Outside the Beltway

The trend line shifted this week.

Of course he did.

The Commonwealth is the first state in the nation to issue regulations.

The Senator from Minnesota is no longer a candidate for Vice President.

Thoughts on Biden’s low profile and Trump’s daily exposure.

We’re putting people in an impossible position.

Even amidst a national crisis, he refuses to do the right thing.

Looking back at my predictions about the 2020 Democratic race.

Nate Silver now gives Biden an 87% chance of winning the nomination outright.

The inevitable has happened.

A quick follow-up.

The wagons have been circled.

The races are more alike—and yet more different—than we seem to remember.

She lost in both of her home states. She shouldn’t be embarrassed.

Not a great night for the former New York major. But he still has $54.5 billion to comfort him.

96 percent of the delegates have yet to be awarded. How can the race be down to two?

The final delegate count may well be skewed.

The Iowa winner and New Hampshire runner-up has acknowledged the inevitable.

Joe Biden won with every group imaginable—and some that were unimaginable.

She’s continuing to swing at the candidates beating her at the polls.

The billionaire has decided to stop tilting at windmills.

The 78-year-old is the Comeback Kid. And the only chance of preventing a Bernie Sanders nomination.

Donald Trump is once again trying to deflect reality.

If the current polls are right, the race will be all but over in five days.

Anti-Biden ads using the former President’s words are being aimed at black voters.

The vanity candidate may impact the race.

There’s no way to catch him in a six-candidate field.

Media overreacts to the Sanders victory all the polls predicted.

Competing in fourteen states plus overseas territories in one day is expensive.

Could the fevered dream really come true?

Two early frontrunners are being written off.

Iowa and New Hampshire voters are changing the perception of the race.

Some thoughts based on incomplete results.

How is the mayor of a modest-sized Midwestern city doing as well as he has?

The primary season has just started. It is almost over.

Regulars beware: this is a total deviation from normal content.

Elizabeth Warren and Joe Biden both brought in impressive fundraising numbers for the final quarter of 2019.

Andrew Yang had an impressive fourth quarter when it comes to fundraising, but it appears unlikely to help his campaign at all.

A big fundraising quarter for the Senator from Vermont.

Pete Buttigieg had a very successful fundraising quarter at the same time he is rising in the polls.

A new poll shows Senator Lindsey Graham vulnerable to a Democratic challenge next year, but there are several caveat.

Kamala Harris didn’t fail because of her race, she failed because she was a bad candidate.

Lindsey Graham faces a potentially interesting challenge in his 2020 re-election bid.

Under the Democratic National Committee’s current qualification rules, Michael Bloomberg’s self-funded campaign means he wouldn’t qualify for any future debate. He doesn’t seem worried about that.

Earlier this month, Senator Lindsey Graham blocked a bipartisan resolution condemning the Armenian Genocide, Now we know why.

Lock her up?

After a promising start, Kamala Harris’s campaign appears to be in crisis mode.

A new poll shows Pete Buttigieg surging in Iowa, where the Caucuses are 92 days away.

After just two months, Mark Sanford is dropping his challenge to the incumbent President.

A new poll seems to indicate that Democratic voters aren’t exactly jumping on the Mike Bloomberg train.