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For the Record peeps! Thursday night marked the 12th primary debate we’ve tuned into since August. We still have 10 more to go (never mind those pesky general election debates, which are basically Narnia at this point in the cycle). Two of them are in the next week! We hope Martin O’Malley enjoys them from his couch, because we’re counting…

Hillary’s Wall Street Reckoning – Clinton struggles to explain why Goldman paid her $675,000. President Obama has spent seven years denouncing Wall Street and persuading young progressives that the U.S. economy is rigged for the benefit of wealthy financiers. So how will he now persuade them to support Wall Street’s favorite Democrat? This is the political trap Mr. Obama has…

The media have decided that Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) was last night’s big winner in the Iowa caucuses. Rubio finished a strong third in Iowa, outperforming the RealClearPolitics poll average by 6.2 percent. Rubio himself spoke as though he had wrapped up the nomination with his finish. And meanwhile, donors are rapidly shifting from Jeb! to Rubio, according to the…

The Florida senator delivered a surprisingly strong finish in Iowa by embracing the frontrunner’s rhetoric. Marco Rubio’s last minute surge in Iowa has a lot in common with John Kerry’s last minute surge to victory in Iowa in 2004. Like Rubio, Kerry was an early frontrunner. Like Rubio, Kerry underperformed all fall as an anti-establishment candidate (Howard Dean) came from…

A few points on what we learned last night in the Hawkeye State, where Ted Cruz won eight nominating delegates, Donald Trump and Marco Rubio each pulled in seven, Ben Carson secured three, and Rand Paul and Jeb Bush each picked off a single delegate: (1) Some laws of political gravity do apply to Donald Trump after all, even in…

By targeting evangelicals and libertarians from the very start, he dominated from the two most reliable Iowa voting blocs. DES MOINES, Iowa — In August of 2014, just 19 months after joining the U.S. Senate, Ted Cruz was already reviled by many people in Washington. But that made him only more appealing to the dozens of grass-roots activists and conservative…

Some things are unstoppable – even in the face of a blizzard. Friday’s 2016 March for Life took place in Washington, D.C. on the 43rd anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion. But The Washington Post described what it called “thousands” of Americans marching together for the nearly 60 million babies destroyed by abortion as “small.” That…

Donald Trump will widen a rupture between his supporters and the Republican Party establishment on Thursday when he boycotts a presidential debate in a snub to Fox News only days before the 2016 election season starts in earnest. The billionaire front-runner for the Republican nomination will host his own event in Iowa during the Fox News debate, likely damaging prime…

Ted Cruz has a ready answer for the many Republicans who see him as a rigid ideologue likely to be demolished should he make it to the general election: Such an ideologue is the party’s only hope of winning in 2016. Since his election to the Senate in 2012, Cruz has argued that center-right candidates such as John McCain in…

In October last year, The Atlantic magazine detailed the 25 media boomlets over the past decade that have speculated Michael Bloomberg would run for president. Today the New York Times launched yet another one, reporting that the former New York mayor would be willing to spend “at least $1 billion of his fortune” on an independent race, should Bernie Sanders…

While the State Department and intelligence agencies finish picking through messages recovered from the private email server Hillary Clinton used to conduct public business as secretary of state, the contents of the periodic document dumps have become increasingly sensitive. State has been referring any email that appears to contain sensitive information for further consideration by the agency with jurisdiction over…