… The president has a unique ability to dominate news coverage. But to win in 2020, the central question of the 2020 campaign cannot be solely about who President Trump is; it must instead be about what President Trump and the GOP will do with four more years. Right now, […] Read more »
Are Democrats Moving Too Far Left?
Many of the Democrats running for president in 2020 have staked out positions to the left of traditional Democrats on topics like health care, taxes and immigration. New polling shows that while some of those positions are broadly popular, others don’t register majority support even among Democrats. In this installment […] Read more »
How third-party votes sunk Clinton, what they mean for Trump
For all the talk about why Donald Trump was elected president while losing the popular vote and how he could win again, one of the least discussed results of the 2016 election offers valuable lessons for Democrats. An astounding 7.8 million voters cast their presidential ballots for someone other than […] Read more »
For 2020 Democrats, Beating Trump Is Step One. What’s Step Two?
… In the days before the candidates will gather in Detroit for their second round of presidential debates, Democrats find themselves grappling with a central question: Is beating President Trump enough? Or should Democrats, much like the man they hope to defeat, shake the political system like a snow globe […] Read more »
Trump campaign sees political advantage in a divisive appeal to working-class white voters
President Trump launched another broadside Saturday on a Democratic political opponent, calling a prominent black congressman’s Baltimore district a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess.” … The outburst also undercut efforts by many Republicans over the past two weeks to defend Trump and insist that his earlier attacks were based […] Read more »
Is Trump’s Use Of Identity Politics An Effective Strategy?
From suggesting on his first day as a presidential candidate back in 2015 that Mexico was intentionally sending “rapists” to America to calling last week for several liberal congresswomen of color to “go back” to their countries, President Trump has repeatedly used racial and at times racist language over the […] Read more »