https://pjmedia.com/author/matt-margolis/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usSun, 06 Sep 2026 08:01:36 -0400<![CDATA[President Donald Trump has spent months trying to return the Kennedy Center to its former glory, and leftists have been trying to stop him at every turn. This week, the building did their work for them. A chunk of the Grand Foyer ceiling came crashing down onto the red carpet.]]>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 15:34:00 -0400<![CDATA[Matt Margolis]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Lawsuit]]><![CDATA[Media Bias]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]><![CDATA[Washington]]>https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/09/05/trump-was-right-about-the-kennedy-center-n4956928<![CDATA[Conventional wisdom still says that Democrats are favored to win the midterms this year. But Democrats may have blown up their chances when Abdul El-Sayed won the Michigan Senate primary. There’s a reason why the establishment is quietly panicking about El-Sayed in particular.]]>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 11:44:00 -0400<![CDATA[Matt Margolis]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Michigan]]><![CDATA[Socialism]]><![CDATA[Abdul El-Sayed]]>https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/09/05/abdul-el-sayed-could-cost-democrats-the-entire-midterms-n4956921<![CDATA[On Thursday, Fox News announced that Maria Bartiromo was “no longer with Fox News Media.” This created the impression that she had been fired. Bartiromo's attorney, Bryan Freedman, pushed back hard on the firing narrative, disputing the reports outright.]]>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 09:50:00 -0400<![CDATA[Matt Margolis]]><![CDATA[Censorship]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Fox News]]><![CDATA[Lawsuit]]>https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/09/05/we-have-new-details-on-the-maria-bartiromo-situation-n4956919<![CDATA[State Rep. James Talarico (D-50th District) has a fixation on trans children. That isn't new. But a newly resurfaced video proves it’s even worse than we thought.]]>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 16:40:58 -0400<![CDATA[Matt Margolis]]><![CDATA[Parental Rights]]><![CDATA[Texas]]><![CDATA[Transgender]]><![CDATA[LGBTQ+]]><![CDATA[James Talarico]]>https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/09/04/new-video-exposes-more-of-talaricos-creepy-obsession-with-trans-kids-n4956906<![CDATA[America's economy just handed Democrats their worst Friday of the year, mere weeks before the midterms.]]>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 10:11:00 -0400<![CDATA[Matt Margolis]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Economy]]><![CDATA[Jobs]]><![CDATA[White House]]>https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/09/04/huge-jobs-report-for-august-democrats-most-hurt-n4956886<![CDATA[Jessica Tarlov spent Thursday's episode of The Five running defense for Abdul El-Sayed, the Democrats’ socialist candidate for the U.S. Senate in Michigan. Tarlov defending him totally tracks, because defending unhinged leftists from criticism is basically her whole job description at this point. She pretty much defended Graham Platner up until the rape allegations came, and she's defended Hasan Piker, so this is par for the course with her. So, why wouldn’t she blindly defend El-Sayed?]]>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 09:08:00 -0400<![CDATA[Matt Margolis]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Greg Gutfeld]]><![CDATA[Jessica Tarlov]]><![CDATA[Josh Shapiro]]><![CDATA[Abdul El-Sayed]]>https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/09/04/did-jessica-tarlov-accuse-gutfeld-of-being-antisemitic-n4956883<![CDATA[UPDATE [12:12 p.m., Friday, Sept. 4]:]]>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 20:32:02 -0400<![CDATA[Matt Margolis]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Fox News]]><![CDATA[White House]]>https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/09/03/now-we-know-why-fox-news-fired-maria-bartiromo-n4956876<![CDATA[Last month, PJ Media reported that red-state Democrats want nothing to do with Kamala Harris on the campaign trail, a brutal signal for whatever she's quietly planning for 2028. This week, that reporting caught up with her on MS NOW, of all places, and it was every bit as awkward as you'd expect.]]>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:22:40 -0400<![CDATA[Matt Margolis]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Iowa]]><![CDATA[Kamala Harris]]><![CDATA[Michigan]]>https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/09/03/well-this-msnow-moment-with-kamala-harris-was-super-awkward-n4956870<![CDATA[Maria Bartiromo is gone from Fox News Media, and after more than twelve years on the air, nobody's saying why.]]>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:12:00 -0400<![CDATA[Matt Margolis]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Fox News]]><![CDATA[Media Bias]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]>https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/09/03/maria-bartiromo-out-at-fox-news-and-we-dont-know-why-n4956867<![CDATA[I recently wrote about pollster Patrick Ruffini's deep dive into more than 3,000 polls conducted over the past four election cycles, which found that pollsters overestimated Democrats by an average of 3.7 points, with that error ballooning to roughly 5.9 percentage points during the summer months before correcting in the fall.]]>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 09:57:00 -0400<![CDATA[Matt Margolis]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Congress]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Polling]]><![CDATA[Republican Party]]>https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/09/03/new-poll-devastates-democrats-ahead-of-midterms-n4956852<![CDATA[If you heard any collective screaming from the left on Wednesday, this is probably why. The U.S. Mint rolled out a commemorative dollar coin with President Donald Trump’s face on it to mark America's 250th birthday.]]