Outside the Beltway

He says he won’t announce anything until after the start of 2019, but Joe Biden is sure sounding like a guy who’s running for President.

The 2020 campaign is already heating up, and California Senator Kamala Harris could be one of the first serious candidates for President to throw her hat in the ring.

Sherrod Brown pulled off the only statewide Democratic victory in Ohio on November 6th. Because of that, he’s being looked at as a potential 2020 candidate for President.

With the 2020 Campaign set to begin as soon as the 2018 campaign ends, Democrats find themselves facing an age issue.

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.

To the surprise of absolutely nobody, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders hints that he’s thinking of running for President in 2020.

A bunch of mysteriously sealed filings in Federal Court in D.C. could mean that Robert Mueller has already subpoenaed the President.

Hillary Clinton is hinting about maybe running in 2020 again. Is she serious, or is this just a publicity stunt?

One of the longest-lasting characters on The Simpsons may not be long for this world, but before we write him off perhaps we ought to stop and think.

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.

Two more potential explosive devices, addressed to New Jersey Senator Cory Booker and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, have been discovered by law enforcement.

In the wake of attempted bombing attacks on people he has criticized, the President is blaming the media for poisonous political rhetoric. He needs to look in the mirror.

More explosive devices sent to prominent Trump critics, including Robert DeNiro and Joe Biden, have been located.

Four suspicious packages addressed to prominent political and media figures have been intercepted in the past three days.

The Merrick Garland precedent is power politics, nothing more.

After passing on the opportunity in 2016, Elizabeth Warren is leaving the door open to a run for President in 2020.

We should take Congressional officers out of the line of succession.

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

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.

He’s tan. He’s rested. He’s ready.

Washington said farewell to John McCain today in a service that both remembered his spirit and his heroism, and stands as a sharp rebuke to what politics has been reduced to in America today.

Former Vice-President Biden’s eulogy for his friend John McCain is a lesson in what has gone wrong with American politics.

Senator John McCain has died at the age of 81,

Sad news about a Senate stalwart who has been fighting an aggressive form of cancer for more than a year.

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

The midterm elections are still four months away, but Democrats are already making moves to prepare for the race for their party’s Presidential nomination in 2020.

Democrats have decided to move up the date of their 2020 Convention.

President Trump continues to dismiss concerns about Kim Jong Un’s brutality, and to lavish praise on a man who has a considerable amount of blood on his hands.

The Trump White House has leaked more than any in recent memory. Some of the leakers have explained what motivates them.

When it comes to the Trump White House, the fish rots from the head down.

Regrets, he’s had a few.

John McCain continues to bravely battle an aggressive form of brain cancer, but he’s already made clear that he doesn’t want the 45th President of the United States at his funeral.

They hired Israeli Private Investigators to dig up dirt on former Obama officials, including Ben Rhodes and Colin Kahl.

Controversies involving Jimmy Kimmel and “The Simpsons” highlight a perennial question.

The senior Senator from Massachusetts denies interest in 2020 but won’t promise to serve out a new Senate term.

After skipping such events in his first thirteen months in office, the President tried his hand at stand-up last night to mixed reviews.

He’s tan. He’s rested. He’s old.

Polling remains uncertain in the Alabama Senate race, but the odds favor Roy Moore.

Will Joe Biden be ‘tan, rested, and ready’ enough to take on 2020?

A sign of hope that Alabama voters could end up rejecting the far-right theocratic politics of Roy Moore? Possibly.

Hillary Clinton delivers the most obvious news ever.

Hillary Clinton’s latest memoir lashes out at those to blame for her unexpected loss.

We’re a long way away from the start of the 2020 election cycle, but Democrats are already maneuvering for support and money.

The twice-removed Chief Justice is likely getting a promotion.

It’s not the time away from the White House that matters, it’s the hypocrisy.

Sad news about a Washington stalwart.

There’s already speculation that former Vice-President Biden might try for a third run at the White House, but it seems unlikely.

Unless something happens in the next ten days, Joe Biden will become the first two-term Vice-President who didn’t need to cast a tie-breaking vote in the Senate.