If November’s election were held this week, polling averages suggest Joe Biden would sweep President Donald Trump in all six states Trump carried by less than five points in 2016: Arizona, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Biden is also running highly competitively in the four states Trump carried […] Read more »
Americans Support Free Speech Online but Want More Action to Curb Harmful Content
As the COVID-19 crisis continues and the debate rages on between Twitter and President Trump over online content moderation, a new report from Gallup and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation found that Americans understand the threat of misinformation to public health and democracy, and want misleading information […] Read more »
Campaign Experts React to Good and Bad 2020 Ads
Former Barack Obama Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer and pollster Cornell Belcher take a look at 2020 ads. Today’s ads include a positive spot from the Trump campaign, the Lincoln Project’s “Traitor” ad, and an ad from the Senate Majority PAC against Susan Collins. Crooked Media The OPINION TODAY email newsletter is a […] Read more »
Eye of the Storm
With states beginning to reopen and politics beginning to heat up, it feels like we’re in the eye of the storm – past the covid-19 hammer and preparing for the election maelstrom to come. CNN political analyst Harry Enten joins the Horse Race to help us make sense of this […] Read more »
Trump campaign divided over how to attack Biden amid worries over troubling poll numbers
For weeks the Trump reelection effort has diligently cut, catalogued and pushed out viral videos of every verbal stumble Joe Biden makes in interviews, relentlessly pushing the idea that the presumptive Democratic nominee is mentally unfit for the presidency. … But behind the scenes, the offensive has become a point […] Read more »
Trump’s poor poll numbers trigger GOP alarms over November
Senior Republicans and President Donald Trump’s campaign are wrestling with how to best position him for November as the coronavirus poses a grave threat to his reelection. With Trump’s poll figures sagging in key battleground states six months out from the election, the Republican National Committee has launched a massive […] Read more »