Tag: 2016 Presidential Race

by Andy Schmookler Like other Virginia Democrats I know, I will strongly support whoever is the Democratic nominee for governor this fall against any possible...

This piece will run in newspapers in my conservative congressional District (VA-06). Trump’s election to the presidency, while welcomed by some, was devastating news for...

This piece is appearing in newspapers in my conservative congressional District. For Donald Trump’s supporters, as the week of the first presidential debate began, things...

This piece is running in newspapers in my conservative congressional district in Virginia (VA-06). ******* Winston Churchill said: “Some men change their party for the sake...

Over this weekend, I wrote to both of the two people I know who follow politics most closely, and whose opinions I respect. I...

Earlier today, President Obama said this: "I think what's been interesting is the repeated denunciations of his statements by leading Republicans," he said in a...

It is not President Obama's way to deliver a blow in the ring of the sort that puts an opponent down for the count....

In an article titled, “The Next Trump,” on Slate.com, Isaac Chotiner writes about what he calls, “the really scary thing.” It is worth considering,...

It is never too early to start playing the political junkie’s favorite presidential year game, speculating about who will be Hillary’s pick for vice...