Outside the Beltway

Donald Trump is now committing his crimes in public.

An unexpectedly big fundraising quarter for an unlikely candidate.

Kamala Harris has slipped in the polls but her financial numbers are still pretty respectable.

Pete Buttigieg’s momendum in the polls has slowed, but his fundraising ability has not.

Bernie Sanders has slipped in the polls but retains his ability to raise money.

The President’s attorney Rudy Giuliani is among the first to be served with a subpoena in connection with the newly-launched impeachment inquiry.

It looks like we’ll have Cory Booker to kick around for a little while longer.

Jake Tapper and Chris Wallace both put Administration surrogates through the ringer on their respective Sunday morning shows.

SNL takes on impeachment and the 2020 Democratic Presidential race.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky finds himself in he middle of an historic American scandal, and with a new nickname.

Not surprisingly, there are other phone call transcripts and other communications that further complicate Trump’s position.

The real crime is what’s legal.

House Democrats are reportedly looking at an impeachment process narrowly focused on the President’s efforts to obtain a quid pro quo from the President of Ukraine.

For the first time, it’s conceivable that Republicans will turn against the President.

The Acting Director of National Intelligence has released the complaint filed by an intelligence community whistleblower that has set off allegations that the President sought foreign aid in undermining a political opponent.

The White House has released a summary of the July 25th phone call between President Trump and the President of Ukraine. It doesn’t help President Trump or his defenders.

Working as the President’s private attorney, Rudy Giuliani has spent months working behind the scenes to pressure Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden’s son.

The criteria for the November and December debate will make it much harder for some Democrats to get on the national stage. That isn’t a bad thing.

The escalation has been rapid, dramatic, and warranted.

Just days before he repeatedly pressured the President of Ukraine to reopen a closed investigation involving the son of former Vice-President Biden, President Trump suspended military aid that had been authorized by Congress.

The time for coddling the candidates polling below 5% is over.

President Trump is now admitting that he talked to the President of Ukraine about investigations of Joe Biden and his son but denies there was a quid pro quo.

What we know for sure.

The latest Des Moines Register poll puts Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren at the top of the pack in the Hawkeye State.

Cory Booker’s campaign is basically admitting they’re at the end of the road.

The details about President Trump’s attempts to get Ukraine to investigate the son of one of his potential 2020 rivals keep getting worse for the President.

For the most part, the third debate appears to have had little immediate impact on the race for the Democratic nomination.

A startling statistic that hides a more comforting reality.

The latest allegations about exactly what the President may have been trying to do in a phone call with a foreign leader that caught the attention of a whistleblower are becoming more serious by the day.

It’s still early in the election cycle but there’s plenty for the President to worry about.

The oldest living former President has some reflections on age and the strains of the office.

While some Democrats are calling for the impeachment of Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Democrats on Capitol Hill aren’t nearly as eager to go down that road.

At last week’s debate, Beto O’Rourke handed Republicans and gun rights advocates a nicely wrapped gift with his claim that he would seize guns from otherwise law-abiding Americans.

A new poll finds President Trump trailing his potential Democratic opponents by huge margins among Latino voters.

After falling for the second debate, ratings were back near record levels for the third debate.

Is social media making it harder for Democrats to nominate a winning candidate?

The top ten candidates in the race for the Democratic nomination clashed last night in a debate that made clear the different ideological directions that this race is pulling their party.

Can the media fairly parse the statements of those running against President ‘Bottomless Pinocchio’?

This evening ten Democratic candidates for President, including all of the front runners, appear on stage together for the third debate of the 2020 election cycle.

She decries swanky fundraisers and big money donors while benefiting from both.

Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is ending a Presidential bid nobody knew existed.

To listen to the meda, Joe Biden’s recent gaffes and malapropisms are a major story. For regular Americans, though, they don’t seem to matter.

As the race for the Democratic nomination heads into the fall, it looks as if it has already winnowed itself down to a top three.

Kirsten Gillibrand has dropped out of a Presidential race few people realized she was in.

The stage for the third Democratic debate, scheduled for mid-September, is set and its half the size of its predecessors.

Two new polls released today indicate that earlier suggestions that the race for the Democratic nomination had shifted were incorrect.

A new poll shows Joe Biden dropping significantly among national Democrats to the point where he is effectively tied with Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.

Even when it comes from his favorite propaganda network, Donald Trump doesn’t like bad news.

A new poll shows Donald Trump losing to top Democrats in head-to-head races.

Former Vice-President Biden has dropped his first television ad in Iowa, and it touches on his strongest selling point.