Outside the Beltway

The DNC has $9.3 million to the RNC’s $44 million.

He could lose the popular vote by an even larger margin in 2020—and still coast to re-election.

The President’s decision to base his re-election campaign on racism and stoking racial and ethnic divisions is quite simple to explain.

Former South Carolina Congressman and Governor Mark Sanford is reportedly considering an intra-party challenge to President Trump

The lineups for the second Democratic debate are set, and they include some interesting pairings.

Once again, twenty candidates will participate in the second debate scheduled to take place over two nights at the end of the month.

Donald Trump returned to the campaign trail last night with another one of his red meat speeches. The analogies it causes one to draw are chilling to say the least.

Bernie Sanders won the New Hampshire Primary by a huge margin in 2016. This time, he’s slipping in the polls as other candidates rise ahead of him.

Beto O’Rourke’s campaign for President is going nowhere fast and he has only a small amount of time to stop the slide.

Increased focus on conservative efforts to overturn Roe v. Wade appears to be rallying public support for abortion rights.

Well, maybe.

The numbers are in and there’s good news for some candidates and bad news for a lot of the others.

Bill DeBlasio is facing criticism for the fact that he was off in Iowa on his quixotic Presidential campaign rather than being at home during Saturday’s blackout.

Joe Biden delivered his first major foreign policy address of the campaign. It’s not perfect, but it’s better than what we have right now.

Andrew Yang has been a relatively unknown candidate for the Democratic nomination, but he’s slowly risen in the polls and raised more money in the second quarter than several experienced politicians.

Democratic voters and donors appear to be narrowing their choices for a nominee down, which could mean a short future for a lot of current Democratic candidates.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has a challenger. Much like 2014, though, it’s far too early to start writing his political obituary.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals heard argument yesterday in a case that could radically impact health care coverage for millions of Americans.

Susan Collins hasn’t officially announced her intentions for 2020 just yet, but she looks like she’s running for re-election. If she does, she appears to be facing some political headwinds.

Senator Elizabeth Warren raised $19 million despite eschewing the high-dollar fundraisers her opponents have utilized.

A silly story for the silly season.

We won’t have a little-known Congressman from somewhereoranother to kick around any more.

Kris Kobach, former Kansas Secretary of State and former head of President Trump’s “Voter Fraud” Commission, is running for Senator in Kansas.

Joe Biden recently said that he’d consider nominating Merrick Garland again if there were a Supreme Court vacancy while he was President. Don’t count on it.

Billionaire Tom Steyer is apparently planning to enter the 2020 Democratic Presidential race.

Nearly half the country thinks he’s not a terrible President.

A law review article written when the former was a student provides an interesting contrast.

Kamala Harris lagged the top Democratic candidates in fundraising in the second quarter, but that’s likely to change.

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

It was a very successful fundraising quarter for the former Vice-President.

The surging candidate seems to be trying to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

The post-debate polling of the Democratic race continues to be somewhat chaotic, but it’s clear that Harris and Warren have made this a very different race than it was before the debates.

Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris are up, and Bernie Sanders is down, in the first state-level poll since the debates.

Three new polls show significant changes in the Democratic race in the wake of last week’s debates.

As expected, the House Ways & Means Committee is suing Treasury Secretary Mnuchin over his refusal to provide the committee with copies of the President’s tax returns.

Bernie Sanders raised $18 million in the second quarter of the year, trailing fellow candidate Pete Buttigieg.

President Trump And the RNC raised a record amount in the second quarter of the year.

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

Mayor Pete is raking in the dough.

POLITICO reports that some Democratic activists think she went too far.

The first Democratic debate has had an impact in the polls, with Kamala Harris rising and Joe Biden falling, although he still remains far ahead of his opponents.

The job laid out by the Framers in Article II of the Constitution has expanded a mite.

A new racist meme questioning Kamala Harris’s background is circulating on the Internet.

The first Democratic debate drew record numbers on both nights.

At look at the before and after polling numbers.

The Vermont Senator has a bizarre alternative to court packing.

WIth the top two candidates in the race on the same stage, the second night of the first Democratic debate was much feistier than the first night.

In the first poll since he entered the race, Roy Moore finds himself in third place in the race for the 2020 Republican Nomination for Senate in Alabama.

Is the Sanders-Warren position too extreme for the general election?

Democrats clashed, to some degree, in last night’s inaugural debate of the 2020 season but they clearly agreed far more than they disagreed.