Driven by sharp divisions that reflect the persistent partisan fissures within the country, the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump solidified public support for convicting him of inciting insurrection, a new ABC News/Ipsos poll finds. Over half of Americans (58%) say that Trump should have been convicted, which […] Read more »
How the Senate map shift helped Trump win acquittal
Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial followed a very predictable partisan path in the Senate last week, with Democrats voting to convict and most Republicans voting to acquit. There’s a long list of reasons, but one of them is the increasingly tidy alignment between the Senate and the presidential partisan maps. […] Read more »
Is the GOP’s extremist wing now too big to fail?
Congressional Republicans have crystallized an ominous question by rejecting consequences for Donald Trump over the January 6 riot in his impeachment trial and welcoming conspiracy theorist Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia into their caucus: Has the extremist wing of the GOP coalition grown too big for the party to […] Read more »
Why most GOP senators are standing by Trump
A lot of critics of former President Donald Trump want GOP senators to “show some spine.” They think the big reason they have stayed with Trump through impeachment is because they’re scared of him. There’s good reason to be worried about going against Trump, given how popular he is among […] Read more »
Most Americans think Trump at least partially responsible for Capitol attack
Seventy-one percent of American adults, including nearly half of all Republicans, believe former President Donald Trump was at least partially responsible for starting the deadly Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol, according to an Ipsos poll conducted for Reuters. But the national online poll, released on Saturday, also showed […] Read more »
With Trump’s Acquittal, The Fragility Of America’s Democracy Is Even More Clear
… What happened on Jan. 6 and the days leading up to it — an American president spending weeks trying to reverse the results of a free and fair election, culminating in his supporters storming the U.S. Capitol to try to keep him in power by force — was so […] Read more »