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Jennifer Harper

jharper@washingtontimes.com

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

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This March 15, 2013, file photo shows Mitt Romney, a former Massachusetts governor and the 2012 Republican presidential candidate, at the 40th annual Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Md. (Associated Press)

Inside the Beltway: Mitt Romney stages his own summit

Now underway: Mitt Romney's fourth annual "E2 Summit" at a splendid resort in Park City, Utah. (The "E2" stands for "experts and enthusiasts," by the way.) Some 300 Republican heavyweights have gathered for the weekend for some heavy discussions and much soul-searching about the direction of the Grand Old Party. They are also parsing the possibilities of presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump and Mr. Romney himself, who still looks mighty presidential these days. The press is already poised to pounce.

June 9, 2016
An insistent new graphic from an energized Republican Party tells all. (RNC)

Inside the Beltway: GOP: Newly united and ready to rumble

The Republicans have passed judgment: Things are pretty tense inside the Democratic Party as the heavyweights figure out how to spin the nomination tussle between Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernard Sanders, who is not quite ready to conveniently exit, stage left, from the 2016 presidential race.

June 8, 2016
Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th president of the United States, had high favorability numbers throughout his time in office. (White house)

Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton could learn from Ike Eisenhower

Many political campaigns have turned into data-driven enterprises that often compromise the cachet of the candidate, lost among shifting increments of poll numbers and micro-targeting. Should voter favorability prove elusive, strategists might consider a return to 1954 for practical insight.

June 7, 2016
American troops approach Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944. (U.S. Army photo)

Inside the Beltway: Recognition of Franklin Roosevelt’s D-Day prayer sought for WWII memorial

Monday is 72nd anniversary of D-Day, marking the hours when 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy. The cost: 9,000 Allied soldiers were killed or wounded that day. Four U.S. soldiers earned the Medal of Honor. A solemn event marks that herculean effort at the National World War II Memorial on the Mall. World War II and D-Day veterans will place wreaths at the site's Atlantic Arch, as will European Union Ambassador to the United States David O'Sullivan and Josiah Bunting III, chairman of the Friends of the National World War II Memorial, the nonprofit that organized the event.

June 5, 2016
A new poll gives Donald Trump better marks than Hillary Clinton on ability to handle the economy, jobs, terrorism and national security, taxes, the federal government, gun policy and Wall Street. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Inside the Beltway: Donald Trump leads Hillary Clinton on economy, jobs, terrorism, taxes

"If the race for president comes down to Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, Trump could benefit from an edge in public confidence on the issues Americans are prioritizing most this election," notes Lydia Saad, a Gallup analyst, where a new poll finds Mr. Trump better able to handle to handle the economy, jobs, terrorism and national security, taxes, the federal government, gun policy and Wall Street.

June 2, 2016