Chinese students carry a sign during a demonstration in Tiananmen Square, May 14, 1989. (Dominic Dudouble/Reuters) ‘Many American politicians are too close to Beijing. Finally, we got Trump, who is vehemently anti-the Communist Party.’ NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE L ast March, I attended a Chinese Trump supporters’ gathering at a karaoke bar in Flushing, N.Y., for

Then GOP nominee Donald Trump celebrates with his family as balloons fall at the conclusion of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, July 21, 2016. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters) We’ll know more clearly in the coming weeks, as the epidemiological data on the George Floyd protests come in. The Republicans will not be holding their national

Rep. Steve King speaks during a town hall in Primghar, Iowa, January 26, 2019. (KC McGinnis/Reuters) Dumping him is an act of both political and moral hygiene. The Republican primary voters of Iowa’s fourth district finally sent Steve King packing last night by a margin of almost ten points, in favor of more conventional conservative

Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks about the coronavirus pandemic at an event in Wilmington, Del., March 12, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) Joe Biden can best capitalize on the rioting following the death of George Floyd in the same way he can best capitalize on anything in 2020: by keeping quiet and out of sight. Unfortunately

Joe Biden speaks during a visit to the Bethel AME Church in Wilmington, DE., June 1, 2020. (Jim Bourg/Reuters) Joe Biden on Monday suggested that police forces could train officers to shoot attackers in the legs in order to reduce potential fatalities. There is “the idea that instead of standing there and teaching a cop

Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY) arrives to hear testimony from U.S. Ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland, in Washington, D.C., October 17, 2019. (Erin Scott/Reuters) Representative Eliot Engel (D., N.Y.) was caught on hot mic on Tuesday admitting that he only wanted to speak at a George Floyd rally because of his upcoming primary. The

Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks with supporters in Henderson, Nev., February 14, 2020. (Gage Skidmore) His weaknesses are his strength, and he’s not running for the presidency. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I t is now conventional punditry that should Joe Biden win in November, his vice president, in 1944-style, will sooner rather than later become

Joe Biden speaks during a campaign stop at Tougaloo College in Tougaloo, Miss., March 8, 2020. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) As Dan McLaughlin writes, Joe Biden has no idea how guns work. Today the candidate suggested that cops who are rushed by “unarmed person” with “a knife or something” should be trained to “shoot them in the leg

President Donald Trump responds to a question during a news briefing at the White House in Washington, D.C., April 6, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) There is a time for careful nuance, and then there is a time for the foghorn. Violent, racially charged disorder in our nation’s cities, and the involvement of Antifa, evokes memories of

Workers prepare ballots from a drop box for the mail sorting machine during the presidential primary at King County Elections ballot processing center in Renton, Wash., March 10, 2020. (Lindsey Wasson/Reuters) Amid the coronavirus pandemic, elected officials of both parties have a moral responsibility to ensure that every American who wants to vote can do

Former FEC Chairman Brad Smith has a review of left-leaning law professor Rick Hasen’s book Election Meltdown: Dirty Tricks, Distrust, and the Threat to American Democracy. As he notes, Hasen rehashes some tired arguments about “voter suppression” but also makes some solid points, such as criticizing Stacey Abrams for undermining the legitimacy of elections: To

Members of a CNN crew were arrested early Friday morning during their live broadcast as they covered the riots in Minneapolis, which broke out this week in the wake of the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody on Monday. Shortly after 5 a.m, CNN reporter Omar Jimenez and his

President Donald Trump talks to reporters following a closed Senate Republican policy lunch meeting to discuss the response to the coronavirus outbreak on Capitol Hill, May 19, 2020. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters) The president faces a much tougher road to reelection than most seem to think. President Trump was disappointed. Bad weather on Wednesday forced a delay

Former vice president Joe Biden addresses supporters as Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) looks on at a South Carolina primary night rally in Columbia, S.C., February 29, 2020. (Jim Urquhart/Reuters) The ongoing riots in Minnesota hurt Senator Amy Klobuchar’s prospects for Democratic nomination as vice president, House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D., S.C.) said on Friday.

