Public preference for Joe Biden over Donald Trump in trust to handle the coronavirus pandemic has soared since March in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, boosting Biden – along with other measures – in the race for the White House. Biden’s also advanced, nearly to par with Trump, in […] Read more »
Trump wants a ‘law and order’ election. He’s losing that battle.
President Donald Trump is struggling on the most important non-economic issues of the day. His disapproval rating on both the coronavirus and race relations are in the 30s, and his Democratic opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden, is trusted more on both of these issues by double-digits. These deficits could […] Read more »
Conservatives Didn’t Get The SCOTUS They Wanted This Term
FiveThirtyEight legal reporter Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux joins Galen Druke to look back at a U.S. Supreme Court term full of consequential cases. They also unpack one the final rulings of the term, which permits prosecutors to subpoena the president’s financial records. FiveThirtyEight Read more »
Majority of Public Favors Giving Civilians the Power to Sue Police Officers for Misconduct
With legislation to address racism and the use of excessive force by law enforcement stalled in Congress, there is broad public support in the United States for permitting citizens to sue police officers in order to hold them accountable for misconduct or using excessive force. … The survey finds little […] Read more »
Trump’s America Is Slipping Away
Donald Trump is running for the presidency of an America that no longer exists. Trump in recent weeks has repeatedly reprised two of Richard Nixon’s most memorable rallying cries, promising to deliver “law and order” for the “silent majority.” But in almost every meaningful way, America today is a radically […] Read more »
How Trump and the Black Lives Matter Movement Changed White Voters’ Minds
A majority of American voters support the demonstrations against police brutality and racial injustice that have roiled the country over the past month, embracing ideas about bias within the criminal justice system and the persistence of systemic racism that are central tenets of the Black Lives Matter movement, according to […] Read more »