People fill out voter registration forms in Minneapolis. The Democratic data firm TargetSmart found that new voter registrations had plummeted amid the coronavirus pandemic. | Stephen Maturen/Getty Images It was a flicker of hope for Donald Trump in an otherwise dismal summer. Late last month, the Democratic data firm TargetSmart found that while new voter…
The national atmosphere is toxic enough that Senate Republicans, who currently hold a three-seat majority, no longer have a significant edge in their quest to retain control of the chamber next year. Democrats have both built leads in states that were previously considered up-for-grabs and put new states firmly on the map, expanding their path…
A voter holds her completed mail-in ballot in 2012 in Toms River, N.J. Paul J. Richards/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Paul J. Richards/AFP via Getty Images A voter holds her completed mail-in ballot in 2012 in Toms River, N.J. Paul J. Richards/AFP via Getty Images When President Trump tweeted Sunday night about…
Joe Biden's Democratic campaign for the White House has gotten a boost lately because President Donald Trump is alienating voters with his divisive rhetoric, longtime Republican pollster Frank Luntz told CNBC on Friday."This election is absolutely not over. But it's Joe Biden's to lose," Luntz said in a "Squawk Box" interview. "You never, ever count…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Despite what you hear from some, the polling in the 2020 elections is very likely not broken, biased or wrong. For the last few weeks, there has been a fairly steady drumbeat from some of the president’s allies that the polling on the election is wrong — it is over-representing Democrats, or Trump partisans…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…