History suggests the 2018 election will almost surely be a bad one for Republicans. Midterms are generally considered a referendum on the president, and the results are almost always bad for said president. Layer on that President Trump is the most unpopular new president in the modern era, and it […] Read more »
Where Republicans Are Losing Ground
The gender gap is making a comeback. Doubts about Hillary Clinton among women—especially working-class whites—suppressed her advantage with female voters during the 2016 campaign over Donald Trump, despite the widespread concerns they expressed about his character and qualifications in polls. But without Clinton as a contrast, Trump’s support among women […] Read more »
Americans Aren’t So Excited About Tax Reform
President Donald Trump says it will “be easy” to reform the tax system, at least by comparison to replacing Obamacare. The White House told Axios, the political-news website, that it’s well prepared to roll out a big tax-reform launch in late summer that’s already gaining support from corporate executives and […] Read more »
GOP may not be punished if it can’t pass repeal
The GOP base will punish Republicans in upcoming elections if they fail to deliver on their promise to repeal the Affordable Care Act, or at least make an all -out effort to do so. That’s the conventional wisdom, right? It was the political motivation behind Republican efforts to pass a […] Read more »
A midterm preference for Democrats, but without anti-Trump motivation
A majority of Americans polled prefer to see the next Congress controlled by the Democrats to counter President Donald Trump rather than by the Republicans to support him — but without the level of anti-Trump motivation the opposition party may be banking on. CONT. Sofi Sinozich, ABC News Read more »
Trump now wants to gamble his presidency and his party on the strength of his salesmanship
President Trump claims he wants to do with the Affordable Care Act what he’d done several times with his businesses: Let it fail and move on. … But health care is not like an Atlantic City casino. Its failure would have massive, hard-to-predict repercussions. And the negative effects of that […] Read more »