The latest USC Dornsife/LA Times poll shows Democrats believe Joe Biden is the likely candidate to beat President Donald Trump among Democratic voters. More than half of Democratic voters overall believe a white male candidate is the most likely to beat President Donald Trump. Voters chose a white male more […] Read more »
About that Florida poll that shows Biden crushing Trump …
Just as Donald Trump prepared to jet to Orlando to formally kick off his bid for a second term in 2020, a new Quinnipiac University poll was released that showed the President trailing former Vice President Joe Biden in the Sunshine State by 9 percentage points. Which is a big […] Read more »
How Front-Runners Can Fail
Former Vice President Joe Biden is the early front-runner in the 2020 Democratic presidential race — for the moment, at least. He leads in national polls and most surveys of the early primaries and caucuses, but if Biden were to falter, he wouldn’t be the first early primary front-runner to […] Read more »
Trump’s chances in 2020 aren’t nearly as bad as people think
President Trump will officially announce that he’s running for reelection at a massive rally in Orlando on Tuesday. The early line on his chances: He’s not the favorite, but he’s far from down and out. … Trump has never polled above 44 percent job approval for any extended stretch of […] Read more »
Most Americans want Trump to comply with House subpoenas. But impeach him? Not so fast
Most Americans say the White House should comply with subpoenas for witnesses and documents issued by congressional committees investigating President Donald Trump and his administration. By nearly 2-1, they want to hear former special counsel Robert Mueller testify publicly about his inquiry into the 2016 election. A new USA TODAY/Suffolk […] Read more »
Joe Biden and the ‘electability’ delusion — and why the media keep making the same mistake
… CNN’s morning briefing newsletter recently called Biden “the most formidable threat” to President Trump’s reelection chances. CNN is far from alone. It’s common across the national media to see Biden pegged as the safest candidate for Democrats to put up to unseat Trump. He’s got that secret sauce: electability. […] Read more »