President Donald Trump speaks during the daily coronavirus task force briefing at the White House, April 5, 2020. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) The coronavirus pandemic is just the latest of his trials. The most inane of the many fatuous arguments raging over the administration’s handling of the coronavirus is the debate about whether the Democrats distracted President

Voters wait in a line, which continued a few blocks south of the polling location, to vote in the presidential primary election while wearing masks and practicing social distancing at Riverside High School in Milwaukee, Wisc., April 7, 2020. (Mike De Sisti/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel/USA TODAY NETWORK via Reuters) A waffling governor and an intransigent legislature

Actress Alyssa Milano speaks at a protest outside the White House, July 17, 2018. (Mary F. Calvert/Reuters) Only some women are to be believed, when it’s politically convenient. It’s one thing to adopt a poorly formed set of principles and foist them on others at every opportunity. It’s another to apply those principles unflinchingly to

Voter Fred Hoffman fills out his ballot during the primary election in Ottawa, Ill., March 17, 2020. The polling station was relocated from a nearby nursing home to a former supermarket due to concerns over the outbreak of COVID-19 coronavirus. (Daniel Acker/Reuters) The United States is the beacon of democracy around the world. Let’s show

Tony Evers speaks to a supporter at a campaign event in Beloit, Wisc., during his 2018 gubernatorial campaign. (Nick Oxford/Reuters) Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers on Monday issued an executive order suspending in-person voting for the state’s primary the next day and delayed the election until June 9 in a move to slow the spread of

Senator Bernie Sanders departs the Capitol following a vote on March 18, 2020. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) Senator Bernie Sanders’s (I., Vt.) campaign manager and other top advisers are urging him to consider dropping out of the Democratic presidential primary, the Washington Post reported on Saturday. Campaign manager Faiz Shakir and Sanders ally Representative Pramila Jayapal (D., Wash.)

A man walks past an advertisement for the Democratic National Convention at the Charlotte Douglas International Airport in Charlotte, N.C September 2, 2012. (Jessica Rinaldi/Reuters) The Democratic National Committee will push back its presidential primary one month to August 17, despite claiming last week that the Milwaukee convention would held as planned. Joe Solmonese, CEO

Former vice president Joe Biden speaks during a campaign stop in Los Angeles, Calif., March 4, 2020. (Mike Blake/Reuters) Amid COVID-19, the presumptive Democratic nominee has receded to the background. Do they still put pictures on milk cartons? Has anybody seen Joe Biden? Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee (Senator Bernie Sanders, the socialist from

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden addresses the Trump administration’s response to the COVID-19 outbreak, during a campaign event in South Carolina, February 28, 2020. (Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters) Joe Biden says, reasonably, that the 2020 Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee scheduled for mid-July probably won’t be able to go on as planned. He didn’t propose any specific

Former Vice President Joe Biden talks to the media as he leaves a polling station after a visit on the day of the New Hampshire presidential primary in Manchester, N.H., February 11, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) Over and over, they are boxed in by their own ‘believe all women’ standard. It’s clear they never believed in

President Donald Trump greets supporters in Des Moines, Iowa, January 30, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) President Trump has hit a net positive approval rating for the first time in a Washington Post-ABC News poll, amid a general rise in approval for the president during the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic. Trump’s overall approval rating stands at 48 percent to

Former vice president Joe Biden speaks during a campaign event at Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas, March 2, 2020. (Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters) According to Joe Biden, Joe Biden should step down under sexual-assault allegations. In the midst of the Democrats’ campaign to deny Brett Kavanaugh confirmation to the Supreme Court, Lawfare’s editor in chief, Benjamin

Sen. Elizabeth Warren addresses supporters at her Super Tuesday-night rally in Detroit, Mich., March 3, 2020. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) The anti-super PAC frenzy reached new heights in this year’s Democratic primary. The 2020 Democratic presidential primary began with over 20 governors, senators, congressmen, and political outsiders vying for the nomination. The field has now winnowed to

From NBC News comes one of the most irresponsible pieces of “journalism” I’ve seen in a long while. It revolves around an interview with a 61-year-old woman from Arizona who is currently in the ICU, and who, tragically, just saw her husband die in front of her. In tone, it is cast as a public-service

The Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, in effect the executive committee of the Chinese Communist Party, in late February issued an edict banning the country’s “wet markets,” including those in Wuhan, the source of the current COVID-19 outbreak. The statement notes that “it is necessary … Read More

Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks during a rally in St Louis, Mo., March 9, 2020. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) This morning, Politico reports that, while Bernie Sanders has not made an official statement about the state of his presidential campaign, the Vermont senator has “given every indication he’s pressing forward — and perhaps remaining in the presidential race

Mike Pence waves to the crowd after speaking at the GOP convention in Cleveland, July 20, 2016. (Aaron Bernstein/Reuters) North Carolina GOP Chairman Michael Whatley said that the Republican National Committee “is firmly committed to moving forward” with its presidential convention, set to be held in Charlotte in late August, despite coronavirus concerns. “At this

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks to the media while visiting the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in Manhattan, which will be partially converted into a hospital for patients affected by coronavirus, March 23, 2020. (Mike Segar/Reuters) It’s not out of the question if Biden keeps looking out of touch and irrelevant. Democrats are publicly

Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks during the Democratic primary debate in Washington, D.C., March 15, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Senator Bernie Sanders’s (I., Vt.) presidential campaign on Tuesday announced that Sanders would participate in an April debate with former vice president Joe Biden, if it is held. The Democratic National Committee had planned to hold a debate

Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg speaks during the Democratic primary debate in Charleston, S.C., February 25, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) A former field organizer for Mike Bloomberg’s Democratic presidential campaign filed a class-action lawsuit against the campaign on Monday, claiming Bloomberg lured her and thousands of other employees into jobs they were falsely told

Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during the Democratic candidates debate in Washington, D.C., March 15, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Today, the New York Times writes that likely Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden “has struggled to break through given the flood of news about the outbreak, and he lacks the kind of platform that is available

Illinois’ 3rd Congressional District candidate for Congress, Marie Newman, attends the Women’s March in Chicago, Illinois, January 20, 2018. (Joshua Lott/Reuters) Congressman Dan Lipinski has been ousted by a progressive challenger who attacked him for failing to support abortion rights. In Illinois last night, abortion-rights advocate Marie Newman unseated pro-life representative Dan Lipinski in the

Senator Sherrod Brown (D, Ohio) speaks at the Ohio Democratic election night party in Columbus, November 6, 2018. (Aaron Josefczyk/Reuters ) Senator Sherrod Brown (D., Ohio) claimed in a conference call with reporters Wednesday that President Trump could cite the delay of Ohio’s presidential primary as a “precedent” in making the case to delay the

Mike Bloomberg appears before supporters after ending his campaign for president in Manhattan in New York City, New York, March 4, 2020. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters) Former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg is shelving plans for an organization that would have channeled funds toward the Democratic presidential nominee’s campaign, electing instead to donate funds to the Democratic

Voter Fred Hoffman fills out his ballot during the primary election in Ottawa, Ill., March 17, 2020. The polling station was relocated from a nearby nursing home to a former supermarket due to concerns over the outbreak of COVID-19 coronavirus. (Daniel Acker/Reuters) Just this once, maybe we should try a different voting system. We are

Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard greets supporters at the State House in Concord, N.H., November 5, 2019. (Mike Segar/Reuters) Democratic presidential contender Tulsi Gabbard ended her 2020 campaign on Thursday and said she will support Joe Biden for the party’s nomination. The Hawaii congresswoman said Super Tuesday’s primary results showed that Democratic primary voters have

It is absolutely baffling. Last Tuesday, with lockdowns spreading throughout the world as the extent of the threat posed by COVID-19 became clear, videos circulated of tens of thousands of people at a Stereophonics gig in Cardiff, Wales, jumping up and down, singing along to their favorite songs. France, … Read More

Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks during a rally in St Louis, Mo., March 9, 2020. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) Yesterday morning, the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign sent an e-mail to supporters declaring that after the vote on a coronavirus response, “Bernie and Jane are going to get on a plane back to Vermont. Once there, they’ll begin holding

Sen. Bernie Sanders addresses the media in Phoenix, Ariz., March 6, 2020. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) Senator Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) on Wednesday lashed out at CNN reporter Manu Raju after Raju asked after the senator’s campaign plans. “I’m dealing with a fucking global crisis. You know, we’re dealing with,” Sanders said when Raju asked if the

Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks during the Democratic primary debate in Washington, D.C., March 15, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) He’s interested in his revolution and ideology, not in disqualifying the opponents who represent the system he would radically alter. The Bernie Sanders revolution is about to wind down and be sold for spare parts. This is happening