Author: W. James Antle III

Top officials in Vice President Kamala Harris’s failed presidential campaign are protesting a media “double standard” as they try to explain to liberal audiences what went wrong. On the liberal podcast Pod Save America, multiple Harris lieutenants complain that Harris was pilloried for her light media schedule while President-elect Donald Trump largely eschewed traditional media.…

President-elect Donald Trump was elected by the broadest political coalition of any Republican presidential nominee in decades, but he will soon discover how big the tent can be while governing. Trump’s supporters in the 2024 election ranged from hardcore Republicans to people who had never backed a GOP presidential ticket before. His voters included the…

The leaders of Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign are starting to acknowledge that the fundamentals of the 2024 race for the White House favored President-elect Donald Trump all along. Joy and hope were no match for dissatisfaction with the economy, the direction of the country, and incumbent parties across the globe, dooming the Democrats earlier…

Former Rep. Matt Gaetz’s withdrawal from consideration as attorney general raises the question of how much deference the incoming Senate Republican majority owes President-elect Donald Trump on his Cabinet nominations. “Donald J. Trump just won a major electoral victory. His coattails turned a 49-51 senate to a 53-47 senate,” Vice President-elect J.D. Vance posted on…

President-elect Donald Trump managed to thread the needle on abortion as he won a second term, though the challenge of governing lies ahead. Trump took credit for appointing most of the Supreme Court justices who voted to overturn Roe v. Wade in 2022 but sought to insulate his campaign and the Republican Party from the…

Progressives are upset that a news program spoke with a top newsmaker who is set to become the president of the United States early next year. That’s one takeaway from the backlash against MSNBC’s Morning Joe cohosts making a pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago to meet with President-elect Donald Trump. Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski were almost…

In every branch of the federal government, Democrats will find themselves on the outside looking in next year, setting off a wave of recriminations within the party as President Joe Biden prepares to leave office. Despite an unprecedented postprimaries nominee switch, attempts by Democratic candidates in multiple races to tack to the center or erase…

The Democrats’ overperformance in the midterm elections two years ago looks like a pyrrhic victory after President-elect Donald Trump’s win last week, likely giving Republicans unified control of the federal government.  In some ways, the midterm elections might have been the worst of all possible worlds for Democrats: They came away believing they needed no major…

In the days leading up to the 2024 presidential election, Democrats were worried that Donald Trump would declare victory prematurely based on early returns. “We are sadly ready if he does, and if we know that he is actually manipulating the press and attempting to manipulate the consensus of the American people … we are…