsecutive terms since Grover Cleveland did so in 1892? Or will Vice President Kamala Harris become America’s first…
A poll by Ann Selzer showed Kamala Harris ahead of Donald Trump by 3 percentage points in Iowa, a state that voted for Trump in the 2016 and 2020 elections. In this episode of The Spectator P.M. Podcast, hosts Ellie Gardey Holmes and Lyrah…
