The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly disrupted everyday life, including elections and campaigning. As polls and campaign momentum shift day to day and the country reckons with racism after the killing of George Floyd, candidates are increasingly finding themselves in uncharted waters. … On July 15, Governance Studies at Brookings will […] Read more »
Majority Again Think ‘Worst is Yet to Come’ in Pandemic
This release features findings from a national online survey of 1,013 registered voters conducted June 18-22, 2020. • Trump’s approval ratings remain negative across a range of metrics and are deeply underwater among independents.• The share that thinks the country is “off on the wrong track” has reached a new […] Read more »
The Black Lives Matter protests preview the politics of a diversifying America
The movement against police mistreatment of African Americans is broadening far beyond its core support in the Black community, with potentially landmark consequences both for the movement itself and the younger generations of Americans who have fueled this spring’s massive wave of protests. After years in which polls showed that […] Read more »
The Supreme Court said LGBT discrimination in the workplace should be illegal. Roughly 70% of Republicans agree.
The Supreme Court ruled Monday in Bostock v. Clayton County that workplace discrimination against LGBT individuals is illegal discrimination on “the basis of sex” under the Civil Rights Act of 1964. … It is hard to know whether judges lead public opinion, or public opinion leads judges, or something else […] Read more »
‘We’re thinking landslide’: Beyond D.C., GOP officials see Trump on glide path to reelection
By most conventional indicators, Donald Trump is in danger of becoming a one-term president. The economy is a wreck, the coronavirus persists, and his poll numbers have deteriorated. But throughout the Republican Party’s vast organization in the states, the operational approach to Trump’s re-election campaign is hardening around a fundamentally […] Read more »
The Tea Party’s Last Stand
… Months ago, President Trump tweeted, “liberate” Minnesota, Michigan, and Virginia and “save your great 2nd Amendment.” The national conservative funding network and Fox News jumped in to promote the protests, but the hundreds who joined the capitol protests fell far short of the Tea Party protests against President Barack […] Read more »