This was a marriage gap election, not a gender gap election

November 07, 2024

This was a marriage gap election, not a gender gap election

In the weeks and months leading up to Tuesday’s election, much has been made of the growing gender gap between men and women. Except, now that we have the election results, it appears that the gender gap actually shrunk. In 2020, President Joe Biden won women by a 15-point margin, 57% to 42%. This year, […]

Abortion failed to capture voter spirit

It turns out that a national death campaign does not win much of the electorate. Vice President Kamala Harris learned this lesson in an election night loss to President-elect Donald Trump. Trump, meanwhile, saw smooth victory as he led in every swing state and safe red states, and made serious gains in commonly Democratic states […]

In her concession, Harris struck a near-perfect tone

Making a political concession speech is a difficult, emotionally fraught task. In Vice President Kamala Harris‘s concession remarks Wednesday afternoon, she ably upheld the civic imperatives of the moment. Let’s not parse every word to identify phrases from Harris that critics believe are disingenuous. Sometimes the cause of statesmanship requires a sort of civically lofty […]

The red wave delayed

At long last, the vaunted “red wave” that eluded the Republican Party two years ago washed over the United States and carried President-elect Donald Trump back to the White House and likely with it a Republican-controlled Congress. Two years ago, Republicans stood at their election night watch parties in disbelief as the sizable House and […]

Trump’s stunning blow

By noon on Election Day, the Washington Examiner had two editorials ready to publish once the voters’ choice for president was revealed some hours later. Both assumed that former President Donald Trump would win, which is what we expected. The first examined Trump’s comeback, the most astonishing in America’s political history, from indictments, impeachments, and […]

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Will Trump negotiate a Ukraine peace or see Putin neuter him and Ukraine?

For reasons of culture and history, Russians respect strength. They despise weakness and enjoy devouring those who offer it. President-elect Donald Trump prizes himself as an artist of effective negotiation. Trump’s negotiations delivered some dividends in his first term. The former president transitioned U.S.-North Korean relations from the precipice of war to an eccentric but […]

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