Outside the Beltway

A pleasant surprise.

A party-line vote may scuttle mail-in voting in a crucial swing state.

The two oldest major party nominees in American history are not inspiring great confidence.

The President admits that he intentionally downplayed the threat posed by the epidemic.

What is more concerning, speculation and war games, or the words of POTUS?

Biden is polling well, and consistently so.

Our screwy electoral system requires thinking about screwy scenarios.

The latest FNC poll has more good news for Biden.

Is shunning those without college degrees the last acceptable prejudice?

New numbers show more consistency.

The politics of protests.

Yet more flouting of the rule of law by the Trump administration.

The Republican Party is now the mirror image of the totalitarian propagandists it used to hate.

The Republicans are putting on quite a show.

A short speech by a young man underscores a massive contrast in the candidates.

The official campaign to oust Donald Trump is off to a good start.

I’ve been thinking it wrong for years.

Joe Biden’s running mate will be highly scrutinized. What’s fair game?

A choice that’s both historic and unsurprising.

What would a reborn GOP look like and who would vote for it?

To mix cultural references: less than meets the eye.

A column is getting negative attention for all the wrong reasons

Joe Biden has either narrowed down his choice for running mate down to two women or he hasn’t.

The President has hit rock bottom.

Will we ever be satisfied?

“We are a cancer and there is no cure,”

The President may be right on voting by mail.

An ambitious veepable. What a concept!

We were much slower and have higher non-conformity than countries that have it under control.

She would hardly be the first running mate who criticized the nominee in a debate.

Are “trust issues” in the way?

Shame on him for defending authoritarian actions.

A hundred days out, a wave election is the best bet.

A lousy column indirectly makes an important point.

An interesting if frustrating new survey from Cato.

Comparisons with 2016 all work against Trump’s re-election.

It’s just not immediate.

The President does not like his poll numbers.

Could a blue state governor be the future of the Republican Party?

The Paycheck Protection Program protected some interesting paychecks.

I don’t see it.

Is the Chief Justice laying a trap or simply ‘calling balls and strikes’?

A useful insight from the former late night comic.

Joementum.

President Trump is behind 14 points in the latest NYT poll.

We’re unlikely to know who wins the November elections right away.

A television interview promoting his book further reveals what an awful man he is.

The President gave a delusional rant to a half-empty stadium thanks to some crazy kids.

The Senator from Minnesota is no longer a candidate for Vice President.

Always look for evidence.