Trump still dominates 2024 field, DeSantis surges into 2nd

Fabrizio, Lee & Associates recently completed a nationwide survey of n=800 known registered Republicans or voters who affiliate as Republicans. In this survey, as we found in our February survey, former President Trump remains the clear top choice to be the Republican nominee for President in 2024. The only significant […] Read more »

‘It’s His Own Damn Fault,’ Top G.O.P. Pollster Says of Trump and Facebook

… The guest on this episode of “Sway” is Frank Luntz, the veteran Republican pollster and strategist who shot to fame with his Fox News focus groups. Luntz says Trump has no one but himself to blame for losing his social media status and the presidency as well as the […] Read more »

White working-class politics

Analysts have been debating the politics of America’s white working-class for years with little net increase in knowledge. The whole discussion assumes a fact not fully in evidence — that membership in the “white working-class” is a politically relevant identity; that it is causally related to voting behavior. Maybe, but […] Read more »

Can Biden deliver on his bipartisan promises?

Newly minted President Biden made a pledge for unity in his inaugural address Wednesday, a stirring speech that reflected his desire to calm the roiling divisions enveloping the country. But the biggest test of whether he’ll be successful is if he’s willing to compromise with sizable Republican minorities, who remain […] Read more »

After Capitol siege, majority of Americans say Trump should be removed from office before term ends

A majority of the country believes President Donald Trump should be removed before President-elect Joe Biden is sworn in on Jan. 20 and two-thirds hold him accountable for the violent insurrection on Capitol Hill, according to an ABC News/Ipsos poll released Sunday. In the new survey, which was conducted by […] Read more »

The day Trump broke the GOP

Republicans started the day losing the Senate. They ended it with President Donald Trump’s supporters losing their minds. Jan. 6, 2021 might have been remembered for an intraparty battle over whether to certify Joe Biden’s election win or who to blame for the Georgia defeats. But instead it will go […] Read more »