Cards on the table: all day long, I’ve thought that Donald Trump looks weak and petty walking away from the Fox debate over Megyn Kelly. But tonight, I’m thinking this guy is a strategic genius. Here’s why.
Michael Crowley reports on Hillary Clinton’s attempt to obscure her hawkish foreign policy record:
As she makes a closing pitch that emphasizes her foreign policy chops, Clinton tends to gloss over the more hawkish episodes from her past. Asked by an Iowa voter at Monday’s forum to place her interventionist instincts on a scale of 1 to 10, for instance, Clinton offered a long riff on her Iran and Gaza efforts.
Finally, Clinton came to the original frame of the question: “I want to make sure I stay as close as possible to non-intervention.”
Four years ago, Newt Gingrich led national polls of Republican voters, nearly 28 percent of whom indicated they supported the former House speaker. Mitt Romney was close behind at 24 percent, however, and in Iowa polls of prospective caucus-goers suggested that Ron Paul might beat them both—Paul getting 22 percent, Romney 21 percent, Gingrich 14 percent.
This morning, I was on CNN’s “New Day” with Alisyn Camerota talking about Donald Trump’s chances to “run the table.” You can see a slightly truncated clip of the interview here.
Where the clip cuts off, I was saying that in this cycle, it feels like Republican voters seem much more interested in someone who stands against the existing GOP power structure than in ideological litmus tests.
Submitted by Patrick Buchanan via Buchanan.org,
Three weeks out from the Iowa caucuses, and clarity emerges.
Hillary Clinton, the likely Democratic nominee, is in trouble.
Polls show her slightly ahead of socialist Bernie Sanders in Iowa, but narrowly behind in New Hampshire. And the weekend brought new revelations about yet more classified and secret documents sent over her private email server when she was secretary of state.