There’s a theme in Democratic commentary this summer: Voters don’t care about the party’s internal fights, they care about the affordability crisis. So Democrats should stop navel-gazing around internal governance and get back to kitchen-table issues. It’s a reasonable instinct much of the time. Most DNC personnel disputes really are inside baseball.
New Hampshire’s political elites quickly pointed fingers after a Democratic National Committee panel voted Friday to strip the Granite State of its first-in-the-nation status on the presidential nomination calendar. Republican elites blamed Democrats for the Rules and Bylaws Committee decision. Democratic elites blamed their national party leadership. What neither side did, but should, is consider […]
It is clear in hindsight, and clear to many at the time, that the choice to sideline New Hampshire in the 2024 Democratic presidential primary process was designed to spare President Joe Biden from scrutiny over his ability to mount a vigorous reelection campaign. South Carolina was chosen to go first. As New Hampshire, following […]
FBI Director Kash Patel is back in the safe zone again. The on-again, off-again MAGA media lynch mobs gunning for Patel to be ousted from the key Cabinet post over his perceived mishandling of several high-profile investigations and unmet demands for transparency have crested and fallen too many times to count during his tumultuous nine months in office.
CHICAGO — The third night of the Democratic National Convention felt less like a political assembly and more like a school pep rally as Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, a retired teacher and assistant football coach, formally accepted the vice-presidential nomination. This was by design.