Donald Trump’s approval rating is essentially unchanged at a historically weak 39 percent after the release of the Mueller report, just three in 10 Americans accept the president’s claim to have been exonerated and 58 percent in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll say the president lied to the public […] Read more »
Majority of Americans oppose impeachment, but majority also says Trump lied to public
A majority of Americans say they oppose calls for Congress to launch impeachment proceedings against President Trump in the wake of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and whether the president sought to interfere with the probe, according to a Washington Post-ABC […] Read more »
The Political Risk of Impeachment
Democrats face a choice. We’ve heard many say President Trump is unqualified and unworthy of being president; that he has behaved in ways beneath his position and that he has betrayed the office—and because of his actions and words, he deserves to be impeached and removed from power. … Any […] Read more »
Restoration Versus Revolution
A couple of weeks ago, I noted that one way to look at the 2020 Democratic primary contest was to think of it as a battle between those candidates who wanted a ‘revolution’ versus those who want to see more of a ‘restoration.’ The leaders of the ‘revolution’ wing, Sens. […] Read more »
Biden’s path to 2020 is strewn with cautionary tales
… Trying to think systematically about the role of the press in political coverage and reflecting on the 10 prior presidential campaigns that I have covered, I want to set down some of the lessons that have jumped out at me. I offer this list with hesitation and humility because […] Read more »
The case for and against Joe Biden’s 2020 chances
Former Vice President Joe Biden officially jumped into the 2020 presidential race on Thursday — and his candidacy is perhaps the most analytically perplexing of any of the Democrats. He’s probably got the best chance of any Democrat running to win the nomination, but the other candidates combined have a […] Read more »