Outside the Beltway

The wrong people are choosing the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee.

Andrew Yang is upset about the fact that he’s largely being ignored at the Democratic debates. He’s right, but that’s at least partly his fault.

Beto O;Rourke finally faces reality.

The next steps in the impeachment process are relatively easy to predict.

Former Astronaut Mark Kelly is posing a big challenge to Senator Martha McSally in Arizona.

Fear of Donald Trump and his minions is making it hard for Republicans to answer a simple question.

Is social media making it harder for Democrats to nominate a winning candidate?

As the race for the Democratic nomination heads into the fall, it looks as if it has already winnowed itself down to a top three.

The Democratic candidates for President who didn’t qualify for the third debate are coming under increased pressure to get out of the race.

Kirsten Gillibrand has dropped out of a Presidential race few people realized she was in.

Georgia Senator Johnny Isakson will retire at the end of 2019, setting up a contest in 2020 to fill the remainder of his term.

Massachusetts Congressman Seth Moulton is ending a Presidential bid that few people were paying attention to.

Mark Kelly, and the Democratic Party, got some good news in the latest Senate poll out of Arizona.

Former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper, who dropped out of the race for President just last week, is running for Senate in his home state.

Beto O’Rourke is once again rejecting the idea of running for Senate instead of President.

We won’t have Hickenlooper to kick around anymore.

There are hints that former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper could abandon his seemingly doomed Presidential bid to run for Senate.

In the battle for Senate control in 2020, the conditions appear to favor Republicans. At least for now.

Future debates among the 2020 Democratic candidates are likely to have fewer participants. That’s a good thing.

The first night of the second Democratic debate consisted largely of clashes between the party’s progressive wing and more moderate elements.

The lineups for the second Democratic debate are set, and they include some interesting pairings.

Once again, twenty candidates will participate in the second debate scheduled to take place over two nights at the end of the month.

The numbers are in and there’s good news for some candidates and bad news for a lot of the others.

Andrew Yang has been a relatively unknown candidate for the Democratic nomination, but he’s slowly risen in the polls and raised more money in the second quarter than several experienced politicians.

Senator Elizabeth Warren raised $19 million despite eschewing the high-dollar fundraisers her opponents have utilized.

A silly story for the silly season.

WIth the top two candidates in the race on the same stage, the second night of the first Democratic debate was much feistier than the first night.

The participants for the two-night opening debate of the 2020 campaign season have been announced, and the candidates who were excluded aren’t happy.

The latest iteration of a benchmark Iowa poll shows Joe Biden leading, with Bernie Sanders sinking and looking at several candidates closing in on him.

Bernie Sanders supporters are a wee bit sensitive.

Passing up an opportunity that other Democrats are taking, Elizabeth Warren is declining to appear on Fox News Channel. This seems like an unwise decision.

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

Colorado Senator Michael Bennet is the latest entrant into the race for the Democratic nomination for President, and the field isn’t done growing.

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

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

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

As it has since 2007, the Democratic National Committee is barring Fox News from hosting a debate featuring the party’s candidates for President.

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

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.

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

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.

While much of the attention in the race for the Democratic nomination to date has been on the left, there is a path forward for a more centrist candidate.

Bernie Sanders has not officially said that he’s running for President, but he’s reportedly planning a much more aggressive campaign than what we saw in 2016 if he does.

Amazon has reportedly decided to split its second headquarters between an already urbanized area of Northern Virginia and the outer boroughs of New York City.

With the 2020 Campaign set to begin as soon as the 2018 campaign ends, Democrats find themselves facing an age issue.

Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper’s name may be unfamiliar, but he’s looking to change that.

Hillary Clinton is hinting about maybe running in 2020 again. Is she serious, or is this just a publicity stunt?

The midterm elections are still four months away, but Democrats are already making moves to prepare for the race for their party’s Presidential nomination in 2020.

What was once a rare symbol of national mourning has become so commonplace as to be meaningless.

The Trump Administration is reversing policy on an Obama Era policy that allowed states to choose their own course on marijuana laws.