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OP-ED: For Trump, character matters

Leaving aside all the sometimes legitimate and sometimes illegitimate responses from defenders of former President Donald Trump following his indictment by a New York grand jury, there is something that would have made all the difference for the 45th president had he focused on it as his top ...

OP-ED: Donald Trump is a desperate front-runner

Social media exposes all of us, but perhaps none more so than the former president of the United States.Donald Trump’s Truth Social account is a daily advertisement for a sense of political desperation seemingly at odds with his position in a Republican field he currently dominates.Trump, by ...

OP-ED: Being a onetime Reagan Republican could be a plus for DeSantis

Presumably, Donald Trump will never produce the dark secrets promised about Ron DeSantis’ past. But his team thinks it already has one — the Florida governor once was a Reagan Republican.“There’s a pre-Trump Ron and there’s a post-Trump Ron,” someone in the Trump camp told Axios. ...

OP-ED: Three leaders, one way to win

This time eight years ago, voters thought they knew what to expect. The 2016 election would be a rematch between the two dynasties that had defined Republican and Democratic politics since the 1990s. Jeb Bush was the presumptive front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination. Hillary Clinton ...

OP-ED: Biden and Trump want a rematch, even if Americans do not

America may not want a Trump-Biden rematch, but Donald Trump and Joe Biden sure do.A CNN poll late last year showed that 6 in 10 Republicans and Republican-leaning independents want a different GOP nominee in 2024, and a roughly similar proportion of Democrats hope for a nominee other than ...