Jul 18, 2018 – And that is how I characterize the latest rankings of the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination horse race.  … My analysis is based on a July 6 Washington Post report, “The top 15 Democratic presidential candidates for 2020, ranked.” … Whether or not Sanders’ 2016’s slogan, "Feel the Bern" will be revived for 2020 is anyone’s guess.…

Jul 15, 2018 – The former 2016 Libertarian Party nominee, whose party’s defining image in the minds of many voters that year was a crude scene at … Johnson himself had quite a distinguished record prior to fading out of the public eye when his 2012 Republican presidential primary … Many years prior to his third-party escapades, Johnson led a fiscally-impressive two-terms as the Republican Governor of New Mexico…

Jul 14, 2018 – During the ascendancy of Donald Trump to the top of the Republican Party and the presidency, the media has devoted plenty of attention … In the 2016 presidential race, Trump overthrew the entrenched party establishment by defeating 16 Republican challengers and winning … blow to the Democratic Party and become a three-time loser as a presidential candidate.…

Jul 26, 2018 – rigged the last presidential primary against Sanders, helping to usher in Trump. … Alexandria is a hard lefty, much further to the left than the big government elite Democratic Party apparatchiks. … The future of the Democratic Party?…

Jul 20, 2018 – Or how did they put it, “Trump only won the presidential election in 2016 because of the Electoral College.” … To be clear, Trump only won the presidential election in 2016 because the Electoral College played to his favor. … Up until the 2016 election, these states hadn’t voted Republican in nearly 30 years.…

Aug 17, 2018 – But this idea that each party had to win over enough of the great American middle in order to be the majority party informed pretty … It's no wonder that only 33 percent of Americans think Republican congressional candidates are within the mainstream. … It didn't work very well for the rest of his party.…

Aug 10, 2018 – Some three-quarters of Americans have had a chance to vote for Democratic and Republican candidates for Congress, and state and local … The voter shifts from Romney 2012 to Trump 2016 were actually small by historic standards, and the steadiness of Republican and Democratic … Former President Barack Obama faced a Republican House for six of eight years and a Republican Senate for two.…

Sep 6, 2018 – If you’ve never heard of Doug, he’s participated in several televised debates with presidential candidates and been invited by the … There’s also an excellent chance that the Republican Party will bifurcate. … There are already two separate parties within the Republican Party—Trumpers and anti-Trumpers. They don’t like each other.…

Sep 14, 2018 – post-presidential center and library in Atlanta, reports The Associated Press. … Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic presidential primary, explained that progressives would not abandon their goals if they voted … He came to the White House in 1976 from the moderate wing of the Democratic Party, and he clashed with party liberals, drawing a spirited…

Sep 11, 2018 – Therefore, the current system is good for small states and by extension Republican candidates for president.’ … including as chairman of a statewide party auxiliary, as a member of a presidential campaign steering committee, and as a candidate … The fact is 11 of the 13 smallest states were totally ignored in the 2008, 2012, and 2016 presidential elections.…

May 10, 2018 – It's possible that the presidential tweet turned the tide. … A good candidate could defeat Manchin and help the Republican party retain control of the Senate. Blankenship could not. … Sadly, many national Republican political operatives also have a condescending view of their party's voters.…

May 4, 2018 – As in the 2016 campaign, stories that would have hurt other politicians (Stormy Daniels, anyone?) … Perhaps this reflects the economic upswing since the Republican tax bill passed in December. … of party megadonor Tom Steyer and the majority of Democratic voters.…

Feb 9, 2024 – My question is prompted by the ongoing transformation of the Republican Party, discussed in occasional bits in these columns over the … West Virginia, which hadn't voted for a nonincumbent Republican presidential candidate since 1928, voted for George W. … What are some of the consequences of the emerging demotic Republican Party?…

Feb 6, 2024 – It's been something of an atypical primary season, though that's also the Republican Party in the age of Donald Trump. … He also sat out for one of those debates during the 2016 Republican primary season, though he debated Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton … Trump will be the nominee for the Republican Party; it doesn't make sense from a strategy perspective to give Haley the time of day…

Feb 5, 2024 – Biden won the popular vote by +4.5%.On Feb 4, 2016, polls had Clinton ~ +3.5%. … With other third party candidates in the mix, Trump's lead is nearly five points.   … We also continue to see Trump's advantage growing slightly when alternative party candidates are included in polling questions.  …

Jan 19, 2024 – Barring a dramatic turn over the next few weeks, Donald Trump will again become the Republican nominee for president. … ANY MISTAKE, EVEN IF WELL INTENDED, WOULD BE MET WITH ALMOST CERTAIN INDICTMENT BY THE OPPOSING PARTY AT TERM END. … ANY MISTAKE, EVEN IF WELL INTENDED, WOULD BE MET WITH ALMOST CERTAIN INDICTMENT BY THE OPPOSING PARTY AT TERM END.…

Jan 17, 2024 – "Those of us who backed Ron DeSantis – or the other Republican candidates – should read the room," he wrote. … They scrutinize the candidates," Cruz said. … Cortes urged Republican voters who support DeSantis or other candidates to rally behind Trump in an effort to unify the party. …

Jan 16, 2024 – "- Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush during a 2016 debate with Trump. … After watching too many of the Republican non-debates and the insults each of the candidates (and former candidates) have thrown at … Consider some of the puppet's best insult lines as you imagine them being directed at a Republican presidential candidate.…

Jan 15, 2024 – Party of Iowa. … After any party business is handled at the caucuses, representatives for the presidential campaigns have a chance to make a brief pitch … Republican caucuses in which some 185,000 Republican voters turned out. …

Jan 15, 2024 – While there have been five Republican Party debates among candidates for the presidential nomination, the Democratic Party has held … Under such circumstances, it would behoove the Democratic Party to give voters a chance to nominate a new presidential candidate in … The decision of the Florida Democratic Party to cancel their March 19 presidential primary and award all their 250 delegates to Biden…

Jan 13, 2024 – He claimed that abolishing the Electoral College is an “overdue” constitutional change, cautioning that the Republican Party would … According to a 2019 study from researchers at the University of Texas at Austin, Republican presidential candidates are expected to … Both times, the losers were Democratic candidates. Al Gore in 2000 and Hillary Clinton in 2016.…

Jan 11, 2024 – He loses when third-party candidates are factored in as well, with Trump's lead actually  increasing.  … "Because these numbers are very bad for any incumbent of any party." … The numbers arrived as the Michigan Republican Party faces financial turmoil and after Michigan's Democratic governor, Gretchen Whitmer…

Jan 11, 2024 – Senate in 2022 by making rash endorsements of weak Republican candidates in several states. … Here I am speaking as a lifelong Republican. … Put very simply, I see Democrats as the party of ever-increasing government control of our lives and Republicans as the party that…

Jan 11, 2024 – Here is my theory – Donald Trump, the former Republican President of the United States, never stopped being the leading Republican … Partisans of each party become invested in their team, and in their team leaders, the presidential nominees, and especially in their … Bush won the Republican nomination in 1996?  …

Aug 8, 2020 – see below) and to help the nation by promoting the great good that would come from Republican party policies. … The declared policies of a candidate, and of a candidate’s party (Democrat or Republican) give a good indication of what the candidate … (In fact, many of the policies favored in the 2016 Republican Party platform are the same as those advocated in my book, Politics According…