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Charles Hurt

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

CHARLES HURT: It’s time for Trump to get back to winning

Losing sucks. Especially if you are not accustomed to losing and Donald J. Trump has built his whole campaign on being a winner who wins.

April 7, 2016

CHARLES HURT: Recent ‘conservative’ presidents expanded government

In the past 28 years America has elected two presidents from the "conservative" party, the one that claims to stand for lower taxes, responsible spending and limited government. Both have been named Bush.

April 5, 2016

CHARLES HURT: Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders have little in common

In this brief cessation of hostilities between enemy forces on both sides of the political divide, it is a good time to take stock of where primary voters have taken the two parties.

March 29, 2016

CHARLES HURT: Donald Trump reveals inner statesman, terrifies naysayers

The race is over. Donald Trump will be the next president of the United States.

March 22, 2016

CHARLES HURT: Donald Trump may be flawed, but Washington is worse

Their delusions swarm unabated.

March 20, 2016

CHARLES HURT: Marco Rubio is the tea party heartthrob who turned establishment shill

Like the Titanic before it, the U.S.S. Jeb! set sail with such great puffery and fanfare that the passengers on board the gilded ship sipping from champagne flutes were filled with confidence and optimism about the wondrous journey to follow. Quite bullish they were!

March 15, 2016

CHARLES HURT: Donald Trump forcing Republican Party to attack itself

In 2012, we watched as the GOP establishment forced a flawed and flimsy candidate onto Republican voters. It was like trying to stuff a cat into a trash can.

March 8, 2016

CHARLES HURT: Mitt Romney works to kill GOP White House hopes — again

Finally! The key to sparking fire in the belly of Francois Mitterand Romney has been located!

March 3, 2016

CHARLES HURT: Donald Trump’s winning streak baffles GOP losers

It is true. You simply cannot trust a politician as far as you can throw them.

March 1, 2016

CHARLES HURT: GOP establishment looks to Marco Rubio to save it from Donald Trump

The Donald Trump Derangement Syndrome treatment facilities simply cannot handle the patient load. By Super Tuesday, there will be no beds left and white people wearing Brooks Brothers suits and tassel loafers will be wandering the streets of New York and D.C. with bloodshot eyes.

February 23, 2016

CHARLES HURT: Party masters cracked whip to get Dem voters to fall in line behind Hillary Clinton

Black and enough Hispanic voters who do not exist in Iowa and New Hampshire dutifully came out for Hillary Rodham Clinton to give her a win over Sen. Bernie Sanders, the socialist from Vermont. Clinton was also aided by some of the party's biggest special interest groups such as unions that work inside Las Vegas casinos.

February 21, 2016

CHARLES HURT: Pope Francis hurling stones at Donald Trump from glass Vatican

Looks like Pope Francis needs to go to confession. At the very least, the pontiff should seek an audience with real estate mogul Donald J. Trump to ask for forgiveness over slandering him and denouncing his Christian faith.

February 19, 2016

CHARLES HURT: Another ill-advised (but self-serving) kamikaze stunt by Ted Cruz

Sen. Ted Cruz is one of those people who constantly wrestles with the Constitution -- and always wins. In his latest declaration to mount the barricades in defense of the Constitution, the Texas senator said he will "absolutely" filibuster any nominee the president puts forward to replace the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

February 16, 2016

CHARLES HURT: Racial profiling Clintons rev up DNC machine, the last plantation in America

Hillary Clinton's "firewall," they call it. They don't even wink and nod anymore. But they all know what they mean by it.

February 11, 2016

CHARLES HURT: Donald Trump built a juggernaut and had the media pay for it

Why does the mainstream media heap such scorn and disbelief on Donald Trump over his promise to build a great wall along the border with Mexico -- and make Mexico pay for it? After all, Donald Trump has built a winning presidential campaign -- and made the media pay for it.

February 9, 2016