by Jim Heath | Dec 22, 2018 | 2020, Democrats, Headlines, Trump
President Trump is no fan of Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s youth and vigor, and yesterday wondered aloud during an exchange with reporters why the Texas Democrat has been suggested as a potential 2020 presidential candidate even though he fell short in his Senate bid...
by Jim Heath | Dec 19, 2018 | 2020, Headlines
Gov. John Kasich (R-Ohio) moved his social conservative record more closely to the center today, vetoing a controversial “heartbeat” abortion bill that he once said he supported. The “heartbeat bill” would have essentially outlawed abortion in Ohio and has...
by Jim Heath | Dec 18, 2018 | 2020, Headlines
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey is appointing Republican Rep. Martha McSally to the Senate, despite her loss to Democrat Kyrsten Sinema for Arizona’s other senate seat last month. Regular readers of JimHeath.TV read about this likely scenario first, when we predicted it...
by Jim Heath | Nov 25, 2018 | 2020, Headlines
Ohio Gov. John Kasich, a fierce critic of President Trump who challenged him for the Republican nomination in 2016, is thinking “very seriously” about another run for president in 2020. With the nation so bitterly divided, Kasich, 66, said he would...
by Jim Heath | Nov 19, 2018 | 2020, Headlines
There is a very real scenario playing out in Arizona that would find Rep. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) and Rep. Martha McSally (R-AZ) both in the U.S. Senate come January. Sinema defeated McSally this month for the seat of retiring Sen. Jeff Flake, but as we reported here on...
by Jim Heath | Nov 18, 2018 | 2020, Headlines
Donald Trump has never been known to do much for charity, but his longtime nemesis, former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, is donating $1.8 billion to Johns Hopkins University in an effort to financially support low and middle-income families. The gift,...