Support for removing President Trump from office has leapt since Speaker Nancy Pelosi opened an impeachment inquiry against him, but his Republican backers appear to represent an increasingly loyal minority, according to polls released this week. As support for impeachment grows, the president’s base is digging in its heels. But […] Read more »
Elizabeth Warren’s Two Approaches to Government
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren has moved to the top tier of 2020 Democratic presidential candidates, based in part on her detailed and highly specific plans for addressing the nation’s pressing policy issues. … In addition to her plans for a much-elevated use of government as the means for addressing social […] Read more »
Impeachment Support Up Slightly But Trump Job Rating Steady
President Donald Trump’s approval rating has remained steady in the wake of an official impeachment inquiry launched last week, although support for impeachment has ticked up slightly. In a two year Monmouth University Poll trend on impeachment opinion the current findings are not out of line with some prior results. […] Read more »
These are the Republicans who are against Trump and for impeachment
President Donald Trump is staring down possible impeachment. Fortunately for him, his base of very conservative Republicans in the Senate likely would save him from being removed from office. But CNN/SSRS polling in September suggests that Trump should be more worried about a part of the Republican Party that gets […] Read more »
How support for impeachment is changing — and what that tells us
One of the complicating factors in trying to determine how the latest scandal involving President Trump will unfold is that we’re in unusually uncharted territory. Sure, there have been impeachment efforts before, but only two in the era of modern polling. Each involved a president in his second term, not […] Read more »
Big Structural Change
Increasingly, the Democratic presidential nomination seems a battle between former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Elizabeth Warren. … The two leaders – Biden and Warren – are the two candidates who have presented the clearest rationales for their candidacy. Biden fundamentally promises a return to the Obama years and […] Read more »