Only 38 percent of Americans approve of the job Joe Biden is doing as President, and the latest survey results from the FDU Poll show that this is largely due to the belief that Presidents have a lot of influence over things that they actually have very little control over. […] Read more »
The Kinds of Seats that Flip in Midterms
Key Points• While increasingly salient issues like abortion could change the political environment, Republicans still appear on track for a strong showing in the U.S. House.• Recent midterms have hollowed out the presidential party’s holdings of districts where the president either did the same or worse than he did nationally […] Read more »
Ipsos Core Political: 42% job approval for Biden vs. 56% this time last year
This week’s Ipsos’ Core Political illustrates the decreased support President Joe Biden has seen over the past year as Americans’ concern over the economy increases and their approval of the way Biden has been handling it decreases. Today, 42% of Americans approve of President Biden’s performance in office, compared to […] Read more »
Biden talks inflation: Another swing and a miss
What little credibility President Joe Biden still enjoys with the electorate took another hit Tuesday with a so-called inflation speech so full of misstatements and misinformation it is hard to know where to begin. … Biden’s “inflation” speech was mostly a rehash of a series of speeches filled with misstatements […] Read more »
The Democrats’ Midterm Identity Crisis
President Joe Biden arrived in office with a throwback theory of how to expand his party’s support. He sought to focus his presidency on delivering kitchen-table benefits to low- and middle-income families—for example, with stimulus checks and an expansive child tax credit—while downplaying his involvement in high-profile cultural disputes and […] Read more »
Personality Politics, with Jonathan Martin & Alex Burns
We’ve reached maximum Hacks capacity this week with not one but two guest Hacks, Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns of The New York Times. They join Axe and Murphy to discuss the MAGA-fication of Republican primary races, the politics of Roe v. Wade, and Martin and Burns’ new book, This […] Read more »