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Charles Hurt

Charles Hurt

Charles Hurt is the Opinion Editor and a columnist for The Washington Times. Often seen as a Fox News contributor on the cable network’s signature evening news roundtable, Mr. Hurt in his 20-year career has worked his way up from a beat reporter for the Detroit News and Washington correspondent for the Charlotte Observer before joining The Washington Times in 2003. He later served as D.C. bureau chief and White House correspondent for the New York Post and editor at the Drudge Report. He can be reached at churt@washingtontimes.com.

Columns by Charles Hurt

Supporters pose with U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, center, following his victory speech after winning another term in office on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard)

Hope in the ‘Great Blue Wave’ of 2020

Of all the dire predictions American voters have suffered through this year, few came more often than the confident assurances by all the experts that Republicans would lose control of the Senate in places like South Carolina and Texas. Published November 4, 2020

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks to people at a canvas kick off event with Rep. Brendan Boyle, D-Pa., in Philadelphia, Sunday, Nov. 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Joe Biden running on fear and hopelessness

All the experts and most of the polls tell us Joe Biden is going to win in a landslide. While other polls -- the few that got it right in 2016 -- suggest Mr. Trump is poised for another upset victory. Published November 2, 2020

President Donald Trump points to the crowd after speaking at a campaign rally at Phoenix Goodyear Airport Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020, in Goodyear, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin) **FILE**

America itself is on the ballot

When President Trump took the oath of office, he vowed to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. The guy was not kidding. Published October 29, 2020

Moderator Savannah Guthrie speaks during an NBC News Town Hall with President Donald Trump at Perez Art Museum Miami, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020, in Miami. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

QAnon, Mr. President?

NBC News reporter Kristen Welker won high plaudits for her performance moderating last week's final debate between President Trump and former Vice President Joseph R. Biden. Published October 26, 2020

President Donald Trump dances after speaking at a campaign rally at Prescott Regional Airport, Monday, Oct. 19, 2020, in Prescott, Ariz. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump still running as outsider

The surest takeaway from the past four years in politics is that whatever crimes people accuse President Trump of committing are, in fact, being committed by the accusers themselves. Published October 19, 2020

President Donald Trump makes a points as Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden listens during the first presidential debate Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020, at Case Western University and Cleveland Clinic, in Cleveland, Ohio. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, Pool)

Hurt: Trump-Biden debate had only losers

Anybody out there who is sick and tired of "politics as usual" sure got an earful Tuesday night between President Trump and former Vice President Joseph R. Biden in Cleveland. Published September 30, 2020

Sen. Cory Booker, New Jersey Democrat. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Democrats can’t smear Amy Coney Barrett

The Holy Roman Senator Cory Booker -- AKA "Spartacus" in the tinfoil helmet with the plastic sword -- will be crushed under the weight of his own hubris, stupidity and gargantuan self-regard. Published September 28, 2020

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden meets with members of the community at Grace Lutheran Church in Kenosha, Wis., Thursday, Sept. 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Joe Biden: The audacity of dope

In the throes of a heated national election, cities burn and innocent citizens are beat up and murdered in the street. Who is to blame? Published September 3, 2020

In this Jan. 12, 2017, file photo, President Barack Obama laughs with Vice President Joe Biden during a ceremony in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington where Obama presented Biden with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) ** FILE **

Joe Biden: Just Barack Obama without the shiny rhetoric

For all his soaring rhetoric, former President Barack Obama really is nothing more than a typical, cheap Washington politician brimming with false promises. And Joe Biden is even worse. He is Barack Obama minus the pretty talk. Published August 24, 2020

In this image from video, former President Barack Obama speaks during the third night of the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2020. (Democratic National Convention via AP)

Obamas remind American voters why they elected Donald Trump

Twelve years after making history by getting elected America's first actual Black president on soaring promises of "hope" and "change," Barack Obama is back to let you know he is very, very disappointed in you. Published August 20, 2020