Outside the Beltway

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Republicans are afraid to oppose Donald Trump for fear that his supporters will come after them.

Donald Trump resurrects an old debate and desecrates the Constitution in the process.

In which Ted Cruz endorses the guy who called his wife ugly and said his father was involved in the Kennedy assassination.

According to one report, the GOP’s longest living former President plans to vote for a Democrat this fall.

The GOP civil war continues…..

As expected, John McCain easily defeated his primary opponent yesterday.

It’s eleven weeks — just 77 days — until Election Day, and things are looking pretty good for Hillary Clinton, and pretty bad for Donald Trump.

The latest desperation bid from anti-Trump Republicans is guaranteed to make a GOP civil war more likely.

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

Donald Trump continues to be Donald Trump. Which is quickly turning into a political disaster.

Eight years after beating her for the Democratic Nomination, Barack Obama passed the torch to Hillary Clinton with a speech that sounded more like Ronald Reagan than anything we’ve heard from the Republican nominee.

As expected, Hillary Clinton went with the ‘safe’ choice, and has selected Virginia Senator Tim Kaine as her running mate.

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

Ted Cruz’s convention speech was about what you’d expect, a gamble designed to set up his campaign for President in 2020 or beyond.

Speeches by the wife and kids are supposed to be the easy part of a convention. If you mess that up, you truly are an amateur.

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

Predictably, the latest effort to prevent Donald Trump from gaining the Republican nomination has ended in failure.

Once again, the GOP platform is turning into a surrender to social conservatives on issues such as same-sex marriage and transgender rights.

Hillary Clinton’s extreme carelessness with classified information probably won’t cost her the election, but it should.

Despite a year of utter failure, one group of Republicans apparently still thinks they can deny Donald Trump the Republican nomination.

The Veepstakes continues.

Is Indiana’s Governor a contender to be Donald Trump’s running mate?

Vice-President Gingrich? Really?

Chris Christie remains at the top of the list of potential Trump running mates.

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

One result from the new NBC News poll shows us how important it is to pay attention to how poll questions are phrased.

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

Bernie Sanders admitted, finally, that he likely won’t be the nominee.

A campaign shake up at Trump Tower, but it’s unlikely to change fundamentals.

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.

Donald Trump’s latest outbursts are causing Republicans to move away from him faster than you can say “electoral disaster.”

Republican insiders are apparently still looking at ways to stop Donald Trump at a convention. It’s far too late for that, guys.

With top Republicans recoiling from the realization that the GOP is stuck with Trump in 2016, the ground seems to be being prepared for a conflict that could tear the GOP apart regardless of who wins in November.

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

In case anyone noticed: I got the Trump nomination wrong.

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

As we begin to head into General Election season, a few things to remember about the avalanche of polls to come.

Paul Ryan is declining to back Donald Trump for the time being, but other Republicans are making their own choices.

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

With voters in five states set to go to the polls, both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are likely to make significant progress toward their quest for a majority of delegates in their respective contests.

A New Jersey judge, along with a Judge in Pennsylvania, is among the first to rule on the meaning of the ‘natural born citizen’ clause.

The two men most likely to win the Republican nomination aren’t very well liked outside the Republican Party.

Donald Trump is complaining about a ‘rigged’ delegate selection process, but the truth is that the fault lies with only one person, Donald Trump.