… The big question coming out of the major party conventions would be if they would reset the 2020 campaign. Could Trump’s efforts to refocus the campaign on crime and law and order help him close what has been a consistent deficit? The answer seems to be a no, for […] Read more »
CBS News Battleground Tracker: National, Wisconsin contests steady amid protests; more think Biden trying to calm situation
The presidential horse race remains unchanged by recent protests — Joe Biden still leads President Trump by the same margins nationally and in the battleground state of Wisconsin. Here’s why: though neither candidate gets rave reviews for what they’ve said about the demonstrations, Biden is seen by more as trying […] Read more »
Which Candidate Do Voters Trust to Handle the Unrest?
The trips this week to Kenosha, Wis., by President Trump and Joseph R. Biden Jr. laid bare the political bets both presidential candidates are making about how voters will respond to the scenes of unrest playing out in some American cities. … For pollsters, who use straightforward questions to take […] Read more »
After weeks of Trump rhetoric on crime, voters have a clear preference on the issue: Joe Biden
President Trump and the Republican Party got four days of prime-time television last week to make the case to the American public for Trump’s reelection. … Over and over, convention speakers, including Trump, warned of an ominous dark cloud approaching: a Joe Biden presidency, in which the former vice president […] Read more »
The Huge Snag in Trump’s Reelection Pitch
Donald Trump is betting his reelection on convincing most Americans that the “chaos president” can deliver order. “Chaos president” is how former Florida Governor Jeb Bush described Trump in the final Republican presidential-primary debate of 2015. Bush’s argument against Trump’s erratic leadership style didn’t save his flagging campaign, but his […] Read more »
Trump is trying to grab some of Biden’s most valuable supporters
… So far this summer, Biden has polled spectacularly well in suburbs — even historically GOP ones in the Sun Belt — thanks to his strength among college-educated white voters. In an average of live-interview polls taken in August, Biden led Trump among that group 56 percent to 39 percent, […] Read more »