2024 Election
June 14, 2026 — John Hinderaker
That’s what one federal judge says, anyway. In May 2025, implementing an Executive Order by President Trump, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum directed the National Parks to do several things. First, to “identify any public monuments, memorials, statues, markers, or similar properties…on lands within its jurisdiction that have been removed or changed from January 1, 2020, through the date of this Order…” and determine whether such “alteration or removal of each
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May 29, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Dr. Jill Biden is back in the news with her forthcoming memoir of husband Joe Biden’s presidency. In it she recalls her husband’s catastrophic debate with Donald Trump in June 2024. Dr. Jill purports to have been concerned that Joe was “having a stroke” during the debate. In an interview with CBS News to be aired this coming Sunday, she relates, “I was frightened, because I had never ever seen
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February 25, 2026 — John Hinderaker
I have been meaning to write about this story for a couple of days: “Scoop: Dems working on secret report found Gaza cost Harris votes.” Top Democratic officials who worked on the party’s still-secret autopsy of the 2024 election concluded that Kamala Harris lost significant support because of the Biden administration’s approach to the war in Gaza, Axios has learned. Why it matters: The Democratic National Committee’s research on what
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February 9, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Democrats thought that Kamala Harris was a fit successor to President Biden and in a sense she was. She was on Biden’s wavelength. For a ludicrous candidate she came uncomfotably close to the highest office in the land. The same applies to her term as vice president to someone with half a mind to be president. In the video clip below the former vice president addresses the alleged abomination of
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November 12, 2025 — Scott Johnson
In today’s Washington Free Beacon newsletter, my daughter Eliana links to the video below with the tag “I’ll have what she’s smoking.” I think “I’ll have what she’s drinking” may be slightly more accurate. In any case, the former vice president actually says she was “aware” of Donald Trump’s “strategy” but “wasn’t about to fall prey, or fall into those traps.” No, with her comic accent, she declares that she
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October 8, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Kamala Harris, I suppose in order to promote her book, has repeatedly claimed that the 2024 presidential election was the closest of the 21st century. For example: She keeps repeating this verifiable lie. Why? pic.twitter.com/KiVckl9Yvd — Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) October 7, 2025 Harris’s assertion is, as Rita Panahi says, false. There have been seven presidential elections in the 21st century. Trump defeated Harris last year by 312-226. That is the
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September 11, 2025 — Scott Johnson
The assassination of Charlie Kirk represents an incalculable loss to his young family, to the conservative movement, and therefore to the United States. We mourn his death but we also feel deep anger in our breasts. If we did not represent the forces of constitutional order, it feels like it could be the opening salvo of a civil war. It provokes us to wonder what might have happened if the
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August 8, 2025 — John Hinderaker
…when Kamala Harris made one of a number of catastrophically bad decisions: she selected Tim Walz as her running mate. As I wrote here at the time, it wasn’t hard to figure out how the dark horse Walz wound up with the nomination. Harris initially announced a list of five potential candidates. At that time, the little-known Walz was a throw-in, probably because he was the chairman of the Democratic
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August 1, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Last night Joe Biden spoke before an event sponsored by a black lawyers’ association in Chicago. You can see him in the clip below. In terms of content, it was typical Biden: hateful and fact-free. Just one anti-Trump smear after another, “without evidence” as the papers like to say. But content aside, he was hardly able to read the teleprompter. He is feeble and barely functional. If he had been
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July 22, 2025 — Scott Johnson
The Washington Free Beacon has posted a video compilation of Democrats celebrating Kamala Harris’s mythical summer job at McDonald’s, which the Free Beacon exposed as a fabrication in short order. I have posted the video at the bottom. The accompanying story is flagged in today’s Free Beacon newsletter with this note: When Democrats entered their party’s national convention last summer, the joy was palpable. Unburdened by Joe Biden’s elderly ramblings,
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July 19, 2025 — Scott Johnson
In her Boston Globe column covering the Washington Free Beacon’s greatest hits — I wrote about it in “No equal on the left” earlier this week — Jill Abramson focused on the Beacon’s reporting on the higher education beat. She omitted stories with significant political impact. One such story was the Free Beacon’s challenge to Kamala Harris’s fantasia about her summer employment at McDonald’s. Three Free Beacon reporters exposed Harris’s
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July 8, 2025 — Scott Johnson
The Biden administration worked hard to conceal the president’s declining mental faculties. During the 2020 presidential campaign, the authorities running Biden’s campaign — those who knew him “up close and personal” — largely confined him to the basement. They did so to conceal what John Hinderaker referred to as Biden’s “dementia,” both during the 2020 campaign and after he became president. In 2021, we were contacted by NewsGuard to ask
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July 6, 2025 — Scott Johnson
David Garrow is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Martin Luther King Jr. biography Bearing the Cross and Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama. He has also become my favorite reviewer in the weekend Washington Free Beacon’s rotation. Today Professor Garrow reviews the new book by the reporter President Trump calls “my Salena.” His Salena’s new book is Butler: The Untold Story of the Near Assassination of Donald Trump
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June 20, 2025 — John Hinderaker
I didn’t really observe Juneteenth this year, but on Instagram I was reminded that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris celebrated it in 2024. Here they are, with other Democratic notables. Biden looks fine. There is nothing wrong with him. You can see why all the reporters and everyone in the White House thought he was A-OK, and were shocked when it turned out he couldn’t run for President after all:
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May 28, 2025 — John Hinderaker
It turns out that Hamas did have a favorite in the 2024 presidential race, and it wasn’t Donald Trump. Which means, I guess, that they are evil but they may not be stupid: Former Israeli hostage says the terrorists were “very scared” of Trump. “More food, treated me better, stopped cursing me, stopped spitting on me.” pic.twitter.com/tgGk9Wqm5E — Open Source Intel (@Osint613) May 28, 2025 We have seen this phenomenon
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May 25, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Democrats are panicking over their abysmal (and well-deserved) approval ratings, and above all about the fact that, while they were otherwise preoccupied, the American working class deserted them. The New York Times has a report that is an endless source of schadenfreude: “How Donald Trump Has Remade America’s Political Landscape.” Donald J. Trump’s victory in 2024 was not an outlier. It was the culmination of continuous gains by Republicans in
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May 25, 2025 — Scott Johnson
I wrote on Power Line a few days before my cousin Dean (i.e., Dean Phillips) announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination: “When Dean throws his hat in the ring, it won’t be because he thinks it will advance his career. It won’t. This past summer he called for some prominent Democrat to challenge Biden because he thinks challenging Biden is the right thing to do — the right
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