Half of Americans think President Donald Trump’s effort to get Ukraine to investigate potential 2020 election rival Joe Biden is an impeachable offense, the October IBD/TIPP Poll found. But the Ukraine scandal has yet to hurt Trump’s approval rating or 2020 election prospects. CONT. Jed Graham, Investor’s Business Daily Read more »
Democrats are looking for electability in all the wrong places
Forget Medicare-for-all, the wealth tax and reparations for slavery. What Democrats want most is to beat President Trump. To that end, they obsess over whether energizing progressives or persuading swing voters is more important; how the electorate would react to a woman or person of color running against Trump; and […] Read more »
Joe Biden’s Most Important ‘Endorsement’
… While the direction of polls among 2020 Democratic primary voters has not been encouraging for erstwhile front-runner and Vice President Joe Biden, as supporters watched his once commanding lead over the field shrink to a neck-and-neck contest with the clearly surging Sen. Elizabeth Warren. But make no mistake about […] Read more »
Perilous times for Trump: By 45%-38%, Americans support impeaching him over Ukraine allegations
Americans by a 45%-38% plurality now support a vote by the House of Representatives to impeach President Donald Trump, a USA TODAY/Ipsos Poll finds, as allegations continue to swirl around an embattled White House. By a similar margin, 44%-35%, those surveyed say the Senate, which would then be charged with […] Read more »
Yes, Americans believe the House should be trying to impeach President Trump
Impeachment consideration has grown in the last two months. A plurality of Americans in the latest Economist/YouGov Poll now say the US House of Representatives should try to impeach President Donald Trump. Some Independents, who in July opposed an impeachment attempt, appear to have changed their minds, and Independents are […] Read more »
Why Black Voters Prefer Establishment Candidates Over Liberal Alternatives
Black voters effectively delivered Hillary Clinton the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016. She and Sen. Bernie Sanders ran about evenly among white voters, but black voters overwhelmingly backed Clinton. So did the Democratic establishment. That team-up — black voters and the more establishment candidate — is not unusual. We don’t […] Read more »