Author: Paul Bedard

People are more satisfied with the direction of the country than at any point in recent history, the latest feather in President Donald Trump‘s hat. On the edge of majority support for weeks, the latest Rasmussen Reports “right track/wrong track” average shared with Secrets has hit 50% on Tuesday and shows no sign of pulling…

Second Amendment advocacy groups on Thursday cheered their win on deregulating gun suppressors, calling it a first step in a broader campaign to dismantle archaic firearm laws. The House-passed budget bill included provisions to eliminate the registration and $200 tax on suppressors. If the provision survives in the Senate version of the “big, beautiful bill”…

President Donald Trump’s approval rating is heading into record territory, rising above the four years of lackluster numbers of his first term, as the public gives him credit for his first 100 days of action. A joint survey from Insider Advantage and Trafalgar, just out Tuesday morning, pegged his approval at 55% and disapproval at…

President Donald Trump’s border crackdown has resulted in a 99% reduction of crossings and sent such a strong stay away message to possible illegal migrants that the main passage way to the United States has seen traffic drop 99.5%. Pete Flores, the acting commissioner for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, revealed on Thursday that the…

The “iron law” of midterm congressional elections that the president’s party loses seats and control, if it has it, is about to be busted in 2026. A handful of new reports are suggesting that Republicans could retain control of the House and Senate and even add seats in the election. What’s more, a GOP win…

Reporters have rarely been fans of faith in politics, and often decry the Republican Party’s cozy relationship with religious Americans, such as evangelical Christians. But give them a pope willing to criticize President Donald Trump, well, that’s a different story. Now that Pope Leo XIV has replaced Trump critic Pope Francis, there is an eagerness…

The rise of new media, bolstered by White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s inclusion of bloggers and influencers in the presidential press “pool,” has prompted the nation’s top conservative media watchdog to crown a handful of them “Bulldogs” of the industry. Both X owner Elon Musk and top influencer Megyn Kelly lead the Media Research…

California is like the rest of the country in at least one way. When it comes to picking a new president and governor, they want somebody new. In a new Emerson College Polling/Inside California Politics/The Hill survey out Thursday, more Californians than not said that they don’t want former Vice President Kamala Harris to run…

First, there was President Donald Trump’s classic campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again.” Then, the first offshoot arrived with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the new administration’s Health and Human Services secretary, with MAHA — Make America Healthy Again. And Wednesday, a conservative think tank aligned with the Trump White House, and especially Agriculture Secretary Brooke…

Two years after Gallup said more people identified as Republicans than Democrats for the first time in over three decades, the trend has expanded as the GOP has won over more support from Hispanic and black voters. The 1-point edge Gallup discovered in January 2023 has grown to 5 points in a new Napolitan News…