You’d be hard-pressed to find two Republican incumbents who drew more of former President Donald Trump’s ire than Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. But both won by huge margins in their primaries Tuesday against handpicked, Trump-recruited challengers who campaigned on his election lies. … […] Read more »
Friendship Networks of White Americans Continue to Be 90% White
Across demographic groups, Americans’ core friendship networks tend to be dominated by people of their same race or ethnic background—particularly white Americans, among whom 90% of their friendship networks are also white, according to a new survey conducted by Public Religion Research Institute. The new survey of over 5,000 Americans, […] Read more »
New data shows how ‘great replacement’ overlaps with other racial fears
The political utility of the “great replacement theory” is that it combines two potent, emotionally charged issues on the right. That “theory” — that there is a nefarious group of people hoping to bring immigrants into the United States to shift the nation’s politics to the left — overlaps with […] Read more »
61% of Trump voters agree with idea behind ‘great replacement’ conspiracy theory
A new Yahoo News/YouGov poll shows that more than 6 in 10 Donald Trump voters (61%) agree that “a group of people in this country are trying to replace native-born Americans with immigrants and people of color who share their political views” — a core tenet of the false conspiracy […] Read more »
Election deniers want to control the 2024 election. And they’re getting closer
… Republican candidates echoing Trump’s disproven claims of fraud about 2020 have already been nominated, or are seeking nominations, for positions with control over election machinery in all five of the states that flipped from supporting Trump in 2016 to Biden in 2020 — Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. […] Read more »
Trump gubernatorial endorsements show questionable judgment
Former President Donald Trump has endorsed dozens of candidates in 2022 Republican primaries for the House, the Senate and governor. … But there already are more than a few signs that Trump’s endorsements in governors’ races will be less important than in contests for Congress, and Trump losses in gubernatorial […] Read more »