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Jules Witcover: George W. Bush should stand up to the president and restore respectability to the Republican Party.

The president defied political temptation and did the right thing in North Korea, says Jonah Goldberg.

The president of a Washington think tank says he’s been pushing Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan for weeks to explore a Republican primary challenge to President Donald Trump in 2020. Niskanen Center founder Jerry Taylor says he’s been encouraging Hogan to run - and the governor hasn't said, "No."

By Luke Broadwater

Jan 18, 2019

Maryland’s two-term Republican Gov. Larry Hogan urged a different direction for the GOP after taking the oath of office for another four years. Hogan had Jeb Bush introduce him and praised the traditional wing of the Republican Party, while condemning dysfunction in Washington.

Gov. Larry Hogan made an inauguration blunder by inviting the divisive former Florida governor Jeb Bush to deliver a speech in front of many Marylanders who will likely detest Mr. Bush’s politics.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush will travel to Annapolis to serve as the featured speaker at Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s inauguration Wednesday — a move that will put two favorites of anti-Trump Republicans on stage together.

By Luke Broadwater

Jan 15, 2019

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush will be the featured speaker at Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s inauguration Wednesday, according to Hogan’s office.

By Luke Broadwater

Jan 14, 2019

To the end, George Herbert Walker Bush was faithful to his own best qualities, says Jules Witcover.

There's no master plan to the Trump presidency, only anarchy and narcissism.

Publication of Hillary Clinton’s book “What Happened?” has reignited debate over why and how Donald Trump managed to win the 2016 election. But his win was inevitable.

The Trump agenda and presidency are at stake, along with the future of the Grand Old Party, says Jules Witcover.

By Jules Witcover

Sep 15, 2017

Former Maryland Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend said in a social media post on Monday that former President George H. W. Bush told her he is planning to

By John Fritze

Sep 20, 2016

The Bush family should say their peace and then get behind Donald Trump

The absence of old-time party leadership is painfully evident in the GOP, says Jules Witcover.

Not sufficiently humiliated by his collapse as the early Republican presidential front runner, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has endorsed Texas Sen. Ted Cruz in an attempt to deny the nomination to Donald Trump.

By Jules Witcover

Mar 28, 2016

For all his glaring faults — and there are many — the Trump candidacy is succeeding where the establishment fails in great part due to the fact that he is certainly not offering the prospect of more of the same. We have seen how the establishment has governed when given the chance, and few voters want to go back there.

Could a unity ticket, a la Reagan-Bush in 1980, in the form of Los Hermanos Cubanos, with Marco Rubio at the top and Ted Cruz as V.P., defeat Trump?

Jeb Bush made himself a sacrificial lamb to save the Republican Party from Donald Trump, says Jules Witcover.

Whatever the political fates of Messrs. Trump and Sanders, the anti-establishment rebellion will continue.

March will tell us who the likely nominees are for both parties. There are 30 contests in March. By March 15 Republicans will know if Trump is their likely nominee and new party leader. And by then, Democrats will know who they must rally behind to win in November.

Bush's bow-out was unsurprising, but it still leaves the presidential field with a much shorter supply of compassion, experience and decorum.

The gravity of foreign threats to the U.S. has yet to enter into the presidential contest in a serious way.

Convincing victories by political outsiders in New Hampshire demonstrate without doubt that most voters are disgusted with both political parties. The electorate will probably make one of them — more likely Donald Trump — the next commander in chief.

Jules Witcover: The gloves are off between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz now that actual voting is about to begin.

Almost everywhere you look, the super-rich are being stymied by democracy, says Jonah Goldberg.

Now that the election year is here, it's still unclear who or what will stop the Trump phenomenon, says Jules Witcover.

Jules Witcover asks whether Jeb Bush a sacrificial lamb, trying to take down Donald Trump for his party.

Donald Trump is uncontested choice for provocateur of the year, says David Horsey.

Want a president who will work for you? Don't elect one of the usual suspects

CNN did a couple of things much better this time around than it did in its September Republican debate. As a result, it was, by and large, a more informative telecast for viewers.

By David Zurawik

Dec 16, 2015

Jeb Bush has the challenge of projecting himself as the tried-and-true adult in the pack of GOP candidates.

For years, Americans and U.S. policymakers have made punching bags of France, says John Kass.

Have lessons of history and intolerance been forgotten by Hogan and others in the GOP?

The infamously self-promoting David Brock, a professional character assassin who shills for Hillary, has called on Jeb Bush to take him on in a battle of emails, in response to Mr. Bush's recent publication of an ebook. It would be laughable if it weren't so preposterous. It makes one wonder why Hillary Clinton would have such a smarmy hack representing her campaign, even indirectly.

By Jules Witcover

Nov 9, 2015

Strategic patience is a difficult and valuable quality in an era of ever-shrinking news cycles and 24/7 social media carping. The temptation to react instantly to every controversy is hard to resist. So far, Cruz and Rubio have been the Kutuzovs of the race, while Jeb Bush and Donald Trump look an awful lot like the Napoleons.

There's an old adage in the newspaper business: Never pick a fight with a man who buys ink by the barrel. The Republican presidential debaters in Colorado the other night openly and vigorously ignored it in their desire to tap into the public unpopularity of the folks who bring you the news, in print or on television and the Internet.

By Jules Witcover

Nov 2, 2015

This week in politics: Rubio is up, Bush and Trump are down, and Chris Christie cannot be contained (in volume, anyway).

For a party that's obsessed with ever-increasing estimates of the national debt, Republicans sure are willing to punch big holes in the budget with radical tax cutting plans.

The Bush name and the Iraq war have become politically toxic in the presidential race, says Jules Witcover.

Laying blame for 9/11 on George W. Bush is misguided — and much like blaming Hillary Clinton for Benghazi attacks

To say "stuff happens" about a mass shooting is to suggest that mass shootings are somehow inevitable and unavoidable. But that is simply not true. This "stuff" doesn't happen everywhere -- not with the numbing frequency it does here.

Having thoroughly intimidated the rest of the Republican Party's 2016 presidential field and won a goodly number of its voters' hearts with his tough-guy persona, Donald Trump has decided to tackle their minds.

By Jules Witcover

Oct 5, 2015

WASHINGTON -- Pope Francis will arrive in the United States on Tuesday amid raging partisan debates in Congress over abortion, immigration and climate change, giving him an extraordinary platform from which to influence -- and roil -- lawmakers of both parties.

By John Fritze

Sep 21, 2015

Trump, Bush and Obama have something in common — opposition to tax loophole that benefits hedge fund managers — so why is it so hard to kill?

CNN's GOP debate Wednesday night had some very good moments. And I definitely came away with a better sense of some candidates than I had when the event started - especially Carly Fiorina.

By David Zurawik

Sep 16, 2015

And then, there's Martin O'Malley in late, late night with Seth Meyers getting about eight minutes of network time around 1:15 a.m. Wednesday.

By David Zurawik

Sep 16, 2015

As late-night hosts interview candidates, cable shows let Trump call the shots

By David Zurawik

Sep 12, 2015