Outside the Beltway

Trump campaign officials are worried about the President’s chances of holding onto a state that was crucial to his win in 2020. They should be.

The tone and content of President Trump’s 2020 campaign is already quite apparent.

It’s the battleground states that are the issue, not small states v. large states.

Republicans are blindly loyal to this President in a way we have not seen before. They are likely to end up paying a price for that.

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.

Senator John McCain has died at the age of 81,

A group of lawsuits filed across the country are seeking to challenge the predominant method for allocation of Electoral College votes. These lawsuits appear to have little merit.

Republicans will hold their 2020 National Convention in the same city that hosted the Democrats back in 2012.

Eleven states plus DC, who have 172 of the 270 electoral votes needed to elect a President, are now part of the compact.

Republicans are worried about 2018, and they’re even more worried that they have a President who is refusing to acknowledge political reality.

The GOP’s potential troubles in 2018 don’t just exist at the Congressional level.

Hillary Clinton’s national campaign wasn’t nearly as well-organized as we’d been led to believe.

In a call to supporters, Hillary Clinton blames her loss on F.B.I. Director James Comey

Defying the odds, Republicans held on in several traditionally Democratic states to keep control of the Senate.

Defying the odds and the polls, Donald Trump triumphed over Hillary Clinton to become the 45th President of the United States.

Two of Chris Christie’s closest aides were convicted in the criminal trial resulting from the ‘Bridgegate’ scandal.

A late Friday news dump by the Director of the F.B.I. has thrown a confusing curve ball into the race.

Two weeks before Election Day, everything seems to be going Hillary Clinton’s way.

Last night’s debate was indeed the low point everyone anticipated it would be, but it seems unlikely to change the status quo.

With five weeks to go, the momentum in the race is moving decidedly in Hillary Clinton’s favor.

Democratic hopes of retaking the Senate aren’t going so well at the moment.

Gary Johnson is doing better than any third-party candidate in twenty years, but that doesn’t mean he’s likely to get an invitation to the upcoming Presidential debates.

It’s the traditional start of the campaign season, and the race for President is getting close, at least at the national level.

After some two weeks in which it seemed like he might be moderating, Donald Trump doubled down on the most anti-immigrant portions of his immigration plan.

With ten weeks to go ,there’s been some tightening in the polls but Hillary Clinton continues to maintain a commanding lead in the race for the White House.

Another sign of a weak economy as the Federal Reserve considers rate hikes and the Presidential campaign moves forward.

Donald Trump has spent more time recently attacking the news media than anything else. He ought to be condemned for it.

Not surprisingly, Latino voters are heavily turned off by Donald Trump and seemingly quite eager to vote against him in the fall.

Donald Trump’s path to 270 Electoral Votes is becoming less likely by the day.

A new poll shows Donald Trump barely winning in a state that should be solidly red.

The Old Dominion seems like it’s going to be even more firmly Democratic in 2016.

The first round of post-convention polls is now complete, and it’s not looking good for The Donald.

In a sign of just how bad the trends are right now for Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton is gaining ground in states that Mitt Romney won four years ago.

It’s been a bad week for Donald Trump, something he can ill-afford with less than 100 days left until Election Day.

Donald Trump completed his unlikely journey to the Republican Presidential Nomination last night, but he the party he now leads remains divided.

A look at the state of the race before the two party conventions begin.

Hillary Clinton holds solid leads over Donald Trump in seven battleground states.

Donald Trump has almost no cash on hand. That doesn’t bode well for his campaign going forward.

It’s still early in the cycle, but Donald Trump’s poll numbers are already historically bad.

An increasing number of Republican politicians are finding reasons to skip the Republican National Convention.

Donald Trump is apparently having money troubles.

With Donald Trump now destined to become the GOP nominee, some Republican insiders are trying to put together another ‘too little, too late’ strategy to stop him.

If these numbers hold up, then the GOP may as well start planning for the 2020 primaries now.

Paul Ryan takes himself out of contention as a potential Republican nominee.

A new poll shows that Democratic voters are less engaged in the 2016 campaign right now than Republicans are, but that probably doesn’t mean that much for next year.

Polling in three battleground states shows Hillary Clinton slightly trailing three top Republicans, but it means far less than you might think.

An adviser close to Hillary Clinton is talking about expanding the Electoral College map in 2016, but even without such an expansion the GOP faces an uphill battle.