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2016 Election

From Poland Spring to “Little Marco” to Secretary of State?

John Fea   |  November 12, 2024

Marco Rubio was once a rising star in the Republican Party. In 2013, his party chose him to deliver the response to Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address. This was the famous Poland Spring moment: He was the Cuban-American […]

Mike Pence will not endorse Donald Trump. Does it really matter?

John Fea   |  March 18, 2024

Last week Mike Pence announced that he would not endorse his former boss, Donald Trump, in the November 2024 presidential election. It made for an interesting story– but I doubt Pence’s decision will make any political difference. Why? Because I […]

The 19% are still here!

John Fea   |  March 6, 2024

Back in 2018, I wrote Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump. I dedicated the book “To the 19 percent.” This, of course, is a reference to the 19% of white evangelical Christian voters who did not vote for […]

Chris Christie is running for president

John Fea   |  June 1, 2023

The former New Jersey governor is in. I heard a commentator say that Christie’s “lane” to the GOP nomination “runs through Donald Trump.” Will Trump get the Rubio treatment? Whatever happens, it should be entertaining:

Donald Trump in 2016 on “classified information”

John Fea   |  August 14, 2022

From The Washington Post:

What Obama and Biden thought about Trump’s election

John Fea   |  May 21, 2021

Over at The Atlantic, Caroline Mimbs Nyce interviews Edward-Isaac Dovere, author of the upcoming book Battle for the Soul: Inside the Democrats’ Campaigns to Defeat Trump. Here is a taste: Initially, President Obama seemed pretty restrained when commenting on the 45th […]

Trump endorses Rubio

John Fea   |  April 10, 2021

My how things have changed: