Campaign 2016

Clinton set the perfect trap, and Trump walked right into it.

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A draw on economics, a total slaughter on character.

Republicans aren’t going to participate.

The presidential election is legit extremely close.

There’s only one remaining Republican who can destroy life as we know it.

Is it possible to set expectation too low?

A few key biographical facts did not make it into the endorsement column.

The notion that Clinton’s email scandal is disqualifying requires a suspension of any rational standards or historical memory.

Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson thinks Barack Obama is the president who made America doubt government competence.

“All” is a slight exaggeration. Actually, just 99.6 percent.

It is so simple it is almost brilliant.

He is not telling the truth.

Even identifying Trump’s stance at any given point in time is often impossible.

Company, country, whatever.

The last statistical basis to say Obama has failed is now gone.

The Times’ public editor doesn’t want to hear any complaints about covering Hillary Clinton’s problems as though they’re as bad as Trump’s.

Hillary Clinton made the mistake of admitting something only other people are supposed to say.

The world’s greatest negotiator is somehow bamboozled by Putin.

A sane, competent candidate trapped in a reality-distortion field.