Outside the Beltway

More centrist fantasies.

The margins for 2024 are likely to be slim. But that hides a larger story.

Covering the coverage.

A MAGA challenger has already emerged for 2024.

Discrimination? Issues? Incumbency?

With a win in Nevada, the party will retain at least 50 seats.

The New York Post and Wall Street Journal are blasting the losing loser.

The numbers aren’t real. Not yet, anyway.

Boosting weak candidates in the Republican primaries paid off.

Most don’t even know it passed!

President Biden is being pressured to face the music after the midterms.

The corrupt leader is back for a sixth term.

The Justice Department is looking to inoculate itself against charges of partisanship.

Is the President governing like he means it?

Local issues barely matter in Congressional races anymore.

Not everything is racially-motivated but most things have a disparate impact.

We likely won’t know on Election Night.

What will it take to end the cycle of violence?

Touting the accomplishments of the last two years isn’t working.

She is the shortest-tenured Prime Minister in British history.

The collaboration has been even more robust than advertised.

He’s using a tool he denounced as cruel to deal with a humanitarian crisis.

The investigation produced mounds of evidence. Will it matter?

Biden is following Trump’s lead but doing it more competently.

Can the unsustainable be sustained?

Georgia Republicans didn’t violate the Constitution or the Voting Rights Act.

The President is getting hammered from all sides for stating the obvious.

What once seemed to be ‘saying the quiet part out loud’ is now administration policy.

The fading tabloid still has significant influence.

Manipulating public opinion with dubious survey research.

They could be overstating support for Democrats. Or understating it. Or be more or less right.

The UK’s longest-reigning monarch has passed, aged 96.

For the first time in a long time, Presidential approval numbers and voter preferences aren’t’ aligned.

President Biden had a meeting with some historians. The horrors.

The President delivered a rousing stump speech from Independence Hall.

The last Soviet leader is gone at 91.

A repeat of 1860 can’t happen. But something even worse could.

An unlikely source argues that it’s too big and poorly targeted.

Gallup has him at his highest point in a year.

“Moderate” is up, “Liberal” is down, and “Conservative” is static. What does it mean?

“Declassification, even by the President, must follow established procedures.” (Trump Administration 2018)

A bill that was never about the thing it’s called doesn’t do that thing.

A 2020 blowout has long been presumed. But maybe it won’t happen.

It’s complicated, hard to prove, and politically fraught.

The U.S. average is under $4 for the first time in months.

Sigh.

The Speaker’s trip was reckless, needlessly escalating an already tense situation.

The Schumer-Manchin compromise includes a massive increase in the tax collection budget.

A precision drone strike on a balcony in Kabul took out a longtime nemesis.