Peter Laffin

1 week ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Peter Laffin

Conventional wisdom says the 2028 Republican nomination for president is a lock: Vice President JD Vance will carry the MAGA torch into the GOP’s post-Trump era. The Washington Examiner’s Byron York reported last week that Sen. Jim Banks (R-IN), a longtime advocate of Vance, said that he “will be the nominee in 2028 — mark my words.”He added, “After President Trump, [Vance] is the next best thing.”But declaring Vance the nominee 32 months before the Iowa caucuses is premature.

2 weeks ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Peter Laffin

It’s no secret that political parties rely on a well-worn playbook for their daily operations. Leaders convene, a play is chosen, the ball is snapped. During his weekly presser, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) ran a Democratic staple, the equivalent of a running back dive between the tackles.

3 weeks ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Peter Laffin

It’s impossible not to enjoy seeing legacy news figures scramble to downplay their role in the cover-up of former President Joe Biden’s mental decline. The drama they’d spun and fancied themselves stars in, the one about intrepid journalists beating back the fascists with “facts” and moxie, has been exposed as a fairy tale for all the world to see. To be sure, the legacy media didn’t just miss the story; they wrote the script for Biden’s masquerade.

3 weeks ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Peter Laffin

There’s a preposterous idea circulating the elite political class: former President Joe Biden‘s stubborn refusal to step down cost his party the presidency. “Democrats deceived the country about Biden’s abilities and that’s how Trump won,” George Clooney is quoted as saying in a recent New Yorker article. And in Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s new book on the cover-up of Biden’s mental decline, Democratic strategist David Plouffe echoed Clooney, saying, “It’s all Biden.

3 weeks ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Peter Laffin

Many have accused President Donald Trump of having a “Marie Antoinette” moment last weekend on Meet the Press. “I don’t think that a beautiful baby girl needs to have 30 dolls,” he told host Kristen Welker. “I think they can have three dolls or four dolls because what we were doing with China was just unbelievable.” Trump’s fixation on the ideal number of dolls — he brought the topic up again later that day aboard Air Force One — sparked a flurry of uncomfortable questions.