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Jennifer Harper

Jennifer Harper

jharper@washingtontimes.com

Jennifer Harper wrote the daily Inside the Beltway column for The Washington Times.

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Eighty-one million people tuned into the1980 presidential candidate debate between Ronald Reagan and then-President Jimmy Carter. (Ronald Reagan Presidential Library)

Donald Trump could ‘pull a Reagan’ at presidential debate

The moderators and venues have been chosen, the dates set. The officially sanctioned presidential debates are now on radar, the first only 18 days away. NBC's Lester Holt will take the stage at a New York university and steer nominees Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump through six separate encounters with one another, each lasting 15 minutes, with the candidates given two minutes or less to respond.

September 7, 2016
Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson has received only 33 seconds worth of coverage on prime-time network news shows. (gary johnson)

Gary Johnson receives virtually no coverage on network news

Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson has complained in recent days that he gets very limited coverage in the mainstream media compared to the big names in the 2016 race. Mr. Johnson appears to be 100 percent right. There is a virtual broadcast black-out on the candidate.

September 6, 2016
Conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly appears at a Donald Trump rally in Missouri earlier this year. (associated press)

Phyllis Schlafly sees Donald Trump conservative revolution

Arriving Tuesday: "The Conservative Case for Trump," by constitutional lawyer and Eagle Forum founder Phyllis Schlafly and co-authors Ed Martin and Brett Decker. The trio have declared that "a surprising conservative choice" for president is none other than GOP nominee Donald Trump. Both Newt Gingrich and Laura Ingraham give the work a thumbs up.

September 4, 2016
Donald Trump holds up a copy of his 1987 best-seller "The Art of the Deal" at a New Hampshire rally to emphasize his business talents. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Donald Trump fine tunes the presidential art of the deal

Donald Trump's prowess as a reality TV star has been an asset on a campaign trail complete with drama, curtain calls and a huge audience. He's also picked up a new skill -- knowing when to turn off the popular charisma and assume a presidential posture when appropriate, an ability which flummoxes the press and delights his fans.

September 1, 2016
Voters wait in line to cast their ballot in Arizona's presidential primary election earlier this year. (Associated Press)

Voters now view presidential election as ‘battle between good and evil’

As a cultural indicator, the 2016 presidential election appears to have gone far beyond partisan politics and political theater. It is now perceived by many American voters as "a battle between good and evil," this according to William Jordan, elections analyst for YouGov polls. The pollster recently asked a large group of voters to reveal their sentiments on Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

August 31, 2016
The immigration policy section of GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump's website reads "a nation without borders is not a nation." (Associated Press)

Donald Trump’s immigration policy attacked by the media

The news media's appetite for Donald Trump's immigration policy has been building up for days. New organizations are hungry and poised to ambush the GOP nominee just as he gives a major policy speech on Wednesday, outlining his plans for border security and much more.

August 30, 2016
Rick Perry and his new dance partner Emma Slater, will compete on "Dancing with the Stars" beginning September 12. (ABC Entertainment)

Rick Perry, Ryan Lochte to compete on ‘Dancing with the Stars’

Those who may miss the campaign presence of former presidenital hopeful Rick Perry are in luck. The former Texas governor will be a contender on ABC's primetime staple "Dancing with the Stars." Mr. Perry, 66, has been paired with Emma Slater, 27, a professional ballroom dance champ who appeared on the show last year.

August 30, 2016
A new book by David Keene and Thomas Mason offers insider insight into the Second Amendment debate. (Skyhorse Publishing)

David Keene’s gun rights warning

It is a timely, revealing book -- to be released just as the election season peaks. "Shall Not Be Infringed: The New Assaults on Your Second Amendment" by David A. Keene and Thomas L. Mason will be published Oct. 11. The authors offer a meticulous review of the gun control debate in America and an inside look at strategic operatives who use polls, studies and numbers to confuse the public and muddle facts.

August 29, 2016
That was then: Hillary Clinton speaks at a formal press conference on March 10, 2015 at United Nations headquarters. (Associated Press)

Hillary Clinton won’t hold a press conference, but she will hold a fundraiser

A podium, a microphone -- this simple set-up appears to pose a serious threat to the Clinton campaign. Consider that the last time Hillary Clinton held a formal press conference was Dec. 4, 2015. Oh, she grants one-on-one interviews with select journalists and late night comedians, but there has been no recent, formal event in which the candidate faces journalists from a cross section of news organizations and simply answers questions on the record.

August 28, 2016
Hillary Clinton's campaign denied claims she engaged in pay-to-play schemes while at the State Department. (Associated Press)

Hillary Clinton dodging Clinton Foundation questions

Here's a question about journalism: When is a blockbuster not a blockbuster? The answer: When it's a negative story about Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. This familiar phenomenon has unfolded in the last 48 hours following a new Associated Press investigation which revealed that over half of Mrs. Clinton's visitors when she was secretary of state turned out to be donors to the Clinton Foundation.

August 24, 2016
Ann Coulter's newest book is titled "In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome!" and was published Wednesday by Sentinel Books.

Ann Coulter’s trust in Donald Trump

Fearless author Ann Coulter is in the nation's capital on Wednesday evening, bound for a sizable gathering of the "America first" crowd who side with Donald Trump's sentiment that, well, America should come first in its dealings with the rest of the planet. Ms. Coulter has a brand new book out, and it is creating a seismic disturbance.

August 23, 2016
Pollsters are finding it increasingly harder to predict how voters will choose candidates. (Associated Press)

Photo ID for voters favored by 80 percent of Americans

A big, bodacious majority of Americans appear to believe that it is not an unreasonable request to ask a voter for a photo ID when they arrive at the polls. A new Gallup poll reveals that 80 percent of Americans favor "requiring all voters to provide photo identification at their voting place in order to vote."

August 22, 2016