Support for Democratic House candidates has ticked up slightly to 50%, according to a CNN poll conducted by SSRS and released Wednesday. The percentage of voters who said Democrats when asked which party they’ll support in November was up three points since CNN’s May poll, and Democrats have a sizable […] Read more »
Voters More Focused on Control of Congress – and the President – Than in Past Midterms
The congressional elections are more than four months away, but voter engagement is high when compared with comparable points in previous midterm cycles. And a record share of registered voters (68%) say the issue of which party controls Congress will be a factor in their vote in November. … In […] Read more »
Women are the wave, but also the wall, for Democrats in 2018
… Polls during Donald Trump’s presidency consistently show a huge gender gap, with women routinely expressing more negative views than men of Trump’s performance, and a greater preference for Democrats in Congress. Big segments of the female population — including African-American, millennial and college-educated white women — are displaying towering […] Read more »
Forget Tax Cuts. Trump Wants to Rally G.O.P. Base Over Immigration
As Republicans try to keep their midterm election strategy focused on the economy, tax cuts and falling unemployment, President Trump sent his clearest signal yet on Monday that he intends to make divisive, racially charged issues like immigration central going into the campaign season. … “People don’t turn out to […] Read more »
Moderate GOP voices on immigration are at risk of a November wipeout in the House
House Republicans are at risk of losing several of their members in the midterm elections who are more moderate on the issue of immigration. Immigration has re-emerged as part of the national conversation in recent weeks as lawmakers in Congress attempted to address the fate of those immigrants affected by […] Read more »
As Trump’s zero-tolerance immigration policy backfires, Republicans are in jeopardy
If President Trump’s new “zero-tolerance” policy of separating immigrant children from their parents at the border was intended to pressure Democrats, it is backfiring badly—among Democrats, as expected, but among Republicans as well. Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post, whose editorial page consistently backs the president, wrote on Sunday that “It’s […] Read more »