In the 2020 election, former President Donald Trump cemented a trend that his “old pal” Ronald Reagan had begun to pave following his landslide victory over Jimmy Carter in 1980: Evangelicals vote...

Tennessee is not merely a red state, it is bright crimson. What was once the embodiment of late 20th-century “Southern Centrism,” electing Blue Dog Democrats for the House (such as Henry Ford Jr.,...

Members of the Vanderbilt College Republicans (VCR) and Vanderbilt College Democrats (VCD) took to the virtual last week, participating in a time-honored tradition of both organizations: the annual policy...

A conservative movement emerged in 2002 citing a need for lower taxes, a reduction in the national debt, and advocating for decreased government spending. It started as a website, USTeaParty.com, which...

Donald J. Trump is no longer the President of the United States. The results of the 2020 general election suggest that this will be a relief to roughly half of the country and a disappointment to the other...

The consummation of four years of incendiary rhetoric and thinly-veiled invocations to violence arrived just after 1:00 p.m. EST on Jan. 6 as a mob of Trump supporters, white nationalists, and QAnon-steeped...

Democratic Senate candidates entered the 2020 election season with dreams of taking back the Senate majority, buoyed by some of the largest campaign fundraising totals in history. They left with defeats...

As Tuesday draws near, the Vanderbilt Political Review wants to share our thoughts, opinions, and concerns regarding the upcoming election. Below are brief responses from our writers that encapsulate the...

Senate Bill 2215/House Bill 2576—the latest addition to Tennessee’s infamous “Slate of Hate”— is a law currently making its way through the state’s General Assembly. The “Slate of Hate”...

Following his sixth consecutive term as a Kentucky Senator, Mitch McConnell faces his toughest re-election bid yet. The 78-year-old Republican senator must defeat the Democratic nominee, Amy McGrath, in...

Utah Republican Senator Mitt Romney became a symbol of hope for Democrats when he was the only Republican who voted to remove President Trump during the 2019 impeachment proceedings. Many saw this move...

The first presidential debate was messy. Compared to that, this week’s VP debate between Kamala Harris and Mike Pence was much more civil (besides the fly that parked in Pence’s hair for minutes)....