Outside the Beltway

Cory Booker announced some respectable fundraising numbers, but his campaign continues to coast along just above the point of irrelevance.

Kamala Harris has slipped in the polls but her financial numbers are still pretty respectable.

Pete Buttigieg’s momendum in the polls has slowed, but his fundraising ability has not.

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

Even as the impeachment vultures circle, the President is lashing out and making things more difficult for himself.

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.

Public opinion on impeachment has taken a rapid turn that should alarm the Trump White House.

Not surprisingly, President Trump told Russian officials early on that he didn’t care if Russia interfered in the 2016 election.

Trump threatens civil war if he’s removed from office.

The impending impeachment of the President is likely to reveal Republicans on Capitol Hill to be the cowards we already knew they were.

Jake Tapper and Chris Wallace both put Administration surrogates through the ringer on their respective Sunday morning shows.

SNL takes on impeachment and the 2020 Democratic Presidential race.

An empty column with a seed of one good point buried in a bunch of nothing.

Not surprisingly, there are other phone call transcripts and other communications that further complicate Trump’s position.

Fox News Channel in general, and Fox And Friends in particular, have become nothing but a propaganda network for the White House and the President.

Just over four years ago.

A note in the whistleblower’s complaint suggests other transcripts, like the Zelensky call, that have been buried.

The real crime is what’s legal.

A little bit of this for a little bit of that.

House Democrats are reportedly looking at an impeachment process narrowly focused on the President’s efforts to obtain a quid pro quo from the President of Ukraine.

President Trump and the Republican Party have spent the last three years lying about the Federal budget deficit and the economy.

For the first time, it’s conceivable that Republicans will turn against the President.

The President’s initial reaction to the release of the whistleblower complaint is about what you’d expect from a petty dictator.

The Acting Director of National Intelligence has released the complaint filed by an intelligence community whistleblower that has set off allegations that the President sought foreign aid in undermining a political opponent.

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.

California, joined by 22 other states and jurisdictions, is suing to block the Administration’s efforts to revoke the state’s waiver to impose tougher clean air regulations.

Working as the President’s private attorney, Rudy Giuliani has spent months working behind the scenes to pressure Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden’s son.

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.

A blast from the past: two days before the Zelensky call.

Greg Sargent usefully lays out the basics.

The escalation has been rapid, dramatic, and warranted.

Late last week, a Federal Judge blocked a California law requiring candidates for President and other offices to make copies of their tax returns public.

Donald Trump is suing the District Attorney in Manhattan to stop him from getting copies of Trump’s tax returns.

Just days before he repeatedly pressured the President of Ukraine to reopen a closed investigation involving the son of former Vice-President Biden, President Trump suspended military aid that had been authorized by Congress.

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.

What we know for sure.

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.

But, our process to elect the president is highly flawed.

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

The details about President Trump’s attempts to get Ukraine to investigate the son of one of his potential 2020 rivals keep getting worse for the President.

A wrongheaded solution for a legitimate problem.

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

Eighteen years after it started, the American public seems to be mostly ignoring the war in Afghanistan. But that isn’t an excuse for not bringing it to an end.

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

A startling statistic that hides a more comforting reality.

The latest allegations about exactly what the President may have been trying to do in a phone call with a foreign leader that caught the attention of a whistleblower are becoming more serious by the day.