A majority of Americans, including many Republicans, want the winner of the November presidential election to name a successor to Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Supreme Court, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Sunday. CONT. Chris Kahn, Reuters The OPINION TODAY email newsletter is a concise daily rundown of significant new […] Read more »
Florida race tightens and Trump has edge over Biden in Texas
Joe Biden still has a small edge in Florida, but the contest has tightened since our last poll in July, from six points down to two now, amid an ebbing — if still sizable — concern about coronavirus, while President Trump has picked up a few more of the state’s […] Read more »
Impending SCOTUS Fight Could Split the Trump Coalition
In the hours since Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s passing, several analysts have speculated the new, colossal Supreme Court fight will help President Trump by rallying traditional GOP voters behind him and shifting the focus of 2020 from the mismanagement of COVID-19 to a more straightforward partisan cage match. That’s possible, […] Read more »
Justice Ginsburg’s Death Will Not Upend the Race Completely
It is hard to believe that we are mourning yet another groundbreaking leader in a year of so much loss. It feels inappropriate to be spending more time talking about the politics of her replacement than the life of this pioneering woman. But, we know that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg […] Read more »
Why Biden and Trump are fighting over one electoral vote in Nebraska
Some states, it seems, get all the attention in presidential elections. You probably know most of them by now: Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, etc. But beyond the big prizes lie the smallest prizes in the competitive races: Maine’s 2nd Congressional District (one electoral vote), Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District (one electoral […] Read more »
Ginsburg’s Death Further Polarizes Voters Just Weeks Before Election
The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg adds a volatile and unexpected element to a presidential campaign that for months had focused on President Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Instead of an election overwhelmingly seen as a referendum on Mr. Trump and his handling of the virus, interviews with […] Read more »