Are you better off now than you were four years ago?” Donald Trump asked a crowd in North Carolina on his final full day on the campaign trail in November. “And I’ve asked that question so many times.

David R. Gergen, who helped craft and protect the image of four presidents as a senior White House communications adviser and ...

David Gergen, a veteran CNN contributor and longtime Washington insider who served both Republican and Democratic presidents ...

After serving in the government, he became a prominent political commentator. “Centrism doesn’t mean splitting the difference,” he said in 2020.

He served under Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Clinton before becoming a top editor and a familiar TV pundit. “Centrism doesn’t mean ...

When President Jimmy Carter’s reelection campaign advisers were planning a key West Coast swing through Washington, Oregon ...

Trump pulled off presidential: James Robbins Like Reagan in 1980, viewers saw a Trump who was better than the liberal talking points.

For those reasons and many more, Carter was crushed by Reagan in the November 1980 election, losing 44 of 50 states and the Electoral College 489 to 49.

To return the canal to Panama, President Jimmy Carter worked to change minds and build a bipartisan coalition that put aside short-term political considerations.

Yet, Carter significantly outperformed Reagan on the metrics of both lower federal deficits (nominal) and percent of GDP deficits comprised (real). The debate on government deficits extends back ...

Postscript Jimmy Carter Wasn’t a Liberal The late former president paved the way for Ronald Reagan.

The late President Jimmy Carter only served one term in the highest office in the country, and one night in Cleveland had a big impact on the 1980 presidential race that he ended up losing to Ronald ...