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Mike Pence's pointless candidacy |
Mike Pence has launched a pointless bid for the White House, writes political strategist Keith Naughton. "His candidacy reveals more about the Republican Party and its weak leadership than anything about the ex-vice president." Pence once had an opening, but it was long ago. |
"In the aftermath of Trump's second impeachment and the downturn in his favorability among Republicans, Pence was better placed than any other Republican to become the alternative to Trump for 2024." But at that critical point, writes Naughton, "Pence was too cowed to enter into combat against the man who stabbed him in the back. When the heat was turned up, Pence wilted." The result: "Pence has no constituency and nothing to say. He is running on fumes." And while Pence was playing a "more vacillating version of Hamlet," he was passed by better Republican alternatives to Trump, namely Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley. Ultimately, writes Naughton, "Jan. 6 might not be the most humiliating deed Trump does to his erstwhile loyal vice president." Read the op-ed at TheHill.com. |
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By Becket Adams, program director for the National Journalism Center |
The new guy will always be worse than the last guy, regardless of what the new guy believes or supports. And nowhere is this cliché more obvious than in the political commentary surrounding the rise of Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.), including his entry last week into the 2024 Republican presidential primary. | | |
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Both SpaceX and NASA are developing two initiatives that, if put together, would make for a pretty robust mission to Mars. The SpaceX Starship could move 180 metric tons to the Martian surface. If the Starship is combined with a nuclear engine, it could do so in a matter of weeks and not the months that a conventional rocket would require. |
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By Mick Mulvaney, former U.S. congressman |
The left could be correct. Maybe they were just premature in all of their predictions of McCarthy's imminent demise. Maybe they will be proven right in the long run. There is another possibility, however: McCarthy might just be pretty good at his job. |
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By Brahma Chellaney, geostrategist and author |
The longer the Ukraine war continues to distract the United States from the growing challenges in the Indo-Pacific region, the greater the risk of a Chinese attempt to throttle Taiwan through an informal blockade. |
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