Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., January 12, 2021. (Andrew Harnik/Reuters) Former secretary of state Mike Pompeo said he is starting a political action committee to support Republican midterm candidates, in an interview with Politico on Tuesday. The group will be known as the Champion American Values PAC,

An election official works in the ballot room organizing unused ballots returned from voting precincts after Election Day at the Kenosha Municipal Building in Kenosha, Wisc., November 4, 2020. (Daniel Acker/Reuters) Clarity now can prevent a constitutional crisis later. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE M ona Charen argues at the Bulwark that Democrats should focus their energies

Eric Adams, Democratic candidate for New York City mayor, at a campaign event in Brooklyn, N.Y., June 2, 2021. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) It’s hard to do worse than Bill de Blasio. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he bad news for New York City is that the next mayor will almost certainly be a Democrat. The good news

Texas State Capitol in Austin. (SusanRisdon/Getty Images) Arguments over lawmakers revising state election laws have sunk into familiar ruts, which have played out again in Texas. Republicans try to shore up the real and perceived security of American elections. Many of their proposals are reasonable and modest; some include pandering to stolen-election conspiracists, and some

Vermont governor Phil Scott speaks to the press in Montpelier, Vt., March 13, 2018. (Christinne Muschi/Reuters) Vermont Republican Governor Phil Scott signed a bill Monday mandating that registered voters in the state be sent mail-in ballots in advance of the general election, departing from other GOP governors that have recently limited this practice in their

Sign directs voters to a polling station on Election Day in Tucson, Ariz., November 3, 2020. (Cheney Orr/Reuters) Harping on election fraud may spell electoral defeat for Arizona Republicans. Arizona Republicans’ focus on election fraud could hobble outreach to independent and unaffiliated voters, according to research by polling firm HighGround Inc. The research indicates that

Then-Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe arrives at the election night rally for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ralph Northam in Fairfax, Va., November 7, 2017. (Aaron P. Bernstein/Reuters) The former governor has a substantial edge over his competitors in both name recognition and fundraising. Each year following a presidential-election contest, two states host a gubernatorial race: Virginia and

Representative Liz Cheney (R., Wyo.) speaks to the media as she arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., May 12, 2021. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters) Representative Liz Cheney (R., Wyo.) recently compared Donald Trump’s false election claims to the rhetoric of the Chinese Communist Party, calling the former president’s mistruths “very dangerous and damaging.” “When you listen

A police officer secures the area with a police cordon after a mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, August 3, 2019. (Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters) The race for mayor in America’s twelfth-largest city has ended, and the results are promising for moderates and conservatives. Fort Worth, the oft-overlooked city beside its more famous

(33ft/Getty Images) Winning Republican mayoral candidates ran on an anti-crime platform. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE R epublicans swept key races for mayor in Texas on Saturday, setting back Democratic hopes that the state’s urban areas will deliver statewide majorities for them in the future. Most shocking: In McAllen, Texas, a border city of 150,000 people of

(Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) I wrote today about Donald Trump’s belief that he will be “reinstated” as president in August, or thereabouts, after the remaining election “audits” have been completed. This is, of course, a preposterous conspiracy theory, and it deserves our condemnation. Before anyone on the Left gets too excited about What This Says About Republicans,

Today on The Editors, Rich, Charlie, and Jim discuss the absurd blowup over Texas’s voting bill, Trump’s continuing claims about a stolen election, and how the lab-leak theory is now racist. Listen below, or follow this show on iTunes, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn, or Spotify. Your browser does not support the HTML5 Audio element.

Official Photo of Nikki Fried (State of Florida/Wikimedia Commons) Nikki Fried is officially running for governor of Florida, having filed the requisite paperwork today. She’ll face Charlie Crist in the primary, and, if successful, will run against Governor DeSantis next year. I wrote at length last week about Fried, whom I consider to be an

Texas State Capitol in Austin. (CrackerClips/Getty Images) A top negotiator behind a Texas voting law backed by Republicans claimed that the text of the bill limited voting hours on Sundays because of a “scrivener’s error,” in an interview with NPR on Tuesday. Among other provisions, the bill, known as S.B. 7, would have limited voting

Texas State Capitol in Austin. (CrackerClips/Getty Images) As the fight for party control of the House and Senate in the 2022 midterm elections gears up, Republican strategists say the GOP is well-positioned to notch big wins in the next cycle and beyond thanks to oft-overlooked state-level victories last year. Republicans lost control of the House

