Donald Trump channeled his inner James Carville last night in New Hampshire, hammering on the economy as his best argument for re-election. “Love me or hate me,” Trump told the crowd that was clearly in the first camp, “you’ve got to vote for me” to keep the economy growing. Nearly thirty years after Carville’s famous

It’s almost as if they’re already American, though! The business of Greenland is business, its leadership emphasized after rumors swirled yesterday that Donald Trump wanted the US to acquire the island from Denmark. The third try is not the charm, Greenland residents told CNN, and not charming either: President Donald Trump has on multiple occasions brought

What can you do when populists start, er, populisting? Just hope that they don’t list too far to the Left. Both the New York Times and Politico report overnight that Donald Trump wants to put together a major gun bill in the wake of two mass shootings this month, although just how major remains to be

As a confrontation between Hong Kong protesters and Chinese authorities escalates, Donald Trump has decided to turn up the heat a little himself. Trump had been oddly quiet about the pro-democracy protests in China’s administrative state, even though they have adopted the American flag as one of their symbols of protest. Over the last twenty-four

And we thought Robert “Beto” O’Rourke’s announcement of a “major address to the nation” was laughably arrogant. The three-time congressman used the platform this morning to explain why he will not drop out of the presidential race to help out his party and challenge incumbent John Cornyn in next year’s Senate race. The Senate’s just

For the first time since the Great Recession, a major signal of impending recession has emerged. The inverted yield curve has sent investors running away from the stock market this morning, and appears to corroborate earlier warnings that the US economy is heading into a major problem: U.S. stocks tumbled at open Wednesday after the

Sometimes it’s all right to change your mind in politics, especially when you may have been out of your mind in the first instance. Last week, Donald Trump all but announced a commutation for former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich’s 14-year prison sentence for corruption, calling investigators “sleaze bags.” The White House immediately attempted to soften

Well, perhaps not entirely without penalty, but the descriptions we’re seeing in response to Bernie Sanders’ recent accusations against the Washington Post certainly represent a change in tone from when the Bad Orange Man says mean things about the press. So where did this come from? It turns out that Sanders, along with other Democratic

In more ways than one, actually. Julián Castro’s new ad might not be terribly newsworthy on its own, but it’s the ad buy that promises some fireworks. What will happen, Axios’ Alexi McCammond wonders, when Donald Trump catches Castro’s accusations while watching his favorite show on television? The prediction: Tweets will be made, my friends, tweets will

Breaking news … from 2017? “I think that it’s pretty obvious,” Anthony Scaramucci tells CNN’s John Berman, that he doesn’t support Donald Trump, which has been “pretty obvious” for some time. Berman, however, treats the Mooch’s departure from the Trump Train as a watershed for the GOP for some reason: JUST NOW: @realDonaldTrumphas officially lost

As you have likely heard already, North Korea fired off two more short-range missiles into the ocean over the past week or so. This comes just as the United States moves forward with previously planned military exercises with South Korea, no doubt annoying dictator Kim Jong-un. The missile launches have no doubt put some strain

And if anyone knows this, it’s Hillary Clinton. She had a ringside seat to two impeachment efforts and perhaps more than a passing interest in a third. A year ago, she sat down with the Nixon Library for an interview to discuss her role in the House effort to investigate Richard Nixon, which led to

Will Donald Trump put together a gun-control package that eluded Barack Obama? After two mass shootings this weekend, Trump has ignored reluctant Republicans and a worried NRA to push for expanded background checks and “red flag” laws to keep weapons out of the hands of the mentally ill and dangerous. Wayne LaPierre tried to slow

Just how much trouble will Bruce Ohr’s interview notes cause the FBI? As described by the Washington Post and Politico, it might create no small amount of embarrassment in the short term — and maybe worse down the road. According to Ohr, the FBI knew full well that Steele had an anti-Trump agenda months before

Just how seriously should Twitter take the RNC and NRSC decision to pull advertising from the platform?  RNC chair Ronna McDaniel told Fox Business News’ Maria Bartiromo that the Code Red is just the beginning. McDaniel hinted that Twitter might lose its most celebrated generator of content and views if they don’t stop discriminating against

He made a list and checked it twice, and Sue Gordon turned out to be neither naughty nor nice enough to make the cut. Donald Trump selected retired Admiral Joseph Maguire, now chief of National Counterterrorism Center, to temporarily replace Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats when he departs on August 15th — along with Gordon.

