… “It was all very, very strange,” Trump said on Dec. 2. “Within days after the election, we witnessed an orchestrated effort to anoint the winner, even while many key states were still being counted.” In a way, Trump was right. There was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes, one […] Read more »
How the GOP Surrendered to Extremism
… Kevin McCarthy’s half-hearted slap on the wrist for [Marjorie Taylor] Greene this week was a measure of the GOP’s limited appetite for constructing a clear boundary against extremism. The likelihood that the majority of Senate Republicans will soon vote to exempt Trump from any punishment for the Capitol riot […] Read more »
2020’s Crossover Districts
Key Points• 16 members of Congress hold districts that voted for the other party’s presidential nominee in 2020.• Many Biden-district Republicans are from racially diverse areas, and they often came out on the winning end of rematches.• Democrats held several Trump seats in both blue collar and suburban areas.• Overall, […] Read more »
The QAnon Delusion Has Not Loosened Its Grip
A conspiracy theory promulgated by Donald Trump, the loser of the 2020 presidential election, has gripped American politics since Nov. 3. It has been willingly adopted by millions of his followers, as well as by a majority of Republican members of Congress — 145 to 108 — and by thousands […] Read more »
Trump pollster’s campaign autopsy paints damning picture of defeat
Former President Donald Trump has blamed the election results on unfounded claims of fraud and malfeasance. But at the top levels of his campaign, a detailed autopsy report that circulated among his political aides paints a far different — and more critical — portrait of what led to his defeat. […] Read more »
Biden Job Approval Rating at 49%
Nearly half of Americans (49%) approve of President Joe Biden’s job performance. A majority of Americans (55%) perceive Biden to be doing more to unite the country than to divide it, and a plurality (47%) consider Biden to be changing the nation for the better. These findings are in stark […] Read more »