Category: 2022 Midterm Elections

Think Tank Wants to Set ‘New Direction’ for Conservatives After Midterms—But Who Funds Them?

As Republicans weave competing narratives over the “red wave” that wasn’t, one relatively new think tank has hit the ground running in an effort to set the agenda for a somewhat stronger GOP. American Compass, a think tank founded in 2020 by former Mitt Romney presidential campaign aide Oren Cass, released on Nov. 9 “New…


Think Tank Wants to Set ‘New Direction’ for Conservatives After Midterms

As Republicans weave competing narratives over the “red wave” that wasn’t, one relatively new think tank has hit the ground running in an effort to set the agenda for a somewhat stronger GOP. American Compass, a think tank founded in 2020 by former Mitt Romney presidential campaign aide Oren Cass, released on Nov. 9 “New…


‘We Have to Fight for Something’: Chip Roy Calls for Bolder Leadership in 118th Congress

Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) demanded that congressional Republicans be bold in their use of power during the 118th Congress as the GOP appears poised to reclaim the House. In an op-ed for The Washington Post titled “Leadership is not a title. It’s an action,” Roy called for his party to use all the tools at…


Attacks on Trump Ignore Key Facts: Ben Weingarten

Ben Weingarten is the deputy editor of RealClearInvestigations, senior contributor to The Federalist, and a fellow of the Claremont Institute. He’s also co-host of the NatCon Squad podcast. Weingarten talked to NTD’s Paul Greaney about the fallout from the midterm elections and the remarkably slow vote counting in Arizona and Nevada. – BUY Jan 6…


PREMIERING NOW: The Election Backlash Against Trump: Ben Weingarten

There’s an attempt to basically hang the midterm elections around the neck of former President Donald Trump by people who loathe him and have wanted to bring him down. Ron DeSantis is a massive, formidable national figure, and is likely going to be a force for years to come. The left and probably a lot…


The Election Backlash Against Trump: Ben Weingarten

There’s an attempt to basically hang the midterm elections around the neck of former President Donald Trump by people who loathe him and have wanted to bring him down. Ron DeSantis is a massive, formidable national figure, and is likely going to be a force for years to come. The left and probably a lot…


Attacks Against Trump are Disingenuous: Ben Weingarten

Ben Weingarten is the deputy editor of RealClearInvestigations, senior contributor to The Federalist, and a fellow of the Claremont Institute. He’s also co-host of the NatCon Squad podcast. Weingarten talked to NTD’s Paul Greaney about the fallout from the midterm elections, and the remarkably slow vote counting in Arizona and Nevada. – BUY Jan 6…


Georgia Runoff Has Ranked-Choice Voting, But It’s Only For A Few

With one election behind them, Georgia voters must immediately prepare for the next—the Senate runoff between incumbent Raphael Warnock and challenger Herschel Walker, neither of whom reached the 50 percent vote the state requires. The runoff will take place on Dec.6. That’s much sooner than the 2020 election’s runoff, nine weeks later, on Jan. 5,…


Michigan Democrats Sweep Races for Statewide Education Posts

From the publicly elected State Board of Education to the boards of trustees of three universities, the Nov. 8 election put Democrats even more firmly in charge of education policy in Michigan. Voters filled every one of the statewide elective education positions on the ballot with a Democrat, despite a robust conservative parental rights movement…


Some Wrong Predictions

Commentary “I was wrong.” That’s how my friend Henry Olsen began his Washington Post column that was written only hours after the polls closed on Tuesday. I’m full of admiration for his candor about this, and for not being vague and offhand about it but spelling out in detail exactly what it was that he…