Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R., Ga.) addresses a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., February 5, 2021. (Sarah Silbiger/Reuters) With a redrawn district that subtracted some of her most faithful supporters in her 2020 primary race and added hostile suburban territory in return, freshman congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene faces a serious primary challenge

Jeremy Hunt (Screenshot via Campaign Video) The young Army veteran thinks he has what it takes to score a Republican upset. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I n a nation increasingly polarized along rural–urban lines, Georgia’s second congressional district goes against the trend. Rural voters in the 2020 election broke for Republicans by overwhelming numbers: 1,302 of

President Joe Biden holds a formal news conference in the East Room of the White House, in Washington, D.C., January 19, 2022. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) In 2016, Donald Trump  argued that the presidential election was being rigged against him, even going so far as to suggest that he may not accept the results. Four years later,

President Joe Biden holds a formal news conference in the East Room of the White House, in Washington, D.C., January 19, 2022. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) His handlers want you to accept that he must be assisted in articulating the administration’s actual positions, and they are hoping you don’t notice. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE W hen the president

Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger at the capitol in Atlanta, November 6, 2020 (Dustin Chambers / Reuters) Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger expressed his dismay with President Joe Biden’s recent rhetoric surrounding the 2022 midterms and election integrity more generally in an interview with National Review on Thursday. “Between his speech last week

Vice President Harris waits to deliver virtual remarks from the White House in Washington, D.C., January 17, 2022. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday dodged a question from Today Show host Samantha Guthrie on whether President Biden is “really concerned” that the midterm elections may not be legitimate. When a reporter asked Biden

A voter leaves a voting booth after casting his ballot in the New Hampshire presidential primary in Greenfield, N.H., February 11, 2020. (Gretchen Ertl/Reuters) Despite winning the presidency, the House, and a tie in the U.S. Senate in 2020, Democrats have decided they cannot win any elections in the future unless they are rigged. NRPLUS

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer walks with President Joe Biden after a lunch with the Senate Democratic Caucus at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., July 14, 2021. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Following the president’s big speech in Georgia, I asked if the press was ready to put this question to Joe Biden about his hyperbolic claims

Nikki Fried, Florida Commissioner of Agriculture, arrives for a ceremony with President Joe Biden as he welcomes the 2021 NFL Super Bowl champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers at the White House, July 20, 2021. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Florida’s Democratic agriculture commissioner is running to unseat Governor Ron DeSantis. She just doesn’t seem to know why, or

Representative James Clyburn (D., S.C.) speaks in favor of voting rights legislation during a Congressional Black Caucus press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., January 12, 2022. (Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters) Long lines are the fault of local jurisdictions, often run by Democrats. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I t’s been a bad couple of days for the

People fill out ballots during the New York mayoral primary election at a polling site in Brooklyn, N.Y., June 22, (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) The Democrat-controlled New York State Legislature will soon likely assume the sole authority to draw congressional districts in the state for the first time in more than 50 years if an independent commission

Then-Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks as Then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton listens during their third presidential debate at UNLV in Las Vegas, Nev., October 19, 2016. (Mark Ralston/Pool via Reuters) Dick Morris, who once served as a top adviser to former President Bill Clinton, predicted on Sunday there is a “good chance” both Hillary

President Biden didn’t explicitly mention voter-ID requirements in his speech, but both of the bills he was urging the Senate to change its rules to pass have something to say about those requirements. As I’ve noted here before, the “Freedom to Vote Act” (S. 2747) would forbid states from requiring photo identification from voters in

Rep. John Katko (R-NY) questions witnesses during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., September 17, 2020. (Chip Somodevilla/Pool via Reuters) Representative John Katko (R., N.Y.), one of ten House Republicans who voted to impeach Donald Trump last year, announced Friday that he will not run for reelection. Katko, who

President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the grounds of Morehouse College and Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta, Ga., January 11, 2022. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) If you want a barometer of how well Biden’s disastrously ill-considered speech in Georgia on Tuesday went over, look at how the White House is now spinning it: President Joe Biden was

