Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez vs. JFK By Stephen Moore
Oh how far the Democratic Party has fallen. In recent days, we've seen the new darling of the Democrats, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, crusading for a 70 percent income tax rate.
Oh how far the Democratic Party has fallen. In recent days, we've seen the new darling of the Democrats, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, crusading for a 70 percent income tax rate.
Voters continue to measure illegal immigration by how much crime and financial strain it brings into the United States.
Thirty-six percent (36%) of Likely U.S. Voters think the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey for the week ending January 10.
Most voters continue to favor strongly controlled borders and reject House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s charge that it is immoral for the United States to build a border wall.
Most Republicans are still unhappy with their congressional representatives and are less convinced of the need for President Trump to work with other GOP officials.
The partial government shutdown enters day 22 and record territory today over the inability of President Trump and Democratic representatives to come to an agreement over funding for a Mexican border wall while the president mulls the possible declaration of a national emergency to fulfill his campaign promise.
Following a rocky few months on Wall Street and the partial government shutdown at the end of December, consumer confidence struggles to keep up the enthusiasm felt throughout 2018.
The televised presidential address from the Oval Office, a staple of communication between the chief executive and the people in the second half of 20th century, has recently been in desuetude. Former President Barack Obama delivered only three such addresses in his eight years in office. President Donald Trump this week delivered his first one, just days short of completing half his term.
In the midst of a government shutdown over disagreements about building a border wall, two-out-of-three voters still think illegal immigration is a serious issue, but nearly half of voters think the government isn’t working hard enough to stop it.
In the long run, history will validate Donald Trump's stand on a border wall to defend the sovereignty and security of the United States.
Why? Because mass migration from the global South, not climate change, is the real existential crisis of the West.
As talk of another U.S.-North Korea summit heats up, voters now consider the nation less of a national security interest but aren’t confident the nuclear agreement between Kim Jong Un and President Trump will produce results.
— 2018 governors’ races continued along the same realignment patterns that emerged in the 2016 presidential election.
— An analysis of protest third-party votes for president in 2016 indicates those voters were likelier to pick the Democrats’ side in the 2018 election.
Voters think President Trump’s border wall is likely to work, but they aren’t prepared to declare a national emergency to build it.
Democrats strongly identify with their congressional representatives, while Republicans still line up more with President Trump than with GOP members of Congress.
The new class of Democratic representatives and senators sworn in to Congress brings with it a growing movement of socialist ideologies, but while Democrats are intrigued by the ideas of socialism, they’re not willing to commit to becoming a socialist party.
With the new session of Congress under way, voters aren’t optimistic that things will get any better, but they are growing more convinced that Congress should follow President Trump’s lead.
Ten states and Washington, D.C., have now legalized adult use of marijuana.
Profligate politicians have never met a multibillion-dollar infrastructure project they didn't like -- except when it comes to President Donald Trump's border wall.
Think about it.
Voters still think Congress puts the media’s interests ahead of voters, though more now think Congress has their best interests at heart.
Mitt Romney may have pleased Democrats and the media with his recent op-ed criticizing President Trump, but Republican voters by a better than two-to-one margin line up with the president.