S.E. Cupp Columns category, Page 5
S.E. Cupp: Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s weak impeachment folly
This week, spineless House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, in fear of being ousted from his precious leadership position by far-right hostage-takers like Florida’s Rep. Matt Gaetz and Georgia’s Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, caved to pressure to mount an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden — based on little more than conjecture,...
S.E. Cupp: The Republican Party of lawlessness and disorder
Most Americans will never serve on a jury — in fact most won’t even be summoned. The National Center for State Courts estimates that in any year, only about .09% of the population is called for jury duty, and yet somehow most New Yorkers will tell you they’ve gone at...
S.E. Cupp: Vivek Ramaswamy won the debate for best in MAGA
Obnoxious. Annoying. Disrespectful. Inexperienced. Conspiratorial. Those are just a few of the adjectives one could use to describe Republican upstart Vivek Ramaswamy at the first GOP debate of the 2024 presidential election. It didn’t take long for the relatively unknown businessman-turned-candidate to make his presence known, earning applause and cheers...
S.E. Cupp: Once again, Trump the pitchman is selling lies
“Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!” Donald Trump has made a good living as a traveling salesman, hawking everything from skyscrapers to deodorant. But his best- selling product has always been himself. Nothing — not his cheap made-in-China ties, not his thousand-dollar steaks, not his Trump Ice Natural...
S.E. Cupp: GOP ignores voters choosing abortion access
“As Ohio goes, so goes the nation.” That old chestnut has proven true in modern American elections more times than not. Since 1964, Ohio has chosen the winning president in every contest, whether Democrat or Republican — that is, except one. In 2020, Ohio voted for Donald Trump over Joe...
S.E. Cupp: DeSantis is a candidate without a cause or hope
It was the middle of August 2015, and comedian Sarah Silverman was rallying her Twitter followers to join her at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena for a special event. For decades, the now-gone arena had hosted numerous sports teams — it was the home of the Los Angeles Lakers...
S.E. Cupp: Trump’s own voice proves how little he cares about anything but himself
A new and damning audio recording, aired first on CNN, is shocking to say the least. In it, former President Donald Trump is being interviewed by a writer for a memoir of Mark Meadows, Trump’s former chief of staff. Like taking candy from a baby, we can hear while the...
S.E. Cupp: Starting the primaries in South Carolina gives Biden’s challengers an opening
“History will prove us right.” It was New Year’s Eve, 2007, and one of Rudy Giuliani’s 2008 presidential campaign strategists, Brent Seaborn, emailed supporters an upbeat memo promising that they were “looking good” heading into the Republican early state primaries. History, as it would turn out, proved them wrong. Giuliani’s...
S.E. Cupp: Trump has torn America apart for his own gain and giving him a pass will not heal the nation
“It’s an idea whose time is inevitably coming for Republican presidential candidates — pardoning former President Donald J. Trump.” That was National Review editor Rich Lowry in Politico this week, echoing others on the right who have decided that if Trump is convicted of any of the crimes he’s been...
S.E. Cupp: Mike Pence 2024 still thinks he’s Pence of 2014
At a spry 64 years old, former Vice President Mike Pence is celebrating. On Wednesday, he marked his birthday — and formally announcing his run for president. It’s a strange and circuitous series of events that led him from a promising future as a GOP rising star to here, polling...
S.E. Cupp: Christie may not win, but can he thwart Trump?
In 1965, William F. Buckley Jr. decided to avenge the loss of Barry Goldwater to Lyndon B. Johnson in the 1964 presidential election by running for mayor of New York. His goal was to restore attention to conservatism as he understood it, and take votes from Republican John Lindsay, who...
S.E. Cupp: Can DeSantis — or any Republican — win?
Way back in 2015, we all got to see then-candidate Donald Trump lay out his vision for America after he descended that infamous golden escalator in Trump Tower. It was, in a word, bleak. It included “beating” China, Japan and Mexico, the latter of which was sending drugs, crime and...
S.E. Cupp: Why are Dems following GOP abortion extremism?
