Outside the Beltway

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.

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

The business of the media is business. Business is not good.

Despite having previously pledged to do so, none of the three candidate for the GOP nomination are willing to say they’d support the eventual nominee anymore.

The 2016 Campaign just keeps getting weirder.

It’s time for Bernie Sanders and his supporters to face reality. He’s not going to be the Democratic nominee.

Looking at the delegate math, Donald Trump’s path to victory seems to be becoming clearer by the day.

With President Obama becoming the first American President to visit Cuba in 88 years, a new poll finds majority support for his changes in Cuba policy.

The alternatives to Trump vs Clinton are getting into the realm of fantasy.

The violence that Donald Trump encourages among supporters is manifesting itself in real life.

The President could nominate someone to fill the vacancy created by Antonin Scalia’s death as soon a next week, but Republicans in the Senate remain firmly committed to their decision to deny the as yet unnamed nominee any consideration.

It seems increasingly apparent that the only way to stop Donald Trump now is by trying to force a contested convention. It also seems clear that such a plan probably wouldn’t succeed.

The Republican frontrunner doesn’t want newspapers to be able to write negative stories about him.

Ben Carson may be a non-entity in the Presidential race at this point, but that hasn’t stopped him from making controversial statements.

The unity of the Republican Senate on the idea of no hearings or votes, if it ever really existed, appears to be cracking.

The politicization of Supreme Court appointments didn’t start with Republicans last night.

With Bernie Sanders likely to win New Hampshire tonight, Hillary Clinton is reportedly looking to reorganize her campaign.

Marco Rubio was the man in the cross hairs in last night’s Republican debate.

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul has dropped out of the race for the Republican nomination.

Politics makes strange bedfellows, but come on.

Last night’s Republican debate had a different feel with the absence of a certain bloviating narcissist.

Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen are leaving after a dispute with their chief investor.

Rick Perry is endorsing Ted Cruz for President, leading to the question of why Ted Cruz thinks an endorsement from Rick Perry has any value whatsoever.

The flagship of the American right is leading the charge against Donald Trump, but it’s not likely to work.

With almost no sign that he’ll be able to turn his campaign around, many of Jeb Bush’s top campaign donors are looking to jump ship to other candidates.

Rand Paul and Carly Fiorina are the biggest losers in the lineup for the latest Republican debate on Thursday.

Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders both released strong fourth quarter fundraising reports, as did Republicans Ted Cruz and Ben Carson.

Further signs that Ben Carson’s Presidential campaign, which has been in a death spiral in the polls for some time now, is in real trouble,

Donald Trump is in second place, and tied, with Pope Francis, in a poll asking Americans to name the person they most admired in 2015.

Fox Business Network has announced its criteria for the next GOP Debate, and it looks like Rand Paul, Carly Fiorina, and John Kasich will be kept off the prime time stage.

Previewing the fifth Republican debate, and the last Republican debate of 2015.

Protests by students at Princeton are causing some people to finally pay attention to some inconvenient truths about America’s 28th President.

Happy Thanksgiving! Don’t forget to start a political fight with your family!

In the news from the campaign trail and in the polls, there are clear signs that Ben Carson’s days as a top contender in the GOP Presidential race are coming to an end.

It’s Election Day in Louisiana again, and voters have the same crappy choices they usually end up with.

Another European capital is on edge over fears of a terror attack.

France launched its first attacks against ISIS even as the investigation into Friday’s attacks continues, but it’s not clear that the retaliation really accomplished anything.

A Saturday night debate wasn’t likely to get much attention to begin with. A Saturday night debate in the wake of a major terrorist attack, and a major football game for Iowa’s premier college football team, likely got even less attention. That’s probably good news for Hillary Clinton, and bad news for her two remaining rivals.

President Obama’s executive action on immigration suffered another setback in court late yesterday.

Candidates who have been excluded from tomorrow’s Fox Business Network are complaining, but their complaints ignore the fact that polling is the best objective criteria we have to determine debate eligibility.

Ben Carson’s campaign now admits that he fabricated a key portion of his biography.

The effort to forge some kind of consensus independent of the RNC among the Republican candidates for President regarding debates appears to have failed. To the surprise of nobody who has been paying attention.

Everyone is sick of the current approach. The candidates are looking for a new one.

Several Republican candidates for President want to “fix” the debates, but they wouldn’t like the one thing that would definitely fix them.

Paul Ryan is getting pressure from all sides to get into the race for Speaker Of The House.