Six in 10 Americans in an ABC News/Washington Post poll say the new Democratic majority in the House should make use of its authority to obtain and publicly release Donald Trump’s tax returns, while about as many support other Democratic-led investigations of the president. Beyond the tax issue, 57 to […] Read more »
Fox News Poll: President Trump’s ratings after two years in office
President Donald Trump took office January 20, 2017. The Fox News Poll checked in with voters about how things are going for the administration after two years. Here are six takeaways. CONT. Dana Blanton, Fox News Read more »
More Americans now see Mueller probe as justified, CBS News poll finds
More Americans think the Russia investigation is justified than say it is politically motivated, the first time that’s happened in CBS News polling. Still, Republicans continue to take the President’s view on the matter, and a majority of Americans — including most Democrats — think Democrats in Congress should focus […] Read more »
Could A Slew Of New Congressional Investigations Erode Trump’s Approval Rating?
Investigation season is here. The House Oversight and Reform Committee announced Michael Cohen, the president’s former lawyer, will testify publicly on Feb. 7, which will be followed the next day in the House Judiciary Committee by public testimony from acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker. … At their core, congressional investigations […] Read more »
What Lessons Should the Media Learn From the 2016 Election?
In the Sunday edition of the New York Times, Frank Bruni offered an excellent summary of media failures regarding coverage of Donald Trump in 2016, and urged his colleagues not to make the same mistakes in 2020. Is it possible for the political media to follow this advice? And what […] Read more »
The real value of Paul Manafort’s polling data
… When Paul Manafort allegedly shared “polling data” with Konstantin V. Kilimnik, a Russian businessman and former military interpreter who the FBI says has “ties to a Russian intelligence service,” many Americans may have shrugged and thought “so what?” To them, polling data is the result of simple surveys that […] Read more »