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Charles Hurt

churt@washingtontimes.com

Charles Hurt was the Opinion Editor and is 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

A sign in an Atlanta neighborhood on Friday, Dec. 11, 2020, urges people to vote early in Georgia's two U.S. Senate races. The early in-person voting period beginning Monday, Dec. 14, 2020, and lasting as late as Dec. 31 could determine the outcomes of races between Republican U.S. Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler and Democratic challengers Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock that will decide control of the U.S. Senate. (AP Photo/Jeff Amy)

Give Christmas thanks, then go vote!

'Tis the season, as the birth of Jesus Christ reminds us, to count our blessings.But there is still plenty of evil in this fallen world of greedy, corrupt humans.

December 24, 2020
Democrats Raphael Warnock (left) and Jon Ossoff are getting a lot of help from Hollywood heavyweights as they campaign in two closely watched Georgia runoffs that will determine the balance of the Senate. (Associated Press photograph)

Waiting for Kraken

Go ahead. Keep your eyes on the horizon for Kraken. And in the meantime, Georgia, cast your votes for America in the Jan. 5 Senate runoffs.

December 7, 2020
Members of President Donald Trump's legal team, Sidney Powell, right, with Jenna Ellis, left, attend a news conference at the Republican National Committee headquarters, Thursday Nov. 19, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Climbing into bed with the Kraken

It is a true fact that nobody has ever seen Sidney Powell and Paul Revere in the same place at the same time. Could Sidney Powell, in fact, be Paul Revere?

November 23, 2020
CNN Chief International Anchor Christiane Amanpour is facing a wave of backlash after she compared Donald Trump's presidency to the Nazis' 1938 Kristallnacht against German Jews that marked the beginning of the Holocaust. (Screenshot via CNN)

Vichy Amanpour sees Nazis, but has no spine

It must really be hard to live today in a nation of 73 million Nazis. Seventy-three million of your fellow citizens just voted for the reincarnation of Adolf Hitler and the best these weak losers can do is threaten to "keep a list."

November 16, 2020
A section of the U.S. border wall, Ciudad Juarez, 2017 Associated Press photo

Chaos on the border

More than anything, it was "The Wall" that got President Trump elected four years ago.

November 12, 2020
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., joined by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., speaks during a news conference to announce impeachment managers on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) ** FILE **

An election in the era of conspiracies

At this point in the 2016 election, the sitting president had already weaponized the federal government into a sprawling covert-spy operation against the man who had just been elected president.

November 9, 2020
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.

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.

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.

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.

October 26, 2020