Category: Tom Baxter

As they were both aware, Rosalynn and Jimmy Carter improved each other.

This is not Nikki Haley’s day in the sun. Barring something miraculous, she’s not going to overtake Donald Trump in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. But when you try to imagine a path forward after the election for each of the candidates, she stands alone in clearly having one.

It stands to reason that if we forgot to hold an election, it would be a race for a seat on the Public Service Commission. That’s not exactly what has happened in Georgia, but it’s too close for comfort.

The headline over last week’s ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Steve Jones was that the legislature has to draw a new congressional map with another black or near-black district before next year’s election. But what’s under the hood in this ruling may be the bigger story.

To the Citizens of the state of Georgia:
Many people have said that MAGA means never having to say you’re sorry. I may have said that myself, a time or two.

It may only have been a delaying tactic, but U.S. Rep. Austin Scott’s brief dalliance with the spotlight Friday afternoon illuminated one of the ironies of the predicament Republicans in Congress have found themselves in.

It’s not entirely a coincidence that within a week of each other, the Georgia Senate Republican Caucus expelled one of its members and Republicans in the U.S. House began discussing whether to do the same to one of its wayward flock.

As this year’s federal government shutdown pageant nears its debut, there’s an interesting new twist to this senseless exercise.

By the numbers, the trio of spending bills which President Joe Biden refers to as Bidenomics has had a dramatic impact on the nation’s economy.

Lately, many of the legal experts who intone a lot on television have echoed Judge Scott McAfee’s skepticism about the decision by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to try 19 people, including Donald Trump, in the Georgia election interference case. Imagine how heads would be exploding on the tube if Willis had followed the special grand jury’s recommendation that 39 people be indicted.

here’s a lot to be learned about the recent history of the Georgia Republican Party from the 53rd Senate District up in northwest Georgia, even though there hasn’t been a competitive election there in two decades.

How is it that the current flavor of the month in the race for the Republican presidential nomination is the most unlikely and least-known candidate in the field? Precisely because he’s the most unlikely and least-known candidate.

Donald Trump has trash-talked a lot of American cities, including his hometown of New York. But he seems to have a particularly dim view of Atlanta.

Way down on the to-do list of the U.S. House Agriculture Committee’s Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry sits a bill introduced in 2021 called the Trillion Trees Act

For more than five decades, the Almanac of American Politics has set the standard for political reference books. Once again, Saporta Report is offering the almanac’s chapters on Georgia and Gov. Brian Kemp.

I think she will, and you probably do, too. But in the hot minute before we find out what’s really going to happen, let’s consider this intriguing twist. What if Fani Willis doesn’t bring charges against Donald Trump?

When you listen to what she had to say at the Turning Point Action conference over the weekend in West Palm Beach, it’s easy to understand why Marjorie Taylor Greene is Joe Biden’s favorite Republican House member.