With politics the only show in town, does unplugging feel stranger than ever? Instead of watching the presidential debate last night, I flew to Colorado for a friend’s wedding. I wrote this from approximately the distance above Earth that I…
“I don’t know where he comes from,” Joe Biden confessed in frustration Thursday night. “Queens,” Donald Trump informed. The president’s depiction of where Joe Biden hails from — The Swamp — proved more revelatory. “You’re ‘the big guy,’ I think,”…
From Daniel J. Flynn’s Spectator A.M. Newsletter Is this really the best this wonderful country can do for a president? I wouldn’t have either one of them to dinner in my home. Trump could have won if he had just taken the high road and…
I don’t know about you, but lately I’ve been having that adrenaline-rush tunnel vision about the presidential election. The debates were the light at the end of the tunnel, and, as should be expected this far into 2020, they turned…
Joe Biden is not a good guy. He is everything the media projects that Trump is — serial fabulist, stupid, ungracious, entitled, corrupt, a grifter, a no-talent with a big mouth, on-the-take kids, in bed with the Russia, Ukraine, and…
It should by now be clear to the meanest intelligence that key advisers to former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, are terrified of allowing him to stand next to President Trump on a debate stage. Consequently,…
Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis held a 17-point lead over Vice President George W. Bush in July 1988, as they prepared to contend for the White House. A month later Bush was up eight. And Bush won 40 states that November….
Despite a lackluster record, as 1980 dawned President Jimmy Carter led a baker’s dozen of Republican candidates in the polls. Before the year ended, he would be swept from office. The New Hampshire vote 40 years ago proved critical. I…
Dear Lester Holt, Thank you for moderating the debate Monday night between Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton Abedin and myself this Monday night. Your exquisite journalistic equipoise rendered the evening spectacular in its moderation. If I may, I would like to…
Public expectations turned Monday’s presidential debate into Clinton’s trap instead of Trump’s. Still, Trump allowed Clinton out of it — and himself to fall into it — all too often Monday night. Nonetheless, Clinton’s underlying strategy to portray Trump as…