President Joe Biden on Tuesday warned voters unhappy with soaring inflation and his stalled domestic agenda against turning power over to “ultra-MAGA” Republicans in the midterm elections as he increasingly tries to cast former President Donald Trump and his adherents as a political foil. … Biden’s branding of his opposition […] Read more »
Americans’ Concerns About War in Ukraine: Wider Conflict, Possible U.S.-Russia Clash
As the conflict between Russia and Ukraine enters its third month, most Americans say they support actions taken by the Biden administration in response to the Russian invasion, such as placing strict economic sanctions on Russia, sending military equipment and weapons to Ukraine and stationing large numbers of U.S. military […] Read more »
Biden Approval Rating Near Lows As Inflation’s Bite Sharpens
President Joe Biden’s approval rating slid back near February’s low point as inflation-related stress on household finances intensified, the May IBD/TIPP Poll finds. … Including the full survey group, 39% of American adults approve how Biden is handling the presidency, and 47% disapprove. … Approval of Biden’s economic policies returned […] Read more »
Trumpism is terrible. It also might be popular.
Authoritarianism, American-style fascism, Trumpism — or whatever other term you choose for the radical turn that the American right has taken — is terrible for our nation and the world. But something can be both terrible and popular. … I think the most important explanation is that the sentiments that […] Read more »
The strategy behind Biden’s new language about Republicans
… In 2018 and 2020, Democrats ran successfully against Trump’s unpopular persona and agenda. But he’s neither president nor on the ballot now, facts that undercut Democratic attempts to use him as the foil in Virginia’s gubernatorial race last fall. That’s when the liberal Center for American Progress began exploring […] Read more »
McLaughlin Poll: Biden’s High Disapproval the Same and Eroding His Political Base
Our national poll of 1,000 likely voters conducted between April 22, to 26, shows that over the past four months President Joe Biden’s low approval rating and high disapproval rating has remained the same since January – approve 41%, disapprove 57%. Joe Biden’s ratings crashed after his surrender of Afghanistan, […] Read more »