Outside the Beltway

In which Ted Cruz endorses the guy who called his wife ugly and said his father was involved in the Kennedy assassination.

According to one report, the GOP’s longest living former President plans to vote for a Democrat this fall.

Gary Johnson is doing better than any third-party candidate in twenty years, but that doesn’t mean he’s likely to get an invitation to the upcoming Presidential debates.

Comments from one Republican Senator are raising the possibility we could see hearings and a vote on Merrick Garland during the post-election lame duck session of Congress.

Much like their predecessors, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have released only limited information about their health. It may be time for that to change.

Donald Trump is signaling a big shift in his immigration position.

With Donald Trump floundering, there are a whole lot of nervous Republican Senators up for re-election.

Did Donald Trump really suggest assassination as a political weapon, even as a joke? It sure sounds like it.

If reports are correct, Indiana Governor Mike Pence will be Donald Trump’s choice for a running mate.

Hillary Clinton’s extreme carelessness with classified information probably won’t cost her the election, but it should.

If anything, the Trump campaign is going to provide some interesting data for future political scientists who study campaigns.

Backers of the losing candidate for the Democratic nomination are surprised that they’re not getting their way.

Republican officials are running away from Donald Trump the way they’d run away from a horde of mosquitoes infected with the Zika virus.

The Supreme Court at its best and therefore its most frustrating.

A revered Republican foreign policy guru has endorsed the Democratic nominee for president.

Republican leaders and politicians continue to distance themselves from their party’s presumptive nominee.

Marco Rubio may be running for re-election to the Senate after all.

Donald Trump continues his war on freedom of the press and reporters who cover him critically by barring The Washington Post from covering campaign events.

Hillary Clinton won the final Super Tuesday of the 2016 primary season, thus officially sending us into what promises to be among the most contentious General Election battles in recent memory.

Republicans have a choice to make and, so far, they’ve been making the wrong one.

The Clinton campaign probably thought the email story was behind them. The new report from the State Department’s Inspector General shows just how wrong they were about that.

Even before the 2016 convention, Republicans are talking about possible rules changes to stop another Trump-like candidate in 2020 or beyond.

In an unprecedented move that reeks of desperation, Ted Cruz is naming Carly Fiorina as his running mate before the primary process has even ended.

To the surprise of no one, the alliance between Ted Cruz and John Kasich is already falling apart.

The business of the media is business. Business is not good.

Despite having previously pledged to do so, none of the three candidate for the GOP nomination are willing to say they’d support the eventual nominee anymore.

The 2016 Campaign just keeps getting weirder.

It’s time for Bernie Sanders and his supporters to face reality. He’s not going to be the Democratic nominee.

Looking at the delegate math, Donald Trump’s path to victory seems to be becoming clearer by the day.

With President Obama becoming the first American President to visit Cuba in 88 years, a new poll finds majority support for his changes in Cuba policy.

The alternatives to Trump vs Clinton are getting into the realm of fantasy.

The violence that Donald Trump encourages among supporters is manifesting itself in real life.

The President could nominate someone to fill the vacancy created by Antonin Scalia’s death as soon a next week, but Republicans in the Senate remain firmly committed to their decision to deny the as yet unnamed nominee any consideration.

It seems increasingly apparent that the only way to stop Donald Trump now is by trying to force a contested convention. It also seems clear that such a plan probably wouldn’t succeed.

The Republican frontrunner doesn’t want newspapers to be able to write negative stories about him.

Ben Carson may be a non-entity in the Presidential race at this point, but that hasn’t stopped him from making controversial statements.

The unity of the Republican Senate on the idea of no hearings or votes, if it ever really existed, appears to be cracking.

The politicization of Supreme Court appointments didn’t start with Republicans last night.

With Bernie Sanders likely to win New Hampshire tonight, Hillary Clinton is reportedly looking to reorganize her campaign.

Marco Rubio was the man in the cross hairs in last night’s Republican debate.

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul has dropped out of the race for the Republican nomination.

Politics makes strange bedfellows, but come on.

Last night’s Republican debate had a different feel with the absence of a certain bloviating narcissist.

Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen are leaving after a dispute with their chief investor.

Rick Perry is endorsing Ted Cruz for President, leading to the question of why Ted Cruz thinks an endorsement from Rick Perry has any value whatsoever.