In a “60 Minutes” interview Sunday night, Stormy Daniels described the affair she says she had with Donald Trump before he was president. Daniels said she was threatened with physical violence if she went public with the story. The FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast team debates how the media, and FiveThirtyEight in […] Read more »
Despite porn stars and Playboy models, white evangelicals aren’t rejecting Trump. This is why.
A porn actress says she had sex with Donald Trump, only a few months after his wife gave birth to a son. A former Playboy model says she had an affair with him, too. And yet according to a Pew Research Center poll conducted March 7-14, both white mainline and […] Read more »
CNN Poll: 42% approve of Trump, highest in 11 months
President Donald Trump’s approval rating has rebounded to its highest level since the 100-day mark of his presidency, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, even as his approval ratings for handling major issues remain largely negative. Overall, 42% approve of the way Trump is handling the presidency, […] Read more »
Has Trump Already Sealed the GOP’s Fate in 2018?
Every time Donald Trump breaks a window, congressional Republicans obediently sweep up the glass. That’s become one of the most predictable patterns of his turbulent presidency—and a defining dynamic of the approaching midterm elections. Each time they overtly defend his behavior, or implicitly excuse him by failing to object, they […] Read more »
Cambridge Analytica boasts of dirty tricks to swing elections
The company at the centre of the Facebook data breach boasted of using honey traps, fake news campaigns and operations with ex-spies to swing election campaigns around the world, a new investigation reveals. Executives from Cambridge Analytica spoke to undercover reporters from Channel 4 News about the dark arts used […] Read more »
Trump is attacking Mueller as faith in the special counsel is rising
President Trump has ratcheted up his criticism of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, calling out Mueller by name for the first time and asking if anyone thinks the investigation is fair given the investigative team includes “13 hardened Democrats” and “Zero […] Read more »