Key Points• As Joe Biden marks a year in office, he has found himself in a perilous position, and there are no obvious signs of improvement.• Among Biden’s challenges is an apparently weakened position among nonwhite voters as well as younger voters, two immensely important pillars of the Democratic coalition.• […] Read more »
Why Millions Think It Is Trump Who Cannot Tell a Lie
Why is Donald Trump’s big lie so hard to discredit? This has been a live question for more than a year, but inside it lies another: Do Republican officials and voters actually believe Trump’s claim that Joe Biden stole the 2020 election by corrupting ballots — the same ballots that […] Read more »
A Year after Inauguration, Biden Faces a More Critical and Pessimistic Public
Confidence in President Joe Biden’s ability to effectively manage the White House has declined during his first year in office. Half of Americans don’t think of Biden as a strong leader or someone who understands their needs and problems. Nonetheless, most Americans think both Biden and Vice President Harris have […] Read more »
Biden’s first-year report card: just like Trump’s
Joe Biden pitched himself as the antithesis of Donald Trump, but the president is ending his first year in office with a similarly dismal report card from voters as his predecessor. Like Trump, more voters gave Biden a failing mark at the quarter mark of his term than those who […] Read more »
America’s shift to the right in 2021 is worse news for Democrats than it seems
… Democrats have repeatedly hoped that Trump would prove so poisonous that the electorate would turn against the GOP. It worked in 2018, when the midterms served as a repudiation of Trump’s politics. It didn’t work in 2016, though, when Trump first won, and it offered only limited utility in […] Read more »
One Year Later, Americans Describe the Capitol Insurrectionists as “Stupid,” “Idiots,” “Terrorists”
In the immediate wake of the January 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection, we asked Americans how they would describe those people who stormed the Capitol. At the time, the most common word Americans used to describe people involved in the storming was, by far, “terrorists.” People also frequently used words like […] Read more »