Outside the Beltway

Yes, he was terrible at his job. But one can’t break that which is already broken.

Does it get much more swampy than this?

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.

The map shows the flaws of the Electoral College

As many as twelve candidates for the Democratic nomination may not qualify for the next debate. They should use that as an opportunity to get out of a race they clearly aren’t going to win.

The Trump Administration and 2020 campaign are clearly worried about the state of the economy. They should be, because it could be the one thing that dooms his re-election chances.

Workers at a petrochemical plant were told they could choose between showing up for a Presidential speech and not getting paid.

As a candidate, Donald Trump promised to bring jobs back to the United States, especially manufacturing jobs. It hasn’t worked out that way.

President Trump is delaying implementation of his recently announced tariffs on Chinese goods.

Another day, another mass shooting and, as is becoming all too common in this country, this one appears to have been racially motivated.

Trump’s attacks on racial minorities are going to continue, and get worse, the closer we get to 2020. Because stirring up fear and racial resentment among white working-class voters is the only way he can win.

Even a Fox News poll finds that the American public finds the President’s recent rhetoric to be racist. There’s a different picture when you look at his supporters, though.

He could lose the popular vote by an even larger margin in 2020—and still coast to re-election.

President Trump has named his pick for Labor Secretary.

Once again, twenty candidates will participate in the second debate scheduled to take place over two nights at the end of the month.

For the first time in a century, a chamber of Congress has voted to condemn a sitting President. That won’t stop this President.

The failure of Republicans and conservatives to denounce the President’s racism reveals everything that has gone wrong with the “right” in the Trump Era.

The Trump Administration is expected to begin mass deportation raids as early as this weekend.

Should the pundit class look more like America?

Bernie Sanders is finding that the 2020 campaign is very different from 2016.

In a significant setback for challenges to partisan gerrymandering, the Supreme Court has effectively ruled that Federal Courts do not have jurisdiction to hear challenges to redistricting based on partisan motivations.

Various federal and state agencies are enforcing existing laws while Congress scrambles to update them.

Former Congressman Joe Sestak is the 24th Democrat to enter the race for President.

Congress is considering a bill that would establish a commission to examine the issue of reparations for slavery.;

It’s still way too early to be predictive, but the latest head-to-head matches between the President and the top contenders for the Democratic nomination.

It’s been three months since the White House held a press briefing. Meanwhile, the President continues his unhinged attacks on the media.

A new poll shows that a majority of Americans support equal rights for transgender Americans, with only Republicans disagreeing with that position.

It’s been just about fifteen months since President Trump imposed tariffs on imported steel and aluminum. Not surprisingly, those tariffs have not had the effect the President claimed they would.

The Supreme Court let a ruling against students opposed to a school district policy allowing transgender students to use the bathroom corresponding to their gender identity stand.

In the latest development in the child sex abuse investigations in the Catholic Church in the United States, five former Priests in Michigan have been arrested on sex abuse charges.

So far at least, appearing on Fox News Channel does not appear to be hurting the candidates who’ve done it with Democratic voters.

President Trump isn’t pleased that a news network that has generally been his own personal propaganda network is reaching out to Democrats.

As the Administration continues to stonewall legitimate requests from Congress for documents and witnesses, pressure is growing on Speaker Pelosi to authorize the opening of an impeachment inquiry.

One of the most well-known architects of the modern era has passed away.

A new poll shows President Trump trailing several of his potential challenger in a state that was crucial to his victory in 2016.

Passing up an opportunity that other Democrats are taking, Elizabeth Warren is declining to appear on Fox News Channel. This seems like an unwise decision.

Donald Trump’s tariffs are hurting the American economy, American consumers, and American businesses.

Recent poll numbers suggest that the President is vulnerable in the part of the country that assured his Electoral College victory in 2020, but Democrats are going to have to work hard to flip these states.

A panel of three Federal Judges has found Ohio’s Congressional District map to be unconstitutional, but a case currently pending before the Supreme Court could mute the impact of this decision.

Republicans have aborted President Trump’s lofty plan for a $2 trillion infrastructure deal just days after it was conceived.

A new poll shows President Trump struggling against four of his potential 2020 challengers. Should Republicans be worried and Democrats elated? It’s too early to tell.

Ballot measures across the country would deny access to those who refuse to release tax returns.

A Federal Court in Michigan has found several of that state’s Congressional and state legislative districts to have been subject to extreme partisan gerrymandering.

Not surprisingly, Donald Trump fears former Vice-President Joe Biden the most of all the Democrats currently running against him.

Some vaccines lose effectiveness more quickly–and others last much longer—than previously understood.

Trump campaign officials are worried about the President’s chances of holding onto a state that was crucial to his win in 2020. They should be.

Reports yesterday had former Vice-President Biden entering the Presidential field as early as tomorrow. Those plans appear to be delayed. but an an announcement still appears to be coming.

Donald Trump speaks largely just to his base, ignoring the nation as a whole. Whether this will be enough to win re-election in 2020 is an open question.

The tone and content of President Trump’s 2020 campaign is already quite apparent.

In 2016, a crowded Republican field yielded an unlikely nominee. Could history repeat itself in 2020?