Donald Trump’s new gender policy proposals — which would bar federal agencies from promoting “the concept of sex and gender transition at any age” and require the government to recognize male and female, as assigned at birth, as the only genders — are aimed both at his fervent base and […] Read more »
How an old debate previews Biden’s new strategy for winning senior voters
… Whether Biden proves more effective than other recent Democrats at attracting older voters around Social Security and Medicare will likely pivot on whether seniors believe the GOP genuinely would cut the programs if given the power to do so, argued Robert Blendon, a professor emeritus at the Harvard School […] Read more »
Red & Blue Special Edition: Focus Group about Election Integrity
CBS News Chief Washington Correspondent Major Garrett participates in a focus group about the 2020 election and the integrity of U.S. elections moderated by Frank Luntz and hosted by Arizona State University, the University of Southern California and Arizona PBS. CBS News The OPINION TODAY email newsletter is a concise daily rundown of […] Read more »
Feeling ‘overwhelmed’ and ‘fatigue,’ some GOP voters look beyond Trump
Nearly all of the focus group participants had supported Donald Trump in 2020 and said they would vote for him again against President Biden in 2024. But things got complicated when the moderator asked for the one emotion they now felt when they saw Trump on television or computers screens. […] Read more »
Our system doesn’t act even when we agree. That’s killing us.
When friends of the United States abroad enumerate aspects of our politics they simply can’t understand, I’ve found they often point to the inability of our democracy to deal comprehensively with the mass slaughter our permissive gun laws enable. Every new outrage — including the recent incidents in Arkabutla, Miss., […] Read more »
Primary voters aren’t excited about Biden or Trump. What does that mean for 2024?
The first phase of the 2024 presidential primary season is officially underway, bringing with it a cavalcade of early polling designed to answer a seemingly basic question: whether President Joe Biden and his predecessor, Donald Trump, have the support of their respective parties. That topic, though, is more complicated than […] Read more »