Voter Confidence in Trump’s Mental/Physical Fitness Drops After First Debate While Confidence in Biden Grows

Could President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign be better off because this week’s debate isn’t happening? A new analysis of data from the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences’ Daybreak Poll reveals voters of all political ideologies thought that Trump performed far worse in the first presidential debate than […] Read more »

Mike Pence avoided Roe v. Wade in Wednesday’s debate. Here’s why.

… Pence is a smart political operator — he could have articulated a strong, reasonably popular position if the question was framed around, say, late-term abortions. But Americans are risk-averse — even some who oppose abortion are skittish about sudden massive changes to existing policy such as overturning Roe. That […] Read more »

For these voters, Biden is like an ‘uncool uncle’ that still might be ‘good enough’

For the small share of voters who might still be up for grabs in 2020, Joe Biden may seem “old,” “inconsistent” and like a “slightly uncool uncle.” But for those who have also been repelled by the personal behavior of the White House incumbent, Biden has one other key trait: […] Read more »

Biden’s national lead over Trump jumps to 14 points after debate in NBC News/WSJ poll

Joe Biden’s national lead over President Donald Trump nearly doubled after Tuesday’s presidential debate, with voters saying by a 2-to-1 margin that Biden has the better temperament to be president, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. The poll was conducted in the two days after the unruly […] Read more »

Poll Finds Voters in Two Crucial States Repelled by Trump’s Debate Behavior

By overwhelming margins, voters in Pennsylvania and Florida were repelled by President Trump’s conduct in the first general election debate, according to New York Times/Siena College surveys, as Joseph R. Biden Jr. maintained a lead in the two largest battleground states. Over all, Mr. Biden led by seven percentage points, […] Read more »