WASHINGTON — When The Associated Press called Monday’s Iowa caucus for Donald Trump around 5:30 p.m. Pacific — a half-hour into the voting and before many Iowa Republicans had cast their ballots — it must have felt like a slap…
On Monday night, former President Donald Trump had an unsurprising win in Iowa, pulling 51 percent of the vote compared to Ron DeSantis’ 21.2 percent and Nikki Haley’s 19.1 percent. In today’s episode of The Spectacle podcast, hosts Melissa Mackenzie and…
Iowa proved to be exactly what most people expected — a landslide for Trump, a close battle between Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis, and a wash for Vivek Ramaswamy. It’s fair to say that most people — at least those…
Kamala Harris has made a prediction about the upcoming election. The opposite is guaranteed to happen. The vice president has predicted that Joe Biden will beat Donald Trump again (perhaps in the 100-meter wheelchair dash). And Democrats will even, she…
Donald Trump won the Iowa caucuses Monday night. Big. Trump reeled in 51 percent of the vote in Iowa, which was 30 points better than Ron DeSantis’ 21 percent. Nikki Haley came in third with 19 percent, and Vivek Ramaswamy,…
Everything is going exactly as predicted in the Republican primary race — Trump is still leading, and Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis are duking it out over who gets to be in second place. In this episode of The Spectator…
Former President Trump’s decision to duck the first GOP presidential debate may have been tactically sound, but if he tries to sit on his lead in the polls until January, he may regret it. This is certainly true in Iowa,…
Long before the recent caucuses and primaries, countless pundits, pollsters, and political scientists began predicting that high Democratic dudgeon produced by the dark doings of President Trump would drive unusually high turnout at the polls. One excitable academic predicted “a…
This past week was some week. On Sunday, the Super Bowl that I did not watch. On Monday, the Iowa caucuses that did not happen. On Tuesday, the State of the Union that left the Union in quite a state…