Republicans have found what they believe is a scoring punch against Joe Biden in the home stretch of the 2020 Presidential campaign, and it is a lone question: Do you plan to pack the Supreme Court if elected? Biden’s refusal to answer on the principle that his answer, either way, would become “a distraction” from…
Category: ELECTION 2020
Eric Crawford’s writing on the Presidential Election of 2020
COVID remains the one disruption that Trump has failed to harness
No operation in American political history has been able to manage, use and otherwise maximize disruption for its own interests better than the presidential administration of Donald Trump. But with a couple of recent disruptions, it’s hard to wonder if Trump hasn’t lost his touch. You may not like him, but you shouldn’t underestimate him….
Times breaks news with Trump’s taxes, but his debt is the real story
It’s not as much a tax story as it is a debt story. I’m not knocking The New York Times’ extensive and hard-won series of pieces on President Donald Trump’s tax returns from 2000 to 2018. It’s on its way to the Pulitzer Prize offices right now. But it’s also no surprise that Trump paid…
Biden’s basement, Trump’s taunts and the power of presidential action
Donald Trump’s election tropes make for great laugh lines at rallies and even sound bites for the evening news, but as he showed in 2016, they also can be effective lines of attack, and repeated often enough, become embedded in not only media narratives but in ways the public – or at least his supporters…
What’s this election page about? The biggest game in town
It’s not a game, of course. We always say that the next presidential election is the most consequential of our lifetimes. This time that might be true. Until the next one, anyway. I know, I’m a sportswriter. But I’m fascinated by presidential politics — and not just in the present. The great races and presidential…