The last time Mayor Bill de Blasio was in Iowa, home to the first-in-the-nation presidential nominating contest, he was door-knocking for Hillary Clinton. If he’s thinking about coming back as a candidate in 2020, New Yorkers definitively think he should the drop the idea. CONT. Bobby Cuza, NY1 Read more »
Emerging GOP Divisions on President Trump Loom Over 2018 and 2020 Elections
The eighth annual American Values Survey from the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI), released this morning at an event with The Brookings Institution, finds fractures in the Republican Party over the Trump Presidency. Approximately one in three Republicans surveyed (31 percent) say they would prefer the 2020 Republican nominee be […] Read more »
The Democratic Civil War Is Getting Nasty, Even if No One Is Paying Attention
… It can be difficult, if not impossible, in Washington these days to pay attention to the Democrats’ war within while what appears to be the full-fledged implosion of the Republican Party unfolds. … So perhaps it’s no surprise that the brewing fight over the Democratic Party’s future gets so […] Read more »
The country hates the GOP Congress: Why don’t Democrats have a knock-out lead?
About 9 months into his presidency, Donald Trump has settled into a historically weak job approval of 41 percent, well below his presidential vote, and with the strong disapproval over 45 percent of voters. He remains an unrepentant divider which pervades all political discourse. Yet the most hated politicians are […] Read more »
Trump’s Re-Election Edge Is Greatly Exaggerated
Few stories are more irresistible than those that take on the conventional wisdom and come from an unexpected source. Doug Sosnik, a smart operative in Bill Clinton’s White House, provided both with a column this month suggesting that Donald Trump is well-positioned for re-election. … Sosnik’s column has led to […] Read more »
Shifting attitudes among Democrats have big implications for 2020
Partisan divisions are not new news in American politics, nor is the assertion that one cause of the deepening polarization has been a demonstrable rightward shift among Republicans. But a more recent leftward movement in attitudes among Democrats also is notable and has obvious implications as the party looks toward […] Read more »