States can recall votes, and citizens can impeach bad candidates. The major check is “We the People.” The candidates have terms to their offices, and we get to vote for who will serve the next term
In 2022, Harris personally cast the tie-breaking vote for the Inflation Reduction Act, a bill that’s harmingMedicare Part D. University of Chicago economists Casey Mulligan and Tomas Philipson, who both served on the White House Council of Economic Advisers during the Trump administration, cautio...
When Harris entered the race, the only group of Black voters that did not think more favorably of her were Black Republicans, according to the study. But 22% of all Black Republicans polled said they planned to vote for Harris, Towler said, primarily because “they feel represented with a ...
Why I Will Never Vote for Donald TrumpA long term Republican explains why he would not consider voting for Trump if he became the presidential candidateWehner
From New York onward, however, Trump has won a majority in every state, including some, such as Indiana and Maryland, that didn’t seem especially favorable for him demographically. If you plot the share of the vote Trump received in each state on a graph, it resembles a step function ...
twice as many voters think Trump’s policies helped them personally compared with Biden’s. Dispiriting as this may be, it means that Biden cannot rest on his laurels — he needs to set up more big swings and give people positive reasons to vote for him that speaks to their current ...
Scott thinks “Democrats will not accept the election result if Trump wins” and that “this country is headed for a civil war no matter what happens in the election.” After Tuesday’s debate, Scott texted me, “Trump is Trump, and regardless, I will never vote for a left-wing progress...
vote for Hillary Clinton, you don’t always think about how much sexism is ingrained in who you are and your belief system until you find yourself making quick judgments or off-the-cuff statements, and you’re like,Oh, wait, that’s kind of sexist.A lot of people in the church are ...
“I’m not even really keen on Biden,” Brown said. “It’s more so that Trump is bringing racist rhetoric out of a lot of people.” Those kinds of comments are “really hurtful to me, disrespectful to me,” he said. So he’s decided to vote again this year: “This way, if ...
This is going to be hard to read. But it needs to be said.I know that shame isn’t an effective tool to cause changes in thought or behavior. But if you openly support and vote for Trump, it is my belief that you are actively harming my abused daughter. That is the way I see ...