Mark Robinson is running for governor of North Carolina. Watch his speech at Ralph Reed’s Road to Majority conference: Robinson was the first non-candidate to make an endorsement: The right move [for America] is to get someone into office who […]
2024 elections
Asa Hutchinson: A 1980s-style conservative evangelical and a seemingly good guy with no chance at winning the GOP nomination
Yesterday former Arkansas governor and 2024 GOP presidential candidate Asa Hutchinson visited the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority 2023 conference. Watch: Like most of these candidates, Hutchinson established his evangelical credentials. Let me pause at this moment to […]
The Dispatch to Republicans: “Say in public those things about Donald Trump that you so often say in private”
The Dispatch is a conservative anti-Trump online political magazine. Earlier this week it released a rare editorial. The subject is Donald Trump’s federal indictment. Here is a taste: There are many reasons to believe he will be—and ought to be—a […]
Cornel West is now seeking the nomination of the Green Party
Last week West was running as the nominee of the People’s Party. Now he is seeking the Green Party nomination, a party on the ballot in more states than the People’s Party. So far he is the only declared Green […]
Does Pence have a chance?
Mike Pence announced his presidential candidacy today and will speak to Dana Bash tonight on CNN. Columnists from The New York Times weigh-in: Q: How seriously should we take Mike Pence’s candidacy? Frank Bruni At least a bit more seriously than […]
Cornel West is running for president
Here is Maggie Astor at The New York Times: Cornel West, the progressive activist and professor, announced a presidential campaign on Monday with the People’s Party, a third party led by a former campaign staff member for Senator Bernie Sanders. […]
Doug Mastriano will not run for the U.S. Senate
Last week the Pennsylvania state legislator and 2022 gubernatorial candidate teased us with the potential of a U.S. Senate run. Today he announced it is not going to happen. Here is Holly Otterbein at Politico: MAGA firebrand Doug Mastriano said […]
Doug Mastriano will announce next week if he is going to run for Senate
Here is Gilliam McGoldrick at The Philadelphia Inquirer: State Sen. Doug Mastriano plans to make an announcement next week about the decision he has made on whether he will run for U.S. Senate, in what he teased as “crazy good […]
Chris Christie: “An imperfect kamikaze candidate”
Today at Current we are featuring Marvin Olasky’s interview with Atlantic writer (he was at The New York Times at the time of interview) Mark Leibovich. Last weekend The Atlantic published Leibovich’s interview with former New Jersey governor and potential […]
“Trump is the man”: Did court evangelical Eric Metaxas just endorse Trump’s 2024 candidacy for president?
Evangelical author and radio host Eric Metaxas remains in the tank for Donald Trump. Over the last seven or eight years he has been one of the most vocal court evangelicals. Here is a snippet from a recent conversation on […]
Liberty University gives Ron DeSantis an honorary doctorate in the humanities
Ron DeSantis was at Liberty University on Friday morning. Watch: When I first heard that DeSantis was speaking at Liberty University, I thought that he might announce his presidential candidacy there. That didn’t happen, but here’s what did happen. 27:31: […]
In the GOP it’s “the elites vs. the rabble”
Here is a taste of Sam Adler-Bell’s New York Times op-ed: “The One Things Trump Has That DeSantis Never Will“: Thus far, Mr. DeSantis has had greater success with party elites. By pairing aggressive stances on the culture wars with […]
Anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is running for president
Here is Kelly Garrity at Politico: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., nephew of President John F. Kennedy and son of former U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, is running for president as a Democrat, according to a statement of candidacy filed with the […]
Asa Hutchinson: Trump should withdraw from the 2024 presidential race
Former Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson, who many believe will run for president in 2024, called upon Donald Trump to withdraw from the 2024 presidential race. Here is The Hill: Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) said Trump should “step aside” from the […]
David French on Trump’s Waco rally
We wrote about this rally over the weekend. Check out our posts here (Robert Jeffress) and here (J6 Choir). Here is French at The New York Times: The most telling exchange in Donald Trump’s Waco, Texas, rally on Saturday didn’t […]
The GOP primaries need an anti-Trump candidate in 2024
Jennifer Rubin of The Washington Post calls for an anti-Trump candidate in the Republican Party. But it will not be former Maryland governor Larry Hogan. On Sunday he wrote an op-ed in The New York Times titled “I’m Not Seeking […]
Nikki Haley’s campaign is “pointless”
Here’s Tom Nichols at The Atlantic. The video announcing Haley’s candidacy was as vapid and weightless a product as any in recent political memory. Of course, it checked all the right boxes: Family, devotion to public service, all the usual generic gloss, […]
“No political figure better illustrates the tragic collapse of the modern Republican Party than Nikki Haley.”
Stuart Stevens is a veteran of both the George W. Bush and Mitt Romney presidential campaigns. Here is his take on 2024 presidential candidate Nikki Haley, published today at The New York Times: I remember the first time I saw […]
Does Krysten Sinema want another term in the U.S. Senate?
Krysten Sinema left the Democratic Party today. She registered as an Independent. Watch: I applaud Sinema’s independence. But from a political perspective, this looks likes suicide. If she runs again in 2024 as an Independent, the non-GOP vote (we can […]
Zakaria: The GOP must purge Trump
Do the results of the 2022 midterm elections represent a serious wound, if not a mortal wound, to Donald Trump and Trumpism? Not really. Take the issue of election denial. Kari Lake lost her gubernatorial bid in Arizona, but the […]