Today at CNN, morning host John Berman offered a really interesting take on the New Hampshire primary. Here is part of the transcript from his exchange with Pete Seat, vice president of the Bose Public Affairs Group: BERMAN: And then, […]
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Nancy Mace: Trump must be “held accountable” for January 6, 2021. Oh, and by the way, I endorse him.
When South Carolina congresswoman Nancy Mace is not talking about her sex life at a prayer breakfast, she is endorsing Donald Trump. Here is Mace shortly after January 6, 2021: Here is ABC News: Donald Trump has picked up another […]
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Polls: Trump still leads in New Hampshire GOP primary race
Washington Post-Monmouth University poll: Trump: 52%. Haley 34%, DeSantis 8%. CNN poll: Trump 50%. Haley 39%. DeSantis 6%. DeSantis dropped out of the race yesterday, after these polls were conducted. Politicos are saying that most of DeSantis’s votes will go […]
GOP: The “party of malice”
Here is Peter Wehner at The Atlantic: As soon as former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley emerged as the main threat to Donald Trump in the battle for the Republican nomination, it became inevitable that she would be targeted by […]
And then there were two. Ron DeSantis is out. He endorses Trump.
Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump were running neck and neck in the polls. In a few polls, DeSantis was leading. Then DeSantis started his campaign for president and it’s been downhill ever since. Today, the Florida governor dropped out of […]
Does Ron DeSantis really have a chance?
No. As I type I am watching DeSantis on a CNN Town Hall in New Hampshire. On Monday he said that he had a “ticket our of Iowa.” Maybe he meant a plane ticket back to Tallahassee, because there is […]
Douthat: “It’s absurd that there was no unified opposition” to Trump in Iowa
Earlier today I watched Dana Bash of CNN interview GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley at a New Hampshire diner. I’ll let David Goldiner of the New York Daily News describe what I saw: Nikki Haley feigned ignorance about former President […]
Evangelical theologian Wayne Grudem is backing Ron DeSantis because he’ll pardon Trump and was a college athlete (among other things)
Wayne Grudem is at it again. Late last year the evangelical theologian, defender of a complementarian view of men and women, and 2016 and 2020 Donald Trump supporter called on Trump to drop out of the 2024 presidential race to […]
Will Nikki Haley pull off a Gary Hart-style upset in New Hampshire?
The New Hampshire primary–the first of the primary season–is scheduled for January 23, 2004. Sometimes strange things happen in the New Hampshire primary. Remember when: Henry Cabot Lodge beat Barry Goldwater in 1964? Edmund Muskie beat George McGovern in 1972? […]
And then there were three (at least in terms of GOP debate qualifiers)
Three GOP presidential hopefuls have qualified for the final debate before the Iowa caucuses. They are Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, and Ron DeSantis. Haley and DeSantis will participate in the January 10 debate at Drake University, five days before the […]
Could a Nikki Haley/Chris Christie tag-team derail Trump?
Whatever you think about former New Jersey governor Christie, he deserves heaps of credit for standing up to the Trump in the way he has done this year. I thought his performance at the last GOP debate (University of Alabama) […]
And then there were four…
Believe it or not, there is another GOP presidential primary debate on Wednesday night. This one is at the University of Alabama. Are people still watching these things? (I mean people other than political junkies like me?) The field is […]
Koch political network endorses Nikki Haley
Americans for Prosperity Action, a libertarian conservative super PAC affiliated with billionaire Charles Koch and his late brother David Koch, is endorsing Nikki Haley in the GOP presidential primary race. Here is a taste of the press release: At a […]
Nikki Haley’s 3-2-1 GOP primary strategy
Nikki Haley is surging in New Hampshire with a little more than two months to go before the January 23, 2024 primary. Can she win the GOP nomination? It’s a long shot. But according to journalist Ron Brownstein she has […]
Tim Scott drops out of the 2024 presidential race
The South Carolina Senator is out of the race. Here is Nnamdi Egwuonwu and Alex Tabet: Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina announced Sunday night that he is dropping out of the 2024 presidential campaign. “When I go back to […]
RFK Jr.’s candidacy may hurt Republicans more than Democrats
Here is the latest from Politico on the independent presidential candidate with the family name: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is collecting checks from past Donald Trump donors at a much higher rate than former Joe Biden contributors, a sign the […]
The GOP debate stage is narrowing
Still no Trump, but next week’s debate in Miami will include Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy, Chris Christie, and Tim Scott. Scott just made it. Here‘s Allison Novelo at CBS News: Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina has secured his spot […]
Mike Pence suspends his presidential campaign
Here is CNN: Former Vice President Mike Pence has suspended his campaign for president amid lagging poll numbers and financial challenges, vowing to help elect “principled Republican leaders” moving forward. “After much prayer and deliberation, I have decided to suspend my campaign […]
Mike Johnson is the 56th Speaker of the House
I will have more to say about this in tomorrow’s feature at CURRENT. In the meantime, here is CNN: The Republican-led House elected Rep. Mike Johnson as the new House speaker on Wednesday – a major leadership change that comes three […]