Both Pence and Harris Dodged the Only Important Question at the Vice Presidential Debate
Under what circumstances would these two potential vice presidents feel comfortable taking over? The country deserves to know.
Under what circumstances would these two potential vice presidents feel comfortable taking over? The country deserves to know.
"Do we have a president yet?" we laughed.
Like Trump's presidency, the debate destroyed unfounded respect for the people who rule us.
Trump is right that police unions support him more than Biden. That doesn't speak as well of the president as he thinks.
Biden's refusal to address court packing in the first presidential debate reflects his lack of concrete positions.
President Trump accepts the scientific findings about climate change "to an extent."
After the trainwreck that was the first Biden-Trump debate, some people will likely call for future debates to be canceled. America needs the exact opposite.
Both sides in the debate about face masks make claims that are not justified by the scientific evidence.
Biden spun the Supreme Court's role in health care. Trump dodged, distracted, and bullied. It was an unproductive slugfest.
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Chris Wallace asked both candidates on Tuesday night if they would urge "supporters to stay calm during this extended period, not to engage in any civil unrest." Trump rejected the premise.
The president renewed his attack that a Biden presidency would wipe out the suburbs. Biden accused Trump of racist dog whistles.
Joe Biden has said plenty of regrettable things about criminal justice, but that wasn't one of them.
Leaders of the organization reportedly see this as tacit approval.
Though the presidential debate was pure chaos, Trump destroyed Biden on the question of reopening the economy.
Major-party politicians avoid tax simplification almost as aggressively as the rich avoid taxation, argue the Reason Roundtable panelists.
Better still: Let's have lots of debates that include all candidates who can technically win the election.
The Democratic Party presidential candidate attacks Donald Trump's mental faculties while revealing his own issues.
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Larry Sharpe, Spike Cohen, and Ken Armstrong strategize about how to sell liberty during a pandemic.
Libertarians will decide this weekend if a message that "nothing matters more...than living in a free society" will resonate in 2020.
This is what happens when you think all of America looks like the Acela corridor.
Joe Biden rightly noted that Medicare for All "would not solve the problem" posed by the coronavirus.
Not to be outdone, Bernie Sanders promises that every single American will "be made whole" despite economic losses due to the outbreak. That's totally impossible.
Coronavirus fears prompted organizers to drop the live audience, which was just as well.
The Hawaiian representative's two delegates will no longer be enough to earn her a spot in the upcoming CNN/Univision debate in Phoenix.
Medicare for All would cost far, far more than he says.
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The Democrats' last drug warrior and America's leading anti-vaper makes insincere paeans to dispassionate analysis while defending his nanny-state illiberalism during the presidential debate.
But Sanders is also right that America has made some terrible foreign policy mistakes in the past.
The former vice president's accusations require a couple of footnotes.
Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders correctly diagnose the problem, but fail to provide an adequate solution.
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Bloomberg says "We're not going to throw out capitalism"; Sanders isn't so sure.
This was supposed to be the electable alternative?
"The policy was abhorrent," Biden said of Bloomberg's stop-and-frisk program. Yes, but so was pretty much every criminal justice policy Biden pushed through the Senate.
"Stop and frisk" policies are brought into the crosshairs right away.
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Government solutions to the opioid overdose crisis have contributed to the problem, and no candidate really wants to acknowledge it.
The modicum of restraint expressed by the former South Bend mayor earned him immediate scorn from conservatives.
The Trump administration's "phase one" deal with China will keep many tariffs in place, but Democrats don't seem to have the guts to stand up for freer trade.
Being relentlessly negative is no way to win votes, even against someone as dark and divisive as Donald Trump.
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"Senator Warren, what did you think when Sanders said a woman couldn’t win the election?”