Author: David Mark

CORAL GABLES, Florida — Political punditry cognoscenti let out a collective gasp when, a month out from Election Day 2024, a top-tier polling outfit showed Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump set to win Florida by 13 points. Sure, Florida had long ago shed its swing-state status, social media posts and cable television comments declared. But…

National Democrats will soon play political defense, since President-elect Donald Trump is returning to the White House, and Republicans are set to hold House and Senate majorities. So, Democrats are looking to the states as a key element of updated “resistance” plans against Trump in his second, nonconsecutive presidential term. November 2025 will feature likely…

Bill Clinton of Arkansas was the nation’s youngest governor after his 1978 election at age 32. Two years later, he was the youngest former governor, having been ousted by voters after a single, two-year term. Clinton long blamed the loss, at least partly, on the top Democrat on the 1980 ballot, President Jimmy Carter, who,…

EXCLUSIVE — A 2018 Tree of Life synagogue’s murder victim’s sons are imploring President Joe Biden not to commute the sentence of the convicted shooter. A recent letter to the president by Anthony Fienberg and Howard Fienberg offers several reasons opposing commutation for Robert Bowers. He was charged with 63 federal crimes, some of which…

MERCED, California — Close House races in the mid-San Joaquin Valley 13th Congressional District are part of the central California landscape on par with the agricultural region’s sprawling farmland. In the final House race of 2024 to be called, on Dec. 3, Rep.-elect Adam Gray (D-CA) beat freshman Rep. John Duarte (R-CA) by 187 votes…

These members of Congress are about to depart their jobs or already have.

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Once again, world events predicted a Donald Trump White House win. In 2016, the United Kingdom’s Brexit vote for the nation to exit the European Union was a harbinger of populist national attitudes espoused by Trump and embraced by many Americans. Trump that year won the presidency in his first bid for public office by…

On the campaign trail, President-elect Donald Trump promised wholesale change for the nation. It will begin even before his Jan. 20 inauguration with complete turnover in Ohio’s Senate delegation. Republican Sen.-elect Bernie Moreno on Nov. 5 beat Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), a populist liberal icon. Brown was first elected to the Senate in 2006 after…

The 118th Congress is drawing bipartisan jeers for its lack of legislative accomplishments. House Democrats, in the minority by a slim margin, routinely pan Republicans for their inability to pass routine government spending bills, aid to Ukraine in its defensive war against Russia, and a range of other proposals. That’s not particularly surprising since it’s…