Outside the Beltway

At last week’s debate, Beto O’Rourke handed Republicans and gun rights advocates a nicely wrapped gift with his claim that he would seize guns from otherwise law-abiding Americans.

As doubts about the health of the economy start to mount, President Trump’s job approval is starting to suffer.

After falling for the second debate, ratings were back near record levels for the third debate.

In a rather obvious rebuke aimed at President Trump, Mitt Romney said this week that he will not endorse anyone for President in 2020.

The top ten candidates in the race for the Democratic nomination clashed last night in a debate that made clear the different ideological directions that this race is pulling their party.

Can the media fairly parse the statements of those running against President ‘Bottomless Pinocchio’?

Some reports are suggesting that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo might take on the additional role of National Security Adviser.

This evening ten Democratic candidates for President, including all of the front runners, appear on stage together for the third debate of the 2020 election cycle.

President Trump took to Twitter late this morning to fire his third National Security Adviser.

Someone’s not pleased with President Trump.

One of the giants of the progressive blogosphere is going away.

Indonesia is beginning an ambitious program to move its capital city. Because the current capital of Jakarta is sinking.

A new poll shows Joe Biden dropping significantly among national Democrats to the point where he is effectively tied with Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders has signed on with Fox News Channel to continue her career of lying on behalf of the President.

Massachusetts Congressman Seth Moulton is ending a Presidential bid that few people were paying attention to.

Donald Trump’s delusions of grandeur are getting more and more bizarre.

Even when it comes from his favorite propaganda network, Donald Trump doesn’t like bad news.

Washington Governor Jay Inslee is the latest candidate to drop ou of the race for the Democratic Presidential nomination. He won’t be the last.

President Trump doubled down on his tirade against Jewish American Democrats from yesterday with some even more offensive comments.

President Trump just tossed a hand grenade into the firestorm that American politics.

Mark Halperin, the former MSNBC political analyst who was accused of misconduct during the height of the #MeToo Movement, is trying to make a comeback with a new book.

The Trump Administration and 2020 campaign are clearly worried about the state of the economy. They should be, because it could be the one thing that dooms his re-election chances.

An incident this week in Arkansas is just the latest example of a depressing and dangerous trend.

We won’t have Hickenlooper to kick around anymore.

Donald Trump has found a new far-right lunatic to retweet.

The Trump campaign and several other parties have filed lawsuits challenging California’s new law requiring candidates for President to release copies of their tax returns.

Donald Trump is a complete package, you can’t support part of it without at least implicitly endorsing all of it.

A Republican State Legislator in Nebraska says things that other Republicans don’t have the courage to say.

Another day, another mass shooting and, as is becoming all too common in this country, this one appears to have been racially motivated.

A new poll has a majority of respondents saying the President is a racist. He won’t care.

As was the case in June, the second night of the second Democratic debate was seen by more people than the first night.

Contemporaneous polling says Yes.

It looks like fewer people are tuning in for the second Democratic debate.

The first night of the second Democratic debate consisted largely of clashes between the party’s progressive wing and more moderate elements.

For the second time in month, the candidates for the Democratic Presidential nomination will face off in a two-night debate, so it’s as good a time as any to look at the polls.

The President unleashed another racist attack, this time on Maryland Congressman Elijah Cummings.

An Army appellate court has rejected an appeal filed by Bowe Bergdahl that argued that the President’s attacks on him while a candidate unfairly influenced his court martial.

How insidious talking points spread in the modern media environment.

Tensions are increasing in the Persian Gulf thanks to a collection of actions by Iran, the United States, and United Kingdom.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez already has a Republican challenger, but she doesn’t really need to worry about it.

Former South Carolina Congressman and Governor Mark Sanford is reportedly considering an intra-party challenge to President Trump

The lineups for the second Democratic debate are set, and they include some interesting pairings.

California’s legislature has passed a law purporting to require candidates for President to release copies of their tax returns, but it’s likely to face legal challenges if it becomes law.

Once again, twenty candidates will participate in the second debate scheduled to take place over two nights at the end of the month.

Bernie Sanders won the New Hampshire Primary by a huge margin in 2016. This time, he’s slipping in the polls as other candidates rise ahead of him.

Beto O’Rourke’s campaign for President is going nowhere fast and he has only a small amount of time to stop the slide.

Some agree with him. Many others are cowards. But there’s more to it.

Bill DeBlasio is facing criticism for the fact that he was off in Iowa on his quixotic Presidential campaign rather than being at home during Saturday’s blackout.

Trump opened his mouth and, once again, racist bilge came spewing out.

Citing the so-called “Billy Graham Rule,” a Republican candidate for Governor in Mississippi is refusing to let a female reporter accompany him on a campaign ride-along.