For decades, Republicans have galvanized voters around reshaping the Supreme Court and benefited from it at the ballot box. But in a stark reversal, polls indicate it is Democrats who have the edge in 2020. National and battleground state surveys taken before the death Friday of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg […] Read more »
The Senate’s Rural Skew Makes It Very Hard For Democrats To Win The Supreme Court
I don’t have a particularly strong take on how the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg will affect either the presidential election or the race for control of the U.S. Senate. And I’d encourage you to avoid putting too much stock in anybody else’s take for now, too. The very earliest […] Read more »
Impending SCOTUS Fight Could Split the Trump Coalition
In the hours since Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s passing, several analysts have speculated the new, colossal Supreme Court fight will help President Trump by rallying traditional GOP voters behind him and shifting the focus of 2020 from the mismanagement of COVID-19 to a more straightforward partisan cage match. That’s possible, […] Read more »
Ginsburg’s Death Further Polarizes Voters Just Weeks Before Election
The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg adds a volatile and unexpected element to a presidential campaign that for months had focused on President Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Instead of an election overwhelmingly seen as a referendum on Mr. Trump and his handling of the virus, interviews with […] Read more »
Ginsburg’s death crystallizes the choice in November as no other issue can
In a year that has included impeachment, a global pandemic, economic turmoil and a reckoning on race, the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg crystallizes the choice in November as perhaps none of the other issues can. … Ginsburg’s death changes the calculus for the campaign between President […] Read more »
Virus Pulls Down Trump, Poll Shows, and G.O.P. Senators Suffer With Him
President Trump’s mismanagement of the coronavirus pandemic has imperiled both his own re-election and his party’s majority in the Senate, and Republican lawmakers in crucial states like Arizona, North Carolina and Maine have fallen behind their Democratic challengers amid broad disapproval of the president, according to a poll conducted by […] Read more »