Earlier this cycle I compared midterm elections to Mark Twain’s famous quip about history not repeating, but often rhyming. Each midterm election is unique, but there are also patterns and norms that are constants from one midterm to the next. With the dust now (almost) settled, Twain’s quote was a […] Read more »
Going into 2024, Biden has as many challenges as Trump
Since we’re starting 2024 election talk already, it’s worth discussing the current president as much as the former president. While President Biden has not yet formally announced his candidacy, he has said it is his intention to run. … Assuming he is running, Biden has some work to do in […] Read more »
New state voter fraud units finding few cases from midterms
State-level law enforcement units created after the 2020 presidential election to investigate voter fraud are looking into scattered complaints more than two weeks after the midterms but have provided no indication of systemic problems. That’s just what election experts had expected and led critics to suggest that the new units […] Read more »
The House GOP’s Investigation Conundrum
The list of investigative priorities for the House Judiciary Committee that the incoming chairperson, Jim Jordan, sent to the Justice Department earlier this month reads like an assignment sheet for Fox News. … Two months before taking power, the new House Republican majority has signaled that its investigative agenda will […] Read more »
Trump Was a Gift That Might Not Keep Giving
… For two successive presidential elections, Trump has stymied the most ambitious members of his party, and now this group is becoming increasingly assertive. DeSantis, Youngkin, Haley, Mike Pompeo, Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz, Tom Cotton and Mike Pence are engaged in the process of challenging the current occupant of the […] Read more »
Trump’s Problems, Pelosi’s Decision And A 2022 Wrap
The votes were still being counted but the news was being made elsewhere. Donald Trump announced his candidacy but then was hit with two bombshells: The Justice Department named a special counsel to investigate the national security documents he took to Mar-a-Lago and his role in the January 6th insurrection, […] Read more »