Democratic 2020 presidential candidate Senator Amy Klobuchar speaks during campaign event in New Hampshire, February 9, 2020. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) The former prosecutor faces scrutiny over decisions not to prosecute police officers in Minneapolis. As Minneapolis burned this week, so too did Amy Klobuchar’s prospects of becoming Joe Biden’s running mate. Just six weeks ago, Klobuchar

Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign stop in Flint, Michigan, March 9, 2020. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) Just over half of black registered voters ages 18 to 29 say they have a favorable opinion of former vice president Joe Biden, according to new data from the Democracy Fund + UCLA

After a night of riots, looting, and arson in Minneapolis to protest the police killing of George Floyd, five thoughts spring to mind: One: It is always hazardous to draw sweeping conclusions about society from individual criminal cases. Every individual case involves individual facts, and those facts often … Read More

Election volunteer Nancy Gavney verifies voter and witness signatures on absentee ballots at City Hall during the presidential primary election in Beloit, Wisc., April 7, 2020. (Daniel Acker/Reuters) Welcome to week eleven of life with the coronavirus pandemic. If someone is asking “Why aren’t people staying inside like they did before?” it means they are

President Donald Trump talks to reporters on the South Lawn of the White House, May 1, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) This story in Politico will add fuel to the fire to the GOP argument that Democrats are rooting against signs of an economic recovery before November. Jason Furman, a top economist in the Obama administration and

(REUTERS/Tom Brenner) Democrats in politics and the media, including Obama and Biden, must not escape examination for promoting the ‘Russian collusion’ fiction. The president was perfectly accurate, and for once insusceptible to questions about his good faith, when he expressed surprise at Attorney General William Barr’s comment last week that former president Obama and former

Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks in Des Moines, Iowa, August 10, 2019. (Scott Morgan/Reuters) Biden is pledging not to raise taxes on anyone making less than $400,000 a year. As I note in my Bloomberg Opinion column, Democratic proposals to increase income taxes keep getting narrower in scope. In 1993,

President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Charlotte, N.C., March 2, 2020. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) I’m not sure the political world has fully grasped how odd and different this upcoming presidential campaign is going to be, barring some sort of miraculous and rapid solution to the coronavirus pandemic. Joe Biden has probably shaken his

Joe Biden speaks at an event at the Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds in Davenport, Iowa, June 11, 2019. (Jordan Gale/Reuters) The Democrats’ presumptive presidential nominee ran as a centrist in the primary. Now he’s taking a turn to the left before the general election. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE F or the longest time, presidential campaigns followed a

Joe Biden speaks in Des Moines, Iowa, August 10, 2019. (Scott Morgan/Reuters) Joe Biden said in a Friday interview that a black voter who can’t decide between him and President Trump in the 2020 elections isn’t really black. “If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black,”

Doug Wigdor speaks to the media outside of the New York State Criminal Courthouse in New York June 6, 2011. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) The lawyer representing Tara Reade, a former aide to Joe Biden who claims the former vice president sexually assaulted her, has dropped Reade as a client as of Friday. Attorney Doug Wigdor said that

Former Vice President Joe Biden participates in a CNN townhall in Los Angeles, Calif., October 10, 2019. (Mike Blake/Reuters) At their beginning of their 20-minute interview, the Breakfast Club‘s “Charlamagne tha God” told Joe Biden that he wanted to talk “about mostly black stuff.” Whatever “black stuff” is, exactly, Joe Biden was clearly struggling to

A man holds a QAnon sign at a campaign rally for President Donald Trump at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nev., February 21, 2020. (Patrick Fallon/Reuters) On Tuesday, Jo Rae Perkins won the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in Oregon. The Oregon GOP says it will back her candidacy notwithstanding her associations

Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at the Clark County Democratic Party’s 2020 Kick Off to Caucus Gala, Las Vegas, Nev., February 15, 2020. (Gage Skidmore) Joe Biden apologized Friday afternoon for suggesting in an interview earlier in the day that African Americans who are considering voting for President Trump “ain’t black.” “I shouldn’t have

Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during the Democratic candidates debate in Washington, D.C., March 15, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Here is presumptive Democratic Party nominee Joe Biden after being challenged by The Breakfast Club co-host Charlamagne tha God on his political record on race. Biden: “I’ll tell ya, if you have a problem figuring out whether

Joe Biden departs after a campaign stop in Manchester, N.H., June 5, 2019. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) The Judicial Crisis Network, a conservative advocacy group, announced on Friday the launch of an ad campaign casting prominent Democrats as hypocrites for their reaction to the sexual assault allegation leveled against Joe Biden. Tara Reade, a former staffer in