Outside the Beltway

Joe Biden recently said that he’d consider nominating Merrick Garland again if there were a Supreme Court vacancy while he was President. Don’t count on it.

The next Prime Minster of the United Kingdom will be chosen by a very small segment of both the population and the Conservative Party. Does that make sense?

Should the pundit class look more like America?

Bernie Sanders is finding that the 2020 campaign is very different from 2016.

It was a very successful fundraising quarter for the former Vice-President.

Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris are up, and Bernie Sanders is down, in the first state-level poll since the debates.

Three new polls show significant changes in the Democratic race in the wake of last week’s debates.

President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping have agreed to resume trade talks, but Trump’s ill-advised trade war will continue.

The first Democratic debate drew record numbers on both nights.

WIth the top two candidates in the race on the same stage, the second night of the first Democratic debate was much feistier than the first night.

Democrats clashed, to some degree, in last night’s inaugural debate of the 2020 season but they clearly agreed far more than they disagreed.

Pete Butttigieg has spent the past week dealing with a crisis back in South Bend. How he handles it could have a significant impact on his campaign.

The costs to the American economy of President Trump’s ill-advised trade war continue to add up.

A trio of new polls shows Elizabeth Warren slipping past Bernie Sanders into second place in the race for the 2020 Democratic nomination

For 2020, Kansas Democrats are making some interesting changes to how they will have a say in he race for the Democratic nomination.

President Trump says that he would not spy on a rival regime like North Korea, once again making one wonder where his loyalties lie.

A quadrennial reminder.

President Trump’s tariffs are having a noticeable, and negative, impact on global economies. The President doesn’t seem to care.

The latest iteration of a benchmark Iowa poll shows Joe Biden leading, with Bernie Sanders sinking and looking at several candidates closing in on him.

Kamala Harris is trying to jump-start her Presidential campaign with an idea for a new law, but it’s probably unconstitutional and would never get through Congress.

Just over a month after he entered the race, Joe Biden has a commanding lead over his fellow Democrats while Bernie Sanders has several candidates hot on his heels.

Quietly, Elizabeth Warren has been campaigning and putting out policy proposals while also appearing to gain ground on her closest rival, Bernie Sanders.

A Federal Judge in Mississippi has blocked Mississippi’s law that purports to ban abortions after detection of a fetal heartbeat.

Michael Avenatti, the former attorney for Stormy Daniels who briefly flirted with the idea of running for President, has been charged with multiple counts of fraud and other charges, some of them in connection with his representation of Daniels herself.

The size of the Democratic Presidential field, combined with other things peculiar to the way Democrats pick their nominee, is leading some to wonder if we might see a brokered convention in 2020.

Following in the footsteps of Alabama, the Missouri legislature has passed a law that would severely restrict abortion rights in the Show Me State.

Based on the early stages of the campaign for the 2020 Democratic Presidential nomination, it appears as though the party’s progressive wing has misread the signals being sent by the party’s voters.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has entered the race for the Democratic nomination for President, making him the 23rd candidate in an already crowded field.

A new poll shows President Trump trailing several of his potential challenger in a state that was crucial to his victory in 2016.

As it has in so many other areas, the right has sacrificed it’s previously held beliefs on international trade to feckless obedience toward President Trump.

A new poll indicates that at least some Democrats continue to hold Biden’s 2002 vote in favor of the Iraq War.

Passing up an opportunity that other Democrats are taking, Elizabeth Warren is declining to appear on Fox News Channel. This seems like an unwise decision.

Yet another candidate joins an already crowded field for the 2020 Democratic Presidential nomination.

China has retaliated for the tariffs that the President imposed late last week, and things look like they’re only going to get worse.

More good news for Joe Biden, this time out of South Carolina.

Beto is fading.

As he had threatened, President Trump has imposed new tariffs on Chinese goods, making a bad situation even worse.

Two weeks into his campaign, Joe Biden continues to build an impressive lead in polling at the state and national levels.

Donald Trump’s tariffs are hurting the American economy, American consumers, and American businesses.

Recent poll numbers suggest that the President is vulnerable in the part of the country that assured his Electoral College victory in 2020, but Democrats are going to have to work hard to flip these states.

A seemingly out-of-the-blue political movement is arguing in favor of independent election of Vice-Presidents.

As the Friday deadline for trade talks with China approaches, President Trump is threatening even more tariffs.

Another post-announcement poll brings good news for the former Vice-President, but there’s a long way to go.

Another one bites the dust. And another one gone, and another one gone, another one bites the dust.

Colorado Senator Michael Bennet is the latest entrant into the race for the Democratic nomination for President, and the field isn’t done growing.

There’s some very good news for Joe Biden in the first polls taken after he entered the Presidential race.

One opinion writer says that Senator Kamala Harris should be disqualified as a Democratic candidate because she owns a handgun.

Former Vice-President Joe Biden had a very successful first day when it comes to campaign fundraising.

He’s tan. He’s rested. He’s ready. But is the Democratic Party going to buy what Joe Biden is selling?

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.