Outside the Beltway

Ready or not, the campaign has begun.

The appointment of white supremacist to a State Department slot creates some thoughts.

He filibustered nothing for a very long time.

Ezra Klein makes a compelling case.

A roundup of news and opinon.

That didn’t take long.

The West Virginia Senator has taken the football from Charlie Brown and gone home.

J.D. Vance’s cynical suggestion.

The Senate’s last conservative Democrat is taking President Biden’s call for unity seriously.

The former VP is focused on beating Bernie Sanders but his team is looking ahead.

Women didn’t vote for her either. But that doesn’t mean sexism didn’t play a role in her loss.

The women, minority, and non-geriatric candidates have been all but eliminated from the race.

He’s campaigning in her home state and Amy Klobuchar’s, too. And may win both.

CBS did a lousy job.

It got somewhat ugly at the kids’ table.

The wrong people are choosing the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee.

The math compelled it. But he outlasted several better-known candidates.

Proposed mid-stream changes could help Bloomberg, hurt Sanders, and divide the party.

Next week’s Democratic debate could have as few as five candidates.

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

Another one bites the dust.

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

New Jersey Congressman Jeff van Drew, elected just last year as a Democrat, is now a Republican.

It’s time for the last Democratic debate of 2019, and the stage will be smaller than it has at any time in the past.

Cory Booker’s campaign is starting to show some of the same signs of collapse that Kamala Harris’s did.