Outside the Beltway

According to one report, the GOP’s longest living former President plans to vote for a Democrat this fall.

With just forty-nine days left in the campaign, and less than a week before the first debate, the race for President is tighter than ever.

The GOP civil war continues…..

Once again, the debate commission controlled by the two major parties is excluding third-party candidates from the Presidential debates.

Donald Trump’s campaign is apparently finally acknowledging reality, although its claim that birtherism originated with the Clinton campaign in 2008 does not comport with the facts.

Apparently, even people who support Donald Trump don’t believe his claim that he can get Mexico to pay for his border wall.

The election is now fifty-six days away and, while the race is tighter than it has been, it’s still one in which Hillary Clinton has seemingly all the advantages.

Clinton stumbles and leaves an event early, leading to the news that her campaign has been withholding health information from the press.

The sense of national ‘unity’ that existed in the wake of the September 11th attacks didn’t last for very long.

North Korea continues to advance its nuclear program but it’s unclear what anyone can do about it.

David Brooks thinks American politics “Could get ugly” before the ship gets righted.

Donald Trump’s admiration and praise for the dictatorial leader of Russia should be sufficient reason to disqualify him from being President of the United States.

House Republicans are vowing to continue their investigations even if Hillary Clinton wins the White House.

The idea that Donald Trump has gotten his racialized rhetoric from libertarians is simply errant nonsense. The libertarian view, broadly speaking, is not defined by Murray Rothbard, Llewellyn Rockwell, and Ron Paul and those who share their views. This is but a small and even fringe group of what could be called the libertarian community.

Evan McMullin’s quixotic campaign for President continues.

Roger Ailes’s sexual harassment has led to Fox News paying out some big dollars.

It’s the traditional start of the campaign season, and the race for President is getting close, at least at the national level.

Another poll shows that Latino voters are set to reject Donald Trump in record numbers, and now they’re turning against the GOP.

Another set of revelations shows that the Clinton campaign has yet to put the email story behind it.

A Trump surrogate warns of a “taco truck on every corner” if Trump loses. That sounds like more of a promise than a threat if you ask me.

If you want to volunteer for Donald Trump, you’ll have to agree to never disparage Trump, his family, his campaign, or any of his businesses. Forever.

In a ruling that could have a real impact on the 2016 election, the Supreme Court has declined to grant a stay to a lower court ruling striking down a North Carolina law that tightened Voter ID laws and restricted early voting.

After some two weeks in which it seemed like he might be moderating, Donald Trump doubled down on the most anti-immigrant portions of his immigration plan.

Comments from one Republican Senator are raising the possibility we could see hearings and a vote on Merrick Garland during the post-election lame duck session of Congress.

As expected, John McCain easily defeated his primary opponent yesterday.

As expected, Marco Rubio easily won the primary for his Senate seat. The General Election battle, though, promises to be more difficult.

With ten weeks to go ,there’s been some tightening in the polls but Hillary Clinton continues to maintain a commanding lead in the race for the White House.

This is not exactly what Rick Perry had hoped he’d be doing this fall.

John McCain is bidding for a sixth term in office, with a challenge from the right in tomorrow’s primary and Donald Trump at the top of the ticket in November.

Much like their predecessors, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have released only limited information about their health. It may be time for that to change.

Sorry Donald Trump, but most Americans believe that people here illegally deserve a path to citizenship and oppose building a border wall.

Yesterday, Hillary Clinton pointed out truths about Donald Trump that his fellow Republicans were too scared to point out during the primary..

Over the course of twenty-four hours, Donald Trump has had three separate positions on how he’d deal with illegal immigrants already in the country.

Donald Trump is signaling a big shift in his immigration position.

The “independent conservative” running for President is finding it hard to even get on the ballot.

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.

A report over the weekend raises questions about whether or not Donald Trump is changing positions on a central tenet of his campaign.

Early indications are the Ruth Bader Ginsburg and other older Justices don’t plan on leaving any time soon.

A Trump loss in November could lead to battles inside the GOP that could take years to resolve.

Donald Trump engages in some nice post hoc ergo propter hoc by implying that the decline in manufacturing jobs in North Carolina is due to NAFTA. Ignoring that other factors are more likely playing a far greater role in the loss of manufacturing jobs.

President Obama is being criticized for remaining on vacation while Louisiana deals with historic flooding.

One speech isn’t going to make up for what we’ve seen so far.

Don’t be fooled into thinking that the election is “over,” because it isn’t.

GOP control of Indiana’s Senate seat appears to be in jeopardy, and that will have serious implications for the battle to control the Senate.