… As the coronavirus has swept across the country, it has stolen millions of jobs and thrust people everywhere into acute financial insecurity. It has also forced the majority of the population to shelter in place. But in an industry where rejection is a normal part of a day’s work […] Read more »
Americans give President Trump poor ratings in handling COVID-19 crisis
Since its peak in late March, public approval of President Trump’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic has slowly but steadily declined. Why is this happening? Will his new guidelines to the states for reopening the country’s turn it around? What will be the impact of his latest tweets, which call […] Read more »
Trump Struggling to Match Job Approval in Polling
Key Points• There is a substantial and persistent difference among pollsters’ findings with respect to Donald Trump’s job approval and his percentage against Joe Biden.• Biden’s ability to consolidate the anti-Trump vote will be decisive.• Trump’s statewide job approval is almost exactly what one would predict given his 2016 share […] Read more »
What Americans think about President Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic
In this special edition of the podcast, with Brookings Senior Fellows Bill Galston and Elaine Kamarck discuss President Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, his administration’s response, and public opinion on that response. Also, what effect will the crisis and response to it have on the election in November? Galston […] Read more »
Campaigning in a ‘Half-Speed Economy’
In this period of disorientation, few things are almost universally accepted. One of them is that the U.S. is headed into a recession. … Beyond the typical questions of how deep and how long the recession will be, there are questions of how lives will be changed by this extraordinary […] Read more »
Reputations of leaders in crises
Leaders frequently forge their reputations in crises. In normal times, competition for the public’s attention is fierce. Crises, by contrast, put leaders at the center of our focus. Almost every eye is firmly fixed on them. … In the midst of World War II, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s approval […] Read more »