The fatal shooting of 19 children and two adults on Tuesday in Uvalde, Texas, has shocked the country, evoking memories of other tragic school shootings such as Columbine, Newtown and Parkland, and renewing calls for Congress to do something. But the response to those calls from many Republican lawmakers is […] Read more »
Redistricting: The Overall Picture, Plus a Look at NY and MO
Key Points• With the national House map nearly complete, it appears that the overall map still leans toward Republicans.• However, this GOP bias is not nearly as strong as it was a decade ago.• We rate and analyze the new Missouri and New York congressional maps. CONTINUED Kyle Kondik & […] Read more »
The Real Reason America Doesn’t Have Gun Control
After each of the repeated mass shootings that now provide a tragic backbeat to American life, the same doomed dance of legislation quickly begins. As the outraged demands for action are inevitably derailed in Congress, disappointed gun-control advocates, and perplexed ordinary citizens, point their fingers at the influence of the […] Read more »
3 reasons Trump’s influence took a big hit in Tuesday’s primaries
You’d be hard-pressed to find two Republican incumbents who drew more of former President Donald Trump’s ire than Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. But both won by huge margins in their primaries Tuesday against handpicked, Trump-recruited challengers who campaigned on his election lies. … […] Read more »
New data shows how ‘great replacement’ overlaps with other racial fears
The political utility of the “great replacement theory” is that it combines two potent, emotionally charged issues on the right. That “theory” — that there is a nefarious group of people hoping to bring immigrants into the United States to shift the nation’s politics to the left — overlaps with […] Read more »
61% of Trump voters agree with idea behind ‘great replacement’ conspiracy theory
A new Yahoo News/YouGov poll shows that more than 6 in 10 Donald Trump voters (61%) agree that “a group of people in this country are trying to replace native-born Americans with immigrants and people of color who share their political views” — a core tenet of the false conspiracy […] Read more »