Many commentators, including yours truly, seriously underestimated Donald Trump’s electoral prospects despite prescient assurances that he would win from American Spectator stalwarts like Jeffrey Lord and R. Emmett Tyrrell. Unlike most Trump skeptics, however, I’m delighted to have been proven…
Donald Trump’s victory was stunning. It is a shocking historical accomplishment. It is an absolute game-changer. Congrats, congrats, and congrats to The Donald and his team. I am personally thrilled — could not be happier — that Hillary Clinton will…
The good news is that we dodged a bullet in this election. The bad news is that we don’t know how many other bullets are coming, or from what direction. A Hillary Clinton victory would have meant a third consecutive…
Sacramento How did the national polls, which overwhelmingly predicted a Hillary Clinton victory, get the presidential election so wrong? A Capitol Weekly election postmortem panel Thursday gave me the opportunity to ask California pollsters unaffiliated with the bad national polls….
I would be remiss not to begin my first post-election column with a mea culpa and a congratulations: In my skepticism that Donald Trump could win a presidential election, I overestimated the negative impact of his own behavior and his…
Just when you thought the news since Tuesday night couldn’t get any better, the Democrats signal that they may talk themselves into an extended stint in the minority. Sexism. The media. James Comey. On a call with surrogates Thursday afternoon,…
Here we are not attempting to minimize Donald Trump’s achievement Tuesday night in topping 300 electoral votes and capturing the White House amid a shocked pundit class. What Trump managed was, unquestionably, the greatest upset in American political history, and…
This message is for the establishment Republican, Democrat, and NeverTrump consultants and pundits who have been flooding the airwaves and Internet with the same old tired wrong reasons for the Trump victory and how we must proceed going forward. To…
It’s hard to overstate the significance of Donald Trump’s improbable presidential victory Tuesday, yet the GOP tide barely fazed the nation’s most populous state. Democrat Hillary Clinton won by more than 28 percentage points, besting Trump by a number of…
Larry Sabato is a fixture on Fox News as a predictor of elections. A University of Virginia professor, Sabato invariably is wrong. He missed Trump’s nomination, and he missed Trump’s election. The day after the election, he went on Fox…
