In a sign that malaise over rising inflation and stressors related to pandemic recovery could be influencing Tennesseans’ attitudes toward elected leaders, support for President Joe Biden and Gov. Bill Lee has dropped among registered voters, according to the most recent statewide Vanderbilt Poll. … Tennesseans also see a U.S. […] Read more »
A third Trump miss in Georgia
The size of the GOP incumbents’ victories in the Georgia primary results reflects a forward-looking Republican electorate that has moved beyond the 2020 elections and the disastrous loss of two Senate seats. … While Trump remains a popular figure with many Republicans, for Georgia voters, this wasn’t an election about […] Read more »
3 reasons Trump’s influence took a big hit in Tuesday’s primaries
You’d be hard-pressed to find two Republican incumbents who drew more of former President Donald Trump’s ire than Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. But both won by huge margins in their primaries Tuesday against handpicked, Trump-recruited challengers who campaigned on his election lies. … […] Read more »
Election deniers want to control the 2024 election. And they’re getting closer
… Republican candidates echoing Trump’s disproven claims of fraud about 2020 have already been nominated, or are seeking nominations, for positions with control over election machinery in all five of the states that flipped from supporting Trump in 2016 to Biden in 2020 — Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. […] Read more »
Trump gubernatorial endorsements show questionable judgment
Former President Donald Trump has endorsed dozens of candidates in 2022 Republican primaries for the House, the Senate and governor. … But there already are more than a few signs that Trump’s endorsements in governors’ races will be less important than in contests for Congress, and Trump losses in gubernatorial […] Read more »
More Americans label Republican Party extreme and Democratic Party as weak
With midterm primaries helping set the direction for the Democratic and Republican parties, most Americans, including many of the parties’ own voters, aren’t terribly happy with the parties or what they’re talking about. Given that Sunday’s CBS News poll finds most aren’t happy with the direction of the country either, […] Read more »