S.E. Cupp Columns category, Page 3
S.E. Cupp: Trump election victory shows how Harris and Dems failed to reach voters on pocketbook issues
For millions of Americans, Wednesday was a very dark day. An incomprehensible day. A day many thought would never come. I’m deeply disappointed, too. After everything we know about Donald Trump, and everything he’s already put this country through, how is it possible we’re choosing to do this to ourselves...
S.E. Cupp: Will GOP cross the Hitler threshold for Trump?
It’s been 41 years since President Ronald Reagan gave his famous “Evil Empire” speech. It was 1983, the height of the Cold War, and Reagan spoke passionately about the “focus of evil in the modern world” that was the Soviet Union. He rejected arguments of false equivalence between the U.S....
S.E. Cupp: Trump hoodwinks women with false and empty pledges
“You just ban it. The president bans it. You just don’t let it happen. Not a big deal.” That line from former President Donald Trump at a Fox News town hall this week was met with an eruption of applause and cheers from the all-female audience. They were clearly thrilled...
S.E. Cupp: Ignore the election noise; the swing voters are
With less than four weeks until Nov. 5, the inundation of election news — and, more importantly, non-news — is at a fever pitch. From a bombardment of election ads — especially in swing states — to a dramatic parsing of every word out of former President Donald Trump and...
S.E. Cupp: The futility of the Walz/Vance nice guy debate
The reviews are in, and America overwhelmingly approves. Voters and viewers had very positive things to say about the vice presidential debate in New York City on Tuesday night. What was expected to be a contentious sparring match between former President Donald Trump’s running mate Ohio Sen. JD Vance and...
S.E. Cupp: Eric Adams trying out Trump’s playbook
It’s the go-to play nowadays. If you’re a politician collared for alleged crimes, feign indignation, call it a “conspiracy,” blame the “corrupt” Department of Justice and refuse to resign. New York Mayor Eric Adams has been indicted on five federal charges related to 2021 campaign contributions, wire fraud and bribery....
S.E. Cupp: Fear, death threats and Trump’s violent rhetoric
She’s nervous. But she’s got three kids at home, and in this economy, it’s a job, and she needs it. She didn’t know just how dangerous it would be, though. And now, as the big day gets closer and closer, she’s just hoping to survive it. She was prepared for...
S.E. Cupp: Harris tricks Trump into following her script
After months of following the many twists and turns of this presidential election, we’ve all been zooming in on some very particular voters who will ultimately decide who wins in November. It’s the undecided, moderate and independent voters in seven swing states who are going to be the difference between...
S.E. Cupp: A debate that could actually turn the election
Believe it or not, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump will meet next week in Philadelphia — for the first time. That’s right — Harris, who entered the U.S. Senate at the same time that Trump entered the White House, who had breakout moments during her cross-examination...
S.E. Cupp: Glitchy streams, migrant memes and stupid themes — Trump’s playbook is a mess
On Monday afternoon, former President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, was on Fox Business discussing the state of Trump’s campaign with former Trump adviser Larry Kudlow. Conway was pointed in criticizing Trump’s attacks on Vice President Kamala Harris, which have centered on everything from her intelligence to her...
S.E. Cupp: Is Harris Walzing her way into the White House?
It’s likely many people turned on their television sets or scrolled through social media on Tuesday morning and said, “Who?” Tim Walz, the second-term governor of Minnesota who burst onto the scene over the past few weeks while campaigning for Vice President Kamala Harris, has officially become her running mate....
S.E. Cupp: It fits well. All the president’s men …are weird.
“Weird.” It’s the new Democratic talking point being used to describe former President Donald Trump and his newly minted running mate, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance. It was first used by Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz in the wake of newly surfaced Vance videos in which he calls Democrats “childless cat ladies”...
S.E. Cupp: Trump campaign’s panic at the disco with Harris
After what was, by all accounts, a resoundingly successful Republican National Convention, the party appears to be over for former President Donald Trump and the GOP. The weeks leading up to the RNC were good for Republicans. Very good. President Biden had suffered through an agonizing and, some would say,...
S.E. Cupp: Trump wants to win. And that should scare Biden.
In many ways, the selection of Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance as former President Donald Trump’s running mate is odd and seemingly impolitic. After all, Vance is another white guy from a state Trump won twice and is sure to win again — hardly a value-add. He’s brash and often unlikeable....
S.E. Cupp: Democrats, Republicans and the death of common sense — we’re stuck with Biden and Trump
Common sense. We all know what it means, but common as it is, definitions and ideas of it have changed over centuries. Aristotle connected common sense directly to the senses, and the ways in which we use different tastes, colors, feelings, smells and sounds to collectively perceive and categorize things....
S.E. Cupp: Biden’s poor debate was so infuriating
This last week of June 2024 will go down in history as one of the most consequential in American politics. June 27, in particular will go down as one of the most consequential debates in American elections — perhaps even more so than Nixon/Kennedy, or Lincoln/Douglas. That’s because the CNN...
S.E. Cupp: Biden replacement theory — fact or fever dream?
The presidential election is less than five months away, and the Democratic National Convention that will officially nominate sitting President Biden is exactly two months away. You’d think by now, and with these events fast-approaching, we’d have finally moved through the stages of grief to acceptance that Joe Biden, for...
S.E. Cupp: The ripple effect of overturning Roe v. Wade
It’s nearly two years since the conservative Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the decision that had protected access to abortion for nearly 50 years, sparking a seismic series of events in American political history. And if overturning Roe was indeed an earthquake, the aftershocks have been never-ending, although a...
S.E. Cupp: Money can’t buy me love…or an election campaign
In June 2015, Donald Trump announced he was running for president and made several eye-opening promises. Among them, that he’d be “the greatest jobs president that God ever created.” (He left the White House in 2020 with the worst jobs record since Herbert Hoover.) Another, that he’d build a border...
S.E. Cupp: De Niro isn’t the voice voters should hear from
According to the most recent polls, former President Donald Trump is leading President Biden, despite facing several criminal indictments and regularly reminding many of his detractors why they’d voted him out — chaos follows him everywhere. Trump’s lead is in fact growing, and importantly he’s beating Biden in five key...
S.E. Cupp: Does Trump really have any policy on abortion?
The day was Aug. 18, 1988. New Orleans. President Ronald Reagan’s vice president, George H.W. Bush took the stage at the Republican National Convention to accept the nomination for president. He’d been lagging in the polls behind Massachusetts Gov. Mike Dukakis, and Jack Kemp suggested an idea that could save...
S.E. Cupp: Biden attacking polls and press isn’t how to win
Denial is a river in Egypt, as the saying goes. Well, it’s also making itself quite at home at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. President Biden is trailing former President Donald Trump in five swing states, all of which Biden won in 2020, according to a new set of polls. While these...
S.E. Cupp: Trump’s biggest albatross is Nikki, not Stormy
Donald Trump has a woman problem. That sounds like an obvious statement about the thrice married former president who is currently defending himself against charges he paid off a porn star he slept with just months after his wife gave birth to their son. But Stormy Daniels — said porn...
S.E. Cupp: Violent campus protests are not about freedom
There’s a grand and important tradition of anti-war protest in America. And, when peaceful, these can be a useful and impactful mechanism to advocate for change. Sadly, what’s happening on our college campuses right now is making a mockery of that grand tradition and civil right. Over the past few...
S.E. Cupp: The GOP is actually relieved Trump is on trial
Imagine your party’s presumptive nominee for president is about to stand trial for paying off a porn star he allegedly slept with just months after his wife gave birth to their son. The allegations alone are seedy enough. Then throw in witnesses like the unfortunately named former National Enquirer publisher...
