Ashley Pratte Oates

Nov 8, 2024 | usnews.com | Rick Wilson |Albert Hunt |Ashley Pratte Oates

The temptation at the end of any election cycle is to conduct an autopsy on what the losing candidate did wrong, to find a person or idea to blame. We actually know who to blame in this election, and it’s not Kamala Harris. It’s us. It says something truly damning about the state of America when Donald Trump, a failed and twice-impeached former president, a convicted felon and an avatar of lurid cruelty and obvious venality, wins the White House.

Nov 8, 2024 | usnews.com | Whit Ayres |Ashley Pratte Oates

Did the polls mislead us again? That’s the question many people are asking in the wake of Donald Trump’s decisive Electoral College victory and his likely victory in the popular vote too, which would be the first for a Republican in 20 years. Many Americans, including political operatives on both sides, expected a long night on Tuesday, with a race call potentially delayed for several days, as it was in 2020. Instead, Trump’s victory was pretty clear by midnight Eastern time, if not earlier.

Nov 7, 2024 | usnews.com | Jason D. Greenblatt |Ashley Pratte Oates |Albert Hunt

In the hours since former President Donald Trump won reelection, my phone has been ringing off the hook. Many calls came from counterparts across the Middle East whom I worked with as a Middle East envoy in the first Trump White House. Some were colleagues in Israel and the Gulf Arab states who helped negotiate the Abraham Accords peace deal, which we spearheaded. Others I have worked with since Trump left office. They all, without exception, are looking forward to Trump’s inauguration.

Nov 6, 2024 | usnews.com | Ashley Pratte Oates |Max Burns |Albert Hunt

Donald Trump’s decisive win was a stark rebuke not just to Democrats, but to Never Trump Republicans, a movement that I joined when it began in 2016 before Trump won the GOP nomination. This election, once-powerful, now sidelined Republican politicians like Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger hit the campaign trail for Vice President Kamala Harris, proving that our country and our democracy are more important than any political party.

Jan 25, 2024 | thehill.com | Ashley Pratte Oates

Within the last two days, GOP presidential hopeful former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley has begun to criticize Donald Trump — casting herself as the alternative to his candidacy for Republican voters. However, if she really wanted to be the Trump alternative in this race, she would’ve criticized him from the beginning rather than just two days before the New Hampshire primary.