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D., N.Y.), speaks during a House Judiciary Committee markup of the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, December 11, 2019. (Jose Luis Magana/Pool via Reuters) Representative Hakeem Jeffries (D., N.Y.) on Sunday claimed that Republicans “want to make it harder to vote and easier to steal an election” after the Texas

Nikki Fried in a Facebook video from April. (Nikki Fried/Screengrab via Facebook) Peddling in every available strand of nonsense and conspiracy theory is not helping the Florida Democrat’s brand. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE A s the only Democrat to have won a statewide election in Florida since 2012, Nikki Fried was in possession of a solid

New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang speaks during a forum in New York, May 25, 2021. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters) The failed presidential candidate enjoyed a big lead in polls to become New York City’s next mayor. Then people started asking him basic questions. Even Bill de Blasio is mocking his ineptitude. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE N

That’s the title of a study that’s been accepted for publication in The Quarterly Journal of Economics. The approved manuscript is paywalled except for the brief abstract, but you can read an earlier “working paper” version here. The neat thing about the study is that, instead of relying on overall voting rates or survey data,

Beto O’Rourke speaks during a protest in Austin, Texas, May 8, 2021. (Mikala Compton/Reuters) Beto O’Rourke is considering running for Texas governor in 2022, according to a new report. O’Rourke, who previously served as a U.S. representative from Texas, is reportedly weighing a challenge to Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, according to The Associated Press. 

Voters at a polling place at John Jay College in New York, November 6, 2012. (Chip East/Reuters) Are Republicans really anti-democratic? It’s complicated. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE A re we not democrats? John Ganz alleges that “it’s very difficult to seriously maintain that the modern GOP and Conservative movement, either in ideology or in practice, is

It was hard not to see breathless media accounts of an impending civil war within the Republican Party last week. Liz Cheney, the former No. 3 House Republican, was forced out of her position because she preferred to focus on Donald Trump’s failings rather than a winning GOP message for the 2022 elections when Republicans

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris deliver remarks at Emory University in Atlanta, Ga., March 19, 2021. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) It seems indisputable that the Democratic Party has a real interest in Harris being more popular than she is. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE A mericans have never much liked Kamala Harris. Despite being theoretically well-placed

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at the virtual Washington Conference on the Americas in Washington, May 4, 2021. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) I wrote today about the Democrats’ Kamala Harris problem. One objection I’ve seen to my argument is that the Democrats don’t have to take Harris if she runs in 2024 or 2028 — or if

Early voting and absentee ballots are processed ahead of the presidential election in Tucson, Ariz., October 31, 2020. (Cheney Orr/Reuters) Top Republicans in Arizona’s Maricopa county, the largest in the state, spoke out against the election audit and ongoing claims of voter fraud Monday. The GOP-dominated Maricopa County Board of Supervisors initiated an audit of 2.1

Then-president Trump speaks to a crowd of supporters in Washington, D.C., January 6, 2021. (Jim Bourg/Reuters) Former President Trump is set to resume his signature rallies next month, according to multiple reports. While dates and locations have not been announced, Trump’s team is reportedly working to select venues for two appearances in June and a

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R., N.Y.) speaks to the media during the impeachment trial in Washington, D.C., January 27, 2020. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Once seen as a moderate, Stefanik went all-in on Trump’s post-election claims — and is about to win a spot in House GOP leadership. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I f you talk to anyone who

President Donald Trump holds a campaign rally at Gerald R. Ford International Airport in Grand Rapids, Mich., November 3, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) Rich Lowry argues, on the homepage, that Donald Trump’s decision in 2023 to run again – or not – in 2024 will be momentous for the Republican future: Sometime in 2023, Donald Trump

Rep. Elise Stefanik, November 19, 2019 (Jacquelyn Martin/Reuters) House minority leader Kevin McCarthy indicated that Liz Cheney had to be removed from House GOP leadership because she was “relitigating the past.” Yesterday, McCarthy said: “I don’t think anybody is questioning the legitimacy of the presidential election.” In the Capitol on Wednesday, I asked Elise Stefanik

Republican gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis and wife Casey at his election-night party in Orlando, Fla., November 6, 2018. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters) Florida elections are always close. There are eighteen months between now and the midterms. And nobody knows what changes to the political landscape we will see between now and then. But . . . things