With all eyes fixed firmly on the fissures Donald Trump is creating in the GOP, the deep divisions among congressional Republicans are going largely unnoticed. It’s hard to overestimate the height of symbolic petard on which GOP lawmakers are hoisting themselves by failing to pass a budget. CONT. Mark Mellman […] Read more »
No Paul Ryan Means Still More Anger
If Paul Ryan really meant what he said, the Republican Party has lost its best chance to take the White House and maintain control of the Senate. “Let me be clear: I do not want nor will I accept the nomination for our party,” Ryan told reporters on Tuesday afternoon […] Read more »
How the Republican Race Could End
Even before Ted Cruz thrashed Donald Trump in Wisconsin, there was incessant buzz in political circles about the possibility of a contested convention in Cleveland. Since Wisconsin, the buzz has ramped up substantially, consuming hundreds of hours of bloviation on cable news networks. I’ve been gratified to see that, after […] Read more »
Ted Cruz, Not Paul Ryan, Would Probably Win A Contested Convention
… It’s not that hard to imagine a contested convention. In fact, with Donald Trump’s path to 1,237 delegates looking tenuous, especially after his loss in Wisconsin on Tuesday night, it’s a real possibility. And it’s not hard to see how Republicans might think of Kasich or Ryan as good […] Read more »
GOP says no last-minute candidates like Paul Ryan
While Republican Party insiders angle for a last-minute alternative to Donald Trump, GOP voters are warning against convention deals that seem to go against the will of the rank and file. A majority of Republican voters want Trump to get their presidential nomination if he’s ahead but short of a […] Read more »
Can Paul Ryan and Donald Trump coexist within the Republican Party?
… Four years ago, scholars Thomas Mann, then with the Brookings Institution, and Norman Ornstein, then and now with the American Enterprise Institute, published a book examining the breakdown in American politics. It was titled, “It’s Even Worse Than It Looks.” The authors took aim at the gridlocked and dysfunctional […] Read more »