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It's fine that every mother's son or daughter can become president of the United States. But must we have to have so many of them on the stage at once?

The first Democratic candidate forum was a mish-mash of self promotion with little debate, says Jules Witcover.

Witcover: The best or worst is yet to come in the second and third rounds of these DNC show-and-tells of Democratic presidential wannabees in July and August.

On the premise that that one ugly but successful presidential campaign warrants another, Donald Trump offered a reprise of 2016 at his recent kickoff rally.

Jules Witcover: The large field of 2020 Democratic candidates already has been reduced to a sideshow in the showdown between Donald Trump and Joe Biden.

Jules Witcover: Joe Biden is a politician and therefore sensitive to shifting public opinion, even on abortion.

Jules Witcover: The House of Representatives appears on the verge of initiating a formal impeachment process.

Keeping our republican form of government has never been more challenged than it is now under the corrupt and dictatorial regime of Donald Trump.

Candidate debates in primary and caucus states starting next month will give Mr. Biden the chance to show his stuff amid a host of political newcomers aiming at him as the frontrunner.

It's time to retire Jules Witcover, whose commentary does nothing but rehash what we already know.

Jules Witcover: Joe Biden invaded a woman's personal space, but that shouldn't keep him from the 202 race.

As former Vice President Joe Biden edges his way toward declaring his presidential candidacy for 2020, two prospective Democratic challengers have handed him political gifts.

It's no surprise that at age 77 Bernie Sanders is trying again in 2020. But a significant difference this time around is that he will not be alone peddling his message of "revolution" and moving the party further toward liberal or progressive positions.

Starbucks founder Howard Schultz's trial balloon that he may run next year without either major party endorsement is at least realistic insofar as he could not get either one.

In the first days of January 1960, Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts declared his candidacy for president, nearly a year before the actual balloting. This year, at least half a dozen hopefuls have already signed on for what promises to be an exhausting and costly Democratic fight.

All these Democrats vying for the presidential nomination in 2020 will likely be overshadowed in public attention in 2019 by the news media spotlight and attention on Mr. Trump's struggle for political survival in the Oval Office over the remaining two years of his first term.

George H.W. Bush followed his heart and patriotic intentions without bombast, says Jules Witcover.

The last-minute delay in Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court, to allow for an FBI investigation into sexual assault allegations against him, may save the Senate Judiciary Committee from a rerun of the earlier Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill fiasco.

The allegations of sexual assault against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh have generated a revisiting of the 1991 confirmation hearings on Clarence Thomas, who reached the court by overcoming different charges of sexual misconduct raised against him.

The president must have hated all the attention showered on John McCain last week, instead of him, says Jules Witcover.

Separating immigrant families at the border has given Democrats a politically exploitable issue, says Jules Witcover.

Donald Trump may be making the same mistake Richard Nixon did in thinking he can outfox the FBI and DOJ, says Jules Witcover.

This new year may offer a clean slate for the nation to address its problems, says Jules Witcover.

Jules Witcover: Will Joe Biden rescue American politics from its current ugliness?

The Sun's opinion writers have at least one thing in common — a universal disdain for Trump and fellow Republicans

Witcover: In Chicago, Mr. Obama offered the case, to rousing assent, that America has never stopped being great. The change that looms ahead with Donald Trump surely will put the country to that test.

The Electoral College is an outmoded denial of the revered American concept that every eligible citizen's vote counts.

Mike Pence appears poised to join the last three vice presidents as an integral member of the president's administration.

Mr. Trump's invitation to the White House was largely earned by effectively disparaging his host's presidential years as an abysmal economic failure. He did so even though Mr. Obama reduced the nation's unemployment rate from 10 percent to the current 4.9 percent, adding millions of new jobs in that time and bailing out the American automobile industry.

The notion that Inauguration Day will bring a new and more conciliatory Donald defies the imagination, says Jules Witcover.

With their presumptive presidential nominees now in place, the two major political parties face starkly different, and critical, challenges. The Democrats have already taken impressive steps toward internal unity approaching the Hillary Clinton campaign. The Republicans, meanwhile, are deep in disunity over the fallout of Donald Trump's selection and his divisive behavior.

Jules Witcover takes a look at Donald Trump's potential running mates: Messrs. Christie, Kasich and Carson among them.

With tempers flaring in the fight for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton can rejoice as her own campaign glides along in relative tranquillity, says Jules Witcover

Jules Witcover: It's not enough for the president to muse about the society searching itself. While he still has more than a year as the national leader, he needs to stir himself to much firmer actions to bring about a much more nationwide response to this continuing gun violence.

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

Republicans overplayed their hand on Benghazi.

Democratic candidates didn't distinguish themselves in recent debate — despite what Jules Witcover may believe

Joe Biden's accomplishments in the Senate and as Obama's dependable sidekick have shown him to be fit for the presidency, says Jules Witcover.

Newspaper should hire a writer less left-wing and predictable than Jules Witcover

With Hillary Clinton now putting some distance between herself and the Obama foreign policies, Mr. Biden may be the best vice president he can be by defending those policies on the 2016 campaign trail.

Eight years later, Obama's assessment of Clinton as "likable enough" sums up her problems.

Joe Biden should wait to see if the Clinton campaign implodes before running for president, says Jules Witcover.

Much of Bernie Sanders' remarkable public appeal from out of nowhere is a manifestation of opposition to, or least uneasiness about, Hillary Clinton.

The only circumstances that would offer Mr. Biden a non-damaging route to the presidency at this stage would be through constitutional succession in the event of a presidential vacancy, or a collapse of Hillary Clinton's 2016 candidacy under unanticipated circumstances, such as new developments in her email scandal.

The common view is that the American vice presidency is little more than booby prize awarded to achieve balance on the national ticket, and is a dead end to further political ambition.

Recent political developments appear to have given the president a second wind, says Jules Witcover.

In their sorrow over the passing of Beau Biden, his family has demonstrated again the strong ties of familial togetherness that have always characterized the Biden clan, and the spirit of perseverance that more broadly marks the American people in times of personal and national tribulation.

Here's why you don't hear any "two for one" talk anymore about Bill and Hillary.

Martin O'Malley would at least serve as a useful debater against Hillary Clinton in a presidential primary, says Jules Witcover.