Introducing Terrisa Bukovinac. If you have the stomach for it, watch her presidential announcement below. Bukovinac is not a typical progressive who also happens to be pro-life. Rather, her entire campaign appears to be based on ending abortion. Her announcement...
2024 elections
“And Pharaoh hardened his heart”: Will Donald Trump’s abortion claims on “Meet the Press” open a new lane for Ron DeSantis?
During the August 2023 GOP presidential debate, Nikki Haley said that Americans “need to stop demonizing” the issue of abortion. Watch: Most conservative evangelicals I know side with Pence in this debate. Haley repeated this argument over the weekend at...
Romney announces he will not run in 2024. What does this mean for Senate centrists?
Former GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney will step away from his U.S. Senate seat after his term is over in January 2025. He will not seek re-election in 2024. Over at Politico, Burgess Everett asks what Romney’s departure, and the...
Joe Manchin is 13 points behind Jim Justice in potential 2024 West Virginia U.S. Senate race
According to a new poll, West Virginia governor Jim Justice leads incumbent Joe Manchin by thirteen points in the state’s 2024 U.S. Senate race. If Justice wins next November, the GOP will pick-up a seat. Justice is a Republican. Manchin...
Cornel West is at 2% in a new Wall Street Journal poll
According to a new poll released today by The Wall Street Journal, Joe Biden (46%) and Donald Trump (46%) are running neck and neck in a potential 2024 presidential matchup. But when support for Green Party candidate Cornel West is...
Trump’s 2024 calendar
It’s going to be an interesting year. CNN has mapped it out: January 15 – E. Jean Carroll civil defamation trial begins; Iowa caucuses January 23 – Possible New Hampshire primary February 8 – Nevada caucuses February 24 – South Carolina primary February...
Post-Roe abortion debate is coming to Pennsylvania
Prior to the Dobbs decision no one really cared about state Supreme Court races. They do now. Here is Holly Otterbein at Politico: Less than a month after their double-digit victory on abortion rights in Ohio, Democrats are preparing to...
The political folly of the Iowa State Fair
Here is a PBS report on the GOP candidates in Iowa:...
Progressives need to “work their hearts out” for Joe Biden in 2024
Here is Paul Waldman at The Washington Post: Ask a Democrat with a long memory what the numbers 97,488 and 537 represent, and their face will twist into a grimace. The first is the number of votes Ralph Nader received...
Mike Pence makes the stage for the first GOP debate
The Pence campaign has announced that it has passed the donor threshold needed to qualify for the first GOP debate on August 23 in Milwaukee. It must have been our July 24th call for everyone to donate a dollar to...
What is it going to take for candidates to get on stage for the second GOP presidential debate?
The second GOP debate will take place at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California on September 27, 2023. Alex Isenstadt of Politico is reporting that it is going to be difficult for candidates to get on the stage. Here...
Siena-New York Times poll shows Trump with a massive lead
The poll was conducted from July 23-27 among “the likely electorate in the Republican primary”: Other observations: The poll asked GOP primary voters about where they get their news. Here are the results:...
George Will gives a bump to Doug Burgum’s presidential campaign
Until I read Will’s column, the only thing I knew about North Dakota governor Doug Burgum was his gift card strategy. Here is a taste of Will’s “Meet the unusually qualified presidential candidate you’ve never heard of“: If he ever...
GOP candidates were together in Iowa yesterday. Will Hurd won the night.
Last night all of the GOP candidates for president spoke at the Iowa Republican Party’s annual Lincoln Dinner. Most of the candidates delivered shortened versions (10-minutes) of their stump speeches. Watch here. The night belonged to former Texas congressman Will...
Michael Tomasky on the “quixotic” and “corrosive” Cornel West and RFK Jr. campaigns for president
The editor of The New Republic thinks Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Cornel West, and No Labels “are effectively surrogates for Donald Trump’s 2024 bid.” Here is a taste of his piece: You might think, in a two-party democracy where the...
Yesterday’s Quinnipiac poll
The GOP primary race: Of course national polls in a GOP primary are not as important as polls in individual states (see below), but they are still interesting. Some are saying that DeSantis is running to the right of Trump...
Have you seen Joe Biden’s brilliant Marjorie Taylor Greene campaign ad?
Here was Georgia congressperson Marjorie Taylor Greene at Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA conference last weekend: The Biden campaign responded with this: Brilliant!...
Is former Maryland governor Larry Hogan running for president?
Back in March he said he wasn’t running. About two hours ago he posted this: If he does run, will it be as a Republican or the candidate of the “No Labels” movement? You may recall the recent rumors about...
James Carville: “The only thing that Dr. West’s candidacy can do is help elect Donald Trump”
No one expects Cornel West to become the next president of the United States, but Anderson Cooper’s recent interview with West reveals why it is hard for a candidate of moral purity and prophetic sensibility to govern. Politics almost always...
She helped Trump try to overthrow the 2020 election. Now she is supporting Ron DeSantis because Trump is too liberal
Some of you may know the name Jenna Ellis. If you read this blog regularly, you know that she was the lawyer who assisted Rudy Giuliani in trying to prove that there was widespread election fraud that allowed Joe Biden...