Outside the Beltway

At least one red state Democrat will be voting against Gina Haspel.

National Republicans are increasingly concerned that an upstart, racist candidate who has unleashed personal attacks on Mitch McConnell’s family will sneak through and win tomorrow’s primary to decide who will face Joe Manchin in November.

Failed Senate candidate Roy Moore is suing several of the women who accused him of sexual misconduct during last year’s campaign.

Individual races are idiosyncratic. But there are nonetheless some lessons here.

Tomorrow’s Special Election in Pennsylvania isn’t looking good for Republicans, even if their candidate manages to eke out a win.

The legal distinction between “personal capacity” and “official capacity” makes no sense for senior presidential appointees.

Will Joe Arpaio cause the GOP to lose an otherwise winnable Senate race?

This is not unreasonable.

The government is shut down and Washington is playing the usual blame game. In reality, there’s plenty of blame to go around, and one of the guilty parties is the American people.

With less than two days to go, the prospects for Congress finding a way to prevent a government shutdown aren’t looking good.

The GOP’s potential troubles in 2018 don’t just exist at the Congressional level.

Whatever goodwill may have existed between the Trump Administration and Steve Bannon appears to have evaporated.

Roy Moore continues to think that he is special.

Roy Moore isn’t giving up, but he can’t stop the inevitable.

More good poll numbers for Democrats as we headed into 2018.

Some Democratic Senators are suggesting that Al Franken should reconsider his decision to resign from the Senate.

Let’s not forget how unique the Moore-Jones contest was.

With the results from Alabama. the GOP faces a hard road ahead defending its majority in the Senate.

Roy Moore’s loss in Alabama is bringing out into the open a civil war that has been going on for seven years now.

House and Senate Republicans say they have reached agreement on a final tax bill, and Democrats are engaging in an effort to delay a vote in the Senate until Doug Jones can be seated.

In what amounts to an electoral perfect storm, Democratic nominee Doug Jones pulled off a win last night in the Alabama Senate Election.

There are no good outcomes for the GOP in Alabama.

Polling remains uncertain in the Alabama Senate race, but the odds favor Roy Moore.

Roy Moore wishes he was back in the days of cotton when families were close and African-Americans were enslaved.