‘This is an intense election here’: Georgia Gen Z voters discuss runoff election

Morning Joe reporter Daniela Pierre-Bravo talks with Georgia Gen Z voters ahead of the Senate runoff between Raphael Warnock and Herschel Walker to find out what matters to them. Morning Joe, MSNBC The OPINION TODAY email newsletter is a concise daily rundown of significant new poll results and insightful analysis. It’s FREE. Sign […] Read more »

Warnock Slightly Ahead in Georgia’s U.S. Senate Runoff

Incumbent Democratic U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock has an apparent lead over GOP challenger Herschel Walker in the race that will decide the final balance of power in the chamber, according to a poll released Monday by UMass Lowell’s Center for Public Opinion. The survey found Warnock leads 51% to Walker’s […] Read more »

How Donald Trump is helping Raphael Warnock in Georgia

Donald Trump’s continued presence on the American political scene is one of the reasons Republicans underperformed in this year’s midterm elections. The former president’s debilitating effect on his party was perhaps no more evident than in Georgia, where Trump’s Republican nemesis Gov. Brian Kemp cruised to reelection, while his preferred […] Read more »

Why Georgia’s seat matters for 2024: Democrats face a tough map

The immediate stakes for Tuesday’s Senate runoff in Georgia are not especially huge. The Democrats already know they will control the upper chamber of Congress since they flipped Pennsylvania’s Senate seat with John Fetterman’s win. But looking ahead to 2024, Georgia’s seat looks a lot more important as a way […] Read more »

Non-religious voters wield clout, tilt heavily Democratic

… Voters with no religious affiliation supported Democratic candidates and abortion rights by staggering percentages in the 2022 midterm elections. And they’re voting in large numbers. In 2022, some 22% of voters claimed no religious affiliation, according to AP VoteCast, an expansive survey of more than 94,000 voters nationwide. They […] Read more »

The GOP Can’t Hide From Extremism

The role of extremist white nationalists in the GOP may be approaching an inflection point. The backlash against former President Donald Trump’s meeting with Nick Fuentes, an avowed racist, anti-Semite, and Christian nationalist, has compelled more Republican officeholders than at any point since the Charlottesville riot in 2017 to publicly […] Read more »