Ken Blackwell

Ken Blackwell

CP Op-Ed Contributor

J. Kenneth Blackwell is Chairman of the Center For Election Integrity at the America First Policy Institute. He formerly served as Ohio Treasurer and Secretary of State.

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  • Trump Is Bad, but Not Worse Than Hillary

    Trump Is Bad, but Not Worse Than Hillary

    Donald Trump is the presumptive Republican Party nominee for president. His imminent triumph has created shock and dismay within the GOP. A number of top Republicans are threatening not to support Trump. A few have proposed launching a third party bid.

  • What Republicans Must Do to Win in November

    What Republicans Must Do to Win in November

    The media almost always is more interested in process than substance. So it's been big news that Ted Cruz and John Kasich are cooperating in their effort to stop Donald Trump from winning a majority of delegates and thus the nomination.

  • Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Are Both Abortion Extremists

    Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Are Both Abortion Extremists

    The recent Wisconsin primary was a serious setback for the front-runners of both parties. Donald Trump's momentum toward the 1,237 delegates needed for the Republican nomination was slowed by Ted Cruz's victory, and Hillary Clinton lost yet again to Bernie Sanders, who's won seven of the last eight contests.

  • Bernie Sanders Proposal Would Undermine Healthcare, Intellectual Property

    Bernie Sanders Proposal Would Undermine Healthcare, Intellectual Property

    Senator Sanders' proposal doesn't just have the potential to undermine the drug development system, it also poses a serious danger to the patent system by allowing the government to intervene in the protection of intellectual property.

  • 3 Things Republicans Need to Win and Govern

    3 Things Republicans Need to Win and Govern

    The eventual Republican nominee needs to take something from all three candidates to win.

  • #NeverTrump Conservatives: Don't Risk a Third-Party Movement

    #NeverTrump Conservatives: Don't Risk a Third-Party Movement

    The pages of the political calendar are turning relentlessly. Yesterday, GOP voters went to the polls in Arizona and Utah.

  • Donald Trump: Dragging America Into the Political Gutter

    Donald Trump: Dragging America Into the Political Gutter

    It's time for Republican and conservative voters to open their eyes to the real Donald Trump and understand the reasons why the nation deserves better than this political huckster.

  • Don't Let Obama Use Supreme Court as Weapon for Political War

    Don't Let Obama Use Supreme Court as Weapon for Political War

    For 30 years Antonin Scalia sat on the Supreme Court. He was a legal giant, unimpressed with the pretensions of power and resistant to liberal orthodoxies.

  • Obamacare: Bad for Insurers, Patients and Your Wallet

    Obamacare: Bad for Insurers, Patients and Your Wallet

    When the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, more commonly known as Obamacare, was enacted, Americans were promised a healthcare system in which insurance companies would be held accountable and patients would have access to affordable care.

  • The Real Iranian Moderates

    The Real Iranian Moderates

    Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, is traveling to the EU (Italy and France) this week in a visit that is supposed to hail a new era of relations with the West. Many have embraced him as a supposed "moderate" within the regime.