Why Republicans Now Want GOP to Unite Behind TrumpAfter months of trying to stop Donald Trump through winnowing,outright attacks, and devising...Haq, Husna
Yet Trump’s party has not urged him to step aside for the good of the country, as Biden’s did. And much of the press is doing the American people a disservice by treating Trump’s obvious cognitive slippage as just “Trump being Trump.” Yes, the press has a lot to wrestle with ...
Did Donald Trump look a little orange during Thursday's presidential debate?We aren't talking about his signature locks.According to Google Trends data, one of the top search questions about the GOP presidential front-runner was, "Why is Donald Trump orange?"At the 2014 White House Corresponden...
But it’s also the case that Trump’s continued dominance over the GOP violates a potentially key assumption behind the “midterm curse,” which is that a party usually tries to pivot away from its losing candidates.Sometimes that pivot involves providing voters a menu of new policy options,...
Other GOP donors are still sitting on the sidelines. "There are people I've spoken to that are still sitting on the fence, that don't know what to do. They dislike the person Trump, but they recognize that the talent is there," Marcus said, adding that he believ...
“[T]he merits of the case they hoped to bring to the Senate were widely seen as lacking substance,” CNN’s Gregory Krieg, Ted Barrett, Annie Grayer, Clare Foran and Morgan Rimmer report.“House GOP claims that Mayorkas, the first Latino and immigrant to hold the job, committ...
an awkward spot. A handful of Democrats spoke at the Republican National Convention, but they hadn't been elected to federal or statewide office. The bottom line became unavoidable: Biden has considerably more Republican support -- from high-profile GOP voices -- than Trump does from Democrats....
Trump’s far out positions and inconsistencies told TPM that “it would be nice if the lower-tier vanity campaigns would end” as a way to solidify GOP support around an alternative to Trump. So far, however, there is no indication anyone in the GOP is trying — or would be able — ...
Politics The Second GOP Debate Could Be Smaller, With Or Without Trump Read Now “Republicans know that white voters are upwards of 80 percent of their voters, so everything is targeted toward them,” said Bernard Fraga, a political scientist at Emory University. At the same ...
If you, like us here at FiveThirtyEight, were initially skeptical of Donald Trump’s chances of winning the GOP nomination in part because you assumed that the R…