Outside the Beltway

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.

A new round of Congressional Ballot polls seems to put Democrats in a strong position for the ‘blue wave’ they’ve been hoping for all year.

A look at the numbers behind the influx of women into electoral politics this year.

As expected, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo easily fended off a challenge from actress Cynthia Nixon. Let the Presidential speculation begin.

Former President Jimmy Carter is warning his party against drifting too far left as we head into the midterms and, beyond that, the 2020 campaign cycle.

With the Democratic Primary just days away, Andrew Cuomo’s Democratic challenger in New York is making headlines thanks to a rather odd culinary choice.

Former President Obama took on his successor in his first major political speeches since leaving office.

The nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh is, effectively, assured. Democrats should be careful about how much further they push their opposition.

Delaware Democratic Senator Tom Carper beat back a challenge from a ‘progressive” challenger in Thursday’s primary.

The GOP’s hold on the Bob Corker’s Senate seat in Tennessee may be in jeopardy.

Day One of questions for Judge Brett Kavanaugh went about as you’d expect.

A new poll shows Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum with an early, but slim lead, over Congressman Ron DeSantis in the race for Florida’s Governor’s Mansion.

The first day of the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings was much ado about pretty much nothing, but then that can be used to describe a process whose outcome is pretty much foreordained.

Another “progressive” victory over a longtime Democratic incumbent, but this one is a bit different.

Jennifer Rubin wants to build a new political party from scratch.

He’s tan. He’s rested. He’s ready.

Social media has altered the way writers and readers interact in odd ways.

Less than twelve hours into the General Election campaign for Florida Governor, Ron DeSantis is already making mistakes.

Florida voters in the Republican and Democratic parties have set up a Gubernatorial race that provides a stark choice on the table for Sunshine State voters in a race that will likely have national implications moving forward.

Democrats have pulled the trigger and essentially eliminated the power of superdelegates except in the unlikely event that a nominating convention goes to a second ballot.

A Georgia County is abandoning a dubious plan that would have closed 2/3 of the county’s polling stations.

Gary Johnson was a successful two-term Governor in New Mexico. Now he’s making a bid to represent the Land of Enchantment in the U.S. Senate.

Congressman Keith Ellison won his party’s nomination for Minnesota Attorney General notwithstanding last-minute allegations of abuse against a former girlfriend.

Tuesday’s election results were a defeat for the progressive effort to remake the Democratic Party in their image.

In a rare red-state victory for labor unions, Missouri voters rejected a right to work initiative by an overwhelming margin.

Republican Troy Balderson holds a narrow lead in a Special Election in Ohio. Even if he wins, though, the way this election played out does not bode well for the GOP in November.

A Special Election tomorrow in suburban Columbus, Ohio could tell us a lot about where the midterm elections might be headed.

Senate Democrats appear to be recognizing that there’s basically nothing they can do to stop the confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.

Notwithstanding his dismissive public rhetoric about the former Vice-President, Donald Trump apparently sees Joe Biden as his biggest potential threat in 2020.

Ohio Congressman Tim Ryan, who challenged Nancy Pelosi for a leadership spot in 2016, is telling supporters he’s running for President in 2020.

New York and several other states have filed an incredibly dubious lawsuit against the Republican’s new tax law.