President Trump said last month that he had “learned a lot from Richard Nixon,” and many interpreted his hard-line response to the street protests of recent days as a homage of sorts to the 1968 campaign. The president’s Twitter feed has been filled with phrases famous from the Nixon lexicon […] Read more »
Trump is the Democrats’ ace in the hole for November
… With less than five months to go until Election Day, Trump is still behaving as if this were January 2017. He is using the same strategy to destroy his general election opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden, that he did against Hillary Clinton. And he is playing to the […] Read more »
Wave of New Polling Suggests an Erosion of Trump’s Support
The coronavirus pandemic, a severe economic downturn and the widespread demonstrations in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd in police custody would pose a serious political challenge to any president seeking re-election. They are certainly posing one to President Trump. His approval rating has fallen to negative 12.7 […] Read more »
Biden builds largest lead this year
Our new CNN/SSRS poll jumps right off the screen: Former Vice President Joe Biden has 55% to President Donald Trump’s 41%. Now, any one poll could be deemed an outlier. But let’s get something straight: Biden’s clearly on the upswing in high quality live telephone polling like CNN’s. In fact, […] Read more »
This is Trump’s most spectacularly wonderfully terrible tweet ever
I mean, where do I start? I’m tempted to start by noting the staggering irony of President Trump insisting on Twitter that a new poll showing him losing by a wide margin to former vice president Joe Biden relies on the same bad math that convinced a slew of Republicans […] Read more »
CNN Poll: Trump losing ground to Biden amid chaotic week
As protesters gather daily near the White House and the coronavirus pandemic rages on, the American public is souring on President Donald Trump. A new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS finds Trump’s approval rating down 7 points in the last month as the President falls further behind presumptive Democratic nominee […] Read more »