Chris Cillizza
Thank you for your attention to this matter! Chris Cillizza Nov 03, 2025 One year to the day of Donald Trump suing CBS News for an utterly specious claim that the network deceptively edited an interview with Kamala Harris, the president sat down with anchor Norah O’Donnell for a 90(!)-minute interview over the weekend. While…
Come on man! Chris Cillizza. October 9th After Democrats lost the White House last November, the party commissioned an autopsy to figure out what, exactly, went wrong. Led by Paul Rivera, a longtime Democratic party operative, and run in conjunction with the Democratic National Committee, the effort began in March. It appears to be mostly…
Ranked! Chris Cillizza. Oct 08, 2025 With summer slowly but surely turning into fall here in DC — tomorrow’s high is 64 degrees! — the landscape on which the fight for the Senate majority will be fought is coming into much clearer focus. Democrats look likely to land a HUGE recruiting victory as soon as next week with term-limited…
Thank you for your attention to this matter! Chris Cillizza. Oct 07, 2025 I flew west — California! — on Monday. It’s a long flight. But, United has Direct TV! So I got to watch President Donald Trump’s press conference about his latest executive order: Approving a 200+ mile road in Alaska that should allow access to a…
It’s happening Chris Cillizza Oct 01, 2025 Unlike the 2028 race for the Democratic presidential nomination, which is already happening in plain sight, the battle to succeed Donald Trump as the GOP nominee in three years time is a much more delicate dance. That’s because Trump himself continues to toy with the notion — or at least…
| Chris Cillizza Sep 24, 2025 Republicans in Washington are sounding the alarm over a move that could force the release of the Department of Justice’s files on Jeffrey Epstein. Kentucky Rep. Tom Massie says he now has the magic number — 218 votes — thanks to support from every Democrat plus a small group…
A decade of Donald. Chris Cillizza Jun 16 Ten years ago today, this happened: No one — and that absolutely includes Donald Trump — could have seen what the next ten years would hold. Two presidential victories. Two impeachments. Two assassination attempts. One global pandemic. One riot at the U.S. Capitol. Not to mention a total…
1. Rafael Edward Cruz, explained (Ted Cruz/ Getty Images/ Kevin Diestch) I still remember the day Ted Cruz took a real stand. It was the third night of the 2016 Republican National Convention. Cruz, who had finished as the runner-up to Donald Trump for the presidential nomination, was given a primetime speaking slot — under…
Here We Go!! Chris Cillizza Jul 16 (Image generated by CHatGPT) Last week, I ranked the 10 Democrats with the best chance — as of today! — of winning the 2028 presidential nomination. Today I take on the Republicans’ 2028 field. The first thing to note is that the 2028 GOP race is not nearly as advanced as the…
By Chris Cillizza July 9 (AG Pam Bondi, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and President Donald Trump/ Getty Images/ Andrew Harnik) President Donald Trump gathered his Cabinet together on Tuesday for a suck-up fest update on how things are going in his administration. It was weird. Because these public Cabinet meetings are more performance than policy. It’s…