Tim Murtaugh

Tim Murtaugh is a Washington Times columnist, founder and principal of Line Drive Public Affairs LLC, and co-host of the Line Drive Podcast. He is a veteran of many state, federal, and national political campaigns, including as communications director for the Trump 2020 presidential campaign. A former radio and television reporter, he is also the author of the forthcoming book, “Swing Hard in Case You Hit it: My Escape from Addiction and Shot at Redemption on the Trump Campaign.”

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Columns by Tim Murtaugh

ProPublica’s attempted hit piece on Hegseth shows drive-by media are still at it

Rush Limbaugh used to call them the "Drive-By Media." That's how the talk show host used to describe journalists who blast out reckless stories. Published December 19, 2024

Biden and the Beltway news media deserve each other

Democrats are stumbling through the political wilderness now, and their allies in the media are still plenty angry about the election result. Published December 5, 2024

What should businesses learn from Trump’s victory?

The first time I saw the new Jaguar advertisement on X, I had to watch the video again to ensure I hadn't missed something. I had not. Published November 21, 2024

How and why Trump won

Near the end of election night, many reporters asked the same question as it became clear that former President Donald Trump was completing his political comeback with a victory over Vice President Kamala Harris. Published November 7, 2024

GOP’s closing campaign argument: Harris broke it, Trump will fix it

It's generally true in politics that it's better to motivate people to vote in favor of ideas rather than against something, and all this should tell you that Donald Trump thinks he's ahead while Kamala Harris knows she's behind. Published October 24, 2024

Harris campaign suffers under weight of a bad candidate, again

Democrats are realizing that their candidate for president, thrust upon them without much discussion, is not up to the job and is fading fast. Published October 10, 2024

Harris’ behavior tells you she knows she’s losing

In his three campaigns for president, Donald Trump has never been in as strong a position as he is right now, and that is apparently scaring the daylights out of Kamala Harris. Published September 30, 2024

Weaponization of fact checks reveals partisan journalists for Harris

It's curious when all media fact-checks go against one candidate - including mistakes the fact-checkers make - while the other candidate is permitted to lie with nary a word of dissatisfaction from journalists. Published September 16, 2024

Harris’ problem: She’s a complete phony

If you're a candidate for president of the United States and you avoid the media for a week or two, you can reasonably call it a strategy. If you avoid them for almost six weeks, it's a problem. Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee, has a problem, even after she was finally shamed into breaking down and talking to CNN. Published August 29, 2024

Harris ignores news media, and they can’t get enough

People are saying that the news media have forgotten why they exist. Published August 15, 2024

The media are in love with Kamala Harris, and they’re telling everybody

Rarely has the media risen so suddenly in unison, with such excited certainty, to hail Kamala Harris, and it has been predictably nauseating. Published August 1, 2024

MSNBC acknowledges leftist radicalism by benching ‘Morning Joe’ for a day

It's rare that a news network publicly acknowledges, through its actions, that it is populated by radicals. Published July 18, 2024

Media concealed Biden’s cognitive decline because they hate Trump

The former executive editor of The New York Times gave away the game: The media were in on it. Published July 4, 2024

White House enlists media allies to protect Biden from videos of himself

In 2020, the mainstream media protected then-candidate Joe Biden by dismissing his son's laptop as "Russian disinformation" when it wasn't. This time, they're howling over unflattering video clips of President Biden and declaring them fake when they aren't. Published June 20, 2024