Author: David M. Drucker, Washington Examiner

The Republican Party immediately declared a Michigan Senate seat a prime pickup opportunity after Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) announced plans to retire in 2024. The National Republican Senatorial Committee gloated in a statement that Stabenow was departing even before the rival Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee had found a new chairman, vowing to invest heavily to…

Paul Ryan has come full circle. Before the former congressman was the speaker of the House of Representatives, before he was the Republican nominee for vice president, before he was chairman of the House Budget Committee, he was an unknown and lonely voice in the wilderness from Janesville, Wisconsin, pushing Washington to adopt wholesale reform…

Former President Donald Trump has been undermining his 2024 bid through a series of self-inflicted political wounds suffered both before and since launching his campaign, doing for his opponents inside the Republican establishment what they are powerless to do themselves. Trump announced his White House bid Nov. 15, only to see his poll numbers drop…

Democrats are beginning to consolidate their support in the special election campaign to fill a vacant House seat in Virginia. Lamont Bagby (D) announced Thursday he is dropping his bid for the 4th Congressional District and endorsing fellow state legislator Jennifer McClellan (D), whose main Democratic competition is now state legislator Joe Morrissey. Bagby said…

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis tops former President Donald Trump nationwide in a hypothetical matchup in the 2024 GOP White House primary in yet another survey fielded this month, suggesting the former president’s slippage in the polls is more than fleeting. DeSantis led Trump 52% to 38% in a poll for the Wall Street Journal conducted…

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is having a hard time landing a new person to chair the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee amid concerns preserving the party’s grip on the chamber in 2024 is an impossible task. Democrats are defending 23 Senate seats, three of which sit in ruby-red states the Republican presidential nominee is…

Republican voters overwhelmingly support Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) over former President Donald Trump in a theoretical matchup in the 2024 GOP White House primary, according to a fresh poll. The Suffolk University survey for USA Today shows DeSantis leading Trump 56% to 33% among Republican voters nationwide, continuing a trend of building support for Florida’s…

Neighborly Indiana is turning out to be the first hotbed of Republican internecine warfare in the 2024 election cycle as early contenders for governor and Senate begin jockeying for position in primaries roughly 18 months away. Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN) and Indiana Lt. Gov. Suzanne Crouch announced campaigns for chief executive on Monday, setting up…

Indiana Lt. Gov. Suzanne Crouch is running for governor in 2024, she announced Monday in a glitzy campaign video and a tour of the state she began in her hometown of Evansville. Crouch stuck to familiar Republican themes and avoided criticizing Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN), her main opponent for the GOP nomination in a primary…

The Iowa Republican Party has approved a motion pledging neutrality in the 2024 caucuses as several White House contenders mull joining former President Donald Trump in the race for the GOP nomination. The motion is strict. Under its guidelines, revealed Saturday, virtually no one associated with the Iowa GOP can endorse or advise a Republican…