Author: W-James-Antle-III-Washington-Examiner
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Midterm elections could accelerate Trump Cabinet restock
It’s finally firing season for President Donald Trump after months of relative quiet on the personnel front compared to his turbulent first term. Attorney General Pam Bondi is following former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem out the door, raising speculation about who might be next with the midterm elections fast approaching. If the president wants…
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State of the Union: Here’s what Trump didn’t say
President Donald Trump made the case that happy days are here again in the first State of the Union of his second term, but there was little talk of transition or pain. “The state of our union is strong,” he declared. “Our country is winning again. We’re winning so much we really don’t know what…
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Shutdown fight: Left-wing Democrats take a tea party turn
Early in former President Barack Obama’s second term, the Republican-controlled House, backed by outside conservative groups and some of the most vocal elements of the Senate GOP minority, sought to defund his signature legislative achievement, using a government shutdown as leverage. Republicans had campaigned on repealing the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, from…
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How long can the party of government keep the government shut down?
Senate Democrats are so far sticking to a strategy pioneered by Republicans from Newt Gingrich to the height of the tea party: shut down the federal government to impose your will on a president of the opposite party. Most Democratic senators have used the filibuster to vote down funding bills that would avert a government shutdown.…
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What is Kamala Harris doing?
When former Vice President Kamala Harris came out with her book 107 Days, we knew it would feature her side of the story about what went wrong when she lost to President Donald Trump in 2024. The only question was to what end. Did Harris plan to run again in 2028? Did she want to…
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Harris’s campaign tell-all short on lessons to avoid future Democratic defeat
Former Vice President Kamala Harris has an explanation for what went wrong with her 2024 presidential campaign: It wasn’t her fault. At various points, Harris has blamed former President Joe Biden, White House officials who didn’t do a good enough job advertising her accomplishments as vice president, her running mate, other Democrats she considered to…
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Cautious Kamala Harris doomed by distrust of voters
Former Vice President Kamala Harris’s new book about the 2024 presidential race is quickly becoming a collection of things she might have done if only she trusted the voters more. That assessment is based on a handful of excerpts of 107 Days, the campaign memoir that was written to get out Harris’s side of the…
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Cautious Kamala Harris doomed by distrust of voters
Former Vice President Kamala Harris’s new book about the 2024 presidential race is quickly becoming a collection of things she might have done if only she trusted the voters more. That assessment is based on a handful of excerpts of 107 Days, the campaign memoir that was written to get out Harris’s side of the…
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Anger, lack of leadership, and unpopularity plague the Democratic Party
Three things happened in rapid succession in one 24-hour period that illustrate the promise and the peril that lie ahead for Democrats: a 50-point special election victory, the reemergence of former Vice President Kamala Harris and 2024 recriminations, and the senseless murder of the influential conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Taken together, they show a party…
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Massie channels Ron Paul in intraparty battle with Trump
August was a month of celebration for libertarians, especially libertarian-leaning Republicans, but September is shaping up to be more of a fight. Ron Paul, the former 12-term congressman from Texas and two-time candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, celebrated his 90th birthday last month. He has been gone from Capitol Hill since 2013, though he…