Once flush with cash, by the end the former Texas congressman was running out of money and confronting a decision about whether to maintain staffing levels or pay for TV ads. DES MOINES, Iowa — As night fell and his staffers led him through the drizzle to his rented Dodge …
The former congressman’s campaign said he would not run for Senate next year in Texas. DES MOINES — Beto O’Rourke, running out of money and flat-lining in public opinion polls, abandoned his presidential campaign on Friday, exiting the contest just as a crush of better-funded, higher-polling candidates arrived here for …
Clinton would struggle to find any support from her old colleagues if she launched another run for president. Hillary Clinton isn’t running for president — nor should she, say her former Democratic colleagues in the Senate. As one of her top aides keeps the door open to a 2020 run, a …
Mark Kelly has more money in his Senate election war chest than Joe Biden does running for president. The former astronaut, gun control activist and husband of Gabrielle Giffords has established a veritable cash gusher in Arizona, raising nearly $14 million this year, including $5.6 million in the last three …
“Nobody likes to hear their home country called a shithole,” said one Republican activist. MIAMI — He publicly doubted Hurricane Maria’s death toll in Puerto Rico and spread conspiracy theories about it. He reportedly called Haiti a “shithole.” He balked at the idea of allowing Bahamians displaced by Hurricane Dorian …
In a new book, the pollster Stanley Greenberg predicts a blue tidal wave in 2020. Toward the end of his new book, “R.I.P. G.O.P.,” the renowned Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg makes a thrilling prediction, delivered with the certainty of prophecy. “The year 2020 will produce a second blue wave on …
Our electoral vulnerabilities are so extreme, the next hack could easily be worse. What if Trump fails to win the Electoral College in 2020? Would he refuse to accept the results of an election? The first thing to remember is that he already has. Back when Hillary Clinton was viewed …
Watching Democratic presidential aspirants is like watching, a century ago, the 1919 World Series, when discerning spectators thought: Some of the White Sox are trying to lose. Michael Boskin, chairman of President George H.W. Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers and currently at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, pays the Democrats the injurious compliment of taking …
When it comes to tamping down excitement, Robert Mueller is a genius. He soldiered on through two much-anticipated House committee hearings, full of politicians eager to make a splash. The result was … muted. O.K., actually kind of boring. Not, of course, anything like the scene Donald Trump described later, …
Bring it on. If President Trump and the Republican Party want the 2020 election to be a referendum on unabashed white supremacy, that’s their choice. Voters who embrace the views of David Duke and other proud racists will have Trump to vote for. Voters who disagree will have a Democratic …
President Trump attacked Joe Biden as a “reclamation project” on Saturday, signaling renewed paranoia about his 2020 chances. Now that a rainy Fourth of July celebration has been largely drowned out by his “airports” gaffe, President Trump returned to one of his favorite ego-boosting pastimes—trashing former vice president Joe Biden. Trump tried to wrest the …
His campaign says his organization will win out and that predictions of his demise are way premature. Bernie Sanders keeps getting bad news. After Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren seized the spotlight in the first primary debate, the Vermont senator dropped to fourth place in two polls in the first-in-the-nation caucus state of …