A new GW Politics Poll that went into the field just 2 days after House Democrats announced their impeachment inquiry and right before Bernie Sander’s heart attack, suggests that Elizabeth Warren is taking the lead among Democrats. The Massachusetts senator leads the field with 28 percent of the vote forcing […] Read more »
Has Elizabeth Warren broken the electability ceiling?
One of the early truisms of the 2020 Democratic nominating contest was that Democrats wanted nothing more than to beat President Trump. There’s typically a connection between overall support in a primary and the perception that a candidate has the best chance of winning in the general election, but this […] Read more »
The surprising fluidity of the 2020 Democratic field
Working with the polling firm YouGov, CBS News has been conducting a tracking poll of support for candidates for the Democratic 2020 presidential nomination in early-voting states. In other words, the pollsters go back to the states over and over to gauge support — and, in fact, they go back […] Read more »
How ‘White Guilt’ in the Age of Trump Shapes the Democratic Primary
… For years, prospective Democratic nominees came to Iowa to talk ethanol and pork subsidies and saved any rhetoric about the injustice of racial profiling for crowds in South Carolina and Nevada — the only early voting states where black and Latino voters made up a significant portion of the […] Read more »
The Fall Was Supposed to Be All About 2020 Democrats — It’s Now All About Impeachment
This month was supposed to be all about the 2020 Democrats. … Thanks to impeachment drama, however, this month is all about Trump and Congress. Instead of playing a starring political role this fall, the 2020 Democrats are now playing a supporting role. Well, that’s true for most of the […] Read more »
Kamala Harris’s struggles nationally play out in her home state
Three years ago, Kamala Harris won a Senate seat from California in a 24-point rout. More than 7.5 million voters, most of them Democrats, backed her candidacy. But at the moment, not many of them are interested in supporting her for president. … After a spectacular start, a rally in […] Read more »