… As has become the norm in American presidential politics, the race to 270 electoral votes is almost certain to come down to a handful of battleground states. So, don’t let all those national polls showing a big advantage for Joe Biden cloud your vision too much. Yes, at this […] Read more »
Why Republicans Still Can’t Quit Trump
With Donald Trump sagging in the polls against Joe Biden, the internal Republican debate about what a post-Trump GOP might look like is growing louder. And that dialogue is underscoring how hard it may be for Republicans to abandon the confrontational and divisive direction he has set for the party, […] Read more »
As Trump struggles to respond to crises, internal polling instills fear in advisers
One week ago President Donald Trump met with advisers from his 2020 re-election campaign, who greeted him with bad news. … Top aides warned that former Vice President Joe Biden, now the presumptive Democratic nominee, was positioned to defeat the president by a significant number of electoral votes based on […] Read more »
How Much Is America Changing?
America is at a racial and political crossroads. Protests over the past two weeks in response to an interrelated set of issues and events — the killing of George Floyd, police brutality, the Covid pandemic, a nation in lockdown, joblessness, a devastated economy and a presidential election — give rise […] Read more »
Trump Demands CNN Retract a Poll, as OANN Teases a Rosier View
President Trump’s re-election campaign has sued several news outlets for coverage it deemed unflattering. On Wednesday, the president’s team added a new wrinkle to its media intimidation tactics: demanding that a TV network retract a poll it did not like. In an unusual cease-and-desist letter, the Trump campaign called on […] Read more »
Forceful clearing of Lafayette Square protest was defining moment for president and protests
The police crackdown to clear protesters from Lafayette Square last week looms as a defining moment in the national debate over race and law enforcement that followed the death of George Floyd. An exclusive USA TODAY/Ipsos Poll finds Americans overwhelmingly endorse the right of peaceful protest outside the White House […] Read more »