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Past articles by Tim:

Why Democrats Are Losing Hispanic Voters

The left has alienated America’s fastest-growing group of voters just when they were supposed to give the party a foolproof majority. → Read More

How Politics Poisoned the Evangelical Church

The movement spent 40 years at war with secular America. Now it’s at war with itself. → Read More

Will Hurd 2024: Revenge of the Normal Republicans?

Will Hurd thinks there are enough normal voters to deliver him the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. But is he right? → Read More

Peter Meijer Voted to Impeach. Can He Survive in the GOP?

Late at night on the second Tuesday of January, Peter Meijer, a 33-year-old freshman congressman from West Michigan, paced the half-unpacked rooms of his new rental apartment in Washington, D.C., dreading the decision he would soon have to make. From our January/February 2022 issue Check out the full table of contents and find your next story to read. See More Six days earlier, Meijer had pulled… → Read More

Voter Demographics Diversifying, Republicans Falling Behind

Republicans must adapt to a diversifying electorate or lose their influence. → Read More

Trump Could Name Cabinet Picks at Convention, Raising Legal Questions

Donald Trump is considering announcing his choices for some key cabinet positions at the Republican Convention in Cleveland, which may violate federal law. → Read More

Trump Could Name Cabinet Picks at Convention, Raising Legal Questions

Donald Trump is considering announcing his choices for some key cabinet positions at the Republican Convention in Cleveland, which may violate federal law. → Read More

Ted Cruz’s Carly Fiorina Vice President Pick Is Risky, Necessary ahead of Indiana & California Primaries

Senator Ted Cruz picked Carly Fiorina as his running mate ahead of the Indiana and California primaries. → Read More

Ted Cruz Bets Big on Indiana Primary

Ted Cruz tries to stop Trump in Indiana. → Read More

Fact vs. Fiction: A Guide to This Week's RNC Meeting and July's Convention Rules

The Standing Committee on Rules will take center stage this week at the RNC’s spring meeting in Florida. Reporters, convention delegates, and campaign officials will hover over the group’s gathering, ready to seize on the slightest proposed tweak to recommendations that could govern the GOP during July’s convention and for the next four years. But they are likely to be disappointed. According to… → Read More

Wisconsin: A Blueprint for Stopping Donald Trump?

Republicans opposed to Donald Trump are hoping Wisconsin provides a blueprint for denying him the nomination. → Read More

Super Tuesday Leaves GOP Two Endgames: Trump Nomination or Contested Convention

It’s either Donald Trump or a contested convention. Such is the reality facing the Republican party today. Its leaders are now staring down two scenarios they long dismissed as fantasy, after a slew of Super Tuesday contests demonstrated once again both the breadth of Trump’s support and the difficulty in unifying his opposition. Trump didn’t win a clean sweep on Tuesday, as many predicted. But… → Read More

Ted Cruz's Iowa Win: The Inside Story

Des Moines, Iowa — Eleven months before Ted Cruz took the stage here at the state fairgrounds Monday night to celebrate an historic and hard-fought victory in Iowa’s caucuses, members of his senior staff dialed in to a conference call to discuss the question that had long confounded them: Where should Cruz launch his White House campaign? It was the first week of March 2015, and Cruz’s… → Read More

Des Moines GOP Debate: Donald Trump Absent, Rivals Fight to a Draw

Des Moines, Iowa — Fox News’s Megyn Kelly called him “the elephant not in the room.” And yet, improbably, Donald Trump seemed somehow to emerge victorious from the last GOP presidential debate before Monday’s Iowa caucuses. The Republican front-runner, who, citing Kelly’s alleged bias as a moderator, announced at the last minute that he would skip the debate to hold a dueling event nearby, left… → Read More

Huckabee, Santorum Pick Sides in Trump-Cruz Battle

Des Moines, Iowa – With Monday’s caucuses coming down to a binary choice between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz for the top spot, the previous two Iowa winners are aligning themselves with Trump in a demonstration of their disdain for Cruz. The decision by Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum to join Trump here Thursday night at his rally — which is being staged several miles away from the GOP debates,… → Read More

Vander Plaats Fires Back at Trump, Mocks 'Two Corinthians'

Ottumwa, Iowa – Hours after Donald Trump took to Twitter to hurl a series of insults and accusations at Bob Vander Plaats, the influential Iowa evangelical and Ted Cruz backer, Vander Plaats returned fire during a Cruz rally here Tuesday afternoon. Earlier in the day Tuesday, Trump ripped off a series of antagonistic tweets aimed at Vander Plaats. Two in particular turned heads: > Why doesn’t… → Read More

Rubio’s Team Plots Path to Nomination: Third in Iowa, Second in N.H., First in S.C.

Ottumwa, Iowa — After facing questions for months over his passive campaign approach and his unwillingness to identify one of the early nominating states as a launching pad, Marco Rubio and his senior aides have begun sharing a specific blueprint for how he can secure the Republican presidential nomination. According to multiple Rubio allies recently briefed on campaign strategy, the senator’s… → Read More

As GOP Race Tightens, the Knives Come Out in Charleston

North Charleston, S.C. — The seven candidates on the main stage here Thursday evening attacked harder, pushed back more forcefully, and battled more fiercely than ever. 18 days from the Iowa caucuses, the aperture is narrowing, and the Republican primary is increasingly focused on four men: Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and Chris Christie. The debate was shaped by the clashes between… → Read More

Marco Rubio & Ted Cruz: Rubio's Rise Complicates Cruz's Plan to Unite Conservatives

One summer afternoon in 2013, Marco Rubio arrived at Mike Lee’s Senate office for a strategy session on derailing the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Waiting inside were some of the upper chamber’s most conservative members, along with a group of influential activists. It promised to be an awkward pow-wow for the Florida senator, who had spent the 113th Congress authoring and… → Read More

Jindal Goes on Offense in Undercard, but Christie Comes Out on Top

Milwaukee — Armed with well-rehearsed opposition research on his fellow Republicans, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal spent Tuesday night on the attack. But it was Chris Christie, whose fiscal record Jindal skewered, who emerged as the winner of the undercard debate. Despite repeated jabs from Jindal, Christie refused to take the bait, promising to keep his “eye on the ball” and focus his fire on… → Read More