I said yesterday that I thought we likely weren’t far away from the first national poll which showed Donald Trump’s approval number dipping into the 30s. And here we are: AP-NORC 39% approve, 59% disapprove. I’ve said repeatedly that we are in the midst of a lengthy national struggle and that it is fundamentally over […]
Another 39% Approval Poll
New ABC/WAPO poll shows similar story to AP-NORC poll: Trump dipping below 40% approval for the first time in his second administration. 39% approve, 55% disapprove. A CNN/SSRS poll shows him with 41% approval and 59% disapproval. In that poll, 22% strongly approve and 45% strongly disapprove.
Politics Podcast: Is Donald Trump The Inevitable GOP Nominee?
By Galen Druke, Leah Askarinam, G. Elliott Morris and Nathaniel Rakich, Galen Druke, Leah Askarinam, G. Elliott Morris and Nathaniel Rakich, Galen Druke, Leah Askarinam, G. Elliott Morris and Nathaniel Rakich and Galen Druke, Leah Askarinam, G. Elliott Morris and Nathaniel Rakich More: Apple Podcasts | ESPN App | RSS | Amazon Music | […]
Should We Trust Polls Campaigns Leak To The Press?
Now that we are on the other side of Labor Day and summer is subsiding, this is — as tradition goes — when focus on political campaigns really begins to heat up. The off-year elections this November will get some attention, but the main attraction is still the 2024 Republican presidential primary. In this installment […]
Aging Politicians Are Only Going To Get More Common
Age Aging Politicians Are Only Going To Get More Common By Monica Potts Sep. 7, 2023, at 6:00 AM Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s recent freezes in front of cameras, in conjunction with the comparatively advanced ages of the two presidential front-runners, has American voters thinking about politicians’ ages. Drew Angerer / Getty Images Presidents […]
Ron DeSantis Probably Didn’t Turn Florida Red
Ron DeSantis Ron DeSantis Probably Didn’t Turn Florida Red The state was already changing in big ways before he was elected governor. By Nathaniel Rakich Sep. 11, 2023, at 2:34 PM ABC News Photo Illustration / Win McNamee / Getty Images In his presidential campaign, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has pitched himself as a transformational […]
Politics Podcast: Polling Silly Season Begins
FiveThirtyEight More: Apple Podcasts | ESPN App | RSS | Amazon Music | Spotify Among the most politically tuned-in, last week saw the kind of hand-wringing and accusations of bias surrounding the polls that you’d usually expect from the final two months of a campaign, not the final year and two months of a campaign. The […]
Why Biden Is Losing Support Among Voters Of Color
Among the most politically tuned-in, last week saw the kind of hand-wringing and accusations of bias surrounding the polls that you’d usually expect from the final two months of a campaign, not the final year and two months of a campaign. The focus was largely on general election polls: Whether a Wall Street Journal poll […]
Why ‘Bidenomics’ Isn’t Working For Biden
2024 Election Why ‘Bidenomics’ Isn’t Working For Biden The economy is improving, but Americans aren’t giving Biden credit for it. A FiveThirtyEight Chat Sep. 12, 2023, at 4:07 PM Welcome to FiveThirtyEight’s politics chat. The transcript below has been lightly edited. nrakich (Nathaniel Rakich, senior elections analyst): For a long time, the economy has been […]
The Senate Is Losing One Of Its Few Remaining Moderate Republicans
2024 Election The Senate Is Losing One Of Its Few Remaining Moderate Republicans Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah isn’t seeking a second term, and his potential successors are generally more conservative. By Nathaniel Rakich Sep. 13, 2023, at 6:40 PM In his announcement that he would not seek a second term, Utah Sen. Mitt Romney […]
The Second GOP Debate Could Be Smaller, With Or Without Trump
2024 Republican Debates The Second GOP Debate Could Be Smaller, With Or Without Trump Six of the eight candidates from the first debate appear set to qualify for the Sept. 27 event. By Geoffrey Skelley Sep. 14, 2023, at 6:00 AM Eight Republican candidates participated in the party’s first primary debate in August. But the […]
What Americans Think Of The Biden Impeachment Inquiry
Impeachment What Americans Think Of The Biden Impeachment Inquiry Most aren’t convinced President Biden is implicated in his son’s wrongdoing. By Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux Sep. 14, 2023, at 3:41 PM Photo Illustration by ABC News / Getty Images Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly-ish polling roundup. It’s officially impeachment season again. On Tuesday, House Majority Leader Kevin […]
GOP Rep. says Trump ‘does not want’ agenda bill ‘to be a health care bill’
House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith (R-Mo.) on Sunday said that President Trump “does not want” the “one big, beautiful bill” encompassing his agenda “to be a health care bill.” “Medicaid … all falls underneath the Energy and Commerce Committee, not Ways and Means,” Smith said when asked about cuts to Medicaid via the […]
Hakeem Jeffries and Cory Booker livestream sit-in against GOP funding plan
Democratic House leader and New Jersey senator protest on steps of US Capitol over proposed Republican budget House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries and New Jersey senator Cory Booker were holding a sit-in protest and discussion on Sunday on the steps of the US Capitol in opposition to Republicans’ proposed budget plan. Billed as an “Urgent […]
Politics chat: Trump meets Zelenskyy, China denies being in negotiations with U.S.
The Trump administration is in active negotiations for a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine but does not seem to be in talks with China over trade.
The next AOC? Young Democrats are aiming to topple incumbents inside their own party
Frustrated with their party’s response to President Trump, young Democrats are challenging incumbents in safe blue districts ahead of next year’s midterm elections.
Former Trump economic advisor: tariffs are ‘highly regressive,’ will impact lower class
Gary Cohn, a former Trump administration economic advisor, said the president’s tariffs will be “highly regressive” and hurt the lower class the most. Cohn joined CBS News’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday morning, just after President Trump posted online that once tariffs cut in, many people who make less than $200,000 annually will see their […]
Live updates: Peace talks continue in Ukraine-Russia war; Congress tries to pass Trump’s agenda
The United States continues to facilitate peace negotiation discussions between Russia and Ukraine, but top U.S. officials, including President Trump, warned that if substantial progress is not achieved soon, Washington will pull back from its mediating role. Trump contended that Russia’s President Vladimir Putin might not want to achieve peace in Eastern Europe after all, following a series […]
Cartels and terrorists love American art — and the money it hides
For sophisticated criminals, high-end artworks are more than just pretty pictures. Latin American cartels, a major Hezbollah financier and powerful Russian oligarchs have all exploited the luxury art world to evade sanctions and launder potentially billions of dollars globally each year. The U.S. is by far the world’s largest art market, but it is also […]
Trump v 60 Minutes is a stunning battle for the soul of US media
President’s tensions with CBS show barely scratch surface of crusade against media he calls ‘enemy of the people’ Donald Trump’s battle with a US media he considers an “enemy of the people” has been a signature fight of his second term in office, sparking warnings of an erosion of press freedoms in America and fears […]
