Outside the Beltway

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Republicans will hold their 2020 National Convention in the same city that hosted the Democrats back in 2012.

The Office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller has issued indictments against twelve Russian intelligence officials for election-related hacking, and in the process has shown most of the arguments made by the President and his surrogates regarding the Russia investigation are nonsense.

The Democratic National Committee is one step closer to adopting a rule change that would make superdelegates largely irrelevant to the party’s nomination process.

Democrats are on the verge of reducing the power of superdelegates to the point where they will essentially become meaningless in the nomination process.

Democrats have decided to move up the date of their 2020 Convention.

Democrats on Capitol Hill are objecting to the proposed changes in the role of superdelegates in the party’s nomination process.

As he has in the past, Bernie Sanders will seek the Democratic nomination for Senate in Vermont but won’t accept the nomination if he wins.

Even with yesterday’s indictments, President Trump still won’t acknowledge reality even though it’s staring him in the face.

There’s growing evidence that Donald Trump’s tweets are hurting him but his aides have basically given up trying to control his Twitter habit.

The widow of Sgt. La David Johnson spoke out about the death of her husband and the controversy over the phone call she received from President Trump. And Trump proceeded to attack her and call her a liar.

Now Donald Trump is using the death of American soldiers to tell lies about his predecessor.

The problem with the Trump White House is the man who sits behind the Resolute Desk.

Sad news about a Washington stalwart.

Six months after the election, the postmortems of the Clinton campaign all seem to have one thing in common, they all point at things other than the candidate and her campaign as being the reason she lost.

Donald Trump isn’t going to change, and that’s bad news for all of us.

A new head for the DNC at a time when the Democratic Party finds itself reeling and eager to take on Donald Trump.

Republicans sure have changed their mind about Vladimir Putin.

In what seems like a replay of the primary battle between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, some top Democratic Party leadership positions may be in jeopardy.

It’s eleven weeks — just 77 days — until Election Day, and things are looking pretty good for Hillary Clinton, and pretty bad for Donald Trump.

Allegations of influence peddling by Clinton Foundation donors are being rehashed thanks to the release of a new batch of emails.

It just keeps getting worse.

More Republican officeholders are distancing themselves from Donald Trump, but it’s time to start wondering what took them so long,

It’s been a bad week for Donald Trump, something he can ill-afford with less than 100 days left until Election Day.

Post-convention polling at the state level holds some bad news for the Trump campaign.

Donald Trump continues to be Donald Trump. Which is quickly turning into a political disaster.

Hillary Clinton appears to be doing very well in the wake of the first round of post-convention polls.

Of course Donald Trump responded to a Gold Star Father in the worst possible way.

Big losses for proponents of Voter ID laws in two swing states.

The one with the better convention seems to have lost ground over the last two weeks.

More than any politician that spoke last night, it was the father of a fallen solider who stole the night.

Hillary Clinton delvers a largely successful acceptance speech that caps off a convention that ran far smoother than its Republican counterpart.

Eight years after beating her for the Democratic Nomination, Barack Obama passed the torch to Hillary Clinton with a speech that sounded more like Ronald Reagan than anything we’ve heard from the Republican nominee.

The second night of the Democratic Convention seemed much calmer than the first, as the Clinton campaign moves forward toward the biggest speech of Hillary Clinton’s life.

Ignore the focus on discord, most of Bernie’s supporters are supporting Hillary.

Donald Trump started out his campaign by telling us that the American dream is dead, and he returned to those dark and pessimistic themes in his acceptance speech last night.00

Speeches by the wife and kids are supposed to be the easy part of a convention. If you mess that up, you truly are an amateur.

I haven’t yet watched any of the 2016 Republican National Convention but the first day was a beauty.

Well that took long enough.

Bernie Sanders admitted, finally, that he likely won’t be the nominee.

Bernie Sanders doesn’t seem to realize that the political world has already moved past the race for the Democratic nomination.

Hillary Clinton easily won the final contest of the 2016 primary season, and the Clinton-Sanders reconciliation dance began.

Senator Elizabeth Warren is the latest Democrat to unite behind the party’s presumptive nominee. A marked contrast to the chaos that reigns on the Republican side of the aisle.

With the race for the Democratic nomination over, President Obama is ready to hit the campaign trail for Hillary Clinton.

Continuing the fight at this point is not just Quixotic, it’s unsporting.

One media critic is arguing that news organizations should ignore the fact that Hillary Clinton will become the Presumptive Democratic Nominee tomorrow. This is utterly ridiculous.

Bernie Sanders is continuing to let his supporters believe he has a chance to win the Democratic nomination. He is either delusional, or he is lying to his supporters.

Hillary Clinton is hoping to avoid an embarrassing loss in California to Bernie Sanders, and she just got some help from an unlikely source.