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Robert Ehrlich is a former governor of Maryland as well as a former U.S. congressman and state legislator. He is the author of “Bet You Didn’t See That One Coming: Obama, Trump, and the End of Washington’s Regular Order,” in addition to “Turn This Car Around,” “America: Hope for Change" and “Turning Point.” Ehrlich is currently a counsel at the firm of King & Spalding in Washington, D.C.

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Op-Ed

Bob Ehrlich: Coronavirus Offering Students a New Opportunity To Learn

The upside of this new normal for America’s undergraduates is an opportunity to question some of the progressive indoctrination they have been force-fed.

By Bob Ehrlich March 31, 2020

President Donald Trump gestures as he speaks during the daily briefing on COVID-19 at the White House on March 23, 2020, in Washington, D.C.

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Op-Ed

Bob Ehrlich: Lessons Learned from Coronavirus

Perhaps it’s not so xenophobic or nationalistic to question why America’s essential medical supply chains remain captive to a hostile power.

By Bob Ehrlich March 24, 2020

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont hosts a coronavirus public health roundtable with health care professionals as he continues his campaign swing through the Midwest on March 9, 2020, in Detroit, Michigan.

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Op-Ed

Bob Ehrlich: Dems Were Sliding Toward Socialism Long Before Bernie

The political maneuvering is but a sideshow compared to the realpolitik 'come to Jesus' movement that the Bernie candidacy represents.

By Bob Ehrlich March 9, 2020

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden pauses while speaking after receiving an endorsement from House Majority Whip James Clyburn at Trident Technical College on Feb. 26, 2020, in North Charleston, South Carolina.

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Op-Ed

Bob Ehrlich: There Are No "Moderate" Democratic Presidential Candidates

My issue concerns the repeated identification of many of the major Democratic candidates for president as occupiers of the 'middle lane' of our politics.

By Bob Ehrlich February 26, 2020

President Donald Trump addresses the crowd during the Opportunity Now summit at Central Piedmont Community College on Feb. 7, 2020, in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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Op-Ed

Bob Ehrlich: Don't Forget White-Collar Trump Voters

In any event, the GOP’s preferred takeaway from the Iowa caucus debacle could not be a more perfect narrative for the Trump era.

By Bob Ehrlich February 11, 2020

President Donald Trump arrives as Vice President Mike Pence looks on before the State of the Union address in the House chamber on Feb. 4, 2020, in Washington, D.C.

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Op-Ed

Bob Ehrlich: Trump's SOTU Was About Showing He's Gotten Results - In Nov., That's What Will Matter

It is a rare instance in our politics wherein the voters revisit the results of a policy dispute, so overwhelming is the weight of the 24/7 news cycle.

By Bob Ehrlich February 5, 2020

President Donald Trump speaks during an event to unveil significant changes to the National Environmental Policy Act in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Jan. 9, 2020, in Washington, DC.

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Op-Ed

Bob Ehrlich: Polls Won't Tell the Whole Story in 2020

History shows that the vast majority of public opinion polls taken during the campaign of 2016 underweighted the strength of candidate Donald J. Trump.

By Bob Ehrlich January 9, 2020

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi listens as Reps. Adam Schiff of California, right, and Jerry Nadler of New York announce the next steps in the House impeachment inquiry at the U.S. Capitol on Dec. 10, 2019 in Washington, D.C.

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Op-Ed

Bob Ehrlich: Democrats' Lurch to the Left Is Unprecedented

What genius told the elitists that the best way to rehabilitate the great unwashed between the coasts was to repeatedly insult them and take their jobs?

By Bob Ehrlich December 30, 2019

House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler speaks to the media after the committee's vote on articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 13, 2019.

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Op-Ed

Bob Ehrlich: Opposition to Trump Is Rooted in Anger

It is difficult to find a time in recent political history where so many angry comments - and so many stones - are being slung at a single politician.

By Bob Ehrlich December 16, 2019