President Trump claimed without evidence Tuesday that he is “leading in the polls” as he sought to push back against rising calls for impeachment from Democrats amid a burgeoning controversy over his July call with the leader of Ukraine. “I think it’s ridiculous. It’s a witch hunt,” Trump said of […] Read more »
Impeaching Trump On Russia Was Unpopular. Will Ukraine Be Different?
Rather suddenly, we are on a trajectory toward the potential impeachment of President Trump. … A majority of House Democrats had already expressed a desire to impeach Trump over his conduct toward Russia in the 2016 campaign and his handling of the Russia investigation, but the list of pro-impeachment Democrats […] Read more »
More good news for Elizabeth Warren, within striking distance of Joe Biden in Nevada
Elizabeth Warren has pulled within striking distance of Joe Biden for the lead in Nevada’s influential presidential caucuses. A new Suffolk University/USA TODAY Network Poll, taken after this month’s Democratic debate, shows Biden at 23% and Warren at 19% in Nevada, the state that follows Iowa and New Hampshire in […] Read more »
Iowa Democrats split on whether to continue caucus system
Likely Democratic caucusgoers in Iowa are divided on whether it is more important to continue the state’s caucus tradition as the first test of Democratic presidential candidates or to switch to a primary, according to a new CNN/Des Moines Register/Mediacom poll. CONT. Grace Sparks, CNN Read more »
Some House Democrats aren’t rushing to back an assault weapons ban. Here’s why
Every leading Democratic presidential candidate now supports a renewed ban on assault-style weapons, an issue that the party has considered too hot to touch for most of the past quarter-century. But House Democrats, who are preparing for their first legislative hearing Wednesday on the issue in years, remain just short […] Read more »
Most Americans don’t like Trump. But how many of them will still vote for him?
… Most of those people who didn’t view Trump as qualified voted for Hillary Clinton or didn’t vote. But exit polling conducted on Election Day found that of the 61 percent of voters who didn’t think Trump was qualified, nearly a fifth voted for Trump anyway. This was certainly in […] Read more »