Outside the Beltway

Several states are getting rid of caucuses in favor of primaries, a move that could be to the disadvantage of candidates like Bernie Sanders.

Begun, the 2020 campaign has.

California is set up throw a huge curve ball into the 2020 Presidential nomination fight.

Faced with the prospect of a large field like the one Republicans had in 2016, Democrats are trying to figure out how to handle debates. So far, the ideas being put forward are as bad as what the GOP ended up doing.

Martha McSally and Kyrsten Sinema will end up representing Arizona in the Senate together.

After a barrage of criticism, New Jersey Democrats are abandoning a controversial redistricting proposal.

Former Vice-President Biden and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders are, not surprisingly, leading the early polls for the 2020 Democratic nomination.

An argument against “bothersiderism” in this case and, yet again, noting the problem with single seat districts.

Cory Booker’s interest in running for President has been an open secret for some time, now he’s being far less coy about it.

Michael Avenatti, the California lawyer best known for representing Stormy Daniels in her claims against the President, is dropping a bid for the Democratic nomination that never seemed like a serious effort.

Bernie Sanders has not officially said that he’s running for President, but he’s reportedly planning a much more aggressive campaign than what we saw in 2016 if he does.

He says he won’t announce anything until after the start of 2019, but Joe Biden is sure sounding like a guy who’s running for President.

The 2020 campaign is already heating up, and California Senator Kamala Harris could be one of the first serious candidates for President to throw her hat in the ring.

George H.W. Bush,, who served his nation as a warrior, Congressman, Ambassador, Vice-President, and President, has died at the age of 94.

Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar is reportedly considering a bid for the Democratic Presidential Nomination in 2020.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says he’s not running for President in 2020.

In the end, the race between Cindy Hyde-Smith and Mike Espy was not even close.

Sherrod Brown pulled off the only statewide Democratic victory in Ohio on November 6th. Because of that, he’s being looked at as a potential 2020 candidate for President.

Is Donald Trump thinking about dumping Mike Pence in 2020? Probably not, but that’s not going to stop the speculation.

While the outcome in the Florida Governor’s Race is clear, the Senate race remains up in the air and headed for a hand recount that, in the end, is unlikely to change the outcome of the race.

It would be a rather quixotic effort, but Jeff Flake isn’t ruling out challenging the President for the Republican nomination in 2020.

Former HUD Secretary Julián Castro is preparing a run for the White House in 2020.

With their House majority secure, Democrats must now select their leadership team for the next two years. It’s not going smoothly.

Starbucks Founder Howard Schultz is apparently considering running for President.

Today in bad columns.

Beto O’Rourke should consider running again in 2020, but not for President.

The issues are different than in Florida or Arizona, but the Georgia Governor’s race remains unresolved as Stacey Abrams hopes to find enough votes to force the race into a runoff.

Somewhere, Tim Russert is smiling.

The Party of Donald Trump has left no sane choice but to vote straight Democrat.

With the 2020 Campaign set to begin as soon as the 2018 campaign ends, Democrats find themselves facing an age issue.

Partisan officials should not be in charge of state election processes, much less their own.

Michael Bloomberg is flirting with the idea of running for President in 2020. He’s done this before, of course, but this time he seems far more serious.

Congressman Steve King’s anti-immigrant, xenophobic rhetoric hasn’t bothered his constituents for twenty years, but he suddenly finds himself the focus of controversy and possibly vulnerable. It couldn’t happen to a more well-deserving guy.

On Wednesday Trump tweeted out a crass, dishonest ad in hopes of leveraging fear and racism as a political tool.

To the surprise of absolutely nobody, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders hints that he’s thinking of running for President in 2020.

Surely a celebrity hound with no political experience can’t become President. Right?

A Senate race in Mississippi could end up being the deciding factor in the battle for control of the Senate.

Hillary Clinton is hinting about maybe running in 2020 again. Is she serious, or is this just a publicity stunt?

Trump’s words matter.

Authorities have arrested a Florida man named Cesar Sayoc, a 56-year-old Trump supporter, in connection with the wave of bombing attempts directed at critics of the President.

Four suspicious packages addressed to prominent political and media figures have been intercepted in the past three days.

Add yet another name to the potential Democratic campaign field in 2020.

Bernie Sanders could find repeating the success of 2016 in 2020 may not be so easy.

Elizabeth Warren has released a DNA report showing that she does indeed have some Native American heritage in her family’s past. That won’t stop conservatives from continuing to attack her, though.

Fear-mongering of various types on full display.

For the second time this year, a Federal Court has struck down a state law designed to punish businesses that engage in a boycott aimed at Israel.

The Kavanaugh fight is just another indicator of our national divide.

A new Gallup poll gives the GOP its highest favorability in years.

President Trump is set to expand his ill-advised, economically ignorant, trade war with China.

Donald Trump has been in office just over 600 days, and he’s proven beyond any doubt that he doesn’t care if what he says is the truth or not.