Even as we look ahead to the new year, we can be assured that the political media focus will be trained, as it has for the last five years, on Donald Trump—his continuing legal and political troubles, the ‘reckoning’ within the GOP about the former president’s role in the party’s […] Read more »
The 5 ‘known unknowns’ that will define 2024
The powerful evidence for a possible criminal case that the bipartisan January 6, 2021, congressional committee presented against former President Donald Trump on Monday underscores the biggest uncertainty looming over the approaching 2024 presidential campaign. Many factors that will shape the 2024 contest, of course, remain impossible to know almost […] Read more »
Poll finds a majority of Americans believe democracy is at risk
As the Jan. 6 committee wraps up its hearings, a recent NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll found a majority of Americans believe democracy is at risk and want members of Congress to compromise. Domenico Montanaro, NPR News The OPINION TODAY email newsletter is a concise daily rundown of significant new poll results and insightful analysis. […] Read more »
How the midterms changed the 2024 primaries for Biden and Trump
Much of the conversation in the leadup to the midterms revolved around how Republicans were clamoring for former President Donald Trump’s endorsement, while Democrats wanted President Joe Biden to stay away. A little over a month after the election, however, the picture looks quite different. Biden is in his best […] Read more »
DeSantis, Trump dominate early 2024 preferences
Small government, America First, liberty and freedom, religious values, personal responsibility. These are just some of the ways Republican voters describe what it means to be a good Republican in the latest Monmouth University Poll. While few voters specifically mention abortion when asked to describe the Republican ideal, it is […] Read more »
Fox News Poll: Americans show little enthusiasm for a Biden-Trump rematch in 2024
After a heated midterm election, widely considered both a referendum on President Biden and a test for former President Donald Trump’s 2024 candidacy, the latest Fox News Poll finds little support for a rematch in the next presidential election. The survey of registered voters, released Thursday, finds almost two-thirds (64%) […] Read more »