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Black Conservative Federation members cheer as former President Donald Trump arrives at the group's honors gala in Columbia, South Carolina, on Feb. 23, 2024. (Andrew Harnik/AP)

Clarence Page: This time Trump really does seem to be making Black voter inroads. Why?

March 17, 2024 at 5:05 a.m.

There was a lot of talk in 2020 about how Donald Trump was making inroads with Black voters but in the end they went with Biden. Polls so far show...

House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Ken Buck, left, shakes hands with former Special Counsel Robert Hur after he testified before the House Judiciary Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill, March 12, 2024, in Washington. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty)

Clarence Page: Rep. Ken Buck’s sudden retirement yet another setback for a reeling GOP House leadership

March 14, 2024 at 5:05 a.m.

Colorado Rep. Ken Buck's move to retire next week makes House Speaker Johnson's job that much harder — and may end Lauren Boebert's congressional career. We can only hope.

House Speaker Mike Johnson and Vice President Kamala Harris applaud as President Joe Biden arrives to deliver the State of the Union address at the U.S. Capitol on March 7, 2024. (Alex Brandon/AP)

Clarence Page: For one night, Biden was the media master while Trump was fumbling

March 10, 2024 at 5:01 a.m.

It's usually Donald Trump who hogs the media spotlight. But Joe Biden's State of the Union performance reversed that narrative for one night.

Migrants ride a Chicago-bound Metra train after arriving on a bus from El Paso, Texas, in the early morning of Jan. 5, 2024. (Armando L. Sanchez/baiduhai)

Clarence Page: Immigration is on Americans’ minds. And politicians are seizing the opportunity.

March 6, 2024 at 8:21 a.m.

Donald Trump is once again using immigration to galvanize other Republicans.

Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, listens as his attorney, Abbe Lowell, makes a statement to the press following a closed-door deposition before the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability and House Judiciary Committee on Feb. 28, 2024, in Washington. The meeting was part of the Republicans' impeachment inquiry into President Biden. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

Clarence Page: House GOP gives us a big Hunter Biden nothingburger

March 3, 2024 at 5:01 a.m.

The star witness in House Republicans' impeachment inquiry into Hunter Biden and President Biden turned out to be an accused liar and possible Russian agent.

Former President Donald Trump, a Republican presidential candidate, arrives at the Black Conservative Federation's annual BCF Honors Gala at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center in Columbia, South Carolina, on Feb. 23, 2024. (Andrew Harnik/AP)

Clarence Page: Donald Trump’s bizarre pitch to Black voters is martyrdom marketing

February 28, 2024 at 5:01 a.m.

Donald Trump sees himself as a victim and a martyr, persecuted because he stood up for Black voters, i.e., the little people.

Tubes of frozen donated embryos in a storage container at the National Embryo Donation Center in Knoxville, Tennessee, on June 17, 2015. Cryoport, a major embryo shipping company, said on Feb. 23, 2024, that it was “pausing” its business in Alabama as it evaluated the state’s Supreme Court decision that declared frozen embryos created through in vitro fertilization to be children. (Shawn Poynter/The New York Times)

Clarence Page: Frozen embryos are people? In the world of politics, at least.

February 25, 2024 at 5:05 a.m.

The Alabama Supreme Court's ruling that frozen embryos are people worthy of protection throws the fertility business — and GOP politics — into confusion.

Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis takes the stand as a witness during a hearing on the Georgia election interference case Feb. 15, 2024, in Atlanta. (Alyssa Pointer/Reuters)

Clarence Page: Fani Willis and the court of public opinion

February 21, 2024 at 5:01 a.m.

Fani Willis may have done nothing legally wrong in her relationship with her lead prosecutor in Donald Trump's prosecution. But legalisms aren't the whole story.

A supporter holds his hand over his heart during the singing of the national anthem as former President Donald Trump arrives on stage for a “Commit to Caucus Event” at the Clinton Middle School in Clinton Iowa, on Jan. 6, 2024. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)

Clarence Page: On Trump’s befuddling hold on the GOP and the fizzling of the ‘Never Trump’ movement

February 18, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

A conservative pundit's confession that it took him ages to work out Donald Trump's hold on the GOP gets Clarence Page wondering if he truly knows the Democratic base.

People walk through a main shopping area in Manhattan on Jan. 5, 2024 in New York City. As the American economy continues to outperform expectations, the December jobs report showed that employers added 216,000 positions for the month as the unemployment rate held at 3.7% (Spencer Platt/Getty)

Clarence Page: Economic gloominess in spite of upbeat data also affects immigration debate

February 14, 2024 at 5:05 a.m.

Economic analysts at the Fed and in the CBO tell us the recent migrant surge is an economic boon, but Americans don't buy it.

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