… OAN is a small network, clearly seeking to make its name in part by promising endlessly obsequious coverage of the president. The network has often explicitly asked Trump to watch it instead of Fox, as chief executive Robert Herring did Wednesday. … Herring had on Wednesday pledged an upcoming […] Read more »
Forecasting the US elections
The Economist is analysing polling, economic and demographic data to predict America’s elections in 2020. … Right now, our model thinks Joe Biden is likely to beat Donald Trump in the electoral college. CONT. The Economist The OPINION TODAY email newsletter is a concise daily rundown of significant new poll results and insightful […] Read more »
Biden is doing worse than Clinton among Hispanic voters
Joe Biden is reaching heights that Hillary Clinton never did this late in the campaign against Donald Trump. The former vice president holds a significant national lead of around 10 points and is over 50% support. Yet a look at recent polls suggests Trump is outperforming where he was four […] Read more »
As Trump struggles to respond to crises, internal polling instills fear in advisers
One week ago President Donald Trump met with advisers from his 2020 re-election campaign, who greeted him with bad news. … Top aides warned that former Vice President Joe Biden, now the presumptive Democratic nominee, was positioned to defeat the president by a significant number of electoral votes based on […] Read more »
How Much Is America Changing?
America is at a racial and political crossroads. Protests over the past two weeks in response to an interrelated set of issues and events — the killing of George Floyd, police brutality, the Covid pandemic, a nation in lockdown, joblessness, a devastated economy and a presidential election — give rise […] Read more »
Trump Demands CNN Retract a Poll, as OANN Teases a Rosier View
President Trump’s re-election campaign has sued several news outlets for coverage it deemed unflattering. On Wednesday, the president’s team added a new wrinkle to its media intimidation tactics: demanding that a TV network retract a poll it did not like. In an unusual cease-and-desist letter, the Trump campaign called on […] Read more »