Outside the Beltway

Bernie Sanders has slipped in the polls but retains his ability to raise money.

It looks like we’ll have Cory Booker to kick around for a little while longer.

Congressman Chris Collins, an early supporter of President Trump’s, will be pleading guilty to insider trading charges.

SNL takes on impeachment and the 2020 Democratic Presidential race.

The White House has released a summary of the July 25th phone call between President Trump and the President of Ukraine. It doesn’t help President Trump or his defenders.

The criteria for the November and December debate will make it much harder for some Democrats to get on the national stage. That isn’t a bad thing.

Once again, a fight is set to brew over funding for the President’s border wall. Will he force another shutdown in an election year?

The time for coddling the candidates polling below 5% is over.

President Trump is now admitting that he talked to the President of Ukraine about investigations of Joe Biden and his son but denies there was a quid pro quo.

A familiar name has entered the race for the Democratic Senate nomination in Massachusetts.

The latest Des Moines Register poll puts Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren at the top of the pack in the Hawkeye State.

Cory Booker’s campaign is basically admitting they’re at the end of the road.

For the most part, the third debate appears to have had little immediate impact on the race for the Democratic nomination.

New York City’s Mayor ends a campaign that was going nowhere.

A startling statistic that hides a more comforting reality.

It’s still early in the election cycle but there’s plenty for the President to worry about.

Let’s not kid ourselves about what’s possible in the next election.

The oldest living former President has some reflections on age and the strains of the office.

Despite having utterly mishandled both areas when they actually held power, Republicans think they can win back the House of Representatives by focusing on the budget deficit and health care reform.

At last week’s debate, Beto O’Rourke handed Republicans and gun rights advocates a nicely wrapped gift with his claim that he would seize guns from otherwise law-abiding Americans.

A new poll finds President Trump trailing his potential Democratic opponents by huge margins among Latino voters.

Julian Castro, Kamala Harris, and Elizabeth Warren are pandering to the base.

In the US, the candidate defines the party, not the other way around.

As doubts about the health of the economy start to mount, President Trump’s job approval is starting to suffer.

Is social media making it harder for Democrats to nominate a winning candidate?

In a rather obvious rebuke aimed at President Trump, Mitt Romney said this week that he will not endorse anyone for President in 2020.

The top ten candidates in the race for the Democratic nomination clashed last night in a debate that made clear the different ideological directions that this race is pulling their party.

As predicted, the Federal Budget Deficit has crossed the threshold back into the world of trillion-dollar deficits. This is all due to the hypocrisy of Republicans and so-called conservatives.

This evening ten Democratic candidates for President, including all of the front runners, appear on stage together for the third debate of the 2020 election cycle.

She decries swanky fundraisers and big money donors while benefiting from both.

Republicans managed to pull off a narrow win in North Carolina yesterday, but they shouldn’t be celebrating.

Democrat Jon Ossoff has thrown his hat in the ring to challenge David Perdue for Georgia’s Senate seat in 2020.

Former Republican Congressman and Governor Mark Sanford is running for President.

This morning it was a question, this afternoon is a done deal in three states.

Staring in 2020 the winner in Maine will be the majority preference.

Four state GOPs appear poised to cancel their primaries/caucuses.

The August Jobs Report came in below expectations as other economic statistics point to a slowing economy.

Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is ending a Presidential bid nobody knew existed.

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.

As the race for the Democratic nomination heads into the fall, it looks as if it has already winnowed itself down to a top three.

More of the wit and wisdom of the 45th President of the United States.

The map shows the flaws of the Electoral College

The Democratic National Committee is moving to block efforts by the state parties in Iowa and Nevada to open up the caucus process to more participants, citing security issues.

The Democratic candidates for President who didn’t qualify for the third debate are coming under increased pressure to get out of the race.

A former Federal Reserve officials argues that the Fed should not lower interest rates to compensate for the impact of the President’s trade war, potentially leading to his defeat in the election. This is an incredibly bad idea.

Kirsten Gillibrand has dropped out of a Presidential race few people realized she was in.

The stage for the third Democratic debate, scheduled for mid-September, is set and its half the size of its predecessors.

Two new polls released today indicate that earlier suggestions that the race for the Democratic nomination had shifted were incorrect.

Georgia Senator Johnny Isakson will retire at the end of 2019, setting up a contest in 2020 to fill the remainder of his term.

A new poll shows that most Americans want President Trump out of office, but don’t want to see the House impeach him.