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Trump’s grousing over ‘crooked’ system is just sour grapes

According to Donald Trump and his bellicose advisers, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) is running a “crooked” race, stealing delegates and undermining democracy. Well, if majority rule is sacred, then Trump shouldn’t be insisting that he should get the nomination with less than a majority. And if a delegate system must reflect the precise proportion of […]

Can Clinton end Democrats’ anti-Israel drift?

We have noted with interest Hillary Clinton’s tougher line on foreign policy, and specifically her separation from President Obama on Israel. She made the contrast even more vivid in an interview with the Jewish Week. She purposefully rejected the argument that Obama and his aides made (often on background) that Israel is to blame for […]

The GOP’s chance to slow a horrible trend

Gallup finds: More than a third (35%) of Americans now say they are worried “a great deal” about race relations in the U.S. — which is higher than at any time since Gallup first asked the question in 2001. The percentage who are worried a great deal rose seven percentage points in the past year […]

Morning Bits

His popularity goes down every time he makes another gaffe. So he is hiding: “The brash billionaire’s uncharacteristically quiet week came as his campaign is shifting gears and building out a more delegate-focused strategy under the direction of newly minted convention manager Paul Manafort, a veteran Republican operative.” In a general election, the persona he popularized is not […]

About those polls, Mr. Trump . . .

Tim Miller, communications director for the anti-Donald Trump Our Principles PAC wisecracked, “Hillary [Clinton] would beat him from jail. I’m telling you. That’s how unpopular he is. It’s crazy.” Well, if not jail, she might even do it the face of a FBI finding that she did break federal laws regarding mishandling of documents. Yes, […]

The expectations are now on Trump

For weeks now, the pressure has been on Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) to win states and deny Donald Trump precious delegates. The Cruz team can claim their man over-performed, getting more than 50 percent of the vote in Utah, sweeping up all the delegates in Colorado and most in North Dakota, and winning big in […]

GOP should stop waiting for the convention white knight

Jay Cost recalls: “There was an effort in 2012 to strip the delegates of all power, via a rule giving presidential candidates authority over who shall and who shall not be a delegate, but it was voted down. This is important, because the temporary rules of the convention in Cleveland this summer invest full sovereignty in […]

The Republican choice: Get over the animus toward Cruz — or get Trump

It is ironic that some of the adults in the GOP who have inveighed against dysfunction brought on by backbencher extremists like the Freedom Caucus and urged pragmatic compromise in the face of criticism from Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) are now acting more like the all-or-nothing crowd they once denounced. The Wall Street Journal editorial […]

We hope the tougher Clinton is the real one

There is a dichotomy, as Republicans see it, between Hillary Clinton’s refusal to criticize the president on foreign policy and her own foreign policy pronouncements, which are often at odds with President Obama’s words, actions and policies. It leaves one wondering what she would do in office. On Sunday, for example, she had this exchange […]

Donald Trump cannot close

2016 may go down as the year of two massive meltdowns — Jordan Spieth at the 12th hole of the Masters and Donald Trump in the GOP presidential campaign. In Trump’s case, however, it was fully predictable and flows from the central flaw in his campaign, Trump himself. Trump is whining that delegate allocation processes are “rigged” […]

Morning Bits

Paul Manafort will get on famously with Donald Trump. They are both ignorant and offensive: “Trump aide Manafort: Cruz campaign using ‘Gestapo’ tactics.” His notorious comments are getting Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in hot water with Dems, but he’s not letting up. “She may have the experience to be president of the United States. No one […]

Ups and downs

UP: Sen. Ted Cruz’s campaign operation DOWN: Donald Trump’s campaign organization UP: Contested RNC convention DOWN: Trump’s chances of winning the nomination after the first ballot UP: Sen. Bernie Sanders’s policy flubs DOWN: Spending critical time in Vatican City instead of New York City UP: Administration’s concessions to Iran DOWN: Senate Democrats’ willingness to halt […]