During the campaign, there probably weren’t enough full-throated Donald Trump supporters on Capitol Hill to fill a minivan. But two Trump campaign aides could get elected in House special elections later this year, while another adviser may challenge a Republican senator in a primary next year. Their candidacies will test the popularity and allure of […]
Donald Trump’s critics believe the new president is clueless (or worse), but he might be on track to avoid repeating former President Barack Obama’s biggest political mistake. Trump’s pre-inaugural press conference was widely panned, but his comments on the future of health care legislation were instructive. “The easiest thing would be to let it implode […]
The National Republican Senatorial Committee’s assault on Democratic senators up for re-election in 2018 has already begun. That committee has sent out more than half a dozen press releases since the beginning of the year attacking Democratic senators facing re-election from states carried by Donald Trump in November or generally viewed as electorally competitive. In […]
With the end of the Obama Administration approaching, I recently looked back at the notes from my two meetings with Barack Obama during his run for the United States Senate. Obama was not well known then, and he was regarded as nothing more than a long-shot for the Democratic nomination. I first met then-state Sen. […]