Nikki Haley finally got Trump one-on-one. There’s a reason she’s still losing.

[ad_1] “She’s running as a conservative. Trump’s running as a populist,” said Alex Conant, a Republican strategist and former adviser to Marco Rubio’s 2016 and Tim Pawlenty’s 2012 presidential campaigns. “Haley’s challenge is that the party is increasingly a populist party.” It was a pre-Trump, conservative ideology that marked Haley’s rise as a tea party … Read more

Inside Kevin McCarthy’s vengeance operation

[ad_1] The McCarthy revenge campaign is ready to marshal the former speaker’s considerable donor network on behalf of Republican primary candidates who are deemed strong enough to pose a credible threat to one of the eight. “These traitors chose to side with Nancy Pelosi, AOC and over 200 Democrats to undermine the institution, their fellow … Read more

Inside Trump’s growing influence over congressional Republicans

[ad_1] Trump’s restraint made it easier for House Republicans to steer the deal to overwhelming bipartisan passage. By contrast, the president’s vocal opposition has essentially put the Senate’s emerging border deal on life support. With every day that Trump draws closer to the GOP’s presidential nomination, his voice carries more weight within the party. The … Read more

30 Things Joe Biden Did as President You Might Have Missed

[ad_1] Infrastructure Fixing bridges, building tunnels and expanding broadband Successive presidents tried for so many years to pass infrastructure legislation that it became a running joke in Washington. Maybe that’s one reason polls show that voters don’t know that Biden finally broke that logjam, and did it with support from lawmakers of both political parties. … Read more

The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics

[ad_1] Cartoon Carousel Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in the world of politics. The fruits of these labors are hundreds of cartoons that entertain and enrage readers of all political stripes. Here’s an offering … Read more

Kerry and Xie may be out, but California abides

[ad_1] Relations between the world’s two largest emitters seem relatively stable right now, with a continued thawing of U.S.-China tensions and President Joe Biden’s pick Wednesday of John Podesta, a climate heavy hitter with deep experience in U.S.-China diplomacy, to succeed John Kerry as U.S. climate envoy. But former President Donald Trump looms, as do … Read more

Biden’s ‘holy grail’ economy – POLITICO

[ad_1] “We are currently seeing what I’ve called the holy grail of non-inflationary growth,” EY-Parthenon chief economist Gregory Daco said before the report. “We have an environment where the economy’s still moving forward at a relatively decent clip, and we have inflation that’s falling back toward the Fed’s target. It’s the best of both worlds … Read more