Control of the Senate is up for grabs and voting in the Georgia runoff ends Tuesday. Frank Luntz, pollster and political strategist, joined “Squawk Box” on Tuesday morning to discuss why he thinks Democrats will win the elections. CNBC The OPINION TODAY email newsletter is a concise daily rundown of significant new poll […] Read more »
GOP Likely Needs a Big Georgia Turnout Today
With Election Day voting underway in the crucial Senate runoffs in Georgia, we continue to see both races as Toss-ups. But after an early-voting period where Democrats may have performed better than they did in the lead-up to the November election, Republicans may need to follow suit with an impressive […] Read more »
Democrats Hope Georgia Will Become The Next Virginia, But It Could End Up Being The Next North Carolina
When Colorado, North Carolina and Virginia flipped to the Democratic side in the 2008 presidential election, it seemed like the start of a long-lasting shift. A Democratic Party increasingly synonymous with people of color, college graduates and urbanites appeared destined to win in states with growing, well-educated, racially diverse metropolises […] Read more »
Trump lost, but he won millions of new voters. Where did they come from?
In November, President Trump lost the election, but he found millions of new voters. Where did these new Trump voters come from? There is no simple answer, but we pored over the results and found some intriguing patterns. Trump increased his vote totals in every state. He saw his biggest […] Read more »
Georgia election will advance this fundamental change in US Senate
The one sure bet from Tuesday’s US Senate runoff elections in Georgia is that they will produce a Senate precariously balanced between the two parties, accelerating a fundamental change that is simultaneously making the institution more volatile and more rigid. Even if Republicans win both races, they will control the […] Read more »
Trump Has Made The Senate Races In Georgia Harder For Republicans
In a taped, hour-long phone call, President Trump asked Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” enough votes to overturn the outcome of the presidential election in Georgia and suggested Raffensperger and his lawyer could be criminally liable if they didn’t. … In this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics […] Read more »