Never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity, as the old saying goes. As Republicans venture further off into the extremes, pushing regressive and unpopular culture war policies, Democrats have made the most of the GOP’s missteps. In three consecutive election cycles — 2018, 2020 and 2022 — Democrats have...
S.E. Cupp: Tucker’s ‘shocking’ text message does not shock
In the minutes, hours and days after the shock of Tucker Carlson’s firing from Fox News settled in, the immediate question became: Why? And more pointedly, why now? In some ways, these were ridiculous if not rhetorical questions — there were countless good reasons to fire Carlson, from his myriad...
S.E. Cupp: Little hope that Fox after Carlson will change
“Will a network that has decided to recklessly traffic in and promote lies, junk science and unfounded conspiracy theories, and purposefully omit and distort the truth to keep its viewers rabidly tuned in, feel at all chastened by what can only be described as an unequivocal and unprecedented smackdown?” That...
S.E. Cupp: Fox News admits now it lied, but can it stop?
Tuesday’s historic 11th hour settlement between Fox News and Dominion Voting Systems for a whopping $787.5 million for defamation was justice for Dominion, which Fox hosts had baselessly smeared to sow doubt in the 2020 presidential election results. “Over two years ago, a torrent of lies swept Dominion and election...
S.E. Cupp: Gun massacres and the collapse of American values
My phone buzzed with a news alert, which happens numerous times throughout the day. This one, at 1:45 p.m. on Monday, was yet another mass shooting. My stomach turned queasy anticipating the details. I knew they would be horrifying — they always are. But I feared the worst … and,...
S.E. Cupp: Are Trump’s attacks hurting or helping DeSantis?
As the 2024 presidential election gets underway, Donald Trump is testing out a risky strategy. He’s swinging hard and often at a competitor who hasn’t even gotten in the race yet. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has given every indication he likely will run, — hosting donor retreats, visiting swing states...
S.E. Cupp: Fox’s Carlson keeps the cult doped up on lies
“A lie.” “Bull(expletive).” “Dangerous.” “Disgusting.” Those are just some ways that Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s sanitized re-framing of Jan. 6 is being described — by other Republicans. In case you missed it, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy gave Carlson — a host even Fox News lawyers admit cannot be trusted...
S.E. Cupp: Can Paul Ryan save what’s left of conservatism?
“Toxic sludge, racism, disinformation and attacks on democracy.” This is how Charlie Sykes, a conservative commentator and editor of The Bulwark, recently described the Fox News diet to his longtime friend — and Fox News board member — former House Speaker Paul Ryan. It was a stunning interview between two...
S.E. Cupp: In Nikki Haley, Trump gets first real challenger for nomination
Nearly three months after former President Donald Trump announced he was running again for president, he has his first major competitor (with apologies to Steve Laffey) in former South Carolina Gov. and United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley. In her video announcement Tuesday, Haley boasted of the need for “generational change,”...
S.E. Cupp: Biden plays the nice guy with rowdy, rude House
If you tuned in to Tuesday night’s State of the Union address, Joe Biden’s third as president, it felt at times like we were watching the shouting matches typical of the United Kingdom’s Parliament more than it did a speech to the United States Congress. The unrulier members of the...
S.E. Cupp: Moving on from Trump and his voters
“Press them hard enough, and most Republican officials … will privately admit that Donald Trump has become a problem,” writes McKay Coppins in a new Atlantic piece. “Aside from his most blinkered loyalists, virtually everyone in the party agrees: It’s time to move on from Trump.” I don’t doubt that’s...
S.E. Cupp: Republican liars go far beyond George Santos
“Honesty is such a lonely word.” As the great Billy Joel once sang, “Everyone is so untrue.” That could be the anthem for this modern era, when liars and lying are not only tolerated, but rewarded for their artful deception. Now comically synonymous with the countless lies that he’s told...
S.E. Cupp: GOP — rotting fish or bag of rotten apples?
As the ancient proverb goes, the fish rots from the head. The expression’s been used by countless leaders in business to describe the way a bad CEO can hamper productivity downstream, or to explain how corruption can infect an organization. Of course, it’s also been used by law enforcement to...
