Outside the Beltway

Could Maryland Governor Larry Hogan be just the kind of Republican to challenge Trump in 2020?

As the shutdown goes on, the polls are getting worse for the President.

Doctors have declared Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg cancer free but she is still expected to miss one more week of oral argument as she recovers from her surgery in December.

Former Senator and Denocratic Presidential candidate Jim Webb is reportedly being considered for Defense Secretary.

Trump has reportedly told aides that he doesn’t really care about reports of an approaching crisis of the budget deficit and national debt because he’ll be out of office before it becomes a problem.

Trump continues to struggle at major international meetings.

Once again, Republicans in California find themselves looking up and seeing a lot of desolation. They need to find a way to bounce back.

One of the last Republican strongholds in California is now completely blue.

Is Donald Trump thinking about dumping Mike Pence in 2020? Probably not, but that’s not going to stop the speculation.

It would be a rather quixotic effort, but Jeff Flake isn’t ruling out challenging the President for the Republican nomination in 2020.

Starbucks Founder Howard Schultz is apparently considering running for President.

With the 2020 Campaign set to begin as soon as the 2018 campaign ends, Democrats find themselves facing an age issue.

Thirty-seven years ago, Ronald Reagan spoke out against hatred and bigotry in a way that the current President refuses to do.

Newt Gingrich has endorsed President Trump’s use of the rhetoric of Josef Stalin to attack the American news media.

Sad news from the first woman to serve on the United States Supreme Court.

President Trump is preparing to scrap a thirty-year-old treaty that marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War. It would be a foolish mistake.

Donald Trump is a coward and an apologist for evil around the world.

Is political satire even possible in the age of Trump?

Former President Jimmy Carter is warning his party against drifting too far left as we head into the midterms and, beyond that, the 2020 campaign cycle.

Jennifer Rubin wants to build a new political party from scratch.

Entertainers work for a living, too.

Republican Troy Balderson holds a narrow lead in a Special Election in Ohio. Even if he wins, though, the way this election played out does not bode well for the GOP in November.

Paul Laxalt, the former Nevada Senator who was one of President Reagan’s closest confidantes outside the White House, has died at 96.

Corey Stewart rose to become the Republican Party’s Senate nominee in Virginia with blatant appeals to racial division. Now his party fears they’ll be the ones who end up paying the price.

The President was up late last night sending an incredibly over-the-top tweet directed at Iran.

Republicans will hold their 2020 National Convention in the same city that hosted the Democrats back in 2012.

Initial polling on Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court find the public more divided than they have been for other recent SCOTUS picks, but that’s unlikely to impact the fate of his nomination.

Democrats are on the verge of reducing the power of superdelegates to the point where they will essentially become meaningless in the nomination process.

In a ruling that largely relies on the authority granted by Congress to the President to regulate immigration on national security grounds, the Supreme Court has upheld the final version of the Administration’s travel ban.

A Republican organization dedicated to abortion rights is shutting down after 30 years, eight fewer than the Party has opposed them.

Donald Trump’s former Campaign Manager was sent to jail, a move that likely increases the pressure on him to cooperate with Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.

The GOP and Donald Trump are indistinguishable now. But it’s not clear what that means.

GOP primary voters continue to reward staunch supporters of the President and punish those who get on his bad side.

The Federal Government will borrow more than $1 trillion this year for the first time in more than a half-decade.

Frank Carlucci, who served as President Reagan’s last Secretary of Defense, has died at 87.

It’s been 441 days since Donald Trump held a full-fledged Presidential press conference. Does anyone care?

More signs of tension between President Trump and his Chief of Staff.

The White House is pushing back on the allegations of misconduct that were made against Ronny Jackson this week, and trying to use them in a high-profile Senate race in Montana.

There has been a massive layoff at the Republican website. Everyone who criticized the President is gone.

The campaign-agnostic political science models predicted a toss-up in 2016 and again in 2020.

Barbara Bush, only the second woman in history to be the wife and mother of a U.S. President, has died at the age of 92.

Running for and being President of the United States has been very lucrative for the family business.

President Trump isn’t reacting well to the raid on his attorney’s office.

Profiles in courage? With Republicans in the Trump Era, it’s more like profiles in cowardice.

Two seemingly contradictory essays out today highlight the exhausting political conversation environment.

After skipping such events in his first thirteen months in office, the President tried his hand at stand-up last night to mixed reviews.

President Trump’s job approval hits a new low.

He’s tan. He’s rested. He’s old.

Donald Trump is wildly unpopular in the United Kingdom, and that’s apparently causing him to eschew visiting the United States’s most important ally.