… As has become the norm in American presidential politics, the race to 270 electoral votes is almost certain to come down to a handful of battleground states. So, don’t let all those national polls showing a big advantage for Joe Biden cloud your vision too much. Yes, at this […] Read more »
As Trump struggles to respond to crises, internal polling instills fear in advisers
One week ago President Donald Trump met with advisers from his 2020 re-election campaign, who greeted him with bad news. … Top aides warned that former Vice President Joe Biden, now the presumptive Democratic nominee, was positioned to defeat the president by a significant number of electoral votes based on […] Read more »
How Much Is America Changing?
America is at a racial and political crossroads. Protests over the past two weeks in response to an interrelated set of issues and events — the killing of George Floyd, police brutality, the Covid pandemic, a nation in lockdown, joblessness, a devastated economy and a presidential election — give rise […] Read more »
Trump Demands CNN Retract a Poll, as OANN Teases a Rosier View
President Trump’s re-election campaign has sued several news outlets for coverage it deemed unflattering. On Wednesday, the president’s team added a new wrinkle to its media intimidation tactics: demanding that a TV network retract a poll it did not like. In an unusual cease-and-desist letter, the Trump campaign called on […] Read more »
Forceful clearing of Lafayette Square protest was defining moment for president and protests
The police crackdown to clear protesters from Lafayette Square last week looms as a defining moment in the national debate over race and law enforcement that followed the death of George Floyd. An exclusive USA TODAY/Ipsos Poll finds Americans overwhelmingly endorse the right of peaceful protest outside the White House […] Read more »
The politics of confusion tests both Trump and Biden
The American electorate today is understandably distressed and perhaps a little more than confused over the turn of events in the past few months. Who could blame them? … Americans at this point have become a little like balls in a tennis match, smashed back and forth, from one side […] Read more »