Author: W. James Antle
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The GOP resistance to Trump is overstated
As former President Donald Trump gets closer to securing the 2024 Republican nomination, one question remains: what to make of the continued support for his last major primary opponent. Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley scored one narrow win on Super Tuesday in Vermont, her second victory of the campaign. Trump beat…
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Polls that show Trump winning are wrong, Biden team says
Democrats have a response to a fresh batch of national polls showing President Joe Biden trailing in his reelection bid to former President Donald Trump: denial. That’s not a universal sentiment within the party. Many Democrats are alarmed by these numbers, even eight months out from the election. Biden’s age, the direction of the campaign,…
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Nikki Haley’s last stand: How she’ll try to avoid a primary shutout
Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley now faces a greater chance of being shut out in the 2024 Republican primaries than winning the nomination. To avoid that fate, over the next few days, Haley is likely to target blue states and Washington D.C., where it is easy for independents and even Democrats…
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Mitch McConnell passes the torch
Perhaps this town was no longer big enough for the both of them. With former President Donald Trump on the cusp of clinching the 2024 Republican nomination, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced he was stepping down from his post before the end of the year. “One of life’s most underappreciated talents is to…
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Tempers flare as White House continues to deflect documents questions
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WASHINGTON • Wednesday’s White House briefing was once again dominated by questions about President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents, but answers were few. Biden’s press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre repeatedly referred questions about the matter to the White House counsel’s office or the Justice Department, but would not commit to making representatives of either available…
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PERSPECTIVE: GOP grapples with Trump dilemma
In a ritual dating back to that June 2015 ride down the escalator, the Republican Party is having a debate over what to do about Donald Trump. Some GOP power brokers, chief among them Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, are doing what they can to put this tradition, and the entire question, in the rearview.…
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Twitter erupts at Biden’s use of ‘Negro’ in Veterans Day speech
President Joe Biden raised eyebrows and set the internet abuzz Thursday when he used a long-outdated term for black people during a speech honoring veterans. Biden referred to famed baseball player Satchel Paige as “the great Negro of the time” while wishing retired diplomat Donald Blinken a happy birthday during his Veterans Day speech. But…
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PERSPECTIVE: What the Virginia upset means for the country
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All eyes are on Virginia, where a sweater vest-clad businessman could mark the beginning of a Republican comeback. Party operatives certainly think so. Two days after Glenn Youngkin was elected governor, the Republican Governors Association sent out an alliterative statement headlined “Victory in Virginia: A Forecast for Flipping in 2022.” “The red wave is here,”…
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What do lackluster jobs reports mean for Biden’s economic ‘transformation’?
President Joe Biden has proposed substantial spending increases he says will transform the economy, but a pair of recent disappointing jobs reports have some analysts wondering whether these investments will really pay off. Biden has already signed a $1.9 trillion spending bill he called the “American Rescue” plan into law and has jobs, infrastructure, childcare,…
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Liz Cheney and the three GOP strategies for dealing with Trump
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A looming leadership fight in the House is only partly over whether Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming will remain Republican conference chairwoman. The larger issue is a debate over how the GOP should handle former President Donald Trump going forward. One faction of congressional Republicans, in line with the party’s rank-and-file voters according to most…