For two long days, President Trump’s responses to the violent events in Charlottesville has been recorded as a disaster. … Trump has been here before. The president’s ability to dive into controversies and come safely out the other end has given pause to critics, right and left, who wonder how […] Read more »
Charlottesville, Race and Trump
In a week marked with tragedy, heightened race relations, and political fallout, the Poll Hub team takes an in-depth look at the new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist Poll of Americans on the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, Virginia and the deadly violence that followed. Marist College Institute for Public Opinion Read more »
Partisan divide over Trump’s response to Charlottesville
Nearly two-thirds of Americans consider the attack that led to loss of life in Charlottesville an act of “domestic terrorism,” a view that spans partisan lines. But President Trump’s response to Charlottesville finds more division. CONT. CBS News Read more »
How Trump’s Reaction to Charlottesville Threatens the GOP
From his first days as a presidential candidate, the gravest political risk Donald Trump has presented the GOP is that he would stamp it as a party of racial and social intolerance precisely as the most diverse and inclusive generations in American history—the Millennials and the post-Millennials behind them—are growing […] Read more »
Trump’s Charlottesville response not in line with majority of Americans, poll shows
As politicians and influential business leaders weigh in on President Trump’s comments on Charlottesville, how is the American public responding? Political correspondent Lisa Desjardins joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss a new PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist poll about the clashes and the president’s comments, how lawmakers of his own party are speaking out, […] Read more »
Americans’ views of trade aren’t just about economics. They’re also about race.
As U.S. trade officials gear up this week to begin renegotiating NAFTA, the trade pact with Canada and Mexico, what do voters really think about trade agreements? … In my new book, “American Opinion on Trade,” I found that one influence on support for protectionism is a factor that others […] Read more »