Nearly half of voters want President Trump impeached and removed from office, according to a new Fox News Poll. In addition, 6-in-10 believe the president did ask foreign leaders to investigate political opponents — and two-thirds say that action is inappropriate. … Among those opposing impeachment, 57 percent say nothing […] Read more »
How to Beat Trump in 2020: Democrats Can Still Seize the Center
President Trump is unpopular, but that doesn’t mean defeating him is going to be easy. Democrats will have to tackle issues that may alienate — and even give offense to — progressives, women, Latinos and African-Americans. Putting together a broad enough coalition to finish the job — to win 270 […] Read more »
How Democrats Come Back Again
For those political aficionados capable of prying themselves away from cable news and the web, two quite interesting but very different books are just out. RIP GOP: How the New America is Dooming the Republicans, by veteran Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg, was published last month. Greenberg has been a one-person […] Read more »
History may be kind to Republicans who break with Trump — but it doesn’t get a vote
Some Democrats and Trump-skeptical Republicans are confused about why more Republicans don’t support impeachment. The GOP has survived worse scrapes. And surely the Republicans secretly want to be free of their capricious, unpopular, not-really-that-conservative president now that they have gotten a bunch of judicial appointments out of him. Why not […] Read more »
Democrats far more likely than Republicans to see discrimination against blacks, not whites
Americans are more than twice as likely to say there is at least some discrimination against blacks in the U.S. (77%) as they are to say this about whites (36%). But these opinions differ substantially along partisan lines: Far larger shares of Democrats than Republicans say there is a lot […] Read more »
What We Learned From The First House Vote On Impeachment
Today’s House vote to formalize the impeachment process, spelling out its rules and procedures, isn’t the impeachment vote. That vote — on whether to make Donald Trump only the third-ever president to be impeached — will likely come later, after the House holds public hearings. But Thursday’s vote still told […] Read more »