In early May of 2019, Elizabeth Warren found herself trailing Joe Biden in the RealClearPolitics polling average by over 33 percentage points (41.4% to 8%). Over the next three months she began a rapid rise. By Sept. 9, she had overtaken Biden in the weekly YouGov poll to become the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Hoover Institution fellow Bill Whalen discusses his Forbes article "What If The Democrats Held A Debate And No One Attended? California May Soon Find Out."

Call it the Rodney Dangerfield of debates: Thursday’s scheduled campaign contest in California just can’t get no respect. The Democrat’s sixth debate was supposed to be held at UCLA, but a labor dispute involving the local chapter of AFSCME — the union representing thousands of state university service workers — forced the college to cancel.

President Trump will be reelected in 2020. The Hoover Institution lists 200 Fellows on its website. Some are full-time, some part-time, some in residence, some off-campus, some short-term visitors, some long-term visitors, and so on. Of the 200 or so affiliated with Hoover in 2016, I was the only Fellow to predict that Trump would win.