Indicted evangelical lawyer Jenna Ellis has established crowdfunding page to help pay for her legal fees. She has already raised over $7000. It appears that Donald Trump’s PAC won’t pay her legal fees because she supports Ron DeSantis. Lance Wallnau […]
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Georgia Governor Brian Kemp to Donald Trump: “The 2020 election in Georgia was not stolen”
Today the governor of Georgia responded to a Trump post on “Truth Social”: Here is Richard Luscombe at The Guardian: Georgia’s Republican governor, Brian Kemp, insisted on Tuesday that the 2020 presidential election in his state “was not stolen” in […]
The political folly of the Iowa State Fair
Here is a PBS report on the GOP candidates in Iowa:
Trump is indicted for a fourth time. Some responses:
Get up to speed here. The Speaker of the House: Ohio GOP congressman Jim Jordan: Jenna Ellis (INDICTED): Tennessee senator Marsha Blackburn: Texas Senator Ted Cruz: Arizona congressman Andy Biggs: California congressman Adam Schiff: Colorado congresswoman Lauren Boebert: Georgia congresswoman […]
Fulton County, Georgia grand jury indicts Donald Trump. That’s #4. Evangelical lawyer Jenna Ellis also indicted. (UPDATED)
Trump may be done-in by the political philosophy of federalism. Since this Georgia indictment is a state charge, not a federal indictment, Trump cannot pardon himself should he win in 2024. Ironically, it may not be Joe Biden, Merrick Garland, […]
Federalist Society law professors make the case that Trump is ineligible to hold government office
On May 18, 2016, after Donald Trump had all but secured the GOP nomination for President of the United States, the candidate announced a list of 11 judges he would consider nominating to replace the deceased Antonin Scalia on the […]
Why Viktor Orbán may want to visit Bestsellers Bookshop in Budapest
A friend spotted Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump in Budapest. As many of you know, prime minister Viktor Orbán is trying to build a Christian nationalist state in Hungary modeled closely on a kind of Trumpian populism. […]
A man “unprincipled in private life, desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper”: The founders expected someone like Trump
As Jeffrey Rosen of the National Constitution Center reminds us, the founding fathers anticipated “a demagogic challenge to the rule of law.” Here is a taste of his piece at The Wall Street Journal: The allegations in the indictment of Donald […]
Responses to Trump’s third federal indictment
Donald Trump is now facing federal indictments in three different jurisdictions with a probable fourth indictment (Georgia) on its way. In case you missed it, yesterday Trump was indicted over efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Here are some of […]
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:
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 […]
A historian of fascism is ready to use the term to describe Trumpism
Up until this point,Christopher Browning, a historian at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, has not used the word “fascism” to describe Donald Trump and the movement he leads. But it looks like he has changed his mind. Browning is […]
How has Donald Trump’s Christian faith grown since he decided to run for president?
It’s been nearly eight years since James Dobson announced that Donald Trump was a “baby Christian.” One might think that by this point Trump could at least understand this question, even if he is still incapable of answering it. Watch:
Liberty University: New president, same old stuff
On July 1, 2023 Dondi E. Costin took the helm of Liberty University. We will see if he brings any changes to Liberty’s culture war stance, but if this Steve Bannon-Dave Brat conversation is any indication I am not optimistic […]
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 […]
Trump indictment #3 is coming soon. How are people (including a few evangelicals) responding?
This time the indictment is for January 6th. (Still waiting on Georgia). CNN has some good coverage. The indictment is probably coming, perhaps in days. It looks like Trump is going to spend most of 2024 in court. Here is […]
“There’s a wall up and we can’t come in” and other things that happened at this weekend’s Charlie Kirk Trumpfest
It was called the “Turning Point USA Action Conference” and it was, in essence, a celebration of Donald Trump, Trumpism, and all things MAGA. I didn’t get a chance to watch much of it beyond Trump’s speech, but several people […]
20 things I “learned” from watching Donald Trump’s speech tonight at the Turning Point USA event
He was the keynote speaker at Charlie Kirk’s Trumpfest. Here is what I “learned”: Here are some live comments on the Right Side Broadcasting Network stream of Trump’s speech:
There is a good chance Trump will lose Iowa in January 2024
On Friday,July 14th the GOP candidates for president will get a chance to speak to Iowa evangelicals. Bob Vander Plaats, the most powerful Christian Right activist in the Hawkeye State, is sponsoring the event. Tucker Carlson is hosting it. Fox […]
DeSantis’s anti-LGBTQ ad is hateful and strange. It is also politically smart and savvy
Fasten your seat belt. Here it the ad: Here is conservative New York Times columnist Brett Stephens on the DeSantis ad: “I guess my main takeaway is that DeSantis isn’t going to be the next president. He makes Trump seem […]