Outside the Beltway

Republicans are finally starting to react to what Donald Trump has been saying.

Donald Trump has gotten almost nothing but negative press since entering the race for President, but it doesn’t seem to be hurting him very much just yet.

Chris Christie is in the race for the Republican nomination, but it’s tough to see how he has a plausible path to relevance.

The events of the past two weeks could allow the Republican Party to move forward.

Virginia Republicans are deciding later this week how they will make their choice in the 2016 Presidential Race. And they may end up regretting their decision.

As Governor Haley pushes the South Carolina legislature to take the Confederate Flag down, the movement moves beyond the Palmetto State.

With notable exceptions, most of the Republican candidates for President are refusing to take a stand on the propriety of South Carolina flying the Confederate Flag. That’s called cowardice.

Whether Republicans are ready or not, Donald Trump is coming.

We live in a random and chaotic universe.

Mitt Romney decided not to run in 2016 but he’s very much in the race.

Most Americans think that income inequality is a problem, but they don’t all agree on what to do about it.

Rick Perry is hoping to do something that hasn’t happened before in American politics, come back from a campaign that imploded.

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker isn’t officially a candidate for President yet, but he’s doing quite well in Iowa anyway.

Rand Paul is out with one of his more forceful attacks on Republican hawks to date.

The Republican debate stage in 2016 is going to be even more crowded than it was in 2012.

A five-time heavyweight champion has beaten a rich politician in a bizarre charity event.

George Stephanopoulos’ s ties to the Clinton’s have always raised questions about his objectivity. Now, there’s further reason to doubt that he can play fair when the Clinton’s are part of the story he’s covering.

Jeb Bush will not participate in this year’s version of the Iowa Straw Poll.

Congressman Darrell Issa says that America’s poor are generally better off than the poor in the rest of the world. While he’s correct, he’s also incredibly tone deaf.

Once again, only six or seven states are likely to matter.

Break out the sweater vests, Rick Santorum is getting ready to enter the race for the Republican Presidential Nomination.

A new poll has some bad news for Jeb Bush in the Hawkeye State, which leads to the idea that maybe he shouldn’t waste too much time there to begin with.

Mike Huckabee’s back, but the 2008 magic is gone.

Aides to Governor Chris Christie apparently think there’s still a way he can run a credible campaign for President, but it seems unlikely.

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is now appealing to the worst aspects of economic populism on the right.

WaPo’s “Top Christie ally defects to Bush” buries the lede.

And the fun part is that his main motive for running appears to be the opportunity to troll Rand Paul.

Pundits and political scientists agree that, if the 2016 presidential election were today, we’d have a much better idea who would win.

The scandal that will make everyone forget about Benghazi.

Marco Rubio is the first Republican in the race who actually has a plausible chance to win the nomination, but it’s not going to be easy.

His poll numbers are down, the GOP base is not hospitable, but Chris Christie still seems to be thinking about running for President.

Jeb Bush is leading the latest poll of the 2016 Republican race and Ted Cruz has surged since he entered the race, but the race is just beginning.

Harry Reid made outlandish claims about Mitt Romney during the 2012 election. He probably knew they were lies when he made them. And he doesn’t care.

The Republican frontrunner claims he doesn’t read America’s most important newspaper.

A brutal assessment of Chris Christie’s presidential chances.

Rand Paul is carrying on a family tradition, winning the CPAC straw poll won many times by his father Ron.

Do the nonprofit’s foreign donors create a conflict of interest?

Scott Walker surged to the top of a new poll of Iowa Republicans, but Iowa is not a very good predictor of success in the race for the GOP nomination.

After weeks of giving every indication that he’s running for president yet again, Mitt Romney has announced that he’s not a candidate for 2016.

Mitt Romney is set to make an announcement at 11 Eastern today. [UPDATE: He’s out!]

With no real opponents in the race for the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton has no reason to rush getting into the race.

Advantage: Hillary.

The Tea Party may be the most vocal wing of the GOP but most Republicans seems to favor candidates that aren’t quite so right wing.

Mitt Romney certainly seems to be running for president again. And he’s now on at least his third reinvention.