As the number of scandals in the White House racks up, with accusations that now-former top aide Rob Porter abused his ex-wives being the latest, some women who voted for President Trump are walking away from him. … The most recent Washington Post-ABC poll has found that approval from white […] Read more »
Why Democrats And Republicans Did A Sudden 180 On The FBI
President Trump is weighing allowing the release of the second of two memos addressing allegations of improper conduct by the FBI. The latest classified memo, drafted by Rep. Adam Schiff, the ranking Democrat on the House intelligence committee, allegedly defends the agency in a rebuttal to a memo that was […] Read more »
Trump’s Tool Kit Does Not Include the Constitution
Since before President Trump was elected — and with greater frequency afterward — historians, political scientists and journalists have wondered how autocratic our democracy might become. Here is some evidence of how the public sees it. Bright Line Watch, a consortium of political scientists formed after the 2016 election, just […] Read more »
The Nunes memo is looking like a bust for Trump
If President Trump was looking for the Nunes memo to be a silver bullet that would undermine the Russia investigation, he’d better keep looking. A new Quinnipiac University poll — the first full high-quality poll conducted almost completely after the Nunes memo’s release Friday — shows very little change in […] Read more »
Nunes’ real revelation: Trump is changing the GOP, not the other way around
The real message of the memo released last week by Rep. Devin Nunes assailing the FBI and Department of Justice is that Donald Trump is changing the Republican Party far more than it is changing him. The memo from Nunes, chair of the House Intelligence Committee, failed to deliver revelations […] Read more »
FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcast: Has Trump Remade The GOP?
This week, the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast discusses whether the Nunes memo was much ado about nothing — and even if it is, whether it could still cause political consequences. The crew also discusses whether Trump has molded the GOP in his image and what it takes to shift a party’s […] Read more »