S.E. Cupp stories, Page 6
S.E. Cupp: Kevin McCarthy got the GOP conference he deserves
Poor Kevin. The Bakersfield, Calif., native who, by all accounts, came to Washington 16 years ago with the sole intent of becoming speaker of the House one day faced an embarrassing defeat this week when he failed — three times — to win the nomination by his own party. There’s...
S.E. Cupp: The year ahead and what people resolve to do
While covid-19 thankfully waned in the U.S. and many of us felt a slow return to normalcy, 2022 was still an eventful year. From Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, to the death of Queen Elizabeth, the overturning of Roe v. Wade to midterm elections, the rise in inflation to the collapse...
S.E. Cupp: Mike Pence is a man without a prayer of winning
“We’re giving it consideration in our house — prayerful consideration.” That was former Vice President Mike Pence, telling ABC News last month that he’s contemplating a run against his former boss and the only entry in the 2024 presidential election thus far, Donald Trump, a man he served dutifully for...
S.E. Cupp: Candace Owens is infected with viral MAGA fever
Despite all her tough talk on social media and podcasts, her hackneyed attacks on liberal snowflakes and cancel culture, and her daddy-issues affection for dictatorial strong men like Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Owens is seemingly afraid of lots of odd things no one should really...
S.E. Cupp: GOP pols accepted Trump’s Constitution contempt
“Disqualifying” and “un-American,” says John Bolton, the former national security advisor to former President Donald Trump. Trump is “spinning out of control,” says conservative Fox News contributor Marc Thiessen. “I’m at a loss for words — we need to move on,” says Sen. John Cornyn, who voted twice to acquit...
S.E. Cupp: Getting the vapors over the Trump-Ye-Fuentes dinner
While it’s nearly impossible to think of a headline that Donald J. Trump didn’t relish, no matter the scandalous implications, he might just be getting sick of the never-ending loop of stories on his now-infamous dinner with rabid antisemite Kanye West and noted white supremacist Nick Fuentes. It was a...
S.E. Cupp: Has Donald Trump finally become boring?
In case you missed it — and it’s likely you did — former President Trump announced Tuesday night he is running for president a third time. Maybe you were watching “Shark Tank,” “Bachelor in Paradise” or the premiere of “The Curse of Oak Island.” But even if you were watching...
S.E. Cupp: Trump the midterm’s biggest loser
Welp, it wasn’t the red wave that many Republicans promised it would be. If not for a certain former guy, it could have been. All of the momentum was with Republicans. There was the historically reliable truism that the party in charge — in this case, the Democrats — is...
S.E. Cupp: Wringing our hands in this age of political rage
As Paul Pelosi laid in a hospital bed in San Francisco, recovering from a horrific attack in his home by a conspiracy-obsessed, pro-nudist drug addict who wanted to break Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s kneecaps, former President Barack Obama was in Detroit begging for “civility.” Heckled by a pair...
S.E. Cupp: The most important midterms of our lifetimes
That trite and maybe infuriating maxim is one thing I keep telling people who want me to predict who will win the midterm elections and why. We can all look at polling that attempts to tell us what the drivers of voter turnout will be. Some say the economy is...
S.E. Cupp: Kanye West, Tommy Tuberville and Herschel Walker GOP problems
In August, the residents of Nassau County woke up to find ominous flyers outside of their homes. They were aimed at Long Island’s Jewish community. “Every single aspect of the media is Jewish,” it blared across the top. “Every single aspect of gun control is Jewish,” it continued. “This is...
S.E. Cupp: Herschel Walker’s son Christian is all of us
“I’m done! DONE! Everything has been a lie!” The frustration was both palpable and relatable. Who among us hasn’t felt this way — maybe even said this very thing — at one time or another, utterly exhausted by a friend, family member or colleague who perpetually lies and gaslights and...
S.E. Cupp: Empty offices as housing could save cities across U.S.