If Donald Trump wanted to shake up the status quo on politics after mass shootings, he succeeded — perhaps more than his allies thought. Over the last two days, Trump has publicly expressed conceptual support for “red flag” laws and more comprehensive background checks, two types of legislation opposed in practice by Trump’s supporters at

The correct answer? Pure political calculation, my friends, pure political calculation. Joe Biden has a comfortable and stable lead in Democratic presidential-primary polling despite being a punching bag in two prime-time debates. That means never having to clarify your thinking on a hot-button issue that plays very differently in the primary than it will in

Color me confused. Wasn’t Rod Blagojevich one of those “sleazebags”? The former governor of Illinois got caught demanding valuable quid pro quos in selling off Barack Obama’s Senate seat and got 14 years in prison for his political corruption. Blagojevich’s defense team even admitted to the corruption in a last-ditch effort to get a more lenient

Austen Fletcher isn’t actually asking the questions in this clip but a correspondent working for his channel went to Baltimore and asked people what they thought about their city and the things President Trump and others have been saying about it. I don’t know how many people they spoke to before putting together this clip

To paraphrase the earworm theme song from The Lego Movie, everything’s transactional — everything is cool when you’re part of a team. The good news from the latest Pew poll is that skepticism over executive power at the expense of Congress and the judiciary commands majorities overall and in all three political affiliations. The bad news?

Call this another sterling example of the Forrest Gump Apology. Yesterday, Nicolle Wallace talked with USA Today columnist Paul Reyes about the El Paso shooting and Donald Trump’s responsibility for it. Ryan Saavedra captured the moment in which Wallace blithely accuses the president of “talking about exterminating Latinos,” an argument that Reyes set up: MSNBC’s

When we learned this week that the inflation rate in Venezuela hit a milestone when it passed ten million percent (!) you might have thought things had gotten as bad as they could for Nicolas Maduro. Not so, my friends. The President has unleashed another round of orders freezing virtually all remaining assets of the

Now we will finally get an answer to this vexing political question — is Jerry Brown wiser than Gavin Newsom? The state of California will now spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to defend the law Newsom signed after Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and the GOP sued the state today. At issue is whether California

In his post-Dayton/El Paso speech yesterday, Donald Trump urged Congress to find some bipartisan ground in dealing with mass shootings. Mitch McConnell granted Trump his wish, or at least provided a start to the process yesterday. A new working group in the Senate Republican caucus will “brainstorm” on potential actions to curb and prevent such

Will this new arms race end before it begins? Faced with the prospect of the US catching up to both Russia and China in land-based intermediate missile systems, Vladimir Putin called for new arms-limitation talks. After repeatedly abrogating the now-defunct INF treaty, the Russian strongman now wants to avoid “chaos”: “If Russia obtains reliable information

Let it be known that the flogging of dead horses will remain in season until, oh … Christmas. Earlier this morning, House Judiciary chair Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) told MSNBC’s Morning Joe panel that impeachment is still very much on the table. By “late in the fall,” Nadler promises, House Democrats will have enough information to vote

“We vow to act with urgent resolve,” Donald Trump announced, with Vice President Mike Pence at his side, to combat a rising scourge of violence and shootings. Trump declared that the FBI would be given any resources it needs to identify potential spree shooters and other domestic-terror operators, and called for a rethinking of involuntary

Was the drawdown leak from late in the week just an appetizer? A plan percolating in the Trump administration to reduce troop levels in Afghanistan is only the first step in Donald Trump’s plans for the war, according to NBC News. Not only does Trump want to end the war before the election, but he wanted

Everyone is fixated on the crowded Democratic primary field these days and watching every new poll for signs of some sort of movement. (That’s been a largely disappointing endeavor for those who prefer someone other than Joe Biden.) But what about the GOP primary? The odds of the nominee being someone other than President Trump