Outside the Beltway

With Donald Trump floundering, there are a whole lot of nervous Republican Senators up for re-election.

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

President Obama’s ISIS policy has been far from perfect, but to call him a “Founder” of ISIS is to ignore both history and reality.

Republican hopes that Wisconsin might go Republican this year seem to be slipping away.

Allegations of influence peddling by Clinton Foundation donors are being rehashed thanks to the release of a new batch of emails.

Donald Trump’s support among African-Americans is at historic lows, and seems unlikely to recover.

It just keeps getting worse.

Did Donald Trump really suggest assassination as a political weapon, even as a joke? It sure sounds like it.

New polling from the states has good news for Hillary Clinton, and an even less plausible path to 270 for Donald Trump.

More Republican officeholders are distancing themselves from Donald Trump, but it’s time to start wondering what took them so long,

The latest desperation bid from anti-Trump Republicans is guaranteed to make a GOP civil war more likely.

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.

The July Jobs Report was largely a continuation of the good news from June, but the question is how long that can last.

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

Post-convention polling at the state level holds some bad news for the Trump campaign.

If you think that once elected Trump will be corralled by cooler heads and experts, I would submit to you that this week underscores this will not be the case.

Most Americans distrust Clinton. More distrust Trump.

My latest for War on the Rocks.

Donald Trump continues to be Donald Trump. Which is quickly turning into a political disaster.

Basic trust in process is essential for democratic governance to function and major party nominees ought not be undercutting that trust for cynical gain.

Hillary Clinton appears to be doing very well in the wake of the first round of post-convention polls.

Looking at the Electoral College, it’s already apparent that Donald Trump’s campaign faces a daunting, perhaps impossible, path to victory.

Of course Donald Trump responded to a Gold Star Father in the worst possible way.

Big losses for proponents of Voter ID laws in two swing states.

The one with the better convention seems to have lost ground over the last two weeks.

More than any politician that spoke last night, it was the father of a fallen solider who stole the night.

Hillary Clinton delvers a largely successful acceptance speech that caps off a convention that ran far smoother than its Republican counterpart.

Eight years after beating her for the Democratic Nomination, Barack Obama passed the torch to Hillary Clinton with a speech that sounded more like Ronald Reagan than anything we’ve heard from the Republican nominee.

Donald Trump suggests Russia engage in espionage to help his Presidential campaign.0

After four straight losses, prosecutors in Baltimore are throwing in the towel in the Freddie Gray case.

The second night of the Democratic Convention seemed much calmer than the first, as the Clinton campaign moves forward toward the biggest speech of Hillary Clinton’s life.

Ignore the focus on discord, most of Bernie’s supporters are supporting Hillary.

Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz is out as head of the Democratic National Committee after the release of a trove of embarrassing emails.

The worst convention in history has given Trump a yuuge bounce.

Democrats will consider changing superdelegate rules, but not as much as Bernie Sanders would like.

As expected, Hillary Clinton went with the ‘safe’ choice, and has selected Virginia Senator Tim Kaine as her running mate.

While a Clinton landslide seems obvious after the dumpster fire of a Republican convention, the race is close.

A big setback for one of the most restrictive Voter ID Laws in the country.

The 2016 Republican Convention is barely halfway over, but some Republicans are already looking ahead to 2020.

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

Speeches by the wife and kids are supposed to be the easy part of a convention. If you mess that up, you truly are an amateur.

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

The least likely choice ascends to the Number Two position on the Republican ticket.

Justice Ginsburg walks back her comments about the presumptive Republican nominee.

Justice Ginsburg made some recent comments about the election that have, to say the least, raised some eyebrows.

Well that took long enough.