No matter who clinches the Republican presidential nomination, Donald Trump has effectively built a wall compromising the Republican Party’s ability to reach Hispanics. … Donald Trump has proudly reminded audiences during debates and rallies that immigration would not be discussed so much if not for him, but the GOP might […] Read more »
Clinton wins by easing Democratic split; Trump wins by exploiting GOP divisions
… Trump has harnessed and maintained support from an angry GOP electorate, cleaving a party that has rumbled with discontent for years after successive presidential losses. His sweeping victories over opposition from much of the party’s nominal leaders have been both an extension and an exaggeration of the tea party […] Read more »
Super Tuesday = Super for Trump
… The #NeverTrump movement isn’t working. Despite aggressive – and at times manic – attacks on Trump by Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, the billionaire businessman still managed to rack up wins in at least seven of the 11 states that voted Tuesday. Maybe the onslaught on Trump came too […] Read more »
Hillary Clinton’s Got This
… We’ve now seen 15 states vote in the Democratic contest, and it’s clear that Clinton’s coalition is wider than Sanders’s. Sanders has won only in relatively small states where black voters make up less than 10 percent of the population. That’s not going to work this year when black […] Read more »
Tuesday’s Super for Trump and Clinton
As the dust settles from Super Tuesday, we think the race is the same now as it was before the voting: Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are the favorites to win their respective nominations. … Trump won coming and going. It wasn’t just adding at least seven states and a […] Read more »
Profoundly Polarized Electorates Call the Tune for Trump, Clinton
Profoundly polarized Democratic and Republican electorates called the tune on Super Tuesday, with demand for a plain-speaking outsider again lifting Donald Trump in the GOP race, while Democrats motivated by the opposite priority – political experience – boosted Hillary Clinton. Combined results across the nine primaries held Tuesday night underscore […] Read more »