In a live taping of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast in Austin, Texas, the crew debates whether Texas will be a battleground state in 2020. Special guest Ashley Lopez, senior politics reporter at KUT, joins in the debate. The team also faces off with the audience in a round of political […] Read more »
Biden, unions and the politics of 2020
Shortly after former Vice President Joe Biden announced his candidacy for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, he received his first union endorsement. “I couldn’t be more proud to have the International Association of Fire Fighters on my team,” Biden tweeted in response. “Unions built the middle class in this country […] Read more »
High voter enthusiasm for 2020 election in new NBC/WSJ poll
Steve Kornacki is at the big board to break down new numbers from our NBC/WSJ poll on voter enthusiasm for next November’s presidential election. MSNBC Read more »
Is Biden Really the Most ‘Electable’ Democrat?
Joe Biden opened his presidential campaign with a sharp, if familiar, message. “I believe history will look back on four years of this president and all he embraces as an aberrant moment in time,” he said in his announcement video. “But if we give Donald Trump eight years in the […] Read more »
Many Democrats are misreading 2016 to assume that Biden is their best chance in 2020
In the past two weeks, there’s been a divergence in the Democratic presidential primary field. Former vice president Joe Biden has surged in recent polling while Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has seen his support slacken. … Why? What is spurring Biden’s surge? One key factor appears to be the perception […] Read more »
Trump says economy is a strength and the numbers just got better
This week brought another wave of good economic news for American workers – more jobs and less unemployment – and the new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll shows just how important those numbers are to the Trump White House with 2020 approaching. CONT. Dante Chinni, NBC News Read more »