Outside the Beltway

The popular former governor wants another crack at it.

An American hero is gone.

The phone tour continues.

That which worked for petty business disputes was never going to work on this big of a stage.

Almost 50 losses in four weeks,. Impressive.

Barr finds no fraud.

The right to worship trumps the public’s health.

Was Trump’s attempt to overturn the outcome a one-off or a sign of things to come?

He seems to have taken his ball and gone home.

More on why it isn’t going to happen.

Truly the dumbest timeline.

Some Republicans are doing their jobs.

The GOP is behaving exceedingly irresponsibly. Senator Graham and Representative Collins are prime examples.

Gracious concessions are the norm except when they’re not.

Explaining the continuing cowardice of GOP Senators.

The utter smallness of Trump’s legal challenges to the election.

The Pundit’s Fallacy meets opportunism.

The President’s claims have no merit.

In a sane world, Joe Biden’s election win would not have come as a surprise. Alas . . . .

The President’s message is getting through.

Sowing doubt in the absence of evidence is corrosive.

A nonpartisan official is refusing to do her duty.

Governing without Congress has its price.

The lies aren’t working anymore.

Her Democratic opponent has conceded.

Last night amplifies a long pattern.

The picture is becoming clearer.

The expectations game will be especially tricky this year.

Trump needs them both.

Trump has pulled ahead in some individual polls but Biden continues to have a commanding lead.

The iconoclastic journalist is out at the publication he founded.

A defensible distinction could give way to a Constitutional crisis.

Some guy you never heard of is the guy.

Two prominent media pollsters are hedging their bets.

The stakes of losing will be catastrophic. Either way.

Another unwelcome milestone that magical thinking won’t fix.

Usually candidates don’t talk about how bad things are across the country while appealing to be re-elected.

Same endless song, different verse.

Reminders from a perusal of the news.

After weeks of evasion, the frontrunner hints at a compromise policy.

Instead of a second presidential debate, we got competing TV shows.

Rudy Giuliani and a hack tabloid are trying to revive the Burisma story.

Great journalism can result in lousy history.

He has the largest lead of any challenger since modern polling began in 1936.

Trump continues to lag.

A little comparative politics.

One man’s fecklessness has gotten untold people sick.

The inevitable has happened.

More of what we saw last night would be bad for the country.