House Democrats, under the leadership of Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), are slowly marching themselves toward the opening of an impeachment inquiry against President Trump. What seemed out of the question earlier in the year seems, if not inevitable, increasingly difficult to resist. … Pelosi knows that public opinion overall is […] Read more »
Nancy Pelosi frustrates Democratic activists on impeachment but party strategists like what she’s doing
In the rising congressional impeachment debate, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi occupies the hottest seat. Some think she’s burning herself. … “Pelosi’s arguments against initiating impeachment are so obviously weak,” Susan Hennessey, executive editor of the online journal Lawfare, tweeted. “This is starting to feel more like House Dems actually just […] Read more »
What Joe Biden Is Teaching Democrats About Democrats
… Biden’s apparent resurrection from relic to runaway front-runner has illustrated a chasm between perception and reality. … So why did the media spend the past few years getting the state of the Democratic Party so wrong? … The most important ingredient in the delusion was Twitter. It is hard […] Read more »
Trump’s economy is booming, and Democrats can’t handle it
… As a Republican, one can only hope that the media is beginning to acknowledge that there’s hyperbole and then there’s downright disinformation when it comes to the tax law. But on May 3, the jobs report changed the political calculus. Democrats seemed to suddenly show symptoms of a kind […] Read more »
Census Showdown: The implications of including a citizenship question in the 2020 U.S. Census
The debate over the inclusion of a citizenship question in the 2020 U.S. Census is now before the U.S. Supreme Court. On this week’s episode of Poll Hub, we discuss the importance of the decision both politically and in the world of polling. Then, NPR’s Lead Political Editor Domenico Montanaro […] Read more »
The Political Risk of Impeachment
Democrats face a choice. We’ve heard many say President Trump is unqualified and unworthy of being president; that he has behaved in ways beneath his position and that he has betrayed the office—and because of his actions and words, he deserves to be impeached and removed from power. … Any […] Read more »