Two stories dominate the news headlines – impeachment and the 2020 Presidential Election. On this week’s episode of Poll Hub, we go behind the latest NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist Poll results and offer insight into where public opinion stands on these two historic events. Then, Stephen Rogers, Executive Director of Deloitte’s Consumer […] Read more »
Impeachment fits Trump’s populist strategy perfectly
Donald Trump’s electoral appeal is populist. It is populist in the specific sense in which Cas Mudde and Cristobal Rovira Kaltwasser defined it in their Populism: A Very Short Introduction. For them, populist appeals invoke a conflict between “the people” and “the elites.” … In this framework, the role of […] Read more »
Tracing The Roots Of A Partisan Impeachment
President Trump was impeached Wednesday night on two articles of impeachment — one for abuse of power, the other for obstruction of Congress. And they both got more votes than either of the other two impeachments in American history. But it was also partisan — zero Republicans broke ranks, and […] Read more »
Trump’s Reelection Is Sitting on a Knife’s Edge
The bitter battle that culminated in last night’s House vote to impeach President Donald Trump foreshadows an even more dramatic struggle to come over his reelection. It’s a contest that will likely feature a historic mobilization of each party’s coalition, and will test widening satisfaction about the economy against widespread […] Read more »
Why Impeachment Proceedings Against Trump Might Not Change The Electoral Landscape
NPR’s Ari Shapiro speaks with Nathan Gonzales from Inside Elections about why the impeachment hearings and vote are not a game changer for the electoral landscape. All Things Considered, NPR Read more »
What Comes Next In Trump’s Impeachment
The U.S. House of Representatives voted to impeach President Trump on Wednesday. In this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, the crew discusses the politics and evidence that led to Trump’s impeachment and previews what’s to come in his trial in the U.S. Senate. FiveThirtyEight Read more »