The fall campaign has begun in earnest, and the presidential race is still tight, according to swing state polls conducted for The Hill between Aug. 23 and 28. The big question is: Why the race still so close?
In the short time Vice President Harris has been the designated Democratic nominee, she solidified her party’s base, raised a ton of dough and selected a popular running mate. Meanwhile, former President Trump bumbled and stumbled his way through the summer...
Opinion
Are the Democrats now the party of Reagan?
A son of Bobby Kennedy has endorsed a Republican for president. Meanwhile, former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) was among the prominent Reagan Republicans given a speaking role at the Democratic National Convention.
It’s not exactly, to quote “Ghostbusters,” dogs and cats living together…mass hysteria. But it’s close.
The political realignment that began with Donald Trump’s 2016 election has escalated, with the parties swapping some key parts of their brand identities...
For Democrats, ‘freedom’ is just another word for mandate
While speakers at the Democratic National Convention tried to portray presidential nominee Kamala Harris as some type of cross between Perry Mason, Jack McCoy and Mother Teresa, the overriding theme at the convention and until the election is freedom. But don’t be fooled. Democratic strategists made it very clear months ago that they shifted to the freedom theme as a marketing strategy because it sells well.
As the Wall Street Journal’s Molly Ball reported last December, abort...
Trump’s spectacle is no match for Harris’s substance
This election isn’t just another political match — it’s a reckoning.
For years, Donald Trump has masqueraded as the champion of the working class, a man of the people with a golden touch for business and so-called "common-sense" solutions.
But let’s be real: The Trump campaign is a fraud. His faux populism is nothing more than a cynical con, wrapped in flag-waving theatrics and reality TV spectacle. While he posed for photo ops and riled up his b...
Presidential candidates hesitate to single out the poor for extra help
In her major economic speech last Friday, Vice President Kamala Harris declared that “building up the middle class will be a defining goal of my presidency, because I strongly believe when the middle class is strong, America is strong.” Her approach follows in the footsteps of her Democratic predecessors -- Presidents Clinton, Obama and Biden all embraced versions of a middle-out approach to build the American economy.
But in a Pew poll conducted earlier this year, 9 out of 10...
Voters have to elect Kamala to find out what she’ll do
In the run-up to the 2010 passage of the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said, “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.” Now many Democrats are urging that same approach with respect to electing Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris: Voters have to elect her to find out what she’ll do.
You won’t find out much about her policies from the unveiling of Harris’s economic plan&nbs...
Kamala Harris wants to be commander in chief. Here’s what’s on her (short) resume.
Kamala Harris has held two of the best political jobs in Washington if you don’t care about getting results: U.S. senator and vice president.
So it’s hard to know precisely how servicemembers, veterans and U.S. national security would be handled if she wins the White House and becomes President Harris. She has a slim record on these issues and seems intent on saying as little as possible about anything before the November vote.
But although her record is ...
Kamala Harris wants to be commander in chief. Here’s what’s on her (short) resume.
Kamala Harris has held two of the best political jobs in Washington if you don’t care about getting results: U.S. senator and vice president.
So it’s hard to know precisely how servicemembers, veterans and U.S. national security would be handled if she wins the White House and becomes President Harris. She has a slim record on these issues and seems intent on saying as little as possible about anything before the November vote.
But although her record is ...
The Solar Investment Tax Credit is safe from repeal even if Republicans win in 2024
This month, 18 House Republicans submitted a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) urging him not to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act’s clean energy tax credits if Republicans maintain or expand their House majority in this year's election. They emphasized that these “energy tax credits have spurred innovation, incentivized investment, and created good jobs in...many districts represented by members of our conference.”
These Republicans are likely reacting to a repe...
To repair our fiscal foundation, we need to bend the health care cost curve
Willie Sutton famously explained (in a possibly apocryphal quotation) that he robbed banks because “that’s where the money is.” If he turned his attention to the federal budget, he’d start with health care.
Our total national debt has ballooned to nearly $35 trillion – the highest level in U.S. history. This translates to over a quarter of a million dollars — $265,838 to be exact — of accumulated liabilities for every American household.
Washington now spends abou...