Joe Biden speaks at an event at Iowa Wesleyan University in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, June 11, 2019. (Jordan Gale/Reuters) Which woman will he select as his running mate? And why? NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T here’s a scene in Shrek in which the incompetent, ambitious Lord Farquaad is advised that he will need a princess in

Montana governor Steve Bullock speaks on the first night of the second Democratic presidential debate in Detroit, Mich., July 30, 2019. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) Last month, the Democratic pollster Public Policy Polling showed the Montana Senate race dead even, with freshman Republican senator Steve Daines and incumbent Democratic governor Steve Bullock tied at 47 percent.  Now,

Joe Biden is rumored to be taking a look at Elizabeth Warren for the vice-president’s spot. He’s already talking like her, e.g.: “Look, you know Wall Street is — they’re good folks. But, guess what, they didn’t build America.” “You didn’t build that!” I think I have heard that homily before. Advertisement Question: Does Joe

Sen. Elizabeth Warren speaks to supporters at a campaign canvass kick-off in Salem, N.H., November 23, 2019. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) She wouldn’t bring him any new voters, and her supporters would vote for Biden no matter whom he picks. ‘First, do no harm.” It’s the most elementary rule of medicine and the veepstakes, and it’s why

Former vice president Joe Biden speaks during the Democratic presidential debate in Washington, D.C., March 15, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) The New York Times writes of Joe Biden’s search for a running mate: “The ramifications of Mr. Biden’s choice will be profound. Even if he loses in November, his decision will all but anoint a woman

Former vice president Joe Biden visits a Community Resource Center in North Charleston, S.C., February 24, 2020. (Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters) The Secretary of the Senate on Monday said that her office cannot comply with Joe Biden’s request to disclose records pertaining to a complaint allegedly filed by former staffer Tara Reade. “Based on the law’s strict

President Donald Trump speaks during a coronavirus response meeting with Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards and members of the Trump administration coronavirus task force in the Oval Office at the White House, April 29, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) Getting a read on the 2020 battleground NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he dating conventions b.c. and a.d. were

Joe Biden speaks at the Presidential Gun Sense Forum in Des Moines, Iowa, August 10, 2019. (Scott Morgan/Reuters) Joe Biden on Friday denied sexual assault allegations from former staffer Tara Reade in his first public comments on the issue. “I want to address allegations by a former staffer that I engaged in misconduct 27 years

I’ve always been a little awkward, especially when it comes to goodbyes, so I’m just going to come right out and say it: I have officially accepted a full-time position at Fox News — and so, my time writing for National Review has come to an end. To say that I am grateful for the

Rep. Doug Collins speaks to the media as the impeachment trial of President Trump continues in Washington, D.C., January 27, 2020. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) An internal Republican poll shows Senator Kelly Loeffler down 44 points to Representative Doug Collins in the race to fill former Georgia Senator Johnny Isakson’s seat in a November special election. The

Joe Biden speaks at the 2019 Iowa Federation of Labor Convention in Altoona, Iowa, August 21, 2019. (Gage Skidmore) Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden said Friday that he wishes to make public the sexual harassment complaint filed by Tara Reade, the woman who says he sexually assaulted her decades ago when she worked for him

I’ll get into this at more length later, but there’s a problem with Joe Biden’s naming Chris Dodd to run his vice-presidential search beyond the obvious waitress-sandwich stuff. The Democrats talk a pretty good “diversity” game, but think about what that really looks like in a party where the bosses are rich and white and

President Donald Trump addresses the daily coronavirus task force briefing at the White House, April 23, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) The president already had hurt himself politically by flirting with opponents of social distancing. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he narrative is too simple to resist. In rambling remarks, Trump seemed to suggest using light and disinfectants

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, the chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, said Wednesday that the sexual-assault allegation against Joe Biden must be “investigated seriously” and that Biden will likely

Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at an event in Wilmington, Del., March 12, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) Biden campaign operatives have reportedly accessed the former vice president’s archived Senate files, which may contain information shedding light on Tara Reade’s allegation that Biden sexually assaulted her when she worked for him as a Senate aide. Operatives

Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke (L) speaks as Brookings Institution President Strobe Talbott watches at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., September 15, 2009. (Jim Young/Reuters) Former British spy Christopher Steele recently testified that he was contacted by Clinton-ally Strobe Talbott in Summer 2016 regarding his investigation into presidential candidate Donald Trump, after

Rep. Justin Amash speaks at the Liberty Political Action Conference (LPAC) in Chantilly, Va., September 19, 2013. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Representative Justin Amash, a Republican-turned-independent, announced on Twitter today he is forming an exploratory committee to seek the Libertarian Party’s nomination for president. The Libertarian Party’s nominating convention is still slated to meet in 21 days.

Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams, speaks at a conference in Washington, D.C., May 22, 2019. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams on Tuesday said she backed Joe Biden despite new allegations of sexual assault against the former vice president. “I believe women deserve to be heard, and I believe that has happened here,” Abrams

Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, professor of Health Care Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, in Washington, D.C., April 1, 2014 (Jim Bourg/Reuters) Ezekiel Emanuel has some unsettling beliefs. Does Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel believe Joe Biden would be better off dead? That would be a peculiar position for Biden’s chief adviser on medical

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) makes her way through the Senate subway before the day’s Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, January 29, 2020. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters) Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D., N.Y.) on Tuesday said she supported Joe Biden following former Biden staffer Tara Reade’s allegations that the presidential candidate sexually assaulted her. “I stand by

Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks to the media in Washington, D.C., April 5, 2019. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) We do not know whether the accusations that Tara Reade has leveled against Joe Biden are true or false. That is a question of evidence and of inquiry that might be answered as time rolls on. We do

Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during the Democratic candidates debate in Washington, D.C., March 15, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) A woman who used to live next door to the former Senate staffer who has accused Joe Biden of sexual assault says that she remembers being told about details of the allegation in the mid-1990s. Lynda

From left: Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, former South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Sen. Bernie Sanders, former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, and activist Tom Steyer onstage before the start of the Democratic primary debate in Charleston, S.C., February 25, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Across multiple televised debates, while

Joe Biden, based only on the voices of the choir of goblins in his head, charges that Donald Trump is going to try to use the coronavirus epidemic as an excuse to try to delay the election — or even to cancel it. “Mark my words,” Biden said, “I think he is gonna try to

Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks about the coronavirus pandemic at an event in Wilmington, Del., March 12, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) Former vice president Joe Biden predicted Thursday that President Trump will attempt to delay the November general election. “Mark my words I think he is gonna try to kick back

Rev. Al Sharpton (Allison Shelley/Reuters) I wrote yesterday about the dilemma Joe Biden faces in choosing a vice president: He’s under intense, public pressure to pick a black woman as his running mate, led in good part by Stacey Abrams, and that pressure is openly centered around an aggressive campaign to corner him into choosing

Rep. Terri Sewell (D-AL) questions Gordon Sondland on Capitol Hill in Washington, November 20, 2019. (Samuel Corum/Pool via Reuters) The Alabama congresswoman is virtually unknown and wouldn’t excite the progressive base. But as a low-risk pick who fits Biden’s brand, she has a strong case. With three of the four slots on the two national

Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks with supporters in Henderson, Nev., February 14, 2020. (Gage Skidmore) . . . for conservatives. CBS News is reporting that liberal groups are calling on Joe Biden to release a list of potential Supreme Court nominees and “copy the playbook” of Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign. At first glance, this

Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign stop in Flint, Michigan, March 9, 2020. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) As Ramesh noted, a recent Pew Research poll asked registered Democratic voters and Democrat-leaning independents whether they were bothered by the fact that the Democratic Party’s likely nominee was a white man in

Former U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano poses in New York City, October 18, 2019. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) In an article last week on the 2020 Democratic veepstakes, I mentioned the possibility that Joe Biden might consider someone like Nevada senator Catherine Cortez-Masto if he were more interested in getting a boost in the Southwest than