Voters in the states likeliest to decide the 2020 presidential election support the impeachment inquiry that House Democrats began last month, but a majority still opposes impeaching President Trump and removing him from office, according to a New York Times/Siena College survey. In the six closest states carried by the […] Read more »
Iowa caucuses are ‘up for grabs’ as Pete Buttigieg surges into top tier
It’s a new three-way race in Iowa. Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, who was initially seen as a long-shot presidential contender, has surged within striking distance of former vice president Joe Biden and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren in the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses, a Suffolk University/USA TODAY Poll […] Read more »
A strange bellwether: Pennsylvania’s House
The five competitive 2020 House races in Pennsylvania read like an abridged version of the national House race. They include the suburban battlegrounds, the exurban battlegrounds, a Romney-Clinton districts, an Obama-Trump district, a Republican in a seat that Clinton carried and a Democrat in a seat Trump carried. The results […] Read more »
Endorsements matter when there’s a consensus
FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver on whether he buys that endorsements will matter for the 2020 Democratic primary. This Week, ABC News Read more »
Trump faces greater electoral challenge than impeachment
It is no secret that President Trump won the White House in 2016 by turning out his base and by appealing to White working class voters, mainly in Midwestern states, that were once a part of the Democratic coalition. While Trump’s core base of supporters remains solid, shifts in the […] Read more »
Trump Campaign Floods Web With Ads, Raking In Cash as Democrats Struggle
On any given day, the Trump campaign is plastering ads all over Facebook, YouTube and the millions of sites served by Google, hitting the kind of incendiary themes — immigrant invaders, the corrupt media — that play best on platforms where algorithms favor outrage and political campaigns are free to […] Read more »