Donald Trump
The GOP’s Faustian bargain with Trump pays off
I don’t know who is going to win the election. I write this on the fourth anniversary of the Billy Bush Access…
Portrait of the week
Home Coronavirus was on the increase. At the beginning of the week, Sunday 4 October, total deaths (within 28 days…
The transatlantic mask divide
Should we wear our masks? The question has been on my mind as I have been battered that way and…
Barometer
Vice squad Donald Trump catching Covid-19 has concentrated minds on what happens if a US president dies in office. Normally,…
Election notebook
Americans are, in my experience, the warmest, most kind-hearted and open-minded people in the world. I have found this to…
COVID-positive president won’t debate online
The droplets had barely settled after Wednesday’s vice presidential debate when next week’s head-to-head between Donald Trump and Joe Biden…
Pence takes Harris to the cleaners in VP debate
Vice President Mike Pence emerged from the 2020 vice presidential debate Wednesday night with a sound victory over challenger Sen.…
The US election is Joe Biden’s to lose
Donald Trump is back at the White House after a scary three-day stay at the Walter Reed medical complex. For…
It’s far too early to write off Donald Trump
Too many pundits are ready to call the 2020 presidential race with a month to go. Four weeks is a…
The media meltdown over Trump’s ‘Covita’ moment
What is Donald Trump’s greatest gift? Some say his finely honed instincts; others, his tabloid genius for publicity. But we…
The hypocritical oath
‘Please tell me you’re Republicans,’ President Ronald Reagan joked with his doctors as he headed into surgery after an assassination…
Godforsaken: religion is vanishing from American politics
The United States has always been the world’s leading religious marketplace. Even before independence, the American colonies were more fervently…
Portrait of the week
Home More than a quarter of the population of the United Kingdom (three-fifths of the Welsh, a third of the…
America in meltdown
What if no one accepts the election result?
Trump’s enemies badly want him to survive coronavirus
President Trump is being helicoptered to Walter Reed Hospital following his coronavirus diagnosis. The media are following the story closely…
Trump campaign urges staffers exposed to COVID to self-quarantine
Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien sent an email to staff on Friday after President Trump’s positive COVID test, urging them…
Trump’s right, the US election could easily be rigged
In the furore over Trump’s bid to fill the vacant Supreme Court slot, commentators have pointed out that his nominee’s…
Will the economy recover enough to help Trump win?
It’s rather difficult to dissect or analyze policy areas from last night’s horrendous debate. But Freddy Gray and I attempt…
Trump won the debate — but it was no disaster for Biden
A couple of days ago, Powerline’s Paul Mirengoff observed that ‘Going back at least as far as Ronald Reagan, incumbent presidents…
Trump was his own worst enemy in the first debate
The first presidential debate in Cleveland was a disaster, to put it bluntly. After 90 minutes of crosstalk, petty jabs,…
The first 2020 presidential debate — live blog
7:25 p.m. ET — Matt McDonald: Hello and welcome to The Spectator’s live blog for tonight’s tête-à-tête between President Donald Trump…
Trump and Biden campaigns argue over rules hours before first debate
With less than eight hours to go before the first presidential debate in Cleveland, the Trump and Biden campaigns are…
The Trump campaign’s best line of attack against Joe Biden
President Trump and Joe Biden will face off in the first of a series of presidential debates on Tuesday night.…
Who rules supreme?
Within hours of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, Democrats and Republicans began fighting over how to fill her…
The ‘Notorious RBG’ and her triumph over tribalism
Ruth the Moabite is the only Biblical figure to merit the description ‘eshet chayil’ – ‘a woman of valour’. One…
