North Carolina voters give President Trump mixed reviews on his job performance and about half oppose his impeachment. That leads to tight races in 2020 ballot tests, according to a Fox News Poll of North Carolina voters. CONT. Dana Blanton, Fox News Read more »
Buttigieg’s Big Break
This week, we discuss Michael Bloomberg’s possible entrance into the 2020 race, the momentum behind Pete Buttigieg’s boost in Iowa, and how the televised impeachment hearings may influence voters. The Forecast Fest, CNN Read more »
Just How Far Will Republicans Go for Trump?
The House’s public impeachment hearings will test whether Donald Trump was right when he declared that his political support is so rock-solid that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue without consequence—and what it means for a bitterly divided nation if he was. Even some Republican political professionals privately acknowledge […] Read more »
Medicare for All a Vote Loser in 2018 U.S. House Elections
“Medicare for All” has emerged as a key issue in the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination campaign. Two of the leading candidates, Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), have made Medicare for All a central issue in their campaigns. … But 2020 is not the first election in which […] Read more »
The Public Impeachment Hearings Begin
Wednesday marked the beginning of public hearings on whether President Trump should be impeached for pressuring Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden. The FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast will be reacting to the impeachment hearings as they happen and, in this installment, the crew considers new evidence of Trump’s pressure […] Read more »
Republicans need to study the lessons of 2018 and 2019 before racing to 2020
Whenever there is a special election or an off-year one, you can count on both parties to react in a familiar fashion. They focus on the bright spots and dismiss losses by telling us, “Don’t read too much into it.” Last Tuesday’s elections were a mixed bag for Republicans with […] Read more »