Three in four Americans who tuned in to President Trump’s State of the Union address tonight approved of the speech he gave. Just a quarter disapproved. CONT. CBS News Read more »
Trump the pitchman: A prime-time hour to sell his vision and lift his poll numbers
President Trump will try to bring his pitchman’s A-game to his first State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress and a national television audience, though even the strongest performance may not sway many voters. Trump will have about 60 minutes of prime time Tuesday night to […] Read more »
Most Americans support DACA, but oppose border wall
Nearly nine in 10 Americans favor allowing young immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally as children to remain in the U.S. – a policy known as the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. … Three in four Americans find the remarks President Trump reportedly made about immigration from Haiti […] Read more »
White racial resentment has been gaining political power for decades
With his crude comment last week about Haiti and Africa, President Trump once again put race front and center in U.S. politics — as he has been doing since he launched his campaign. … Our research shows that racial attitudes have been increasingly influencing U.S. public opinion for at least […] Read more »
As Fissures Between Political Camps Grow, ‘Tribalism’ Emerges As The Word Of 2017
It’s word-of-the-year time again. … It’s striking how many of those are the words and phrases that warring political camps have been hurling at each other across our deepening national divide. The Trump presidency didn’t create that rift but it sort of made it official. … Wonkish terms like “hyper-polarization” […] Read more »
Trump veers past guardrails, feeling impervious to the uproar he causes
President Trump this week disseminated on social media three inflammatory and unverified anti-Muslim videos, took glee in the firing of a news anchor for sexual harassment allegations despite facing more than a dozen of his own accusers and used a ceremony honoring Navajo war heroes to malign a senator with […] Read more »