Last Tuesday, after a fierce campaign and despite engagement of supporters from both sides of the political spectrum, Marco Rubio lost his home state of Florida and all of its 99 delegates to Donald Trump. Following this decisive loss, Rubio suspended his campaign for the Republican nomination for President of the United States. Three remain…
American politics in 2016 makes me want to cry. As a moderate conservative, I become more frightened every day that my party will be represented by Donald Trump. Even just a few years ago, I loved the caricature of Donald Trump, an absurd but ultimately harmless businessman with an endless supply of antics. He extended…
National Results On Tuesday night, it was Minnesota’s turn. Voters across the state flocked to caucus sites to have their say in who should carry their party’s torch in the presidential election. In Minnesota, Senator Bernie Sanders won every congressional district in the state and thus the DFL delegates, while Senator Marco Rubio won the…
It’s been a little over a month since the last time I wrote, and, by the time this piece is published, the Iowa caucuses will be only three days away. In my previous article, I made a few predictions that I would like to address, specifically involving the viability of Ted Cruz and Donald Trump…
Republicans, from the perspective of most Macalester students, are very easy to vilify, targeted with the same overtones of bias and narrow-mindedness that liberals generally attribute to their conservative counterparts. I’d thus like to applaud Cody Olson for his fair and evenhanded approbation of Marco Rubio, a presidential candidate among the most palatable of those…
Shortly after midterms were over my best friend from high school visited Mac from the University of Nebraska Lincoln. We discussed the usual topics of any native Minnesotans in college: hockey and the 2016 presidential election. We’re both conservatives and strongly dislike Donald Trump, but we don’t agree on who we ultimately will support in…
