Key Points• Joe Biden and Donald Trump voters feel strongly but in opposite directions on the topic of discrimination, with Biden voters expressing concern about discrimination against minorities, while Trump voters worry that discrimination against whites will increase significantly in the next few years. (see Table 1 below)• Whereas Biden […] Read more »
A Return to Normal or a “New” Normal?
The central premise and promise of the Biden campaign in 2020 was that he’d return things to normal. But, normal meant different things to different people. For some ‘normal’ meant a return to a pre-Trumpian model of presidential leadership; one with more gravitas and stability and less drama, chaos and […] Read more »
A Foreign Policy for the Middle Class—What Americans Think
… As the president wrote in the 2021 Interim National Security Strategic Guidance, “America is back. Diplomacy is back. Alliances are back.” Do the American people believe that America is back? And do they support the policies laid out in the Biden administration’s Foreign Policy for the Middle Class? The […] Read more »
Trump True Believers Have Their Reasons
Just who believes the claim that Donald Trump won in 2020 and that the election was stolen from him? Who are these tens of millions of Americans, and what draws them into this web of delusion? Three sources provided The Times with survey data: the University of Massachusetts-Amherst Poll, P.R.R.I. […] Read more »
Beating up on Manchin and Sinema won’t fix the Biden agenda
… When your political strategy isn’t working, the answer isn’t to dig in and double down but to rethink your strategy and the policies driving it. But our current president and his Democratic Congress don’t seem capable of rethinking much of anything, much less considering the possibility that the extreme […] Read more »
Two-thirds of Republicans want Trump to retain major political role; 44% want him to run again in 2024
Two-thirds of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents say they would like to see former President Donald Trump continue to be a major political figure for many years to come, including 44% who say they would like him to run for president in 2024, according to a Pew Research Center survey of […] Read more »