Gov. John Bel Edwards had to check off three boxes to win re-election Saturday over businessman Eddie Rispone, after narrowly falling short in the primary. He needed to turn out dramatically more African-American voters, who form the core of the Democratic Party. He needed to win at least 10% of […] Read more »
Why Pete Buttigieg’s Iowa surge was not surprising
South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg surged 16 points to land at top of the Democratic field in the latest CNN/Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa caucuses poll. Sometimes a climb in the polls for a candidate is surprising, but in the case of Buttigieg, you could see the potential a mile […] Read more »
Members of both parties see impeachment as a political winner in 2020, new Iowa poll finds
As impeachment hearings play out on Capitol Hill, Iowans on both sides of the political spectrum see the inquiry as a boost to their party’s chances of winning the general election next November, according to a new CNN/Des Moines Register/Mediacom poll. CONT. Terence Burlij, CNN Read more »
This Week in Impeachment: Why Can’t Republicans Agree on What Happened with Ukraine?
According to a durable truism of American politics, Republicans find it much easier than Democrats to unite around a single political message. Not all nuggets of conventional wisdom are reliably accurate, but this one has substantial truth behind it: the collective self-definition of the Republican Party as the agent of […] Read more »
President Trump Bet Big This Election Year. Here’s Why He Lost.
… “You got to give me a big win, please, O.K.,” the president pleaded with a red-hatted crowd last Thursday in Bossier City, La. But on Saturday night, Mr. Trump’s wager backfired in spectacular fashion. Not only did Gov. John Bel Edwards, a Democrat, win re-election by more than 40,000 […] Read more »
Why Republicans lost another deep-red state in Louisiana governor’s election
For the second time this month, Republican President Donald Trump failed to carry a Republican gubernatorial candidate across the finish line in a deep-red state. Last time, Kentucky was the stage. This time it was Louisiana. … The Democrat’s victory Saturday is another demonstration of the limits of Trump’s appeal […] Read more »