Author: W-James-Antle-III-Washington-Examiner
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The ugly political divide over thoughts and prayers
A horrific mass shooting in Minneapolis has spawned a heated political debate over the power of prayer versus the power of government. Liberal Democrats, frustrated by their inability to enact sweeping gun control measures, have long responded with hostility to conservative Republicans offering their “thoughts and prayers” in the wake of mass shootings, viewing it…
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Party like it’s 1989: Trump’s new Bush Republicanism
President Donald Trump is often seen as the opposite of a Bush Republican, but this week, he is focused on a set of issues that dominated the Bush administration — George H.W., not George W. Trump proposed the death penalty for convicted murderers in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. His Monday executive orders were designed to…
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Top Democratic 2028 alternatives to Harris lag in black support
Most of the 2028 Democratic presidential field lacks significant support among black primary voters, according to a recent poll. That could spell trouble for these candidates as they try to make it through the primaries. Anemic black support for the eventual Democratic nominee could also be a major problem in the general election. The usual…
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Trash-talking Trump and Harris go another round on debates
It remains to be seen whether former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris end up debating, but their debate about the debates continues. Trump has now indicated he would like to have three debates with Harris, all in September. Harris has so far only committed to the ABC News debate on Sept. 10.…
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Basement blitz: Harris borrows one tactic from Biden, another from Trump
If Vice President Kamala Harris wins the top job, it will be because she can convince voters she represents a change from the last two unpopular presidents. But Harris’s current campaign strategy is a fusion of the contrasting approaches that won former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden the White House. Harris is flooding…
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Harris honeymoon has Republicans ‘worried’ about changed presidential race
Ten days after President Joe Biden dropped his reelection bid and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, the 2024 presidential race looks different. What once seemed like a slow march toward almost inevitable defeat for Biden is now much more dynamic and uncertain, with Harris’s honeymoon possibly extending to her running mate announcement, formal roll call…
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Kamala Harris, unburdened by what has been her record
The border czar flap was just the beginning. Vice President Kamala Harris is carefully editing the public record to excise inconvenient parts of her time serving with President Joe Biden and the more controversial policy positions she took in her first run for the White House. Sympathetic media have been willing to aid in this…
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The tensions between Biden’s soaring democratic rhetoric and reality
Former President Ronald Reagan had been out of office for five years when he returned to Washington, D.C., to address a Republican National Committee fundraiser. It was three days before his 83rd birthday. Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, RNC Chairman Haley Barbour, and Senate Republican Leader Bob Dole were among those on hand for…
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Kamala Harris creates small opening for a Nikki Haley comeback
The presidential window for former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley appears to be closed after her unsuccessful run for the 2024 Republican nomination. But there is one development that could reopen it, if only slightly. Though Haley served under former President Donald Trump during his first term in the White House, she…
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Harris VP short list looks like a list of presidential candidates
When you look at the Democrats believed to be on Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate short list, a few things stand out: They are mostly from battleground states. Most are relatively centrist. Most would add some form of demographic balance to the ticket. In the Democrats’ perfect world, most would be the presidential nominee…