Democratic primaries 2020

iowa democrats

Iowa Democrats couldn’t have picked a worse time to mess up

5 February 2020 5:10 am

What happened — or didn’t happen — in Iowa last night is unbelievably bad. It is an international embarrassment, one…

void

Void the Iowa caucus results

5 February 2020 4:57 am

Perhaps the most annoying response to last night’s Iowa debacle are the haughty scolds from journalists and pundits chastising anyone…

biden

Punch-drunk Biden gets a beating in the gym

4 February 2020 5:52 pm

Joe Biden once promised to take Donald Trump behind the gym and beat him up. Early results in the Democratic…

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Chaos wins the Iowa caucus

4 February 2020 5:05 pm

Six months ago, you would have predicted a Joe Biden win in the Iowa caucuses. Four months ago, Pete Buttigieg…

abuse

You call this ‘abuse of power’?

1 February 2020 3:48 am

By impeaching Donald Trump on December 18, 2019, the House of Representatives declared that the offenses contained in the articles…

bernie

Bernie devours Warren

24 January 2020 5:47 am

Just four months ago, Elizabeth Warren seemed to poised to storm the Democratic nomination. In the first days of October,…

mike bloomberg

Is ‘Mini Mike’ a growing threat to Trump?

22 January 2020 8:51 pm

Should Bernie Sanders become the Democratic presidential nominee, expect the media to overuse these sprightly English expressions: ‘between a rock…

bernie sanders

Bernie Sanders doesn’t want to win

22 January 2020 9:43 am

Why is Bernie Sanders running for president? The 70-some-year-old pop culture curmudgeon has gone through all the motions of showing…

femocrats

The sad death of the Femocrats

22 January 2020 3:29 am

Their blazers are bright, but their futures are not. Elite women Democrats have faced a brutal reckoning over the past…

bernie bros

My evening with the Bernie Bros

17 January 2020 7:10 am

The stench of beer and cheap deodorant filled the bar in which the ‘Bernie Bros’ were meeting. The scene looked…

iowa

In Iowa, Democrats tell farmers no new jobs until Greta Thunberg is happy

15 January 2020 9:12 pm

We were four minutes in, somewhere on the outskirts of Mideast foreign policy, when the boredom began to take hold.…

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Warren’s dirty trick against Bernie proves she’s the new Hillary

15 January 2020 8:27 am

The next time Elizabeth Warren offers you a beer, be sure not to turn your back on her lest she…

sanders

Bernie Sanders is back — and Donald Trump is delighted

14 January 2020 10:30 pm

Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign looked listless back in October. Sure, the Vermont senator and 2016 Democratic party runner-up still had…

money

Progressives should now admit their outrage about ‘money in politics’ is confected

14 January 2020 1:27 am

There’s a funny silence where the complaints about ‘money in politics’ used to be. The latest numbers on amounts spent…

lose

How to lose votes and bore people

11 January 2020 3:54 am

This article is in The Spectator’s January 2020 US edition. Subscribe here. If we can’t be governed, we may as well be…

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Meow! Claws out for Mayor Pete at LA Democratic debate

20 December 2019 4:57 pm

It may be only the third time in American history the president has been impeached but it’s the first time…

kamala harris

Kamala Harris is not your vice president

13 December 2019 5:32 am

Little over a week on from the sad demise of the Kamala Harris presidential campaign, the California senator is the…

michael bloomberg

Will Michael Bloomberg break double digits?

4 December 2019 2:30 pm

The big news on Monday this week was that latecomer billionaire presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg had ‘surged’ past Sen. Kamala…

kamala harris

Kamala Harris’s downfall has been obvious for months

4 December 2019 2:14 pm

The most meme-friendly and amusing explanation for Kamala Harris’s demise is that she was splattered by Tulsi Gabbard over the…

mike michael bloomberg

Who likes Mike?

25 November 2019 12:30 am

This article is in The Spectator’s December 2019 US edition. Subscribe here. It’s springtime for billionaires. Former New York mayor and media…

atlanta

The Democrats’ open mic night in Atlanta

21 November 2019 3:18 pm

Fear not everyone — there are only seven Democratic debates left this cycle. As if the prospect of a fifth…

michael bloomberg

For some reason, Michael Bloomberg thinks he should be president

8 November 2019 10:18 am

Who would you like to see better represented in the already-crowded Democratic primary? Septuagenarians? Centrists? Or billionaires? For those of…

primary

Seven candidates who could save the Democrats in 2020

29 October 2019 1:51 am

Has there ever been a more cack-handed, sloppy bunch of goons than these Democratic candidates? Ancient Joe Biden looks like…

warren

Big Squaw E. Warren speaks with forked tongue

29 October 2019 1:41 am

This article is in The Spectator’s November 2019 US edition. Subscribe here. Absent the appearance of a last-minute deus (or dea) ex…

warreh

Elizabeth Warren is the Hillary Clinton of 2020

24 October 2019 5:46 am

This article is in The Spectator’s November 2019 US edition. Subscribe here. How did Elizabeth Warren, a left-wing populist, become the candidate…