Campaigns & Elections

As an election year dawns, Republicans and Democrats should stop to reflect on why our politics seems so stagnant. No one expects President Joe Biden to earn a mandate even if he wins reelection; it won't be a victory for Biden so much as a defeat for Donald Trump. Progressives don't see Biden, or Kamala Harris, as an architect for the future.

A very special episode of Washington Week with The Atlantic aired Friday, devoted wholly to the magazine’s very special anti-Trump issue, already pushed on the PBS NewsHour. A liberal dream team of Atlantic magazine staff joined editor Jeffrey Goldberg took over the taxpayer-supported airwaves to fret over a potential second term for Trump.

On Morning Joe, self-described "Never Trump conservative" Matt Lewis says that in refusing to mention slavery when asked the cause of the Civil War, Nikki Haley misreads her core constituency.  MAGA voters will never vote for her. She is running to win the primary in New Hampshire, not in Alabama or Mississippi.

It was a year of change for late night comedy. The Late Late show was cancelled by CBS after 5,300 episodes since 1995 after James Corden decided to return to England, Comedy Central’s The Daily Show used a series of temp hosts after Trevor Noah walked away at the end of 2022, CBS host of The Late Show Stephen Colbert finally stopped giving Donald Trump the He Who…

Amanpour & Co., which airs on taxpayer-supported PBS, on Tuesday called the 2024 elections a “make-or-break moment for democracy” in the “flawed democracy” known as the United States, because of the risks of a victory by former president Donald Trump. The Economist deputy editor Tom Standage talked to Amanpour reporter Hari Sreenivasan, who set up Standage to…

Neal Katyal, former Obama administration acting U.S. Solicitor General and now frequent pro-Democratic MSNBC guest, was the partisan choice of Wednesday evening’s PBS NewsHour as its sole expert opinion-giver on the controversial ruling by the Democratic-majority of the Colorado Supreme Court to remove Donald Trump from the presidential ballot in 2024, under the U.S.…

It was a triple-liberal-team up against Donald Trump on Tuesday’s edition of the taxpayer-supported PBS NewsHour with an interview segment headlined online, “How media organizations are facing the task of covering Trump’s anti-democratic rhetoric.” (Ironically, the segment on the dangers Trump posed to democracy was introduced with news that Trump had been removed from the ballot in…

On Wednesday night and overnight into Thursday, the three liberal network comedians working this week — CBS’s Late Show host Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon of NBC’s Tonight Show, and Seth Meyers of NBC’s Late Night — were bursting at the seams in excitement (as were their audiences) at Tuesday’s decision by the Colorado Supreme Court to throw Donald Trump off the 2024…

After initially celebrating the Colorado Supreme Court’s legally dubious ruling to take former President Trump off the ballot as “a historic level of accountability for January 6^th” during Wednesday’s CNN This morning, the network decided to bring on a lucid legal mind during The Lead in former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr, who smacked down their hype by calling…

In a year-ending hour-long PBS election special America at a Crossroads, former NewsHour anchor Judy Woodruff uncorked a  history of "mean" political debate and violence all conveniently came from the right, with leftism identified as going forward and MAGA going backward, bookended with bits of Woodruff labeling bias, from 1984 to 2023.

Why is Donald Trump so resilient? As 2023 draws to a close, the ex-president is on track to win the Republican nomination and beat Joe Biden next November. If the election were today, Trump would get his second term. Yet he’s charged with crimes that run a gamut from election interference to mishandling classified information. He’s under gag orders and lost a $5 million civil suit this year.…

Having clearly not received the memo that the time just prior to and after Christmas is usually reserved for near-endless travel and weather segments, Wednesday’s CBS Mornings led off with over seven and a half minutes on the Colorado Supreme Court kicking former President Trump off its 2024 primary ballot and featured former Obama official-turned-supposedly-objective CBS News…

The liberals of CNN This Morning were in a very good mood on Wednesday after the far-left Colorado Supreme Court ruled to boot former President Trump off the 2024 ballot. Instead of questioning the legality of a state-level court invoking the 14^th Amendment for a federal position, they celebrated the ruling as “a historic level of accountability for January 6^th…

Perhaps desperate for the kind of electoral bump that an assassination attempt on a sitting president would bring, ABC’s Good Morning America seemingly tried to hype up a collision involving the presidential motorcade as a serious attempt on his life. And despite the fact authorities charged the driver involved with driving under the influence, and that the incident happened down the…