Will A Pro-Vaccination Push By GOP Leaders Change The Minds Of Unvaccinated Americans?
Welcome to FiveThirtyEight’s politics chat. The transcript below has been lightly edited. sarah (Sarah Frostenson, politics editor): With the delta...
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How A Special Election In Texas’s 6th District Will Test Trump’s Influence On The GOP
Ideologically, Susan Wright and Jake Ellzey have a lot in common. For starters, the first three priorities on their respective...
How A Special Election In Texas’s 6th District Tested Trump’s Influence On The GOP
UPDATE (July 28, 2021, 7:46 a.m.): On Tuesday, Republican state Rep. Jake Ellzey handily defeated longtime GOP activist Susan Wright...
Why Biden’s Approval Rating Has Barely Budged In His First 6 Months
The first six months in the White House are often frenzied for presidents as they push for big policy changes...
Where Trump’s Conspiracy Theory About Who Shot Ashli Babbitt Came From
This article marks the debut of a new column excavating the origins of public figures’ factually dubious comments. We explain...
What The Latest Debate Over Voting Rights Means For American Democracy
In this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, we assess the state of American democracy with the help of a...
Politics Podcast: Americans And Experts Agree That Democracy Is Struggling
By Galen Druke In this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, we assess the state of American democracy with the...
The Senate Primary Races We’re Watching So Far
Welcome to FiveThirtyEight’s politics chat. The transcript below has been lightly edited. sarah (Sarah Frostenson, politics editor): We’re still more...
Presidents Used To Be The Faces Of Their Political Parties. Is That No Longer The Case?
In our polarized political era, presidents have increasingly become the faces of their parties, operating as symbols of what their...
CPAC Emphasized Republicans’ Obsession With 2020
Donald Trump is still the undisputed leader of the Republican Party. But you probably already knew that. The medley of...
