Outside the Beltway

The GOP civil war continues…..

Gary Johnson is doing better than any third-party candidate in twenty years, but that doesn’t mean he’s likely to get an invitation to the upcoming Presidential debates.

Over the course of twenty-four hours, Donald Trump has had three separate positions on how he’d deal with illegal immigrants already in the country.

The “independent conservative” running for President is finding it hard to even get on the ballot.

GOP control of Indiana’s Senate seat appears to be in jeopardy, and that will have serious implications for the battle to control the Senate.

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

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.

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

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

Well that took long enough.

A new poll suggests that the decision not to bring charges related to her use of a private email server will likely have only a minimal impact on Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

If anything, the Trump campaign is going to provide some interesting data for future political scientists who study campaigns.

Republican officials are running away from Donald Trump the way they’d run away from a horde of mosquitoes infected with the Zika virus.

Hillary Clinton easily won the final contest of the 2016 primary season, and the Clinton-Sanders reconciliation dance began.

Donald Trump responded to the attack on the Pulse nightclub by renewing his call to ban members of an entire religion from coming to the United States.

With the race for the Democratic nomination over, President Obama is ready to hit the campaign trail for Hillary Clinton.

Republicans have a choice to make and, so far, they’ve been making the wrong one.

Closer to making history.

An increasing number of Republican politicians are finding reasons to skip the Republican National Convention.

Donald Trump now has enough delegates to win the Republican nomination on the first ballot.

With Donald Trump now destined to become the GOP nominee, some Republican insiders are trying to put together another ‘too little, too late’ strategy to stop him.

Even before the 2016 convention, Republicans are talking about possible rules changes to stop another Trump-like candidate in 2020 or beyond.

A first look at the Electoral College paints a very grim picture for Donald Trump and the GOP.

For better or worse, Republicans seem to be resigning themselves to the inevitable.

In an unprecedented move that reeks of desperation, Ted Cruz is naming Carly Fiorina as his running mate before the primary process has even ended.

As expected, Donald Trump scored a huge victory in his home state last night and now appears to be back on track to win the GOP nomination.

There are many aspects of the way delegates to the party convention are chosen that is “undemocratic,” but it’s unclear why this is a problem.

If Donald Trump fails to get a majority to win the nomination on the first ballot in Cleveland, battles taking place behind the scenes now suggest that the floor fight in Cleveland could be long and contentious.

Even as the outcome becomes more certain, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton seem to be attacking each other with increasing acrimony.

A group of New England Patriots fans are providing us with the latest example of stupid lawsuits that don’t belong in Court at all.

Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are close in Wisconsin, and that’s bad news for Bernie Sanders.

Ted Cruz and Donald Trump are locked in battle in a primary that could decide whether or not Donald Trump can get a majority of delegates prior to the GOP Convention.

Conservatives are doing all they can to make sure Merrick Garland does not get either a hearing or a vote in the Senate, and it’s working.

Ohio Governor John Kasich cannot win a majority of delegates at this point, but he’s still resisting calls to drop out of the race.

One of the pioneers of the technology revolution of the past four decades has passed away.

If Donald Trump is the Republican nominee, the GOP may have more to worry about than losing the White House and the Senate.

A crack in the wall.

A big night in the Republican race for President leaves Donald Trump as the only candidate realistically situated to be anywhere near a majority of delegates by the time the primaries end in June.

The coming political battle over President Obama’s effort to fill the vacancy created by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia will likely be unlike anything we’ve seen before.

Both Donald Trump and Ohio Governor John Kasich face big tests in tomorrow’s Michigan primary.

Bernie Sanders was more aggressive in last night’s debate than he has been in the past, but it’s likely too little, too late.

Bernie Sanders won two of the three Democratic contests last night, but he fell further behind in the delegate count any way and isn’t very far from being mathematically eliminated.

Donald Trump and Ted Cruz split the wins on ‘Super Saturday,’ while Marco Rubio and John Kasich continue to struggle for relevance in the 2016 race.

As expected, Hillary Clinton won big last night while Bernie Sanders largely floundered, thus going further toward making Clinton’s victory inevitable.

As expected, Donald Trump dominated Super Tuesday, putting himself one step closer to becoming the Republican nominee for President.

A new national poll suggests that the newly aggressive tone from Senators Rubio and Cruz has done nothing to stop Donald Trump’s momentum.