The WSJ poll showed that when the general election field is expanded to include third-party and independent candidates - as it will be in real life - Trump's lead over Biden widens to six percentage points, at 37% to 31%. Just 23% of survey respondents said Biden's policies as...
A few times in 2024, Trump and the NRCC endorsed against potentially strong female candidates, including some who would have been shoo-ins in a general election. In North Carolina's 13th District, a safe red seat, Kelly Daughtry received the most votes in the primary and qualifi...
kaleigh(Kaleigh Rogers, politics reporter):Here’s my hot take for 2024: Biden has a better shot againstsome of the front-runners like Trump and DeSantisthan against one of the currently-less-hot candidates. He’s an incumbent candidate whose approval rating is nothing to write home about,ev...
They're presenting who has a "real chance." Well, the primary support for candidates other than Trump ranges in 37%-55%. That's the chance. It doesn't make the single non-Trump candidate the favorite, but it gives him or her a real chance. "I wish it need not have happened in...
New Hampshire Republicans went to the polls Tuesday to vote in the first 2024 primary election, choosing between the two remaining major candidates. Ron DeSantis dropped his bid for the presidency on Sunday and announced his endorsement of Trump, but was still on the ballot. ...
Nov 2024 Turns out, the double haters went for Donald Trump. You probably heard a lot about them in this election — the voters who have unfavorable opinions of both candidates. About 8 percent of voters ended up fitting this category. And depending...
Why? Because in 2022, we got a close-up comparison of how these two types of Ohio Republican candidates fare in a general statewide election. And it wasn’t even close. 2022 results made it clear that Ohio general election voters greatly preferred the more establishment GOP candidates. ...
They were important questions that all the candidates needed to answer.And I thought she did a great job. The whole debate overall, I thought was really good.Maybe it's a low hurdle to clear. To say it's the best one of the four.But I thought, look, if you take it out of the ...
GDP The claim struggles when looking at GDP. If the2020 pandemicis excluded, growth after inflation under Trump averaged just over 2.5%, according to figures from theWorld Bank. Including the time period after COVID spread, that average drops by almost a percentage point. By comparison,...
The small number of higher magistracies in comparison to the growing number of eligible candidates often led to a fierce competition within the political elite. To secure a win, competitors running for office made use of a whole spectrum of methods which often overstepped the...