Former President Donald Trump speaks to his supporters during the “Save America Rally” in Sarasota, Fla., July 3, 2021. (Octavio Jones/Reuters) All that’s left of Trumpism are Trump’s grievances and aspirations. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE O n a recent podcast with Conan O’Brien, the comedian Zach Galifianakis said America’s obsession with celebrity culture was a “mental

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) speaks during a press conference following the weekly Republican luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., January 11, 2022. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters) Senior Republicans, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, are standing behind Senator Mike Rounds after the South Dakota Republican said over the weekend that there was no

The set and ten podiums for the U.S. Democratic presidential candidates’ debate at the Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta, Ga., November 19, 2019. (Jim Bourg/Reuters) When it comes to the mechanics of presidential elections, by the time it’s not too early to be thinking about them, it’s already too late. In that spirit, the Republican

President Joe Biden delivers remarks on voting rights during a speech on the grounds of Morehouse College and Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta, Ga., January 11, 2022. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Joe Biden has had a long career of careless pronouncements and demagogic speeches, but he outdid himself with his cynical rant in Georgia on Tuesday afternoon.

President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the grounds of Morehouse College and Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta, Ga., January 11, 2022. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) The more Biden shouted and sputtered yesterday in Georgia, the more America went ‘Huh?’ NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE Y ou know you’re about as useful as an anvil on a life raft when

Sen. Mitt Romney, (R., Utah) speaks during Anthony Blinken’s confirmation hearing for Secretary of State, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., January 19, 2021. (Alex Edelman/Reuters) Utah GOP senator Mitt Romney said on the Senate floor Tuesday night that he had decided to forgo prepared remarks in order to respond to the fact that

The biggest problem with the system of casting and counting votes in the U.S. is neither voter fraud nor voter suppression. It’s lack of trust in a system that has shown very little of either. It’s an issue Senator Manchin (D., W. Va.) rightly highlighted in explaining his own opposition to enacting sweeping national changes

President Joe Biden delivers remarks on voting rights during a speech on the grounds of Morehouse College and Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta, Ga., January 11, 2022. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) The president has decided to preemptively undermine confidence in the 2022 and 2024 elections, smearing half the country as racists while cosplaying as a civil-rights hero.

Sen. Mike Rounds (R., S.D.) talks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., December 6, 2021. (Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters) Mollie Hemingway misrepresented Senator Mike Rounds’s defense of the integrity of the 2020 election during a Monday Fox News appearance, accusing the South Dakota Republican of dismissing all of the election concerns typically cited by Trump

Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) speaks during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the conclusion of military operations in Afghanistan and plans for future counterterrorism operations on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., September 28, 2021. (Patrick Semansky/Pool via Reuters) Senator Mike Rounds (R., S.D.) defended his statement that there was no evidence of fraud in

Then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell speaks during a news conference after the Republicans’ weekly senate luncheon at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., December 8, 2020. (Sarah Silbiger/Pool via Reuters) Progressive pundits were mostly in favor of reforming the Electoral Count Act when they thought it was a club that Democrats could use to bludgeon

Election officials canvass absentee ballots received on Election Day at a central count facility in Kenosha, Wis., November 3, 2020. (Daniel Acker/Reuters) We know what to do to secure future elections. Focusing on fake news about the 2020 presidential election is a discrediting distraction. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE B eginning on November 9, 2016, we heard

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., March 16, 2021. (Kevin Dietsch/Pool via Reuters) Making the Senate more like the House, as Democrats are threatening to do, would only hurt our politics. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I n his farewell address as president, George Washington

Voter Michael Grabowski fills out his ballot at a polling station during the primary election in Peru, Ill., March 17, 2020. (Daniel Acker/Reuters) As my column Wednesday noted, Republicans are on the verge of gaining the upper hand on the issue of reforming the Electoral Count Act of 1887 to eliminate perceived ambiguities and weaknesses that

Nicholas Kristof speaks at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Goalkeepers event in Manhattan, N.Y., September 20, 2017. (Elizabeth Shafiroff/Reuters) Longtime New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof responded to his being ruled ineligible to become a candidate for governor of Oregon by characterizing the decision as “a failing political establishment… protecting itself,” during a Friday