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Mike Littwin

   

White House acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney speaks with reporters Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019, in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House. (Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian)

Littwin: The impeachment process may not remove Trump, but it might just finish him

The conventional wisdom — which I’ve repeated often enough — is that although the House will now almost certainly impeach Donald Trump, the Senate...
WESTERVILLE, OHIO - OCTOBER 15: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) looks on as South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg speaks during the Democratic Presidential Debate at Otterbein University on October 15, 2019 in Westerville, Ohio. A record 12 presidential hopefuls are participating in the debate hosted by CNN and The New York Times. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Littwin: Dem debates haven’t mattered much so far, and it may be awhile yet...

It was another big debate night, and the key question after it was finally over is whether these debates, particularly one with 12 people...
Photo of Alice Madden from Alice Madden for Senate Facebook page.

Littwin: Big day in Colorado for establishment Dems, the Hick effect and power of...

There were a couple of major stories in Colorado Democratic politics Friday, and, in both cases, old-school Dems easily won the day. They left...

Littwin: Here’s how to look at the impeachment inquiry – as a do-over that...

The House impeachment inquiry has just begun, and it feels like we already know enough to vote to impeach. But here’s one thing everyone...
Sen. Cory Gardner addressing a town hall at Colorado Christian University, August 2017. (Photo by Phil Cherner)

Littwin: Trump is on the ropes and Cory Gardner is apparently off to NYC...

There’s a crazy theory out there that if Democrats do this impeachment thing right and if Trump and team continue to react to this...
WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 27: In this photo illustration, a page of the unclassified memorandum of U.S. President Donald Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky from July 25, 2019 is shown September 27, 2019 in Washington, DC. The White House released on September 25, 2019 a memorandum of the phone call, one day after Speaker of the House Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) announced a formal impeachment inquiry due to a whistleblower complaint regarding the call. (Photo Illustration by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Littwin: Get your fast-moving impeachment news here — today and for months to come

Remember all the Democratic ambivalence about impeachment? Me neither. I know, it was just a week or so ago when it was still going...
WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 24: U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks to the media at the Capitol Building September 24, 2019 in Washington, DC. Pelosi announced a formal impeachment inquiry today after allegations that President Donald Trump sought to pressure the president of Ukraine to investigate leading Democratic presidential contender, former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, which was the subject of a reported whistle-blower complaint that the Trump administration has withheld from Congress. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Littwin: It was Pelosi who took the stage to make the call, but only...

It wasn’t the Russia affair that caught Trump in its web. It was Ukraine. It wasn’t Mueller or Comey as the antagonist. It was an...
Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani of New York speaking at a forum titled “Countering Iran’s Nuclear Terrorist Threats” hosted by the Iranian American Community of Arizona in Phoenix, Arizona on April 25, 2014. (Photo by Gage Skidmore via Flickr:Creative Commons)

Littwin: There has never been a scandal Trump couldn’t survive, but now listen for...

The whistleblower story is not simply a bombshell. It could actually be a game changer, which would be the first in Donald Trump’s tumultuous...
HOUSTON, TEXAS - SEPTEMBER 12: Democratic presidential candidates Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) (L-R), Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), former tech executive Andrew Yang, former Texas congressman Beto O’Rourke, former housing secretary Julian Castro appear on stage before the start of the Democratic Presidential Debate at Texas Southern University's Health and PE Center on September 12, 2019 in Houston, Texas. Ten Democratic presidential hopefuls were chosen from the larger field of candidates to participate in the debate hosted by ABC News in partnership with Univision. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Littwin: History says change is coming in Dem race, but latest debate was a...

The real news from the Houston debate was not Joe Biden’s overpraised performance. He was OK for the first hour, not so much after...
Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders in a more congenial moment. A 'feud' between the two has since erupted.

Littwin: To beat Trump, Dems need a candidate who understands political chaos theory

As you’ve no doubt heard, two of the three leading Democratic primary contenders, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, are both embracing Medicare4All, which some...