With less than 100 days remaining before the November 2020 presidential election, former Vice President Joe Biden has opened up a huge thirty-nine-point lead over President Donald Trump among likely voters in California. According to the latest Berkeley IGS Poll completed online in English and Spanish last week, 67% of […] Read more »
4 ways Biden’s running mate could help — or hurt — the Democratic ticket
We know that Joe Biden’s vice presidential pick will be a female and that the announcement is coming very soon. Beyond that, it’s a mystery, though several contenders have emerged, including Sen. Kamala Harris, Rep. Karen Bass and Susan Rice, among others. Presidential nominees of the past have taken very […] Read more »
Biden’s Big Lead, Kasich at DNC, Veepstakes
Joe and sidekick Alex Shashlo start by diving into the double-digit lead Biden holds over President Trump in national polls and why this truly is different from 2016. Joe weighs in on the “secret Trump voter,” and why the Biden campaign buying ads in Texas could be brilliant. CONT. That […] Read more »
How Trump Could Improve His Electoral Odds
In this week’s FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, the team considers various strategies that President Trump and Republicans could use to improve their electoral prospects this fall — ranging from a new running mate to a vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court. FiveThirtyEight Read more »
About that running mate: 72% of Democrats say it’s ‘important’ Biden pick woman of color
Seven of 10 Democrats in the new USA TODAY/Suffolk Poll say it is important to them that presumptive nominee Joe Biden picks a woman of color as his running mate on the Democratic presidential ticket this fall. A third of Democrats, among both Black and white Americans, call it “very […] Read more »
Biden Is Getting a Lot of Advice on His V.P. Here’s What Voters Think.
Joseph R. Biden Jr. appears to face limited political pressure from voters about whom to choose as his running mate, with no contender emerging as a clear favorite and the great majority of people saying that race should not be a factor in his decision, according to polling conducted by […] Read more »