He’s never been a fan of impeachment, but he’s an expert on the process and the politics, having helped President Clinton navigate his way through a highly partisan impeachment in 1999. Now pollster Mark Penn is sharing his strategy—and his polling data—with President Trump, assuring him, in an account...
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said it himself many times: that he didn’t think the electorate was looking for a “short, Jewish, divorced billionaire.” Every four years for the last two decades, Bloomberg has assembled the best talent available to assess his chances to become president, and...
Until she resigned her post effective Aug. 1, British-born Russia scholar Fiona Hill held a key position in the White House overseeing and coordinating the administration’s relations with the former Soviet Union, Russia and Europe. She coined the phrase “the Gordon problem,” identifying to her colleagues at the National...
Voters will deliver another verdict on whether a moderate Democrat can survive in a red Trump state when they go to the polls Saturday in Louisiana’s run-off race for governor. “When you’re a Southern Democrat, you’re fully aware that things might not work out,” said Democratic strategist James Carville....
When House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff gavels to order the first impeachment hearing of a president in 21 years on Wednesday morning, it will not be his first rodeo. A decade ago, he led the impeachment process in the House and the prosecution in the Senate of two federal...
A favorite parlor game in Washington is counting Republican senators who might vote to remove President Trump from office. On everybody’s list until last week was Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander, former governor, former university president, secretary of education in the first Bush administration — the epitome of an Establishment...
The 2020 election may well be decided in the three states that gave Trump the presidency (Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin) plus Arizona, Florida and North Carolina. Impeachment doesn’t break 50 percent in those states, and neither does Elizabeth Warren. She fares worse than the other candidates in head-to-head matchups with...
Bernie Sanders has money, a passionate base of support, and a will to battle for his cause for however long it takes, Elizabeth Warren is his ideological soulmate, and you would think that at some point, should he fail to secure the Democratic nomination, she would be the natural...
