Ben Roback: Impeachment and scandals – the backdrop to the 2020 election is set

“Read the transcript” has become the à la mode at Trump rallies, replacing previous favourites including “Lock her up” and “Build the wall”.

Ben Roback: Democrats risk overplaying their response to the Mueller investigation

Obsessing with a Washington debate about impeachment is a gift to the President, who repeats a far simpler message.

Ben Roback: Trump’s state visit. Problems abound. But interests – trade, defence, the Special Relationship – endure.

The visit should serve as a timely reminder that the last especially outlasts any individual President or Prime Minister.

Ben Roback. America’s mid-terms. Not so much a blue wave as a blue ripple.

The Republicans made gains in the Senate, the Democrats won back the House – but that’s not enough to give them the stranglehold on Trump that they wanted.

Ben Roback: Is Trump looking more and more like a one-term president?

He pledged in his campaign to drain the swamp. By 2020, he could find that the swamp has drained him.