Public preference for Joe Biden over Donald Trump in trust to handle the coronavirus pandemic has soared since March in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, boosting Biden – along with other measures – in the race for the White House. Biden’s also advanced, nearly to par with Trump, in […] Read more »
Trump wants a ‘law and order’ election. He’s losing that battle.
President Donald Trump is struggling on the most important non-economic issues of the day. His disapproval rating on both the coronavirus and race relations are in the 30s, and his Democratic opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden, is trusted more on both of these issues by double-digits. These deficits could […] Read more »
E & E: The coronavirus’ impact on the economy and education in the United States
On this week’s episode of Poll Hub, Pallavi Gogoi, Chief Business Editor for NPR, joins the team. The topic: whether the U.S. economy is on the path to recovery. Her expertise sheds light on the unique relationship between Americans’ perceptions of health and the economy. Then, we pick up the […] Read more »
Joe Biden has an enthusiasm problem with Hispanic voters. It’s even worse for Trump.
In the 2020 Democratic primary, former vice president Joe Biden built his victory on votes from white moderates, African Americans and pragmatic Democrats. But Latino voters — particularly in California, Texas and Nevada — broke in the main for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). This appears to be a problem for […] Read more »
Electoral College Outlook: Biden Has the Edge
A month ago, a public poll showed President Donald Trump leading Joe Biden by just 2 points in Arkansas. That would be easy to dismiss as an outlier, considering Trump won the state by 27 points four years ago, except for the growing mountain of data elsewhere that is evidence […] Read more »
Trump’s campaign is in freefall, with COVID-19 on voters’ minds
It is never a good sign when a candidate is forced to replace his campaign manager less than four months before the election. In Donald Trump’s case, it is an indication that his reelection campaign is in a crisis so pervasive that it threatens to take down not only his […] Read more »