President Biden is seeing his highest approval ratings in almost a year, while former President Donald Trump, who is hoping to take the job back, is getting his worst scores among potential Republican voters in years, according to the latest NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll. The survey — conducted last week, after […] Read more »
Biden and Trump face headwinds going into 2024, poll shows
The 2024 presidential election campaign season remains several months away, and while much can change, the latest PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist poll shows both Democrats and Republicans are already sizing up potential candidates. Both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have maintained large shares of support among their respective bases. […] Read more »
Trump is exploiting an anti-trans turn in public opinion
Donald Trump’s new gender policy proposals — which would bar federal agencies from promoting “the concept of sex and gender transition at any age” and require the government to recognize male and female, as assigned at birth, as the only genders — are aimed both at his fervent base and […] Read more »
How an old debate previews Biden’s new strategy for winning senior voters
… Whether Biden proves more effective than other recent Democrats at attracting older voters around Social Security and Medicare will likely pivot on whether seniors believe the GOP genuinely would cut the programs if given the power to do so, argued Robert Blendon, a professor emeritus at the Harvard School […] Read more »
Red & Blue Special Edition: Focus Group about Election Integrity
CBS News Chief Washington Correspondent Major Garrett participates in a focus group about the 2020 election and the integrity of U.S. elections moderated by Frank Luntz and hosted by Arizona State University, the University of Southern California and Arizona PBS. CBS News The OPINION TODAY email newsletter is a concise daily rundown of […] Read more »
Feeling ‘overwhelmed’ and ‘fatigue,’ some GOP voters look beyond Trump
Nearly all of the focus group participants had supported Donald Trump in 2020 and said they would vote for him again against President Biden in 2024. But things got complicated when the moderator asked for the one emotion they now felt when they saw Trump on television or computers screens. […] Read more »