Vance is as unpopular as he is unlikable, which is quite the parlay, if you think about it. Even his bungling attempts to influence the Hungarian elections... were spun as his 'stepping up' into a more important role in the administration.
Analilia Mejia's win with a nearly 20-point margin over Hathaway is significant, indicating strong voter support for Democrats in the current political climate.
Martha, I think most people are economic voters. I think they're pocketbook issue voters, which is why we need to be speaking to them. And the one thing that we've made very plain is because of the things we did last summer, they're going to have more money in their pockets.
Faiz Shakir, executive director of More Perfect Union, stated, 'We're hoping that an economic populist movement for the next generation will start through More Perfect Union on campuses.' This reflects the organization's goal to mobilize students around economic issues.
I'm here because we're starting the campaign to win the midterms. We've got to win the midterms. Trump told the crowd at an Iowa rally, signaling his central role in the Republican Party's midterm strategy despite not being personally on the ballot in 2026.
For the third time in less than a year, congressional Democrats are mulling the possibility of triggering a government shutdown as a way to show their defiance of Donald Trump. Last March, they (or at least a sufficient number of Senate Democrats, following Chuck Schumer's lead) chose to step back from the precipice of a shutdown, in part because they doubted Americans shared their interest in, much less their fury over,
Even after the especially chaotic events of the past few weeks, Trump supporters are sticking by their man. Second, faith in Trump's leadership is not driven by his adherence to a coherent political ideology. Trump, who, as part of his "America First" policy, once declared that he would be "getting out of the nation-building business," has now declared that the U.S. "will run the country" of Venezuela for the foreseeable future.
"It has been baked in that the states are largely in charge of the election process, and that the federal government can set or override rules for that process if they wish, but it's very specific that that has to be done through Congress and not through lone executive action," said Justin Levitt, a constitutional and law of democracy scholar at Loyola Law School who was a non-partisan policy adviser for Democracy and Voting Rights during the Biden White House.
The left-leaning group Third Way found Trump with only a 32 percent approval rating among young men 18-29 years old. The poll registered Trump at a 66 percent disapproval rating among young men a massive 34-point gap. The number is even more eye-catching when compared to the margin he won the 18-29 year old men by in the 2024 presidential election a resounding 14 points nationally.