Two-thirds of Americans approve of President Joe Biden’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, a new ABC News/Ipsos poll finds, putting the new commander-in-chief on steady footing after more than two weeks in office. In line with attitudes measured just after his inauguration, twice as many Americans approve of Biden’s leadership […] Read more »
The Average American Weighs in on Immigration
This is one in a series of articles looking at the issues being tackled by the new Biden administration, from the perspective of the average American. Our focus here is immigration, one of the central themes of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016 and the focus of high-profile policy actions […] Read more »
The Challenge of Going It Alone
The last time we had a Senate divided at 50/50 was back in 2001. It only stayed that way until May of 2001 when Vermont Republican Sen. Jim Jeffords switched parties, giving Democrats 51 seats. But, the make-up of the Senate was much less polarized than it is today. In […] Read more »
The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election
… “It was all very, very strange,” Trump said on Dec. 2. “Within days after the election, we witnessed an orchestrated effort to anoint the winner, even while many key states were still being counted.” In a way, Trump was right. There was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes, one […] Read more »
Biden’s Policies Are Popular. What Does That Mean for Republicans?
The American public has given President Biden favorable reviews since he took office last month, and the policies that he is hurrying to put in place appear broadly popular, according to polls. And notably, as he signs a wave of executive actions and pushes a major $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief […] Read more »
Biden’s Early Moves Reflect the Declining Strength of the Center-Right
… The “moderate” label was always a poor fit for Biden, used mostly as a facile shorthand to denote that his politics differed from those of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. As I observed after his selection of Kamala Harris last August, Biden’s actual career-long persona is “regular Democrat,” with […] Read more »