2020 Elections

The outgoing U.N. ambassador sounds a lot like someone running for something.

An attempt to think a little more clearly about the Democratic presidential primary.

Trump will struggle to win Michigan again.

President Trump is in deeper political trouble than he thinks. And I’m not talking about whatever special counsel Robert Mueller has up his sleeve. Trump has real-life re-election trouble.

It’s not his style to let someone else take his platform to victory, which makes his 2020 run all the more likely.

Why I think his odds have dropped in the last two years.

It's about 2020, stupid.

Not much.

The Democrat turned Republican turned Independent re-registers as a Democrat with 2020 on his mind.

It’s a party of scoundrels and ideologues.

Republicans dismiss the Netroots Nation view of 2020 at their own peril.

The city hosting the 2020 GOP convention has come a long way.

Ben Shapiro's cover story in the magazine is getting all sorts of attention today and you should absolutely, definitely read it. It's a defining piece about why conservatives are losing young voters and what they need to do to win them back.

Never say Never. That’s what some of the Never Trumpers are saying, and even more are thinking. Both in private. They are afflicted with a nagging suspicion. Trump might, how shall they whisper it, Make America Great Again.

Today on the Daily Standard Podcast, Jonathan V. Last and Jim Swift discuss whether it's time to regulate Facebook, and Bill Kristol drops in to discuss the 2020 presidential elections. Will there be a third-party challenge?

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Donald Trump is historically unpopular, and Republicans are underperforming his margins in special elections across the country. Some might be tempted to look at these numbers and conclude that Trumps’ re-election effort (which is already underway) is doomed.

About three in ten Republicans want someone other than Donald Trump to be their party’s presidential nominee in 2020 according to the Public Religion Research Institute. It’s easy to see how that number could make some Trump supporters nervous and some anti-Trump Republicans hopeful. If a third of…

Independent Vermont senator Bernie Sanders is in the lead for the Democratic nomination according to a new ranking by the Hill. Last week, Hill reporters interviewed Democratic insiders and reported that although no candidate is clearing the field, Sanders, former Vice President Joe Biden,…

There's a new episode of Conversations with Bill Kristol up and it is, typically, intensely interesting.

President Donald Trump is only 200 days into his first term, but other Republicans are already eyeing the Oval Office.

House Republicans on Monday released their long-awaited healthcare bill, but the plan would only repeal major parts of Obamacare starting in 2020 — when the political world will be engulfed in the next presidential election.

It’s a website: "Help us elect Elizabeth Warren for president in 2020."

On Monday, Vice President Joe Biden told a group of reporters at the Capitol, "I'm going to run in 2020."

Apocalypse now. “Dear God. What have you done? After Brexit and this election … a world is collapsing before our eyes. Dizziness," was the cri de coeur of Gerard Araud, France's ambassador to the U.S., apparently unaware that anything that discomfits the French pleases a vast number of Americans.…

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