“Useless.” “Ridiculous.” “Horrible.” Undecided voters approached the first presidential debate between President Trump and Joseph R. Biden Jr. with some hope of hearing policies and plans that could help them make a decision they had been mulling for months. Instead, they listened with a mix of disgust and dismay, appalled […] Read more »
Biden Lead Looks Firmer as Midwest Moves His Way
Key Points• With the first debate now in the books, we have close to 20 rating changes across the Electoral College, Senate, and House.• Joe Biden is now over 270 electoral votes in our ratings as we move several Midwestern states in his favor.• Changes in the battle for Congress […] Read more »
Study Finds ‘Single Largest Driver’ of Coronavirus Misinformation: Trump
Of the flood of misinformation, conspiracy theories and falsehoods seeding the internet on the coronavirus, one common thread stands out: President Trump. That is the conclusion of researchers at Cornell University who analyzed 38 million articles about the pandemic in English-language media around the world. Mentions of Mr. Trump made […] Read more »
Trump’s Chances Are Dwindling. That Could Make Him Dangerous.
President Trump’s quest to win a second term is not in good shape. He entered Tuesday night’s debate with roughly a 7- or 8-point deficit in national polls, putting him further behind at this stage of the race than any other candidate since Bob Dole in 1996. … At a […] Read more »
Joe Biden won Round One of the debate. Round Two is happening now.
The first wave of data is in, and it delivers a clear verdict: Joe Biden won Tuesday’s presidential debate. That’s unambiguously good news for Biden — but it’s not the whole story. A presidential “debate” is really a multi-part news cycle, one in which the clash between the candidates is […] Read more »
How President Trump’s false claim of voter fraud is being used to disenfranchise Americans
… As the 2020 presidential election nears, it is becoming clear that the Trump administration and the Republican Party are not just looking at but heavily investing in the largely nonexistent problem of voter fraud. A New York Times Magazine investigation, based on a review of thousands of pages of […] Read more »