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Useful legislative steps are being taken to ensure election integrity, but the reality is that the GOP needs to increase ballot harvesting.Joe Biden has announced he will seek reelection as president. This comes as he is experiencing the lowest approval ratings of his presidency — 37 percent, according to Gallup. Former President Donald Trump or Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will almost certainly be the GOP nominee. The blunt reality, however, is that regardless of who the GOP puts up against Biden, they will lose if the party isn’t prepared to get down in the mud and beat the Democratic National...

A group of economic conservatives were discussing the state of the world. They were a pretty unhappy lot. The conventional wisdom (which is often wrong) when George Bush ran for president in 2000 was that he would please fiscal conservatives. It was social conservatives whom Bush would displease. At heart, it was understood that Bush was a pretty orthodox Republican, which meant everything he did would serve the cause of the economy. He was expected to run for cover when it came to those dreadful values issues. Well, guess what? While social issue conservatives are not jumping up and down...