Author: David M. Drucker, Washington Examiner

LAS VEGAS — Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan is hosting a series of gatherings with donors and grassroots supporters after Thanksgiving as the Republican ramps up consideration of a 2024 White House bid. That decision-making process took Hogan to Nevada last weekend for a speech at an annual Republican Jewish Coalition conference, essentially the kickoff of…

LAS VEGAS — Mike Pompeo is moving toward a White House bid, test-driving lines of attack against the front-runner, his old boss, former President Donald Trump, as if to see whether he likes how the car handles and wants to drive it off the lot. Pompeo served in the Trump administration all four years, first…

LAS VEGAS — As rioters ransacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, seeking to overturn the 2020 election, Mike Pence made a strategic decision to remain in the building, concluding federal authorities were more likely to respond swiftly if the vice president was in danger. “I stayed at the Capitol because, at a very deep…

LAS VEGAS — Republicans are sifting through the wreckage of a third consecutive electoral drubbing, gingerly confronting the roadblocks to rebuilding posed by Donald Trump while daring to broach sidelining the former president in favor of fresh leadership. Such conversations, once taboo in GOP circles, spilled out into the open this past weekend as the…

Folksy Republican Herschel Walker is leveraging decades of goodwill in Georgia to unseat Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) in a December runoff but is running into the same obstacles that left him gasping for air in second place on Nov. 8. Walker, a former professional football player, is beloved in the Peach State for leading the…

LAS VEGAS — Nikki Haley was to tell a gathering of Republican activists gathered to vet potential presidential contenders the party needs a course correction, the latest signal from the former ambassador that she is mulling a 2024 bid. In excerpts of Haley’s speech to the Republican Jewish Coalition, scheduled for delivery Saturday evening, she…

LAS VEGAS — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is running for reelection to the Senate in 2024 but is not ruling out jumping into the race for the Republican presidential nomination at a later date. Cruz spoke Saturday to an annual gathering of the Republican Jewish Coalition, which is considered the unofficial start of the GOP…

LAS VEGAS — Chris Christie is pushing Republicans to challenge Donald Trump head-on and stop fearing the former president’s grassroots supporters, saying the party is barreling toward more disappointment at the polls in 2024 absent fresh leadership at the top. “There’s a number of people who are considering running [for president] who still treat him…

LAS VEGAS — Donald Trump is a polarizing incumbent retread and no longer the outsider change agent who took the Republican Party by storm seven years ago, complicating the former president’s road to the White House in 2024. As Republicans poised to challenge Trump for the presidential nomination prepare to gather in Las Vegas for…

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) is publishing a book about foreign policy one week after the midterm elections, with the subject matter and release date fresh signals of his interest in a 2024 presidential bid. Only the Strong: Reversing the Left’s Plot to Sabotage American Power is due to be released on Nov. 15, one week…