Outside the Beltway

The first round of post-convention polls is now complete, and it’s not looking good for The Donald.

In a sign of just how bad the trends are right now for Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton is gaining ground in states that Mitt Romney won four years ago.

It’s been a bad week for Donald Trump, something he can ill-afford with less than 100 days left until Election Day.

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

Basic trust in process is essential for democratic governance to function and major party nominees ought not be undercutting that trust for cynical gain.

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

Of course Donald Trump responded to a Gold Star Father in the worst possible way.

While a Clinton landslide seems obvious after the dumpster fire of a Republican convention, the race is close.

If Donald Trump actually became President, would he really do the work, or just delegate it to others? An anecdote from the campaign trail makes one wonder.

The 2016 Republican Convention is barely halfway over, but some Republicans are already looking ahead to 2020.

Donald Trump completed his unlikely journey to the Republican Presidential Nomination last night, but he the party he now leads remains divided.

I haven’t yet watched any of the 2016 Republican National Convention but the first day was a beauty.

A look at the state of the race before the two party conventions begin.

We’re further from a public option than we were in 2009. The need for it has become more acute.

Hillary Clinton holds solid leads over Donald Trump in seven battleground states.

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

Donald Trump has a steep hill to climb to reverse a quarter century trend.

Donald Trump has almost no cash on hand. That doesn’t bode well for his campaign going forward.

Congratulations Cleveland! Next month, you get Donald Trump.

The Trump campaign is out with its own ‘short list’ of potential running mates.

A purported ‘short list’ of potential running mates for Hillary Clinton is out. Here’s how the candidates stack up.

A small group of Republican delegates is apparently discussing yet another quixotic effort to deny Donald Trump the nomination.

Republican leaders and politicians continue to distance themselves from their party’s presumptive nominee.

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

Top Republican donors are becoming increasingly concerned that Donald Trump isn’t paying enough attention to raising money for the General Election campaign.

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

Bill Kristol’s plan to stop Donald Trump involves a long shot independent bid for the White House by someone most Americans have never heard of before.

With Republicans in Trump-induced disarray, Libertarians are meeting to pick their nominee and the hope that 2016 could be the year their party finally gets the attention it has craved for four decades.

An overreach on the “disparate impact” standard.

Some of the GOP’s top donors still aren’t sold on Donald Trump.

It’s not going to happen.

Several recent polls have shown the race between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton tightening, but it likely means far less than the media hype makes it sound like.

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.

Pfizer has become the latest drug maker from barring its products from being used in executions.

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

If these numbers hold up, then the GOP may as well start planning for the 2020 primaries now.

In a rational universe somewhere, John Kasich is preparing to become the de facto Republican nominee for President. In ours, he’s dropping out in favor of Donald Trump.

Donald Trump’s win last night made him the presumptive Republican nominee, whether Republicans will unify around him is another question.

The results from today’s Indiana Primary will go a long way toward setting the course for the end of both party’s nomination fights.

Several top Republicans have already said that they would not accept a position on a ticket with Donald Trump, so who might he choose?

Donald Trump seems poised for another solid victory in Indiana tomorrow, while the effort to stop him from winning a majority of delegates looks to be running out of options.

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.

Another round of victories puts Donald Trump another step closer to the Republican nomination.

To the surprise of no one, the alliance between Ted Cruz and John Kasich is already falling apart.