Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah is a thorn in President Donald Trump’s side. He has emerged as arguably Trump’s strongest Senate Republican critic when it comes to the Ukraine saga and impeachment inquiry. Trump’s so upset that he called for Romney’s own impeachment in a tweet on Saturday. For most […] Read more »
Is Ukraine Getting Worse For Trump?
It’s now been almost two weeks since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced an impeachment inquiry. In the past week, the House began taking testimony, at least one more whistleblower came forward, and FiveThirtyEight launched our impeachment polling tracker. In this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, the crew takes a […] Read more »
Polls begin to signal rising impeachment threat to Trump
Modern polling usually tells us how public opinion hasn’t moved. Despite last week’s hailstorm of bad news, President Donald Trump’s job approval rating stood virtually unchanged. So did the president’s backing from Republican elected officials in Washington. Except for Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah and a few others, GOP members […] Read more »
Five takeaways from early polls on impeachment
Public opinion may not determine the outcome of political controversies, but it affects the way elected officials react to events, especially high-profile issues such as impeaching and removing a president from office. Here are five big things we have learned from surveys about the impact of the information the American […] Read more »
Nate Silver: Is impeachment energizing Trump’s base?
FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver looks at what the polls say about the impact of the impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump. This Week, ABC News Read more »
‘Out on a limb’: Inside the Republican reckoning over Trump’s possible impeachment
A torrent of impeachment developments has triggered a reckoning in the Republican Party, paralyzing many of its officeholders as they weigh their political futures, legacies and, ultimately, their allegiance to a president who has held them captive. … A Republican strategist who is close with several senators and spoke on […] Read more »