Outside the Beltway

What was promoted as major foreign policy speech by Donald Trump turned out to be more substance-free stream-of-consciousness rambling from an egomaniac.

Polling shows that Republicans increasingly see Donald Trump as Presidential and trustworthy. The rest of America disagrees.

With two weeks left until the Federal Government runs out of money, and the issue still quite unresolved, a new poll shows that the vast majority of Americans would oppose a government shutdown over funding for Planned Parenthood.

To listen to many of the Republican candidates for President, it would appear that the lights have been turned out on Ronald Reagan’s shining city on a hill.

Contrary to his claims, Donald Trump would not win the Latino vote if he were the nominee. In fact, it looks like he’d end up doing much, much worse.

Scott Walker used to have a commanding lead in Iowa, now he’s in 7th place. That’s just another sign of the troubles facing his campaign.

Donald Trump is back to hurling insults at his opponents, but it’s unlikely his supporters are going to care.

A new poll shows that the vast majority of Americans oppose Kim Davis’s refusal to follow the law, even while some Republican candidates rally behind her.

Speaker John Boehner seems likely to see another leadership threat from fellow Republicans this fall.

A trial court Judge in Oregon is the latest public official to refuse to do his job.

Most of the Republican candidates for President would rather support a lawbreaker than the Rule of Law. The American people should judge them accordingly.

In an interview, Donald Trump reveals that when it comes to foreign policy he has no idea what he’s talking about.

The RNC wants Donald Trump to sign an oath that he will not run as a third-party candidate if he doesn’t win the Republican nomination.

Mitch McConnell spoke a truth that many conservatives are likely not going to want to accept.

The longer this race goes on, the hard it becomes to deny the truth about Donald Trump.

None of the top eight candidates in current polls have made a previous bid for the nomination.

Some Republicans are threatening a government shutdown over funding of Planned Parenthood, but a new poll shows that it would be a big political risk for Republicans.

Scott Walker and Chris Christie apparently think that the key to turning around their dying campaigns is to pander to the people supporting Donald Trump’s anti-immigration platform.

Jeb Bush’s campaign has been in a rough patch for several weeks at least, and now he’s lost three top fundraisers.

States who try to use loyalty oaths to keep Donald Trump off the ballot will be running afoul of the Constitution.

Republican officials in three states are looking at ways to keep Donald Trump off the primary ballot unless he pledges to support the eventual GOP nominee.

Even if Donald Trump isn’t the Republican nominee in 2016, he could still end up causing real harm to the party’s chances of winning the White House and holding on to the Senate.

If we are gong to assess the significance of Trump, we need to pay attention to the numbers.

Thanks to $500,000, Rand Paul bought himself a caucus so he can run for two offices at once.

It will never actually happen, of course, but some of Donald Trump’s fellow candidates for President have been eager to endorse his idea to abolish birthright citizenship.

Trump illustrates the weak nature of our parties.

Donald Trump is still in the lead of the Republican circus, but the rest of the field remains uncertain in the wake of the first debate.

Donald Trump’s immigration plan is would create a police state, violate people’s rights, and hurt America’s economy. And his supporters will most likely love it.

There have been some changes in the race for the Republican nomination.

The buffoonish billionaire is tapping into something real.

It’s a Donald Trump debate, where the facts are made up and the truth doesn’t matter.

The Senate Majority Leader says there will be no immigration reform while Obama is President. This is unlikely to help the GOP’s already serious problems with Latino voters.

Donald Trump is center stage, John Kasich is in, and Rick Perry is relegated to the kid’s table.

Donald’s Trump’s campaign is the logical conclusion of more than a decade of emotion-drive, substance-free politics.

Donald Trump’s campaign seems to be making a play for whatever portion of the GOP it may be that still likes Sarah Palin.

Once again, Donald Trump is succeeding because he is saying things many Republicans agree with.

Rand Paul’s Presidential campaign isn’t going so well at the moment.

The Huffington Post announced today that they would not be covering Donald Trump in their politics section from this point forward. That’s the wrong thing to do.

Republicans have nobody to blame but themselves for the anti-immigrant Frankenstein in their midst.

Despite the clear language of the 14th Amendment, Texas is apparently refusing to issue birth certificates to some children born in the United States whose parents happen to be in the country illegally.

A new polls seems to show that Republicans are still clinging to their opposition to marriage equality in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell.

It’s all about the Benjamins.

While “fundamentals” will have more impact on choosing our next president than what happens on the campaign trail, the race itself is important.

A 1980 debate between Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush shows a different GOP.

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

A long history of opposing marriage equality could end up hurting Republicans even though that battle is over in this country.

A new poll shows that solid majorities of Americans support the Supreme Court’s decisions on Obamacare subsidies and marriage. It’s a different story for Republicans.

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

In the wake of the latest Supreme Court decision, the Affordable Care Act seems to have become even more firmly established than it was before last week, and the prospect of repeal has become even less likely.