Outside the Beltway

Bob Corker, who has served in the Senate since winning election in 2006, announced yesterday that he would not stand for re-election.

Sean Spicer now says he regrets the lies that defined his time at the White House.

Ed Gillespie, the Republican nominee for Governor of Virginia, has come out against the most recent immigration-related action by the national leader of his party.

They may both be Republicans, but the relationship between the President and the Senate Majority Leader is bad and seems to be getting worse.

Republicans now face a stark choice.

In another major change announced via Twitter, late yesterday President Trump announced he’d hired a new Chief of Staff, but changes at the staff level aren’t going to fix what’s really wrong with the Trump Administration.

A big but not unexpected personnel change at the White House.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller has expanded his investigation to include the allegation that President Trump may have attempted to obstruct justice

Republicans and Democrats have picked their candidates for 2017’s Governor’s race, but the biggest name is likely to be one not on the ballot, Donald Trump.

Maryland and the District of Columbia are suing President Trump based on alleged violations of two provisions of the Constitution that have never been litigated before.

Donald Trump’s first Cabinet Meeting looked like something out of a Maoist propaganda video.

The President is being fed “news” from questionable news sources, and that’s a problem.

A major legislative defeat for Paul Ryan, the House GOP, and President Trump.

There are two sides in this war between Trump and the media, but only one of them is the right side.

The first full day of Donald Trump’s Presidency consisted largely of obsessions with irrelevant facts and outright lies.

The head of the biggest energy company in the world is reportedly Donald Trump’s pick for Secretary of State.

New information raises serious questions about the integrity of the 2016 elections, and about Donald Trump and his supporters.

Donald Trump claims he won an Electoral College landslide. This is a bald-faced lie.

Early voting is favoring Democrats in a wide variety of swing states.

For better or worse, the third Presidential debate will largely be remembered for one thing.

With just over three weeks before Election Day, efforts by top Republicans to disavow their party’s nominee are quite clearly too little, too late.

Paul Ryan is abandoning the Trump campaign.

The GOP civil war continues…..

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.

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

The latest desperation bid from anti-Trump Republicans is guaranteed to make a GOP civil war more likely.

Donald Trump continues to be Donald Trump. Which is quickly turning into a political disaster.

Predictably, the latest effort to prevent Donald Trump from gaining the Republican nomination has ended in failure.

Despite a year of utter failure, one group of Republicans apparently still thinks they can deny Donald Trump the Republican nomination.

The Veepstakes continues.

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

Donald Trump has almost no cash on hand. That doesn’t bode well for his campaign going forward.

A campaign shake up at Trump Tower, but it’s unlikely to change fundamentals.

A small group of Republican delegates is apparently discussing yet another quixotic effort to deny Donald Trump the nomination.

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

Top Republican donors are becoming increasingly concerned that Donald Trump isn’t paying enough attention to raising money for the General Election campaign.

Republican insiders are apparently still looking at ways to stop Donald Trump at a convention. It’s far too late for that, guys.

With top Republicans recoiling from the realization that the GOP is stuck with Trump in 2016, the ground seems to be being prepared for a conflict that could tear the GOP apart regardless of who wins in November.

Donald Trump is apparently having money troubles.

Donald Trump has announced that he would not be self-funding the General Election campaign. That’s probably because he really couldn’t afford to do so.

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