TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures of the past week from the Beltway and beyond.
Mitt Romney eked out a victory in the Michigan primary on Tuesday night, staving off a challenge from Rick Santorum to sidestep what would have been a stinging defeat in his native state. The former Massachusetts governor also coasted in Arizona’s winner-take-all contest, infusing his flagging campaign with a jolt of momentum as the Republican [...]
Univision anchor Jorge Ramos, who wrote a column for TIME last week, interviewed controversial Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio last weekend. Standing against the backdrop of Maricopa County’s infamous outdoor Tent City jail, Arpaio claimed he is not anti-immigrant and that the Justice Department’s three-year investigation into his “discriminatory bias against Latinos” is just “their opinion.” When [...]
If you’re betting on Tuesday’s Republican primaries in Michigan and Arizona, the smart play is to short the pundits. For two months, each decree that a candidate possesses momentum has instead been a death knell.
Rick Santorum found himself in unfamiliar territory on Wednesday night: at the center of attention in a Republican primary debate. The CNN forum in Arizona was the first in almost a month, and the only debate held since upsets in Minnesota and Colorado put Santorum in the top-tier of contention with Mitt Romney. And while [...]
Consider it an awkward coincidence: The final Republican debate before the Super Tuesday primary took place in Arizona, at the epicenter of the national immigration debate. When the remaining four candidates took the stage on Wednesday night, they were asked about the state’s tough crackdown on illegal immigration, which has defined the local Republican Party [...]
The current narrative of the presidential campaign revolves around Mitt Romney’s embarrassing weakness, and the question of what panicked GOP elders will do if Rick Santorum, whose electability they question, appears headed for the nomination. In a strange fashion that only makes sense in presidential politics, this has become a useful place for Romney to [...]
Mitt Romney holds a narrow lead over Rick Santorum in Arizona with a week to go before the state’s Feb. 28 primary, according to a new TIME/CNN/ORC poll.
January was an exhausting month for the American people. They endured four major Republican nominating contests, three dropouts, seven televised debates and the hundreds of hours of breathless cable news coverage that all those things entail. The Anyone-But-Mitt movement was dead after New Hampshire and jolted miraculously back to life by Newt Gingrich’s victory in South Carolina — only to flatline again with Romney’s rout Tuesday in Florida. But after the adrenaline rush, dutiful followers of the democratic process can now finally relax. A lull has arrived.
There is a lot of fine writing out today by the country’s greatest stylists. David Von Drehle’s piece, which Joe alluded to below, is online now, here. David Remnick weighs in here. Of course, if you missed it, you should read the speech President Obama gave last night. But one of the most stunning works [...]
