By Jennifer Rubin The Washington Post In 2016, Republicans foolishly talked themselves into dispensing with character or qualifications as a consideration for presidents. Since the election they’ve felt compelled to defend President Trump and his horrible words and actions, no matter how racist, cruel, dishonest, narrow-minded, stubborn, narcissistic, disloyal, thin-skinned or vulgar. If nothing else, […]
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Elizabeth Warren’s strength as candidate has slipped
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., a fiery populist on the left, announced she is forming an exploratory committee for a 2020 presidential run. Her earnest plea for working people and her attack on the rich and powerful provide a stark contrast both to President Donald Trump’s right-wing economic agenda and to more centrist Democrats. (“Billionaires and […]
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Polls hold steady regarding President Trump
By Jennifer Rubin The Washington Post President Donald Trump’s approval polling remains dreadful by historical standards. In the latest Marist poll, he draws only 39 percent approval, 49 disapproval (statistically insignificant from a month ago, when his numbers were 38 percent/51 percent). Gallup shows him with 40 percent approval, 54 percent disapproval (up, but not […]
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Will GOP regulars remain faithful to party?
By Jennifer Rubin The Washington Post WASHINGTON — The close special election in the Kansas 4th congressional district, which should have been a slam dunk for Republicans, and wariness about a special election in Georgia’s 6th congressional district reflect Republicans’ lack of enthusiasm after less than three months of the Trump presidency. Anecdotal evidence indicates […]
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Irresponsibility not the sole province of the left or the right
By Jennifer Rubin The Washington Post Despite their victories in the House, Senate and White House, Republicans still spend their time lamenting the media’s unfairness and complaining that Democrats are acting hypocritically. The thin-skinned President-elect Donald Trump and his media boosters are no better. They seem to bristle at every criticism, no matter how slight […]
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GOP should roll out replacement for Obamacare
By Jennifer Rubin The Washington Post You do not have to think Obamacare is perfect or even the best health-care system we can devise to think its repeal would be problematic, to say the least. It is one thing to vote to repeal it when the president was sure to veto it. It’s another to […]
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I have some questions that need answering
By Jennifer Rubin The Washington Post Unless there is significant shift in polling, the same seven candidates who faced off last time, in the Charleston, South Carolina, debate, will meet in Iowa on January 28, just three days before the first votes are cast in the caucuses. Plenty has happened since the last debate. We […]