Outside the Beltway

Trumps undercuts current messaging & brings up past military service controversies

Spoiler: the same people often work at both

A whopping $50 million donation from a single nepo baby put him over the top.

Here we go again.

A data point or two amid the panic.

Shockingly, both “incumbents” are going to win their party’s 2024 nominations.

A poor answer to a softball question has created unnecessary controversy.

The anti-Trump forces are rallying around the former South Carolina governor and UN ambassador.

Turns out there is an easy way out.

Could the fourth time be the charm?

It’s time for transparency on the Republican Leader’s health.

Out Trumping Trump is possible because of Trump.

Can the fat man take down the elephant in the room?

Marianne Williamson is getting some competition.

The re-election campaign is quietly forming but don’t expect an announcement any time soon.

There was some quiet meddling going on.

The New York Post and Wall Street Journal are blasting the losing loser.

Boosting weak candidates in the Republican primaries paid off.

Will voters overlook the elephant in the room?

Fifty-plus “local” news outlets are a front for David Brock and company.

Candidate quality can matter.

Makin’ his way the only way he knows how, that’s just a little bit more than the law will allow.

An over-eager supporter or something more sinister?

And what GOP opposition says about the party.

Its founders are laughing all the way to the bank.

Remember how people used to think he was playing multi-dimensional chess?

A movement that has grown beyond recognition.

Anti-Biden ads using the former President’s words are being aimed at black voters.

Competing in fourteen states plus overseas territories in one day is expensive.

Money has increasingly dominated American politics but the court case had little to do with it.

Cory Booker’s campaign is starting to show some of the same signs of collapse that Kamala Harris’s did.

Kamala Harris, whose campaign has been floundering for months, is out of the race for the Democratic Presidential Nomination.

He raises a very real problem.

Elizabeth Warren’s fellow Democrats aren’t so thrilled with her ‘Medidare For All’ plan.

Trump’s attacks on racial minorities are going to continue, and get worse, the closer we get to 2020. Because stirring up fear and racial resentment among white working-class voters is the only way he can win.

Republicans nationwide are trying to discourage Roy Moore from running for Senate again. Roy Moore doesn’t care.

Another one bites the dust. And another one gone, and another one gone, another one bites the dust.

The tone and content of President Trump’s 2020 campaign is already quite apparent.

New Jersey Senator Cory Booker is the latest entrant into the race for the 2020 Democratic Nomination.

While the numbers seem to show that scandal-plagued Senator Bob Menendez will win re-election on Tuesday, national Democrats aren’t taking any chances.

Surely a celebrity hound with no political experience can’t become President. Right?

After spending most of his post-Presidency on the political sidelines, former President Bush is hitting the fundraising trail for GOP candidates in Texas and Florida.

Former President Obama took on his successor in his first major political speeches since leaving office.

As expected, Rick Scott easily won the GOP nomination for Senate in Florida, setting up one of the most highly anticipated Senate races of the year.

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.

A Special Election tomorrow in suburban Columbus, Ohio could tell us a lot about where the midterm elections might be headed.

Rick Scott is pulling in impressive fundraising numbers, giving Democrats reason to worry that they’ll have another Senate seat to worry about in November.

The former New York City Mayor is prepared to spend $80 million to help Democrats take back Congress this year.

The Republican Governor of Missouri is resigning amid growing accusations related to an extramarital affair, blackmail, and sexual assault.

Republican chances to hold the Senate were boosted in West Virginia last night thanks to the fact that a fringe candidate was soundly defeated.