AP Images National Politics Republican Senators Left Exposed in Health Care Ad Wars Amy Walter Amy Walter July 12, 2017
National Politics Democrats Take Heart: The GOP Is Sinking After last month’s losses in the Geor­gia 6th Dis­trict and South Car­o­lina 5th Dis­trict races, a nar­rat­ive took hold on why the Demo­crat­ic Party had whiffed in all four com­pet­it­ive spe­cial… Charlie Photo Charles E. Cook, Jr. July 11, 2017
National Politics Trump Erodes U.S. Tradition of Global Leadership When Pres­id­ent Trump heads to Po­land and the G-20 sum­mit in Ger­many this week, he will be go­ing in a dif­fer­ent ca­pa­city than any pres­id­ent in our life­times. Dur­ing the first half of the… Charlie Photo Charles E. Cook, Jr. July 7, 2017
National Politics The GOP’s Health Care Dilemma There are di­lem­mas and then there are real di­lem­mas. On health care, Re­pub­lic­ans are in a real di­lemma. Con­gres­sion­al Re­pub­lic­ans prom­ised their base a mil­lion times that they would… Charlie Photo Charles E. Cook, Jr. July 4, 2017
National Politics Democrats Find It’s Risky to Poke the GOP Elephant There’s an old say­ing that close only counts in horse­shoes and hand gren­ades, and that’s cer­tainly how Demo­crats must feel after los­ing their third and fourth at­tempts of the year to wrestle… Charlie Photo Charles E. Cook, Jr. June 27, 2017
Pelosi National Politics The Pelosi Blame Game Amy Walter Amy Walter June 22, 2017
National Politics Can GOP Candidates Outrun Trump? The score is now 2-1: Bri­tain has pro­duced two stun­ning elect­or­al sur­prises in the last year, the United States just one. While there is a danger in read­ing too much in­to the res­ults of in­… Charlie Photo Charles E. Cook, Jr. June 16, 2017
National Politics Running to Stand Still So much is happening in Washington and yet nothing is happening at all. The investigation into Russian meddling into the 2016 campaign continues to get lots of attention (and produce a lot of leaks… Amy Walter Amy Walter June 15, 2017
National Politics An Early Look at Democrats’ 2020 Brackets We’re only 140 days in­to a new pres­id­en­tial ad­min­is­tra­tion and yet there is already a stream of art­icles spec­u­lat­ing about the con­test for the 2020 Demo­crat­ic nom­in­a­tion. There is a… Charlie Photo Charles E. Cook, Jr. June 13, 2017
National Politics A Three-Ring Political Circus Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Cir­cus has gone out of busi­ness, but Wash­ing­ton is still provid­ing a three-ring cir­cus. The first is Pres­id­ent Trump’s de­cision to drop out of the Par­… Charlie Photo Charles E. Cook, Jr. June 9, 2017
National Politics Smells Like Team Spirit As my colleagues and I have been writing for the last few weeks, a clear “enthusiasm” gap is opening between Democrats and Republicans, with Democrats more engaged (or is it enraged?) than their GOP… Amy Walter Amy Walter June 7, 2017
National Politics Russia Probes Could Be a Millstone in Midterms for the GOP With the midterm elec­tions 17 months away, it’s pretty clear that all of this Rus­sia busi­ness is rel­ev­ant. We have a new pres­id­ent with no gov­ern­ment ex­per­i­ence, a mer­cur­i­al tem­pera­… Charlie Photo Charles E. Cook, Jr. June 6, 2017