Outside the Beltway

More importantly, comments on challenges to incumbent presidents.

Pick a side. No nuance allowed.

It’s quite the week for politicians with generic names nobody has ever heard of.

What’s more important, appearances or action?

Some 2024ish stuff and other tidbits.

South Carolina and Georgia win! Iowa loses! New Hampshire whines!

The President will be the 2024 Democratic nominee. Get used to it.

The Arizona Senator runs an online thrift store in her spare time.

Her emphasis on turnout has helped other Democrats but she’s a two-time loser.

Some of the early reactions to the inevitable announcement tell the tale.

Makin’ his way the only way he knows how, that’s just a little bit more than the law will allow.

They’re going to wait until after the midterms to decide whether Iowa and New Hampshire stay at the front of the line.

Half a century have passed since a botched burglary changed history.

What does it all mean? It depends on who you ask.

Unlimited dialog makes conversations harder.

Momentum for ending an undemocratic anachronism is building.

The clock is ticking.

Will America re-elect an 82-year-old to the White House?

RussiaGate is back in the news but the story is unlikely to move the needle.

Nevada is mounting a challenge to the rural, lily-white states that always go first in the presidential primary gauntlet.

Rudy Giuliani and a hack tabloid are trying to revive the Burisma story.

The platform decision is emblematic of a Trump-led party.

The official campaign to oust Donald Trump is off to a good start.

The 58-year-old may have a post-presidency unmatched in history.

Even amidst a national crisis, he refuses to do the right thing.

The race is over but Bernie’s still running.

Not a great night for the former New York major. But he still has $54.5 billion to comfort him.

The wrong people are choosing the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee.

Unprecedented spending since leaving City Hall has put him in a unique position.

Proposed mid-stream changes could help Bloomberg, hurt Sanders, and divide the party.

Next week’s Democratic debate could have as few as five candidates.

Thursday night’s Democratic debate drew the lowest numbers of any of this season’s debates.

A much smaller debate stage led to a much better debate last night.

It’s time for the last Democratic debate of 2019, and the stage will be smaller than it has at any time in the past.

By the end of today, Donald Trump will most likely be the third President of the United States to be impeached by the House of Representatives.

Lindsey Graham faces a potentially interesting challenge in his 2020 re-election bid.

Ted Cruz is the latest Republican Senator to repeat discredited Kremlin-backed conspiracy theories about Ukrainian interference in the 2016 election.

Why mount a defense when you can go make a TV show in Ukraine?

In the wake of yesterday’s hearing, the House of Representatives is taking the inevitable next step.

With Kamala Harris”s exit from the race, some are raising questions about why minority candidates have failed to break through in a party that has a very diverse base.

Much like the President they obsequiously defend, Republicans have become useful idiots in Russia’s war on Western liberal democracy.

A Justice Department official who had the courage to stand up to the President has died at the age of 87.

POTUS believes, and is propagating, a conspiracy theory.

Under the Democratic National Committee’s current qualification rules, Michael Bloomberg’s self-funded campaign means he wouldn’t qualify for any future debate. He doesn’t seem worried about that.

An internal Justice Department investigation fails to find any evidence of political bias in the Russia investigation.

As Republicans and their conservative cohorts spread a discredited conspiracy theory about the 2016 election, Vladimir Putin smiles at yet another victory.

Wednesday night’s debate drew the smallest television audience of any of the debates so far.

Taking a look at the state of the race as Democratic prepare to clash in tonight’s fifth debate.

Many of the 2020 Democratic candidates for President are arguing that the caucus process itself is unfair and undemocratic. They’re right.

The stage for the sixth Democratic debate in December is likely to be much smaller.