Americans are split on Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, with 46% saying they do not want the Senate to send her to the high court and 42% saying the Senate should confirm her in a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS. … Initial reactions to Barrett are among the […] Read more »
Trump loyalists facing a political reckoning
The biggest miscalculation Republicans made throughout the Trump era is conflating the president’s base of hard-core supporters with the larger swath of Trump sympathizers, who share the president’s populist instincts but always held reservations about his temperament. They’re middle-class voters who have been turned off by the Democratic Party’s elitist […] Read more »
Why the Southeast is up for grabs in the 2020 election
… Apart from Virginia, which now shades reliably blue, Republicans still hold the upper hand in the states across the Southeast. But while the GOP advantage remains lopsided in the Deep South states of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Arkansas, Democrats this year are showing clear signs of revival in North […] Read more »
The Political Implications of D.C./Puerto Rico Statehood
Key Points• In the upcoming 2020 elections, if Joe Biden defeats Donald Trump, and if the Democrats win control of the Senate and maintain control of the U.S. House, statehood for the District of Columbia and for Puerto Rico is a real possibility.• On June 26, 2020, the U.S. House […] Read more »
New Senate map shows Republicans are increasingly vulnerable
Amid the constant political chaos of 2020, there have been a few consistencies. One of them has been a growing Democratic advantage in this fall’s congressional races, particularly the Senate. For Democrats, the potential for pickups is growing and affecting some places where a tight general election race is not […] Read more »
Biden’s national lead over Trump jumps to 14 points after debate in NBC News/WSJ poll
Joe Biden’s national lead over President Donald Trump nearly doubled after Tuesday’s presidential debate, with voters saying by a 2-to-1 margin that Biden has the better temperament to be president, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. The poll was conducted in the two days after the unruly […] Read more »