And Then There Were 9 (GOP Presidential Candidates)
By the end of this week, the number of major candidates running for the Republican presidential nomination is expected to grow to nine. Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former Vice President Mike...
View ArticleWhat’s Next In Trump’s Classified Documents Case?
Former President Donald Trump was arraigned on Tuesday at a federal courthouse in Miami in relation to his alleged retention of classified documents and obstruction of justice. He pleaded not guilty,...
View ArticleWhy Mike Pence Is Starting His Presidential Campaign From A Disadvantage
Transcript Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux: Former Vice President Mike Pence just announced that he’s running for president. He served under former President Donald Trump from 2017 to 2021, but now he faces the...
View ArticleAre Young Voters Staying Liberal Longer?
There’s been a lot thrown at Republican voters over the past few weeks. The field of primary candidates has doubled; the leading contender in the primary was federally indicted on 37 counts related to...
View ArticleWhat’s With RFK Jr.’s Double-Digit Polling?
It’s the final week of June and that means that we are anxiously awaiting the decisions in several high-profile Supreme Court cases. The remaining cases touch on issues including affirmative action,...
View ArticleHow Impactful Was This Supreme Court Term?
The Supreme Court wrapped up its business for the term last week, closing out a docket that touched on the Voting Rights Act, affirmative action in university admissions, student loan forgiveness,...
View ArticleWhy Americans Aren’t Feeling ‘Bidenomics’
Love it or hate it, this is President Biden’s economy and he’s taking credit for it. In recent weeks, Biden has been rolling out his economic pitch to Americans. It started with a high-profile speech...
View ArticleWhat Money Can — And Can’t — Buy In The 2024 Primary
Campaign finance figures from the second quarter of 2023 were released over the weekend. They offered a first glimpse at many of the presidential campaigns’ finances, since most candidates announced...
View ArticleWhat’s The Deal With Long-Shot Presidential Candidates?
Transcript Nathaniel Rakich: Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, Mike Pence, Nikki Haley. When you hear about the 2024 Republican presidential race, you usually hear the same names over and over. But did you...
View ArticleWho Would Win If Trump Wasn’t In The GOP Primary?
It is widely believed that former President Donald Trump will be indicted for a third time in the coming days or weeks, as he received a target letter from the Department of Justice last week. The...
View ArticleWill The Hottest July On Record Affect Views Of Climate Change?
Calculations from the World Meteorological Organization suggest that July was the hottest month on record. Throughout the month, heat records were broken across the globe. Phoenix, Arizona, recorded 31...
View ArticleWhat Trump’s Latest Indictment Means for 2024
Did former President Donald Trump conspire to defraud the United States, conspire to obstruct an official proceeding, actually obstruct that preceding and conspire to willfully deprive American...
View ArticleThe 2024 Election, According To The Country’s Best Pollster
Tuesday is Election Day in Ohio and it’s a bit of an unusual one. Ohioans are voting on whether to increase the threshold to pass constitutional amendments from a simple majority to a 60 percent...
View ArticleWho Is The Likeliest GOP VP Candidate?
Abortion rights advocates notched another win in a red state. Last Tuesday, Ohioans voted by a 14-point margin not to raise the threshold to amend the constitution to a 60 percent supermajority....
View ArticleThree Georgia Law Professors Weigh In On Trump’s Latest Indictment
Former president Donald Trump has been indicted for a fourth time, now in Fulton County, Georgia for efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in that state. While the alleged...
View ArticleWhat’s The Deal With The GOP Debate Criteria?
Transcript Nathaniel Rakich: The social event of the season is coming up, and everyone’s desperate to be invited. Yes, I’m talking about the first 2024 Republican presidential primary debate! The Met...
View ArticleWhat The GOP Primary Looks Like In The Early States
Game time for the Republican presidential primary begins in earnest this week. The first debate is being held in Milwaukee on Wednesday, and it marks the beginning of a five-month countdown to the Iowa...
View ArticleHow Well Can You Tell The 2024 GOP Candidates Apart?
Galen Druke quizzes reporters from three early primary states to see how well they know the 2024 Republican candidates and whether they can tell the candidates apart on key issues.
View ArticleShould 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...
View ArticleWhy 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...
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