Republicans
January 14, 2025 — John Hinderaker
I don’t always get to use that post title. We have seen way too many instances when Republicans did not stay strong. But today in Minnesota, House Republicans did us all proud. As we have written about here and elsewhere, Minnesota Democrats have staged what is in effect an illegal coup in a desperate attempt to retain control over the state’s House of Representatives. Relegated to minority status because one
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January 3, 2025 — John Hinderaker
In a severe disappointment for Democrats and their press minions, Speaker Mike Johnson was re-elected today when two “no” votes flipped after the first round of voting, making a second round unnecessary. Keith Self of Texas and Ralph Norman of South Carolina were the Congressmen who changed their minds, leaving Kentucky’s Thomas Massie as the only purported Republican who voted with the Democrats. Johnson says that he made no promises
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December 19, 2024 — John Hinderaker
The Census Bureau released its population forecast earlier today. The American Redistricting Project has translated the Bureau’s forecast into Congressional representation as of 2030. As you would expect, it is bad news for the Democrats: 🚨2030 Apportionment Forecast🚨+4: TX, FL+1: AZ, ID, UT -3: CA-2: NY-1: IL, MN, OR, PA, RI, WI * Based on the 2024 Census Population Estimates released December 19, 2024. pic.twitter.com/lX8GYnFhCG — The American Redistricting Project
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December 18, 2024 — Steven Hayward
This week opened with Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York arguing in the New York Times that President Biden “direct the national archivist to certify and publish the Equal Rights Amendment. This would mean that the amendment has been officially ratified and that the archivist has declared it part of the Constitution.” Forty-five other Democratic senators and 100 House members have endorsed this proposed executive diktat. This is a
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December 6, 2024 — John Hinderaker
The dominant fact of 21st century political life is the Great Sort–Americans separating themselves into increasingly distinct camps, red and blue, by state. This has obvious implications for the Senate. Kyle Kondik has an interesting analysis at
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November 23, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Mitch McConnell is retiring, prompting an election in the GOP Senate caucus to select a new leader. For reasons that were not clear to me, Florida’s Rick Scott was the favorite of some MAGA Republicans. But the caucus elected John Thune, who served as Whip under McConnell. In an interview with Breitbart, Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson had some strikingly candid comments about the contest for Majority Leader. I have a
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November 8, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Will the Democrats ever again win a presidential election? This tweet and map are fascinating, based on projections regarding the 2030 census: The 2030 census is going to be a bloodbath for Democrats. This map, without Nevada and the "Blue Wall" would go from 263 to 276 electoral votes. pic.twitter.com/TyJrBsjpDo — Daniel Di Martino 🇺🇸🇻🇪 (@DanielDiMartino) November 9, 2024 A Republican majority without Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin or Nevada. It is
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October 10, 2024 — John Hinderaker
I wrote here about the fact that Gallup’s current polling finds, for the first time at least since 1992, that more Americans identify as Republicans than as Democrats. Yesterday the Wall Street Journal noted that this trend is consistent among various polls: Beneath the headline results in many polls, something unusual has turned up with big implications for politics: More voters are calling themselves Republicans than Democrats, suggesting that the
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September 30, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Gallup is one of the country’s oldest and, as far as I can tell, least partisan polling companies. It is valuable in part because it has asked the same questions over a considerable period of time, and therefore can document trends. One question Gallup has been asking for many years is party identification: do you consider yourself a Republican, lean Republican, a Democrat, or lean Democrat? Here are the results
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September 11, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Dick Cheney has joined his daughter Liz in backing Kamala Harris for president. George W. Bush hasn’t gone quite so far; he is remaining neutral. And Mitt Romney effusively praised Harris’s debate performance, although to my knowledge he hasn’t actually endorsed her yet. John McCain is no longer with us, but if he were still living it is easy to imagine him backing Harris or, at best, staying neutral like
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September 8, 2024 — Scott Johnson
In his 2019 review/essay on Tucker Carlson in the Claremont Review of Books, Michael Anton reasonably assessed: “Tucker Carlson has become the de facto leader of the conservative movement—assuming any such thing can still be said to exist. He didn’t seek the position. I doubt he wants it. He’d probably disclaim it, in fact. But the mantle settled on him nonetheless…” Perhaps without his show on Fox News, which Anton
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September 6, 2024 — Scott Johnson
According to Tucker Carlson, Darryl Cooper “may be the best and most honest popular historian in the United States. His latest project is the most forbidden of all: trying to understand World War Two.” Carlson added: “I want people to know who you are and I want you to be widely recognized as the most important historian in the United States.” You may not be familiar with Cooper’s views —
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July 18, 2024 — John Hinderaker
I watched most of night three of the Republican Convention last night; in general, I thought it was terrific. The most powerful moments, as Scott wrote earlier, were provided by the Gold Star families of the service members who were killed in the terrorist attack in Afghanistan. These are among those Joe Biden pretended to forget when he said, to his everlasting shame, that no military personnel lost their lives
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May 29, 2024 — John Hinderaker
I am not as big a fan of Nikki Haley as a lot of Republicans, but this was well done: Nikki Haley wrote “finish them!” on the side of a fresh Israeli artillery shell during a visit to Israel. *** Despite other politicians from both sides denouncing the country’s aggressive offensive in Gaza, including democrat and fellow Israel supporter Chuck Schumer, Ms Haley has repeatedly rushed to Israel’s defence. On
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April 25, 2024 — Scott Johnson
In an act of leadership that contrasts with the malicious indifference of President Biden and his team, House Speaker Mike Johnson went up to Columbia University to call for the restoration of order on campus. He spoke from the steps of Low Library to denounce the treatment of Jewish students on campus. I have posted video below. Johnson was joined by a GOP delegation including Reps. Virginia Foxx, Anthony D’Esposito,
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April 17, 2024 — Scott Johnson
John and I found the protracted humiliation of Kevin McCarthy in connection with his election to be Speaker of the House a clown show. By contrast, Steve Hayward looked mostly on the bright side in “In re: Speaker McCarthy — dissents and concurrences.” Since then the GOP House majority has been dissipating. The clown show set the stage for the shrinking of the small GOP House majority to a number
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March 25, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Let us continue to deliberate over the political genius of Matt Gaetz and his allies as they leads House Republicans into the minority. The Wall Street Journal comments in the editorial “Honey, we shrunk the majority” further to my own thoughts: [T]he same Members who undercut the majority boast on the House floor and social media that they are the only honest conservatives in Washington. They’re posers masquerading as principled,
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