As any New Yorker can easily remember, Midtown — the Manhattan neighborhood stretching from 34th Street to 59th Street and from Third Avenue to Eighth Avenue — was once a bustling beehive of corporate activity and commerce. On a typical weekday, between the hours of 7 a.m. and 8 p.m.,...
S.E. Cupp: Right-wing nationalism comes to … Sweden?
As we look ahead to midterm elections, where election deniers are on the ballot in 27 states, it’s still mind-blowing to consider how we got here in just a few years. And the answer, most bluntly, is a rise in right-wing nationalism. After lying dormant for some time, the contours...
S.E. Cupp: Pity the poor, wounded MAGA Republicans
Over the past week, it’s safe to say we’ve all shed a tear or two, maybe even said a prayer, and quietly reflected on the tremendous loss the world collectively experienced last week. For many that’s because of the historic and solemn events unfolding in the United Kingdom. But I’m...
S.E. Cupp: Republican Party is nominating losers
In 1950, the late UCLA Bruins football coach Red Sanders entered the forever zeitgeist when he told his men, “Winning isn’t everything. It’s the only thing.” The quote has endured as a testament to competitive drive and ambition, both in sports and life. And nowhere is winning more important than...
S.E. Cupp: The Democrats’ real November abortion advantage
With just a little more than two months to go before the 2022 midterm elections, one issue is emerging as a top turnout driver. And if Democrats do the historically unimaginable in November, staving off what was predicted to be an off-year Republican bloodbath, we can likely trace the root...
S.E. Cupp: Biden should speak fully on his plans to run in 2024 or not
“The president has said he’s planning on running again. People should take him at his word.” That was Anita Dunn, a top adviser to President Biden, sounding very confident in her insistence Biden will seek a second term — and almost indignant that the question is being raised at all....
S.E. Cupp: The FBI raid is terrible news for Trump. Why is Trump World unable to contain its excitement?
“When you’re attacking FBI agents because you’re under criminal investigation, you’re losing.” That 2016 tweet from Trump campaign adviser, and future White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, then referring to Hillary Clinton and Democrats, took on a special irony Monday, as former President Donald Trump and his allies spent...
S.E. Cupp: Republicans’ embrace of one of the world’s worst
This week, he has a high-visibility time slot on the opening day of CPAC Texas, the once annual conservative conference that’s become such a successful grift for Republicans, it’s now held multiple times a year. While he’ll be warmly welcomed in the Trinity Ballroom of the Hilton Anatole, the list...
S.E. Cupp: Republicans have a huge women problem
Does the name Todd Akin ring a bell? For conservatives who remember the 2012 presidential election all too well, it induces a kind of political PTSD. Akin, the Republican nominee favored to unseat Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill in Missouri, sent shock waves through the GOP when he said, in defense...
S.E. Cupp: Tiptoeing toward a post-Trump America?
In the months leading up to the 2020 presidential election, I was confronted with the same singular question from dozens of cable news hosts, print reporters, podcasters and panel moderators — not to mention the occasional stranger in the grocery store or friend at a party: What happens after Trump?...
S.E. Cupp: The Trump movie is a horror show
It’s like something out of a bad Hollywood script. Our overheated action movie opens in the West Wing. An aide hears a noise coming from the hallway. She sees “the president’s valet in the dining room, changing the table cloth, ketchup dripping down the wall, a porcelain plate shattered on...
S.E. Cupp: GOP weaponizes faith; will atheists object?
Back in 2015, I interviewed presidential hopeful and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee for C-SPAN’s “Book TV.” His newest book at the time, “God, Guns, Grits and Gravy” was a chicken-fried paean to all the “Bubbas” of the American heartland. The god-fearing superiority of Bubbaville over the folks in coastal...
S.E. Cupp: Dems’ risky bet on Trumpy Republicans
If you gave money to the House Majority PAC, associated with Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, you probably didn’t intend for it to help back a far-right Trump defender in California’s 22nd district, who believes Trump would still be president if the 2020 votes had been “properly counted.”...
