Presidential Debates Archives - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
by | Nov 10, 2023

I have nothing personal against Vivek Ramaswamy. Nor do I harbor any affinity toward him. In sum, when I think of Ramaswamy, I think of… Nothing. Obvious questions: Is he a nice, decent guy? A sonovogun? Compassionate when kindness is…

by | Oct 4, 2023

The Trump campaign has recently urged the Republican National Committee (RNC) to cancel the November GOP debate in Miami and refrain from scheduling any additional debates, citing the need for Republicans to focus on defeating Democrats and taking back the…

by | Aug 29, 2023

I am far from New York City, enjoying what President Ronald Reagan used to call a “working vacation.” While Joe Biden naps away in the Lake Tahoe mansion of multi-billionaire coal investor turned “global warming” hyper-alarmist Tom Steyer, I am…

by | Aug 28, 2023

Sequestered on my mountain, I did not watch the Republican presidential debate. I watched a few clips on Twitter and heard soundbites on NPR. On a program from NPR affiliate WAMC-FM in Albany, one woman opined, “They are all unlikeable,…

by | Oct 23, 2020

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…

by | Oct 23, 2020

“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,”…

by | Oct 2, 2020

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…

by | Sep 30, 2020

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…

by | Sep 30, 2020

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…

by | Aug 11, 2020

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,…

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