Outside the Beltway

Comparisons with 2016 all work against Trump’s re-election.

Another small step toward canceling the fall sports calendar.

More dominoes are falling. They won’t be the last.

Even Republicans are wondering if President Trump is at his “Katrina moment.”

Those who wish to vote for Tommy Tuberville or Jeff Sessions will have to walk to the mailbox.

Joementum.

We’re unlikely to know who wins the November elections right away.

Because sometimes a comment starts to become a post.

The vagaries of our Presidential election mechanism gave us a surprising result in 2016. That’s unlikely this year.

Outside agitators, including white supremacist groups, are shaping public perception of the George Floyd protests.

Hypocrisy, lies, and dangerous rhetoric from Trump and his allies on mail-in voting.

Pandemonium during a pandemic.

Things are not looking good.

Sigh.

He has ended his bid for the Democratic nomination.

An irrelevant judicial order is being enforced for no apparent reason.

The state is voting during the high point of a global pandemic because Republicans forced it.

Some internal cracks in terms of continuing?

The 1990s country star is dead at 61.

This is no ordinary recession.

Evidence from the four early states is not looking promising.

Money has increasingly dominated American politics but the court case had little to do with it.

A key economic statistic that rarely gets widespread public attention is showing that the manufacturing sector has been in recession for four months now.

The costs of irresponsible policy.

Even as candidates like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders continue to base their campaigns on it, Democrats appear to be growing skeptical of ‘Medicare For All.’

Tuesday’s elections continued a trend in which Republicans have lost support among suburban voters, even in deeply red states. Guess who’s responsible for that.

Much like it did during the McCarthy Era, the Republican Party has to decide what side of history it wishes to be on. The right side, or the wrong side.

A conservative columnist argues the legitimacy of our system is in question.

From manufacturing to trade, the negative impact of Trump’s tariffs is becoming quite apparent.

The map shows the flaws of the Electoral College

A Federal Court has ruled once again in favor of a transgender student in Virginia who was prevented from using the bathroom conforming to their gender identity.

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.

Dozens of well-off students from the Chicago area are getting college subsidies.

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.

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

New polling suggests that the President may not be benefiting from the relatively healthy economy as much as expected.

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.

Four years ago, Donald Trump began his campaign for President. What has followed has been as bad as could have been predicted that day.

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.

At least some conservatives appear to finally be recognizing that their movement has been taken over by grifters and frauds. The only question is, what took them so long?

The President’s foolish tariffs against Mexico are finally causing many Republican Senators to stand up against him.

Starting tomorrow, we should be getting some headline-grabbing opinions from the Supreme Court.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.