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GOP Senate Leaders In Raging Battle Over Debt Ceiling
Percolating behind the scenes of the spectacular House Republican train wreck is a Senate Republican battle royal over leadership of the conference that promises to drag out over the next couple of years. → Read More
Poll: Americans Increasingly Regard Republicans As Party Of Violence
By a 20-point margin, the Navigator survey found Americans support the Justice Department filing criminal charges against Donald Trump for his involvement in Jan. 6 (56% support, 36% oppose). Independents support filing charges by a 24-point margin (50% support, 26% oppose). The bar graph below note... → Read More
'Oh God, No': Republicans Fearful As Child Rape Case Blows Up
Because so many Republicans are sick people, GOP lawmakers immediately worked to discredit the story of a young Ohio rape victim being forced to cross state lines to get an abortion, claiming it was a lie. → Read More
'Bedrock' Republicans Reject Party's Extremist Nominee In Pennsylvania Governor Race
According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the GOP group includes two former U.S. representatives, Charlie Dent and Jim Greenwood; former state House Speaker Denny O’Brien; former Lt. Gov. and longtime state Sen. Robert Jubelirer; and former state Supreme Court Justice Sandra Schultz Newman.The only ... → Read More
New Poll Shows Supreme Court Credibility Crashing Among Women, Suburban And Young Voters
One of those polls was a survey conducted by the progressive consortium Navigator Research, which found the high court's net favorability plunging 26 points since February to 44% favorable, 47% unfavorable. → Read More
Polls Show Independents Ditching GOP In Midterm Generic Ballot
As the seismic Supreme Court ruling stripping Americans of abortion rights ripples through the country, multiple polls are now seeing movement toward Democrats in the congressional generic ballot contest. → Read More
Polls Show Independents Ditching GOP In Midterm Generic Ballot
As the seismic Supreme Court ruling stripping Americans of abortion rights ripples through the country, multiple polls are now seeing movement toward Democrats in the congressional generic ballot contest. → Read More
Polls Show Democrats Energized In Midterm By Supreme Court Abortion Ruling
For the last several months, nearly all political analysts have predicted November would be a blood bath for Democrats based on historical trends, President Joe Biden's low approval ratings, and polling data suggesting Republican voters were far more motivated to vote in November. → Read More
Harsh Primary Races Leave Republicans Bitterly Divided
"This is going to be a very close general election," McCrory noted. "So I think my party, in order to win the general election, has still got to appeal to the conservatives like me—the Ronald Reagan conservative—in order to win North Carolina.”He challenged party leaders to come back to him and his ... → Read More
Harsh Primary Races Leave Republicans Bitterly Divided
Asked by right-wing Breitbart News Monday if she planned to back her GOP challengers, Barnette responded, “I have no intentions of supporting globalists. I believe we have ran out of room on this runway for this nation. I believe we have very little rope left to just roll the dice and we’ll see how ... → Read More
Democrats Rise As Support For Abortion Rights Hits Record High
A new NBC News poll conducted in the wake of the leaked Supreme Court draft found support for abortion rights reaching its highest point since 2003, with 60% of Americans saying abortion should either always be legal (37%) or legal most of the time (23%). Meanwhile, 37% said abortion → Read More
Democrats Rise As Support For Abortion Rights Hits Record High
News from the survey wasn't all good. President Joe Biden's approval rating registered at just 39% and, for the fourth straight time in the poll, people saying the country is on the wrong track topped 70%."The other times were in 2008 (during the Great Recession) and 2013 (during a government shutdo... → Read More
Polling On Abortion Ban Enforcement Should Terrify Republicans
The reason public support for same-sex marriage (and LGBTQ rights, more broadly) shifted from roughly 40% support in the mid-aughts to a record 70% last year is two-fold: 1) a generation of Americans came out in kitchen-table conversations across the country; and 2) a decade's worth of earned media → Read More
Polling On Abortion Ban Enforcement Should Terrify Republicans
But the stories no one is prepared for are the enforcement stories, which will be the stuff of nightmares. As Jennifer Rubin at The Washington Post writes, "The effort to investigate and enforce a law criminalizing a woman’s reproductive decisions necessarily becomes an exercise in authoritarian exc... → Read More
House Select Panel Subpoenas Five Republicans, Including McCarthy
Remember last year when House GOP Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy suddenly turned against the bipartisan Jan. 6 commission he had deputized one of his own members to negotiate?Right. Now McCarthy is among five sitting Republican House members who have been subpoenaed → Read More
House Select Panel Subpoenas Five Republicans, Including McCarthy
McCarthy flatly rejected the invitation, calling it an "abuse of power."The subpoenaed members—all Trump henchmen—will almost certainly file legal challenges in response.It's quite a cast of characters: Brooks has bragged about wearing body armor during his speech to the Jan. 6 MAGA crowd; Jordan ha... → Read More
Swing-State Democrats Keen For Battle Over Abortion Rights
Swing-state Democrats' urgency on protecting abortion rights is a reflection of the fact that roughly 55% to 70% of Americans oppose the Supreme Court overturning Roe. But what really makes the Roe revelation explosive is the fact that only about 20% of the public (or even less) considered the landm... → Read More
Swing-State Democrats Keen For Battle Over Abortion Rights
Michigan is a split state, with a Democratic executive branch and a GOP-led state legislature. However, the state's new legislative maps, drawn by an independent commission, give Democrats at least a fighting chance to flip the upper chamber while chipping away at GOP majorities in the lower chamber... → Read More
Raskin Squelches Greene And Republicans' ’Trump-Putin Axis’
Shortly after a routine congressional outburst Wednesday from a Trump-aligned Republican, Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland uttered a phrase that should quickly become a Democratic staple: the Trump-Putin axis. → Read More
Raskin Squelches Greene And Republicans' ’Trump-Putin Axis’
Second, "axis" is a potent word that Americans immediately get due to its historical underpinnings. From the disgraced Axis powers of World War II to President George W. Bush's "axis of evil," Americans inherently know "axis" is a word anchored in ignominy. Regardless of whether one agrees with Bush... → Read More