Ron DeSantis had it coming, but Donald TrumpĢƵ attempts to paint the Florida governor as a scarier right-winger than he is deserve to fail. What DeSantis has done in Florida — virtually ban all access to abortion — Trump has come close to doing to the entire country. Trump is just better ...
Back in 2016, the most moderate Republican candidate in the race was Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who lost everywhere except his home state.Perhaps the most moderate candidate in the field as of this moment is Donald Trump.If you want a Republican who won’t cut spending or start foreign wars, Trump ...
What do you do to win an election when your candidate is universally known and unpopular with a majority of voters? ThatĢƵ a question both major parties have had to face in the last few years. Both look like they’re going to face it for some time longer.One way is to get the other party to ...
WASHINGTON - “Wherever I have gone in this country,” said Kansas Gov. Alf Landon, the Republicans’ 1936 presidential nominee, “I have found Americans.” Time was, the nation rejected what it now needs: banal politics. TodayĢƵ embarrassments — Donald Trump, his prosecutorial ...
Now is a time of woe, not just for “Never Trump” conservatives, but also for the much larger group of Republicans who made peace with Trump once but dread having to do it again.In fact, just going by my unscientific survey, the melancholy is worse for those Republicans who may have agreed ...
Leaving aside all the sometimes legitimate and sometimes illegitimate responses from defenders of former President Donald Trump following his indictment by a New York grand jury, there is something that would have made all the difference for the 45th president had he focused on it as his top ...