On Thursday, the White House hosted a summit of right-wing social media gadflies designed to highlight purported bias by major tech and social media companies. While this event seemed uniquely Trumpian with its inclusion of conspiracy theorists and peddlers of nutty ideas — people like Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft, Project […] Read more »
An early look at the 2020 class of swing voters
The vast majority of American voters are locked in on their feelings about President Trump and whether they will support him or a Democrat in the 2020 general election. Believe it or not, a sizable share of voters’ 2020 support is not set in stone. … We took a closer […] Read more »
Is There Anyone Who Can Unite the Democrats Besides Trump?
… These days, it’s a given that Democratic candidates are going to be on the liberal side on issues like immigration, health care, school and housing desegregation, affirmative action, voting rights, criminal justice reform, taxes, guns and so on. It’s also a given that this stance often involves disruption of […] Read more »
Actually, Trump and his party don’t care about the kids in cages
… The question — do Republicans care about the suffering of asylum seekers? — should not be considered rhetorical. It is becoming increasingly clear that Republicans and evangelical conservatives specifically don’t care about “the stranger” fleeing oppression. That’s effectively what the data tell us. In a recent CNN poll, 93 […] Read more »
Obamacare’s fate will be at stake at 2020 ballot box as well as in court
The extended battle over the Affordable Care Act will push deeper into uncharted waters Tuesday, when lawyers from a coalition of Republican-controlled states and the Trump administration argue for overturning the law in a federal court. With this legal challenge — and promises from President Donald Trump that he will […] Read more »
Rating changes: Texas and Minnesota Senate races shift the Democrats’ way
The fight for Senate control is still taking shape and, less than 16 months before Election Day, two states appear to moving in the Democrats’ direction on the battlefield. CONT. Nathan L. Gonzales, Roll Call Read more »