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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Here is a PBS report on the GOP candidates in Iowa:...
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...
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...
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...
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:...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Here was Georgia congressperson Marjorie Taylor Greene at Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA conference last weekend: The Biden campaign responded with this: Brilliant!...
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...
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...
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...
