Outside the Beltway

California Governor Gavin Newsome may have put the issue front and center for 2020.

“We have to be careful in balancing big dreams and bold ideas with also recognizing that typically change happens in steps.”

As many states contemplate restoring voting rights to felons who have completed their sentence, a leading Democrat wants to go further.

It now appears that the Attorney General is keeping publicly-releasable information hidden away longer than necessary.

Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris are leading the field and Pete Bittigieg is doing surprisingly well.

In 2016, a crowded Republican field yielded an unlikely nominee. Could history repeat itself in 2020?

After a flood of stories saying the former Vice President is unsuitable for the modern era, the inevitable pushback is happening.

The peril of not yet running for President include not yet having a campaign staff in place.

The early frontrunner for the Democratic nomination is drawing fire from multiple fronts. It may destroy his candidacy before it begins.

It’s increasingly challenging to discuss media coverage because we’re all consuming a hand-selected bit of it.

A Washington Post columnists tries to make the case.

It’s possible to conclude that Pete Buttigieg is smarter than Elizabeth Warren for reasons having nothing to do with sex.

The consolidation of Super Tuesday makes the current system even more broken than before.

David Gergen lives in a fantasy world.

The woman famous for losing the Georgia governor’s race is eyeing a bigger job.

Beto O’Rourke hasn’t officially said that he’s running for President, but he’s certainly sending all the signals you’d expect from a Presidential candidate.

For their 2020 convention, Democrats are headed to the Midwest.

Disgraced former Chief Justice of Alabama Roy Moore is apparently “seriously considering” running for Senate in 2020.

The former Vice President is seen as “just right” by likely Caucus goers.

Democratic candidates for President are quickly voicing support for marijuana legalization.

A new tool for looking at possible Presidential election outcomes.

As it has since 2007, the Democratic National Committee is barring Fox News from hosting a debate featuring the party’s candidates for President.

For the fourth time since the 2008 election cycle, Michael Bloomberg flirted with the idea of running for President. For the fourth time, he declined to do so.

Does it depend on what the meaning of “running” is?

We won’t have Hillary Clinton to kick around anymore.

President Trump’s job approval numbers have recovered from the lows they hit in the wake of the government shutdown.

Former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper is the latest entrant into an already crowded Democratic field.

Roy Moore, who lost a Special Election to replace Jeff Sessions in 2017 after being hit with allegations of sexual harassment and sexual assault, isn’t ruling another bid for the same seat.

Reason’s Nick Gillespie makes an interesting case but I don’t buy it.

In what was basically a throwaway line, Joe Biden said something nice about Mike Pence. The reaction from his fellow Democrats says a lot about our current political culture, and none of it is good.

Washington Governor Jay Inslee is running for the Democratic nomination for President on a platform primarily focused on climate change. Whether that helps distinguish him from a growing field of candidates remains to be seen.

Former Vice-President Joe Biden isn’t officially running for President yet, but says his family is on board if he does.

The Texas Congressman has decided to forgo another Senate bid and instead focus his energies elsewhere.

Based on his job approval numbers, President Trump could face an uphill battle in 2020.

And I’d still prefer her to Donald Trump.

Literally no current candidate for President has a net favorable opinion rating.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will not be running for Senate despite urging from Republicans in Washington and back in Kansas,

Congressman Bradley Byrne has entered the race to challenge Doug Jones for the Senate from Alabama in 2020. This seat is likely to be a Republican pick-up regardless of who the Republicans nominate.

Robert Mueller appears to be winding down his investigation and getting ready to submit a report to the Attorney General.

Following Donald Trump’s lead, the GOP is making clear that its game plan for 2020 is paint all Democrats as ‘socialists, baby killers, and anti-Semites.’

At this early stage of the Democratic race, it doesn’t appear that voters care very much about the controversy surrounding Elizabeth Warren’s claims of Native American ancestry.

For now,former President Obama is staying on the sidelines in the race for the Democratic nomination.

Bernie is back and running for President, but he’s likely to face a tougher road this time around.

Gender bias is real. Most examples cited, though, aren’t.

Faced with a field that could be more crowded than the Republican field in 2016, Democrats have come up with a different solution to the rather obvious problem of debate scheduling.

Former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld is preparing for a primary challenge against Donald Trump. He won’t win, but he could still have an impact.

Based on his appearance on CNN last night, Howard Schultz appears to be running a campaign about nothing.

The former Attorney General is seriously pondering a presidential bid. Seriously.

It’s far too early, but Joe Biden’s advantages in these polls of Democratic voters can’t be ignored.

Former Astronaut Mark Kelly, the husband of Gabby Giffords, is running for Senate in Arizona against Martha McSally.