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Swing State Deep Dive: Michigan

With the presidential election less than seven weeks away, it is worth taking a deep dive into the seven most important states in the 2024 race: Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Nevada, North Carolina, and Georgia. Known…

An Electoral College Tie Would Be a Win for Trump

Over the next 45 days, a tiny fraction of undecided voters across seven swing states (and one swing district) will decide the presidential election. It remains plausible that either candidate could win any mix of the seven. Within these…

The Election Will Be Decided Here

Congressman Scott Perry is eating chocolate ice cream in the shadow of Newt Gingrich's childhood home in Hummelstown, Pennsylvania, during a street festival on a warm late-summer weekend, when his mood turns sour.

Society Would Be at 10x Threat If Musk Hadn't Bought Twitter

Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale defended Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter on Thursday's broadcast of 'Squawk Box' on CNBC.

A National Debt Crisis Is Coming

Trump and Harris are determined to ignore the problem-at the country's peril.

Just Another Frivolous Climate Lawsuit

A leftwing judicial influence group is finding the spotlight unwelcome.

The Return of the One-Room Schoolhouse

The single, small classroom where kids learn everything together is back-and it could be the start of a revolution.

A Republic, If You Can Keep It

It's Friday, Sept. 20. Interestingly, Election "Day," which is now a profound misnomer, begins today: In Virginia, Minnesota, and South Dakota, citizens 18 and older can begin voting in the 2024 presidential election.

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When Warriors Come Home

Like Ulysses, returned combat veterans often show a diminished capacity for social trust.

Americans Haven't Gotten a Raise in Last 4 Years

Lower incomes, higher inflation, and fewer people with private health insurance - such is life under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

What Admissions Officers Want To Read in College Essays

College admissions officers say the most important thing is not to overthink application essays.

How a Circle of Spies, Blinken Covered Up Biden Scandal

Miranda Devine, who exposed many of Hunter's secrets in her book Laptop from Hell, returns with The Big Guy, the story of how the FBI, the CIA, the State Department, the IRS and the DOJ conspir...

What Really Went Down at the Teamsters

Today on TAP: Inside the boardroom, it was no endorsement. Outside, some of the board members endorsed Harris.

On State Department Censorship and Blacklisting

Gabe Kaminsky and I speak with Emily Jashinsky of Unherd about the Global Engagement Center (GEC), a State Department entity engaged in censorship and financial blacklisting

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Elon Musk Has Reached a New Low

On the day that Elon Musk announced his intention to buy Twitter in April 2022, I tried to game out how the acquisition might go.

Biden-Harris Admin Instructed Me To Cover Up Border Crisis

Former Border Patrol Chief Aaron Heitke at a Congressional hearing on Thursday revealed he was told to be silent about certain immigration practices including data on terror encounters and flights to fly illegal immigrants.

For More Civics in Schools, Dial Down the Controversy

It's election season. Too bad a study this year from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce found that more than 70% of respondents failed a basic U.S. civic literacy quiz, with over 30% not knowing that there are three branches of government, much…

Trump Goes Home a Martyr

"God has now spared my life," Donald Trump told an arena full of supporters in suburban New York last night. He waited a beat while more than 15,000 members of the MAGA faithful began to hoot and applaud inside Nassau Coliseum on Long…

Harris Allies Continue Calling Trump 'Threat to Democracy'

Two assassination attempts against former President Donald Trump have not clarified the Democratic position on whether that Republican represents an existential threat to democracy. The White House still calls him a threat. Vice President…

Mark Robinson and the Republican Wackjob Problem

Thursday afternoon, CNN reported that North Carolina Republican Governor candidate Mark Robinson frequented a porn site where he called himself a "Black Nazi," said he wished slavery was still legal, heaped abuse on Martin Luther King, and…

Teamsters Herald End of Dems' Blue-Collar Dominance

On Wednesday, the Teamsters Union announced that, for the first time since 1996, they would be withholding an endorsement in the race for president. The news, while not entirely unexpected, still stung for Kamala Harris and her campaign.…

Battle for Control of the Senate Hangs in the Balance

Every day as we get closer to the election, we're obviously focused on those swing states for the presidential race, but we're also focused on the battle for control of the U.S. Senate. It really does hang in the balance.

The Actual Electoral Map Is Three States

There are really only three states that will decide the presidential election: Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Georgia.

What Do the Latest Polls Show?

Thursday on the RealClearPolitics radio show -- weekdays at 6:00 pm on SiriusXM's POTUS Channel 124 -- Andrew Walworth, Tom Bevan, and Emily Jashinsky from "Unherd" discuss the Teamsters Union deciding not to endorse either presidential…

Harris' Cynical, Run-Out-the-Clock Campaign

Cynically running out the clock has been the overarching principle of the entire abbreviated 105-day presidential campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris -- ever since President Joe Biden, at the 11th-hour, dropped out in July.

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Trump & Vance's Smear a Microcosm of 2024 Race

The Republicans desperately need to distract voters away from abortion. They've now found the perfect new scapegoat

Biden's Presidency Will Haunt Us for Years

The latest New York Times/Siena College poll has some cautionary data for Kamala Harris and the KHive. The Times found Harris winning Pennsylvania by 4 points, just outside the margin of error, but deadlocked with Donald Trump nationwide.…