Democrats are increasingly in support of impeaching President Donald Trump and removing him from office but the majority of Americans remain opposed to the prospect, a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS shows. Trump’s approval rating, meanwhile, holds exactly even with where it was in late April — 43% approve […] Read more »
Democrats in Trump districts face split-screen reality on impeachment
While Washington was in a frenzy Wednesday over special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s first public comments about his investigation and President Trump, 800 miles away, in rural central Illinois, Democratic Rep. Cheri Bustos navigated an alternative political universe. She dedicated a post office to a fallen Marine. She toured […] Read more »
Why Robert Mueller Should Testify on TV
… After Mr. Mueller submitted his report, he made the doomed assumption of many a longform journalist: That people would read his full work and draw conclusions then and only then. That allowed Attorney General William P. Barr to become the editor who writes the clickbait headline for all the […] Read more »
Why Nancy Pelosi’s impeachment strategy is politically smart
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s public statement on Wednesday seemingly left House Speaker Nancy Pelosi between a rock and a hard place. … After Mueller’s statement, Pelosi again decided to strike a center chord. She didn’t call for impeachment proceedings to begin, but indicated such action may be necessary in the […] Read more »
Is Pelosi’s Trump Strategy Working?
Last week House Speaker Nancy Pelosi amped up criticism of President Trump, while tamping down calls for impeachment from within her own caucus. The FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast crew debates the efficacy of her reportedly intentional strategy. They also weigh the usefulness of a new poll matching Biden up against his […] Read more »
For Pelosi, the biggest test awaits: Impeach or not impeach?
House Democrats, under the leadership of Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), are slowly marching themselves toward the opening of an impeachment inquiry against President Trump. What seemed out of the question earlier in the year seems, if not inevitable, increasingly difficult to resist. … Pelosi knows that public opinion overall is […] Read more »