Trump Speech Leaves Democrats Befuddled, In Ruins, With Question Marks by Charles Hurt
The president opened by celebrating Black History Month. Lady Democrats wore white.
The president opened by celebrating Black History Month. Lady Democrats wore white.
Most voters agree that it’s bad for America and bad for the Democratic Party if Democrats continue to flat out oppose everything President Trump does. Even Democrats are conflicted about their party’s scorched earth policy.
Virtually the whole world is beating up on the Trump administration for daring to predict that low marginal tax rates, regulatory rollbacks and the repeal of Obamacare will generate 3 to 3.5 percent economic growth in the years ahead.
The founding fathers of the Munich Security Conference, said John McCain, would be "be alarmed by the turning away from universal values and toward old ties of blood, and race, and sectarianism."
Voters show more faith in Congress today than they ever did during the Obama administration.
Forty-five percent (45%) 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 February 23.
Just weeks into the new Congress, Republicans are a lot less critical of their congressional representatives, while Democrats are less enthusiastic about theirs.
Tax Day is still weeks away, but Americans are filing their income taxes at a much faster rate than they have in previous years.
In this corner, the President of the United States. In the other corner, the Washington press corps. When you hear the bell, both come out swinging.
President Trump is rolling back a recent Obama administration policy that allows transgender students to use the school bathrooms of their choice. Most Americans still agree that local school bathroom policy is not the responsibility of the federal government.
As the culture war is about irreconcilable beliefs about God and man, right and wrong, good and evil, and is at root a religious war, it will be with us so long as men are free to act on their beliefs.
Most Americans favor screening out immigrants to this country who don’t share our values or a belief in our basic constitutional freedoms.
Substance and style -- it's easy to get them confused or mistake one for the other. And they're never entirely unconnected, though exactly how much so is a matter of debate.
Most Americans still think the media is in too big a hurry.
Trust drives viewership, or vice versa, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey.
Given the Democrats’ poor down-ballot performances in the Obama years, and the Republican dominance of redistricting following the GOP’s success in the 2010 midterm, it’s somewhat fitting that arguably the Democrats’ most marquee victory in 2016 will not help them in the redistricting battles to come after the 2020 census.
Critical of the press coverage he has been getting, President Trump has called some in the media "enemies of the people." Most Republicans remain angry at the media and strongly support calling out specific members of the press by name, while Democrats and unaffiliated voters are far less critical of the media than they've been in the past.
Voters are a lot less critical of news organizations that publish top secret government information.
"Fake News!" shouts our president, calling out CNN, The New York Times and others.
If there’s one thing voters across the partisan spectrum agree on, it’s that the media isn’t trying to help President Trump. That’s a big change from the Obama years.