>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:14:00 -0400<![CDATA[Matt Margolis]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[History]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]><![CDATA[USA]]><![CDATA[America 250]]>https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/09/02/this-is-the-reason-leftists-are-screaming-right-now-n4956824<![CDATA[House Democrats are having a rough week.]]>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:50:00 -0400<![CDATA[Matt Margolis]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Hakeem Jeffries]]><![CDATA[House of Representatives]]><![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi]]><![CDATA[Socialism]]>https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/09/02/nancy-pelosi-just-threw-hakeem-jeffries-under-the-bus-n4956805<![CDATA[Hunter Biden has a big announcement, and no, it's not about a sold painting or getting sober again.]]>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 08:48:00 -0400<![CDATA[Matt Margolis]]><![CDATA[Entertainment]]><![CDATA[Hunter Biden]]><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]><![CDATA[Transgender]]><![CDATA[LGBTQ+]]>https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/09/02/hunter-biden-comes-out-as-a-little-bit-gay-n4956802<![CDATA[Jessica Tarlov had another meltdown on The Five last week. And I’m not gonna lie, I thought it was pretty funny.]]>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 21:22:00 -0400<![CDATA[Matt Margolis]]><![CDATA[Canada]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Inflation]]><![CDATA[Jessica Tarlov]]><![CDATA[Trade]]>https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/09/01/this-jessica-tarlov-tantrum-is-one-for-the-books-n4956797<![CDATA[Mark Carney wants the United States to stop making fun of Canada before he'll agree to sit down and talk trade.]]>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 16:28:57 -0400<![CDATA[Matt Margolis]]><![CDATA[Canada]]><![CDATA[Mark Carney]]><![CDATA[Tariffs]]><![CDATA[Trade]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]>https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/09/01/carney-wont-talk-trade-until-americas-stop-hurting-his-feelings-with-memes-n4956789<![CDATA[Abdul El-Sayed wants Michigan's Jewish voters to forget everything they know about him. For years, he's faced accusations of antisemitism over his rhetoric on Israel, and his policy positions have been extreme enough that even fellow Democrats have kept their distance from him. But now that he needs Jewish votes to win the general election, he's suddenly softening his tone and hoping nobody checks the record.]]>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:11:00 -0400<![CDATA[Matt Margolis]]><![CDATA[Antisemitism]]><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]><![CDATA[Israel]]><![CDATA[Michigan]]><![CDATA[Abdul El-Sayed]]>https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/09/01/this-liberal-commentator-called-abdul-el-sayed-dangerous-and-insane-n4956774<![CDATA[On Friday, Wolf Blitzer decided it was his job to help Democrats lie about President Donald Trump. At least this time, he was forced to issue a correction.]]>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 10:16:00 -0400<![CDATA[Matt Margolis]]><![CDATA[Abigail Spanberger]]><![CDATA[CNN]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Virginia]]>https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/09/01/wolf-blitzers-trump-mail-in-voting-lie-blows-up-in-his-face-with-humiliating-correction-n4956770<![CDATA[The National Trust for Historic Preservation spent months trying to stop President Donald Trump from building a ballroom at the White House.&nbsp;]]>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 17:34:00 -0400<![CDATA[Matt Margolis]]><![CDATA[Chief Justice John Roberts]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]><![CDATA[White House]]>https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/08/31/cry-harder-lefties-supreme-court-clears-trumps-ballroom-project-n4956748<![CDATA[The mainstream media have spent pretty much every moment since Donald Trump announced his candidacy for president of the United States portraying him as an evil, cruel, empathy-free tyrant who couldn't manage a kind word for anyone outside his own family. Joe Biden practically built his entire 2020 campaign on that same premise, insisting that the election came down to character, and that Trump simply didn't have it.]]>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 11:29:00 -0400<![CDATA[Matt Margolis]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]><![CDATA[John Fetterman]]><![CDATA[Media Bias]]>https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/08/31/the-left-would-hate-for-you-to-know-these-things-about-trump-n4956731<![CDATA[Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) sat down with Kristen Welker on Meet the Press Sunday, and the segment on the Supreme Court went about as you'd expect from a Democrat these days. He's on board with Kamala Harris's push to expand the Court to 13 justices, because of course he is. I don't care how many times Democrats swear this isn't about seizing permanent power. Packing the bench only becomes a priority whenever they're the ones stuck losing decisions, and something tells me Clyburn's enthusiasm for a bigger bench is entirely dependent on which party gets to fill those seats.]]>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 12:57:05 -0400<![CDATA[Matt Margolis]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Justice Clarence Thomas]]><![CDATA[Kamala Harris]]><![CDATA[Kristen Welker]]><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]>https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/08/30/james-clyburn-thinks-clarence-thomas-aint-black-n4956713