Author: W. James Antle III

In the days leading up to the 2024 presidential election, Democrats were worried that Donald Trump would declare victory prematurely based on early returns. “We are sadly ready if he does, and if we know that he is actually manipulating the press and attempting to manipulate the consensus of the American people … we are…

Vice President Kamala Harris sought to end her presidential campaign on a high note Wednesday while signaling to supporters she was not done fighting. The question is whether Democrats are done with her after she failed to prevent President-elect Donald Trump from returning to the White House.  Trump just completed one of the great political…

Democrats were stunned to find themselves once again losing to former President Donald Trump, whom they once believed was spent as a political force after his 2020 loss, subsequent refusal to concede, Jan. 6, two impeachments, Republican underperformance in the 2022 midterm elections, and multiple indictments. But Trump’s performance on Tuesday night should not have…

Like Ronald Reagan in 1980, former President Donald Trump often asks a question on the campaign trail: “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” Unlike Reagan 44 years ago, Trump is posing this as someone who has already served a term in the White House. It fits in with another of his…

In the final hours of the 2024 presidential campaign, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump clearly have different theories about how to win the White House. Harris trying to persuade voters who are ambivalent about both candidates in a bid to recreate President Joe Biden’s anti-Trump coalition from four years ago, stretching…

Frustrated by their inability so far to gain a decisive edge over former President Donald Trump, Democrats have increasingly taken out their anger on the voters. President Joe Biden called Trump supporters “garbage” on Tuesday night, although the White House and its allies frantically added apostrophes to his comments, caught on video, to narrow the…

Time will tell whether former President Donald Trump’s massive rally at Madison Square Garden was the beginning of a successful closing argument or the MAGA movement’s electoral swan song.  The event was nevertheless consistent with Trump’s now nearly decade-long political career: risky unscripted events that few people running for office would ever attempt, that drive…

Vice President Kamala Harris’s supporters see a double standard in how her performance is evaluated compared to her Republican opponent, former President Donald Trump. Harris was panned for her CNN town hall performance, with former President Barack Obama alum David Axelrod handing her the key to “word salad city” for some of her answers.  Trump,…

Adolf Hitler has entered the 2024 presidential race.  “Donald Trump’s former chief of staff, John Kelly, a retired four-star general, confirmed that while Donald Trump was president, he said he wanted ‘generals like Adolf Hitler had,’” Vice President Kamala Harris said in an impromptu appearance on Wednesday. “Donald Trump said that because he does not want…

Former President Donald Trump is known for his love of fast food, but his brief stint as a McDonald’s French fry cook shows his appetite for headlines remains as insatiable as ever. The well-executed weekend photo-op had his supporters saying “I’m lovin’ it,” while Trump critics responded as if the ice cream machine was once…