Outside the Beltway

Two youngish Rhodes Scholars turned mayors are getting covered differently.

More good news for Joe Biden, this time out of South Carolina.

So far Joe Biden has run a gaffe-free campaign. But how long can it last?

Beto is fading.

Two weeks into his campaign, Joe Biden continues to build an impressive lead in polling at the state and national levels.

Another post-announcement poll brings good news for the former Vice-President, but there’s a long way to go.

A year and a half into the #MeToo era, we’re still debating who gets to have a career.

The latest CNN poll raises some questions about gender bias.

Former Vice-President Joe Biden is calling for an end to American support for the Saudi war on Yemen.

There’s some very good news for Joe Biden in the first polls taken after he entered the Presidential race.

The narrow loser of the Georgia governor’s race has left open the possibility of running for President.

A new poll shows President Trump struggling against four of his potential 2020 challengers. Should Republicans be worried and Democrats elated? It’s too early to tell.

One opinion writer says that Senator Kamala Harris should be disqualified as a Democratic candidate because she owns a handgun.

Not surprisingly, Donald Trump fears former Vice-President Joe Biden the most of all the Democrats currently running against him.

Former Vice-President Joe Biden had a very successful first day when it comes to campaign fundraising.

Taking Joe Biden’s bait, President Trump once again defended his response to the racist rally in Charlottesville two years ago..

Before he started his campaign for President, former Vice-President Biden reached out to Anita Hill to apologize for his conduct during the confirmation hearings for Clarence Thomas in 1991.

He’s tan. He’s rested. He’s ready. But is the Democratic Party going to buy what Joe Biden is selling?

Reports yesterday had former Vice-President Biden entering the Presidential field as early as tomorrow. Those plans appear to be delayed. but an an announcement still appears to be coming.

Pete Buttigieg is in the top three in a recent poll of New Hampshire Democratic primary voters, but can it last?

Cory Booker’s message of unity isn’t going over well with Democratic voters eager for a fight.

There’s a lot of money already chasing the 2020 presidential election.

It’s still early in the 2020 cycle, but Democratic candidate are finding rally attendees focused on one thing. Beating Donald Trump.

The 2020 debate on Twitter does not represent ordinary Americans. Does that matter?

“We have to be careful in balancing big dreams and bold ideas with also recognizing that typically change happens in steps.”

Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris are leading the field and Pete Bittigieg is doing surprisingly well.

In 2016, a crowded Republican field yielded an unlikely nominee. Could history repeat itself in 2020?

After a flood of stories saying the former Vice President is unsuitable for the modern era, the inevitable pushback is happening.

The peril of not yet running for President include not yet having a campaign staff in place.

The early frontrunner for the Democratic nomination is drawing fire from multiple fronts. It may destroy his candidacy before it begins.

A Washington Post columnists tries to make the case.

David Gergen lives in a fantasy world.

Beto O’Rourke hasn’t officially said that he’s running for President, but he’s certainly sending all the signals you’d expect from a Presidential candidate.

The former Vice President is seen as “just right” by likely Caucus goers.

For the fourth time since the 2008 election cycle, Michael Bloomberg flirted with the idea of running for President. For the fourth time, he declined to do so.

We won’t have Hillary Clinton to kick around anymore.

Former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper is the latest entrant into an already crowded Democratic field.

In what was basically a throwaway line, Joe Biden said something nice about Mike Pence. The reaction from his fellow Democrats says a lot about our current political culture, and none of it is good.

Washington Governor Jay Inslee is running for the Democratic nomination for President on a platform primarily focused on climate change. Whether that helps distinguish him from a growing field of candidates remains to be seen.

Former Vice-President Joe Biden isn’t officially running for President yet, but says his family is on board if he does.

The Texas Congressman has decided to forgo another Senate bid and instead focus his energies elsewhere.

Bernie is back and running for President, but he’s likely to face a tougher road this time around.

Gender bias is real. Most examples cited, though, aren’t.

Faced with a field that could be more crowded than the Republican field in 2016, Democrats have come up with a different solution to the rather obvious problem of debate scheduling.

The former Attorney General is seriously pondering a presidential bid. Seriously.

It’s far too early, but Joe Biden’s advantages in these polls of Democratic voters can’t be ignored.

Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren is the latest entrant into an already crowded field for the Democratic nomination.

The President’s second State of the Union began and ended with calls for unity. In between, it was filled with the divisive partisanship that has marked his Presidency.

New polling indicates that a solid majority of Democrats are more interested in finding a candidate who can beat Donald Trump in 2020 than they are with finding a candidate that agrees with them on specific issues.

National and Virginia Democratic officials are calling on Virginia Governor Ralph Northam to resign over racist photos in his 1984 medical school yearbook.