With the end of 2018 comes the end of the part of the presidential race when people run for president while pretending they aren’t running. … Several candidates spent much of 2018 well below the radar, doing little more in public than signaling their intentions, such as former Housing and […] Read more »
Wealthy Republicans lose faith in Trump
The 2020 race for the White House is just barely under way, but the latest CNBC Millionaire Survey shows some troubling signs for the incumbent President Donald Trump, including an energized base of wealthy Democrats and unsteady support from wealthy Republicans. Just 34 percent of America’s millionaires say they would […] Read more »
Trump Policy Gyrations Threaten Fragile Republican Coalition
President Trump’s near-simultaneous decisions this week to force a government shutdown over his demand to fund a border wall and withdraw American troops from Syria and Afghanistan have imperiled the fragile Republican coalition, exacerbating the party’s fears about what may become of his presidency — and its own electoral prospects […] Read more »
2020 GOP Win Happens If Never Trumpers Step Aside
The results of our latest national survey of 1,000 likely 2020 presidential year voters, conducted between Dec. 10-14, show that even with all the media bias and attacks on the president, really not much has changed since our postelection poll of 1,000 people voting on Nov. 6 of this year. […] Read more »
Winning the Gender Wars
In the 2018 midterms, the women of this country delivered a severe rebuke to President Donald Trump and the Republican Party. The seeds were planted by the 2017 Women’s March, by many accounts the largest single-day demonstration in American history. Thousands of women subsequently decided to run for office, including […] Read more »
Democratic activists haven’t decided on a 2020 candidate
A survey of Democratic activists in early primary states and Washington, DC, finds the vast majority of them still undecided about a 2020 presidential nominee. However, they’re considering candidates from a fairly narrow group, despite the very large number of potential candidates. CONT. Seth Masket (U. of Denver), Mischiefs of […] Read more »