Four months ago, seven freshman Democrats accelerated the impeachment process with an op-ed in The Washington Post. With less than a year before Election Day, their electoral fates represent a microcosm of the Republican challenge to win back the House majority. CONT. Nathan L. Gonzales, Inside Elections Read more »
How Mormons and Utahns View President Trump
Utah Senator Mitt Romney became the first and only Republican to announce his intention to vote to convict President Trump on one of the two impeachment charges. In the process, Romney also became the first senator who has ever voted to remove a president of their own party. Romney cited […] Read more »
If Bernie Wins, Where Will He Take the Democratic Party?
… The potential pitfalls for the Democratic Party of nominating Sanders go beyond the possibility of losing to Trump again, raising the likelihood that the Senate will remain in Republican hands and threatening the re-election prospects of the 40+ Democrats who defeated Republicans in moderate districts in 2018. … Sanders’s […] Read more »
The Iowa muddle isn’t over, even now that the first results are in
The muddle was still the message even after the Iowa Democratic Party finally released partial results from Monday night’s caucuses following an agonizing and unprecedented delay. … Even if the final numbers, or the order of finish among the candidates, shift somewhat when the last votes are released, one large […] Read more »
Early Iowa turnout signs point to lagging Democratic enthusiasm
There’s still a lot we don’t know about the 2020 Iowa Democratic caucuses, including who won the contest. But we do have an early indication about turnout. The Iowa Democratic Party said Monday night that early data showed it looked to be on pace with 2016, when 172,000 showed up […] Read more »
At the end of the invisible primary
… Today is the last day of the invisible primary. I recognize that definitions may vary on this, but what I mean is that today is the last day that the party, broadly speaking, is working on the 2020 presidential nomination without the direct input of Democratic voters and caucusgoers. […] Read more »