Free Republic

President-elect Donald Trump will hold a rally in Washington, D.C., on Sunday, January 19 — one day before he is sworn into office for his second term.Trump’s inauguration committee announced on Wednesday that the “Make America Great Again Victory Rally” will be held at Capital One Arena, which can seat around 20,000 people, beginning at 3:00 p.m. ET, CBS News reported. The incoming president is slated to speak at the event along with a list of other speakers who have not been revealed, according to The Hill. Trump hasn’t held a rally in D.C. since January 6, 2021, when he...

Washington -- Democrats are closing in on a Senate royal flush. Although still a long shot, they have raised their goal to a magic and rare 60 members, a filibuster-proof majority of enormous significance. Depending on how things break Nov. 4 in a handful of states, Democrats could move from a tenuous Senate majority to that filibuster-proof margin for the first time in three decades. Republicans haven't had such a margin since 1911. If Democrats also keep their House majority, which is all but certain, and win the presidency, they would wield power unrivaled in Washington since Democratic President Lyndon...

A little shudder went through me every time they said it. "President Obama's first priority will be this," they would begin. Or, "The Obama administration will find that?" Travelling in the United States last week, I lost count of the pundits, experts and Democratic insiders I heard speak with such confidence. And each time they did, I felt the urge to mutter: "Presuming he wins." Call it superstition, but it's one rooted in years of unhappy experience. After the British general election of 1992, or the Al Gore and John Kerry defeats of 2000 and 2004, the centre-left has surely...