One week after a violent mob breached the U.S. Capitol, threatened lawmakers and forced evacuations, members returned to the House floor. What followed was an emotional, and often angry, debate about recrimination for the president who many argued incited the riot that resulted in five dead. … There was a […] Read more »
The Party Still Doesn’t Decide
… In the past, a party tried to move on from their presidential losers quickly. Democrats spent years trying to rebrand themselves after Pres. Jimmy Carter’s one-term tenure. Republicans host primary debates at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, not the Richard M. Nixon library two hours […] Read more »
The demographic divergence that helps explain perceptions of the Capitol rioters
… It’s a tension we’ve seen over and over during the past five years, this idea that Trump’s base is both less educated and somehow less impoverished than America as a whole. Normally education and income move hand in hand, so how could those two descriptors (however loosely accurate they […] Read more »
Reuters/Ipsos Core Political Survey: President Trump’s approval rating drops to 34%
Following the events at the Capitol last week, the most recent Reuters/Ipsos Core Political finds more Americans concerned about the direction of the country. The economy and jobs, along with healthcare, continue to be the most concerning issues facing Americans today. President Donald Trump’s approval rating is down to 34%, […] Read more »
Fallout From the House GOP Leadership Fracture
In the final weeks of 2020, there was a window of opportunity for House GOP leadership to marginalize the loudest voices in the Freedom Caucus — Reps. Jim Jordan, Matt Gaetz, Mo Brooks, Paul Gosar, Louie Gohmert and others — who parroted conspiracy theories about a “stolen election.” Instead, it […] Read more »
Nearly half of Americans think some GOP lawmakers encouraged violence
For many Americans, the GOP lawmakers who objected to counting the Electoral College votes in Congress share some of the blame for the violence that occurred at the nation’s Capitol. Nearly half — 47% — think some of these Republicans encouraged the violence that occurred. … While most registered voters […] Read more »