President Trump might benefit from the huge number of Democrats now seeking the White House. The public appears to be having a hard time sorting out the field, which has now grown to 20 who are ready to run. The sheer volume might drive some frustrated voters to side with Mr. Trump.
Across all demographics, Americans were enthusiastic at the polls five months ago. The midterm elections had the highest voter turnout in four decades according to new Census Department data analysis released Tuesday that said 53% of the citizen voting-age population voted in 2018. According to the agency's records, that's the highest turnout since 1978.
A sizable number of Democrats will not let go of the Mueller report, hoping to reconfigure it as a new and improved device that somehow could impeach President Trump — even though multiple polls now reveal that weary Americans are ready to move on from this media-charged melodrama and say lawmakers should return to the nation's business.
Here comes considerable insight into the 40th president: The University of Virginia's Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy will offer a graduate-level course titled "Lessons in Leadership: Reagan," meant to parse the historical and political context of Ronald Reagan's presidency — and how it translates to today's political landscape. The campus has picked an able instructor for the fall offering: that would be presidential historian and author Craig Shirley — who has already penned four books on the Gipper.
Presidents have long been uneasy with the press. Consider that Thomas Jefferson revealed he rarely thought newspapers were worth reading, and was weary of their "wretched guesswork"; the year was 1816. Abraham Lincoln called reporters "villainous" in 1858; Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed America had a "free and sensational press" in 1935; and George H.W. Bush complained in 1984 that reporters covering his vice-presidential campaign existed in a "bullpen seething with mischief."
It is often hard to figure out how the voting public feels about President Trump. Blame that on the press, which has provided a steady stream of negative or manipulative coverage about Mr. Trump since his campaign days. Yet somehow, an overwhelming percentage of voters now advise the Republican Party to stand by Mr. Trump: 82% of all voters agree that the GOP should renominate the president, this according to a new Politico/Morning Consult poll.
News organizations cannot wait to get their teeth into the Mueller report, due to be released in redacted form on Thursday. Print and broadcast outlets are already salivating though -- providing speculative or wishful reports about the document, so many that Newsbusters.org has tracked the trajectory of these accounts for weeks.
Republican trust in the news media has plummeted since 2016 according to a series of Morning Consult polls which tracked public opinions of ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and National Public Radio over three years. When the opinion results of each news organizations are averaged, 69% of Democrats find them on the whole to be credible. That drops to 55% among Americans in general.
The prime-time public town hall has been a broadcast staple during election years, a showcase for earnest talk, policy declarations, chummy common sense and a nice warm layer of homespun wisdom. The nation is about to get a town hall blitz, as the format expands from its modest roots to a bodacious media entity.
Feel the Bern? It's a stark reality: Sooner or later, somebody has to pay for universal health care. Sen. Bernard Sanders must face this reality now that he has introduced the Medicare for All Act of 2019 - which is certainly guaranteed to be a big applause point on the presidential campaign trail. But the money has to come from somewhere. That's the inconvenient truth.
Attorney General William Barr has emerged as "the Democrats' worst nightmare," writes PJ Media founder Roger L. Simon after Mr. Barr's back-to-back appearances on Capitol Hill to illuminate the lawmakers about special counsel Robert Mueller's report and Mr. Barr's own plans to investigate the investigation's mysterious heritage and the true motivations of those who produced it.
"Unplanned," a new feature film that takes a stand against abortion and has been successful against the odds, gets a showcase Wednesday on Capitol Hill before the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution, chaired by Sen. Ted Cruz. In a hearing titled "Stifling Free Speech: Technology Censorship and the Public Discourse," the Texas Republican intends to determine if jumbo tech companies are censoring conservatives.
Do some policy proposals from outspoken Democrats and progressives sound a little familiar? One analyst says that warmed over hippie fare is being cleverly recycled on the political landscape as 2020 looms and competition becomes more intense.
Seems like old times, perhaps -- or maybe just a repeat performance. Former President Barack Obama gave an overseas speech 48 hours ago in front of a substantial crowd. He had another audience though. Grabien News also monitored the speech, and here's what it found.
The Democratic Party is prepared to accommodate up to 40 presidential hopefuls, and is planning two upcoming presidential debates in June to include quite a crowd. But why do so many virtually unknown hopefuls — who may garner 1% of the vote - jump in the race?
Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden continues to address charges of unwanted familiarity with women, now vowing to be "mindful and respectful" of personal space and physical contact. The situation has prompted a cultural moment, and a potential identity crisis for the Democratic Party.
Should the United States remain the world's police officer and guardian of freedom — or retreat, go home and take care of its own challenges and problems?
Brooklyn once had a kale shortage during a 2015 blizzard which caused such consternation among hipsters that the situation prompted international headlines and stories of kale angst among the smart set. But wait. An avocado shortage now looms and it could quickly turn into a regular avocadopocalypse, or even avocadogeddon — complete with political turmoil. All blamed on a certain president, of course.
Following his vindication by special counsel Robert Mueller about Russia collusion, some observers have suggested that President Trump make a meek and docile public appearance before Americans to convince the citizenry that he has value to the nation — or words to that effect.
A new study from the University of Missouri has determined that the concept of "journalist" has changed. Researchers pored over 669 recent job announcements from media outlets to find that the desired expertise for journalists now includes web development, audience analytics, a dynamic personality and familiarity with Python, a computer programming language. Any mention of ethics, however, was missing in three-fourths of the ads.
