Donald Trump’s fate in the 2024 GOP presidential race may pivot on whether he can retain the surprisingly broad support he secured in 2016 from an unexpected group of Republican voters. Probably the biggest surprise in Trump’s march to the GOP nomination in 2016 was the large number of votes […] Read more »
The False Choices Facing the Republican Party
The word “rudderless” was used frequently to describe the Republican Party during the raucous battle for House speaker last month. But don’t forget that in 2020, the party dispensed with a platform altogether, or that it stumbled in the 2022 midterms with candidates more focused on relitigating the last election […] Read more »
To the Supreme Court, the 20th Century Was Wrongly Decided
When, in the Dobbs decision, Samuel Alito declared that Roe v. Wade had been “wrongly decided,” he succinctly stated the credo of a resurgent revanchist coalition that believes the Twentieth Century was wrongly decided. Over the last two decades, the Supreme Court has been instrumental in advancing this coalition’s agenda, […] Read more »
Trump and the GOP Are No Longer One and the Same
… Anyone starting to write Trump’s political obituary would be well advised to put the pen down because, politically speaking, he does seem to have more than the proverbial cat’s nine lives. But the political environment is different from four years ago, and it cannot be reassuring for him or […] Read more »
DeSantis, Trump Are Main Focus of GOP Voters for 2024
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former President Donald Trump continue to be the only 2024 possibilities generating significant top-of-mind support from Republican voters in the latest Monmouth University Poll. While Trump has gained some ground over the past two months, he trails DeSantis in a head-to-head contest. At the same […] Read more »
The State of Biden’s Next Campaign
Key Points• President Biden’s successful State of the Union address suggested he’s full speed ahead on running for a second term.• Despite polls showing that even many Democrats would prefer Biden not to run again, he has no real opposition within his own party — and the State of the […] Read more »