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S.E. Cupp: Can Paul Ryan save what’s left of conservatism?
“Toxic sludge, racism, disinformation and attacks on democracy.” This is how Charlie Sykes, a conservative commentator and editor of The Bulwark, recently described the Fox News diet to his longtime friend — and Fox News board member — former House Speaker Paul Ryan. It was a stunning interview between two...
S.E. Cupp: In Nikki Haley, Trump gets first real challenger for nomination
Nearly three months after former President Donald Trump announced he was running again for president, he has his first major competitor (with apologies to Steve Laffey) in former South Carolina Gov. and United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley. In her video announcement Tuesday, Haley boasted of the need for “generational change,”...
S.E. Cupp: Biden plays the nice guy with rowdy, rude House
If you tuned in to Tuesday night’s State of the Union address, Joe Biden’s third as president, it felt at times like we were watching the shouting matches typical of the United Kingdom’s Parliament more than it did a speech to the United States Congress. The unrulier members of the...
S.E. Cupp: Moving on from Trump and his voters
“Press them hard enough, and most Republican officials … will privately admit that Donald Trump has become a problem,” writes McKay Coppins in a new Atlantic piece. “Aside from his most blinkered loyalists, virtually everyone in the party agrees: It’s time to move on from Trump.” I don’t doubt that’s...
S.E. Cupp: Republican liars go far beyond George Santos
“Honesty is such a lonely word.” As the great Billy Joel once sang, “Everyone is so untrue.” That could be the anthem for this modern era, when liars and lying are not only tolerated, but rewarded for their artful deception. Now comically synonymous with the countless lies that he’s told...
S.E. Cupp: GOP — rotting fish or bag of rotten apples?
As the ancient proverb goes, the fish rots from the head. The expression’s been used by countless leaders in business to describe the way a bad CEO can hamper productivity downstream, or to explain how corruption can infect an organization. Of course, it’s also been used by law enforcement to...
S.E. Cupp: The crazed anti-vaxxers keep going ever lower
Céline Gounder was reeling. Her husband of 21 years, Grant Wahl, had died suddenly while covering the World Cup in Qatar. Despite a disorienting and painful flurry of initial speculation and conspiracies, Gounder waited to learn from doctors and experts what had killed Grant. But as she did, in the...
S.E. Cupp: Kevin McCarthy got the GOP conference he deserves
Poor Kevin. The Bakersfield, Calif., native who, by all accounts, came to Washington 16 years ago with the sole intent of becoming speaker of the House one day faced an embarrassing defeat this week when he failed — three times — to win the nomination by his own party. There’s...
S.E. Cupp: The year ahead and what people resolve to do
While covid-19 thankfully waned in the U.S. and many of us felt a slow return to normalcy, 2022 was still an eventful year. From Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, to the death of Queen Elizabeth, the overturning of Roe v. Wade to midterm elections, the rise in inflation to the collapse...
S.E. Cupp: Mike Pence is a man without a prayer of winning
“We’re giving it consideration in our house — prayerful consideration.” That was former Vice President Mike Pence, telling ABC News last month that he’s contemplating a run against his former boss and the only entry in the 2024 presidential election thus far, Donald Trump, a man he served dutifully for...
S.E. Cupp: Candace Owens is infected with viral MAGA fever
Despite all her tough talk on social media and podcasts, her hackneyed attacks on liberal snowflakes and cancel culture, and her daddy-issues affection for dictatorial strong men like Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Owens is seemingly afraid of lots of odd things no one should really...
S.E. Cupp: GOP pols accepted Trump’s Constitution contempt
“Disqualifying” and “un-American,” says John Bolton, the former national security advisor to former President Donald Trump. Trump is “spinning out of control,” says conservative Fox News contributor Marc Thiessen. “I’m at a loss for words — we need to move on,” says Sen. John Cornyn, who voted twice to acquit...
