If President Trump was looking for the Nunes memo to be a silver bullet that would undermine the Russia investigation, he’d better keep looking. A new Quinnipiac University poll — the first full high-quality poll conducted almost completely after the Nunes memo’s release Friday — shows very little change in […] Read more »
Nunes’ real revelation: Trump is changing the GOP, not the other way around
The real message of the memo released last week by Rep. Devin Nunes assailing the FBI and Department of Justice is that Donald Trump is changing the Republican Party far more than it is changing him. The memo from Nunes, chair of the House Intelligence Committee, failed to deliver revelations […] Read more »
This is the week that the GOP truly became the party of Trump
This was the week when the Republican Party finally went all in with President Trump. What once seemed unlikely is now reality. The Republican establishment — there are a few dissenting voices, of course — has succumbed to the power of the presidency, and this president in particular. This coming […] Read more »
Poll Hub podcast: Is the Nunes Memo Watergate 2.0?
The contents of the so-called “Nunes memo” are expected to be released as early as today. The memo has created a firestorm that, to some, signals a constitutional crisis nearing the level of Watergate. CONT. Marist Poll Read more »
Further Explanation Needed: Four State of the Union Themes
President Donald Trump touched on a wide variety of themes, issues and proposals in his State of the Union address Tuesday night. My colleagues and I reviewed eight of these themes in the context of public opinion. Four of these issues, in particular, I believe, are ones about which the […] Read more »
Why The Nunes Memo Probably Won’t Do What Trump Wants It To
Public opinion on the Russia investigation has been pretty stable all year — Republicans are skeptical but Americans overall support it. It’s hard, therefore, to see the much-hyped “Nunes memo,” which Trump declassified and congressional Republicans then made public on Friday, changing all that much. CONT. Perry Bacon Jr., FiveThirtyEight […] Read more »