Inside The Brand New Ballot-Chasing Operation That Helped Republicans Flip The Senate
Sentinel proved to be a difference maker in electing Trump and helping Republicans decisively take back the Senate.
When the Associated Press on Thursday declared Republican Dave McCormick the winner…
Trump Chooses GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik As US Ambassador To UN
Editors’ Note: Although we don’t like to lose a Congress member, given the narrow and tentative majority, Stefanik looks to be a great pick. She has been a staunch and articulate Trump supporter, and we…
Republicans Can’t Afford To Elect Another Mitch McConnell As Senate Leader
Senate Republicans cannot be led by someone who is openly hostile to the agenda of their party’s president and the base who elected him. Last Tuesday, America sent a resounding message to Washington when they elected Donald Trump and gave Republicans majorities in the Senate and likely the House. D.C. Republicans now have one job: Don’t screw it up. For Senate Republicans, this means closing the book on the Mitch McConnell era of governance marked by heavily centralized management and open hostility to the Trump agenda and the Republican base. On Nov. 13, they will elect a new leader for the first time in nearly 18 years and have a chance to usher in a new leadership that is accountable to the conference and the priorities of the evolving base of the Republican Party.
PITIFUL POLLSTERS: Ann Selzer, CNN, Marist, NYT/Siena
On the weekend before Election Day, pollster Ann Selzer unleashed an Iowa survey for the Des Moines Register purporting to show Kamala Harris leading Donald Trump by 3 points in a state Harris supposedly had no business winning. The “late shift toward Harris,” declared the Des Moines Register, was happening because of older women dumping Trump. An editorial page writer from the Arizona Republic warned the “sudden and potentially seismic” numbers “change the nature of the national race.” MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow spent 11 minutes gleefully promoting Selzer and calling her the “gold standard.” The liberal ladies of The View on ABC celebrated. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg X-posted “Iowa, you have shocked the nation.”
The Unlearned Lessons of the Democratic Party
Thinking purely as a partisan, it is good to see that very few Democrats are willing to learn any lessons from this past week’s election. Thinking as an American patriot, it is very bad. One yard sign…
States vs. Federal Law: Neo-Confederate Nullification Resurfaces
There is no doubt that President Trump has won a resounding victory, not just in the Electoral College but also in the popular vote and the number of MAGA Senators and Representatives elected. We even saw this in Arizona with the passage of Proposition 314, which passed with a whopping two-thirds majority. As such, he is expected to do something bold about the illegal immigrant invasion. But no sooner than the election results were known, left-leaning governors in Massachusetts, New Jersey, Illinois, and California said they would not be cooperating with any Trumpian crackdown on illegals. They were pretty bold in their declarations.
Mr. President, Deputize Your Local Sheriffs
/by Kyle ShidelerAs President Trump prepares for his second term, one crucial question on people’s minds will be if he can successfully achieve his policy objectives. Chief among those goals will be securing the border and effectively enforcing immigration law (read: deportations). He must also tackle violent crime, drug and human trafficking, and foreign criminal gangs, consequences of four years of open borders under Biden. In particular, he’ll face the challenge of focusing on how the Biden Administration dismantled internal immigration enforcement. How can President Trump meet his security goals and exercise control over these powerful law enforcement agencies without countenancing their historic bad behavior? He should begin by leveraging a unique advantage he developed in his first term—exceptional relationships with local law enforcement agencies, especially local sheriffs.