S.E. Cupp: Getting the vapors over the Trump-Ye-Fuentes dinner
While it’s nearly impossible to think of a headline that Donald J. Trump didn’t relish, no matter the scandalous implications, he might just be getting sick of the never-ending loop of stories on his now-infamous dinner with rabid antisemite Kanye West and noted white supremacist Nick Fuentes. It was a...
S.E. Cupp: Has Donald Trump finally become boring?
In case you missed it — and it’s likely you did — former President Trump announced Tuesday night he is running for president a third time. Maybe you were watching “Shark Tank,” “Bachelor in Paradise” or the premiere of “The Curse of Oak Island.” But even if you were watching...
S.E. Cupp: Trump the midterm’s biggest loser
Welp, it wasn’t the red wave that many Republicans promised it would be. If not for a certain former guy, it could have been. All of the momentum was with Republicans. There was the historically reliable truism that the party in charge — in this case, the Democrats — is...
S.E. Cupp: Wringing our hands in this age of political rage
As Paul Pelosi laid in a hospital bed in San Francisco, recovering from a horrific attack in his home by a conspiracy-obsessed, pro-nudist drug addict who wanted to break Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s kneecaps, former President Barack Obama was in Detroit begging for “civility.” Heckled by a pair...
S.E. Cupp: The most important midterms of our lifetimes
That trite and maybe infuriating maxim is one thing I keep telling people who want me to predict who will win the midterm elections and why. We can all look at polling that attempts to tell us what the drivers of voter turnout will be. Some say the economy is...
S.E. Cupp: Kanye West, Tommy Tuberville and Herschel Walker GOP problems
In August, the residents of Nassau County woke up to find ominous flyers outside of their homes. They were aimed at Long Island’s Jewish community. “Every single aspect of the media is Jewish,” it blared across the top. “Every single aspect of gun control is Jewish,” it continued. “This is...
S.E. Cupp: Herschel Walker’s son Christian is all of us
“I’m done! DONE! Everything has been a lie!” The frustration was both palpable and relatable. Who among us hasn’t felt this way — maybe even said this very thing — at one time or another, utterly exhausted by a friend, family member or colleague who perpetually lies and gaslights and...
S.E. Cupp: Empty offices as housing could save cities across U.S.
As any New Yorker can easily remember, Midtown — the Manhattan neighborhood stretching from 34th Street to 59th Street and from Third Avenue to Eighth Avenue — was once a bustling beehive of corporate activity and commerce. On a typical weekday, between the hours of 7 a.m. and 8 p.m.,...
S.E. Cupp: Right-wing nationalism comes to … Sweden?
As we look ahead to midterm elections, where election deniers are on the ballot in 27 states, it’s still mind-blowing to consider how we got here in just a few years. And the answer, most bluntly, is a rise in right-wing nationalism. After lying dormant for some time, the contours...
S.E. Cupp: Pity the poor, wounded MAGA Republicans
Over the past week, it’s safe to say we’ve all shed a tear or two, maybe even said a prayer, and quietly reflected on the tremendous loss the world collectively experienced last week. For many that’s because of the historic and solemn events unfolding in the United Kingdom. But I’m...
S.E. Cupp: Republican Party is nominating losers
In 1950, the late UCLA Bruins football coach Red Sanders entered the forever zeitgeist when he told his men, “Winning isn’t everything. It’s the only thing.” The quote has endured as a testament to competitive drive and ambition, both in sports and life. And nowhere is winning more important than...
S.E. Cupp: The Democrats’ real November abortion advantage
With just a little more than two months to go before the 2022 midterm elections, one issue is emerging as a top turnout driver. And if Democrats do the historically unimaginable in November, staving off what was predicted to be an off-year Republican bloodbath, we can likely trace the root...
S.E. Cupp: Biden should speak fully on his plans to run in 2024 or not
“The president has said he’s planning on running again. People should take him at his word.” That was Anita Dunn, a top adviser to President Biden, sounding very confident in her insistence Biden will seek a second term — and almost indignant that the question is being raised at all....
