As President Trump weighs his options over how to respond to international events such as news out of Iran and North Korea, he’ll surely do so with an eye toward how his decisions will be received by the American public. But lest anyone think that the president has a feel […] Read more »
No, Russian Twitter trolls didn’t demonstrably push Trump’s poll numbers higher
There will always be an audience for a particular type of story about the 2016 election — claims that Russia’s social media activity powered President Trump’s eventual victory. There is a sizable portion of the American public that believes Trump’s electoral-vote victory was illegitimate; some large percentage of that group […] Read more »
Russian Twitter propaganda predicted 2016 US election polls
Trump’s poll numbers went up after high levels of Russian troll activity, though Clinton’s didn’t go down. AP/Mary Altaffer, Chuck Burton Damian Ruck, University of Bristol When Robert Mueller completed his long-awaited investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, he left many questions unanswered. But one conclusion was […] Read more »
Immigration and the 2020 Elections
On behalf of the Immigration Hub, Global Strategy Group conducted an online survey of 1500 likely 2020 presidential election voters in battleground states and 1526 likely 2020 Democratic presidential primary election voters nationwide between June 14th and June 20th, 2019. Trump is vulnerable on immigration, but that does not automatically […] Read more »
Who Says Foreign Policy Doesn’t Win Elections?
Rolling into the 2020 election, President Donald Trump is bound to tout his record on foreign policy as a resounding success. While he hasn’t built a wall and expensed it to Mexico, he has followed through on pledges to withdraw from the Iran nuclear agreement and the Paris climate accord, […] Read more »
If Trump backs down from his latest Iran threat, will he lose support? We checked.
On Tuesday, President Trump tweeted a warning to Iran that an attack “on anything American will be met with great and overwhelming force. In some areas, overwhelming will mean obliteration.” The threat comes days after the New York Times reported that Trump backed down from retaliating against Iran for downing […] Read more »