Outside the Beltway

We’ve just had an election, not psychoanalysis.

An unconvincing attack on the Democratic position.

The Toddler-in-Chief strikes again.

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

Every Democratic woman seems to be under consideration.

Dan Drezner makes an interesting comparison.

We may be seeing the beginning of the end.

Women didn’t vote for her either. But that doesn’t mean sexism didn’t play a role in her loss.

It got somewhat ugly at the kids’ table.

Most national pundits saw it differently than I did.

It’s a reasonable question but not the right one.

Iowa and New Hampshire voters are changing the perception of the race.

A recurring source of friction in the OTB conversation.

Money has increasingly dominated American politics but the court case had little to do with it.

The 45th President polls worse than other prominent Republicans.

The 2016 frontrunners at this stage won their nominations easily. But that’s often not the case.

Last night, Trump decided it would be a good idea to attack a dead Congressman and his widow.

Lindsey Graham is the latest Senator to make clear that he’s already made up his mind on impeachment.

Donald Trump proves once again that there are no boundaries he won’t cross.

Some reports are indicating that Joe Biden’s campaign is considering making a pledge that he would only serve a single term if elected. This would be a mistake.

Former President Obama has been largely quiet about the race for the Democratic nomination, but that may not last.

After a long day of hearings, the case against the President is becoming clearer and Republican defenses becoming more absurd.

History shows us that candidates who enter the race for President late rarely do well, and rarely manage to win.

Another bad night for Republicans in Virginia, and another warning sign for Republicans nationally.

Facing a cash crunch, Kamala Harris is shedding campaign staff and cutting spending. This seldom ends well.

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

Republicans face a choice. Do they put their country first, or do they put their President first?

The liberal notion that people are persuadable through airing of ideas is obsolete.

Despite having utterly mishandled both areas when they actually held power, Republicans think they can win back the House of Representatives by focusing on the budget deficit and health care reform.

A new poll finds President Trump trailing his potential Democratic opponents by huge margins among Latino voters.

Republicans managed to pull off a narrow win in North Carolina yesterday, but they shouldn’t be celebrating.

Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is ending a Presidential bid nobody knew existed.

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

Controversial former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was voted out of office in 2016 after serving six terms in office, is running to get his old job back.

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

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

He could lose the popular vote by an even larger margin in 2020—and still coast to re-election.

Some agree with him. Many others are cowards. But there’s more to it.

Much to the chagrin of Republicans hoping to win back a Senate seat they never should have lost, Roy Moore is running for Senate again in Alabama.

President Trump’s opening rally of the 2020 campaign sounded an awful lot like a rally from 2016

Four years ago, Donald Trump began his campaign for President. What has followed has been as bad as could have been predicted that day.

President Trump says in a new interview that he would be willing to break the law to get “oppo research” on an opponent.

The GOP Senators standing up against the President’s tariffs on Mexico are being called courageous. I’m wondering what took them so long to stand up.

A new poll of Texas voters shows President Trump doing worse than expected against potential Democratic challengers. Should Republicans be worried?

David Brooks joins the long line of commenters predicting the GOP’s demise.

A misleading, annoying media trope that needs to go away.

The Navy is confirming that it did receive a request from the White House to keep the USS John McCain “out of sight” during the President’s visit to an American base in Japan.

Wherein I explore the notion that ignorance is bliss.

White House aides asked the Navy to keep the USS John McCain “out of sight” while the President visited a Navy base in Japan earlier this week.

Justin Amash spoke out against the President and Attorney General. Unsurprisingly this is not being received well by his fellow Republicans.