Democratic primaries 2020
Coronavirus is Bernie Sanders’s running mate
Donald Trump claimed his response to the coronavirus could ‘help, not hurt’ him in the 2020 election, but Cockburn suspects…
Warren’s decision not to endorse a candidate is a kind of endorsement
She wanted to be the Tin Lizzie of the presidential race, chugging to victory as the champion of the middle-class.…
Warren stops persisting
Being president just wasn’t in Elizabeth Warren’s DNA. The New York Times’s favorite candidate has nevertheless stopped persisting. After finishing…
A short list of Biden backers who declared Trump mentally unfit for office
If there ever were a theme to emerge from the Trump era it is this: hypocrisy. We’re all guilty, we…
Super Tuesday’s real winner was Donald Trump
Was I wrong, or only early? After Joe Biden’s win in the South Carolina primary, I wrote that his victory…
2020, the Year of the Drunken Uncle
How in the world did Chris Matthews get himself fired? To be sure, the man did stick his foot in…
Is Joe Biden really a sure thing?
How quickly the campaigns of Tom Steyer, Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar — all billed as moderates — have assimilated…
Joe’s Super Thursday!
I met Joe Biden last month, after one of his town hall events in New Hampshire. His team had turned…
Dispirited Democrats rally behind zombie campaign on Super Tuesday
Joe Biden crawled ahead early in Tuesday night’s thrilling electric scooter race between two near-octogenarians, whereas of midnight Biden took…
The Democratic primary is now a two-man race between Biden and Bernie
With the votes still being accumulated and the final counts in California and Texas still to be determined, it’s a…
Joe Biden could torch Trump
The luck of the Irish was finally with Joseph Biden. Dismissed as a loser by much of the political class,…
What is Michael Bloomberg thinking?
There are lies, damned lies, and data in politics. Everyone presumed a man as well-resourced as Michael Bloomberg had run…
In Massachusetts, Warren fails to pull rabbit from hat
Boston Elizabeth Warren has all the answers, a plan for every disaster and the hectoring manner of a professor whose…
The center holds: Biden thrives on Super Tuesday
Joe Biden doesn’t have the organization that Bernie Sanders has behind him. He doesn’t have the money that Michael Bloomberg…
The Democratic civil war has been a long time coming
Bernie Sanders has had an unlikely ally during the 2020 Democratic nomination race: Donald Trump. The president has repeatedly insisted…
Why I’m voting for Tulsi in Virginia
Four years ago I cast a vote for Bernie Sanders in the Virginia Democratic Primary. It was a triple protest:…
What could divide the Democrats more than conspiring to stop Bernie?
Perhaps the intense wave of establishment Democratic party consolidation around Joe Biden over the past 48 hours isn’t a concerted…
Why did Amy Klobuchar drop out?
Minnesota Nice Wasn’t Enough. Neither were Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s center-left positions and bland presentations. And so, today, she left the…
What makes Bloomie run?
This article is in The Spectator’s March 2020 US edition. Subscribe here. In that great movie Citizen Kane, Orson Welles makes it…
Mayor Pete out
Former South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg is dropping out of the Democratic primary ahead of Super Tuesday, according to Politico.…
Should we trust Joe Biden with the nuclear codes?
It’s Joe Biden’s turn to be president, so let’s give it to him and see if he can remember where…
The media’s clueless coverage of the Biden candidacy
At the time of writing, Joe Biden is on course for an approximately 30 point victory in South Carolina. Not…
Biden’s Pyrrhic victory
Bernie Sanders just lost his first primary of 2020. He’ll lose a few more on Tuesday. But as of now,…
Joe Biden had to win in South Carolina
Joe Biden desperately needed a win in South Carolina. His poor performances in Iowa and New Hampshire, and sub-par showing…
Biden wins the South Carolina puppy bowl
The way our politics has shaped up (up? has it shaped up?), the South Carolina primary is a bit like the puppy…
