It’s now been almost two weeks since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced an impeachment inquiry. In the past week, the House began taking testimony, at least one more whistleblower came forward, and FiveThirtyEight launched our impeachment polling tracker. In this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, the crew takes a […] Read more »
Polls begin to signal rising impeachment threat to Trump
Modern polling usually tells us how public opinion hasn’t moved. Despite last week’s hailstorm of bad news, President Donald Trump’s job approval rating stood virtually unchanged. So did the president’s backing from Republican elected officials in Washington. Except for Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah and a few others, GOP members […] Read more »
Democrats Hold Edge in Party Affiliation in 3rd Quarter
More Americans continue to identify as Democrats or as “Democratic-leaning” independents than as Republicans or “Republican-leaning” independents. The current 47% to 42% Democratic edge is largely in line with what Gallup has measured over the past five years. CONT. Jeffrey M. Jones, Gallup Read more »
Nate Silver: Is impeachment energizing Trump’s base?
FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver looks at what the polls say about the impact of the impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump. This Week, ABC News Read more »
‘Out on a limb’: Inside the Republican reckoning over Trump’s possible impeachment
A torrent of impeachment developments has triggered a reckoning in the Republican Party, paralyzing many of its officeholders as they weigh their political futures, legacies and, ultimately, their allegiance to a president who has held them captive. … A Republican strategist who is close with several senators and spoke on […] Read more »
GOP unlikely to reprise role it played in Nixon’s 1974 exit
On Aug. 7, 1974, three top Republican leaders in Congress paid a solemn visit to President Richard Nixon at the White House, bearing the message that he faced near-certain impeachment due to eroding support in his own party on Capitol Hill. Nixon, who’d been entangled in the Watergate scandal for […] Read more »