WH National Charts Announced and Potential 2020 Presidential Candidates Take10 The Cook Political Report July 9, 2019
National Politics A Referendum on Trump, or a Referendum on Socialism In all of the talk this past weekend about the 2020 presidential race, the line that resonated with me was James Carville’s quote in the Sunday New York Times. “This is an election that Trump can’t… Charlie Cook New Charlie Cook July 5, 2019
Political Advertising OnAir: The Trump Campaign's Digital Spending Spree With the political world’s attention focused on the first Democratic debates, candidates and interested parties capitalized on the opportunity to get their message in front of voters via paid media.… Kyle Kyle Roberts July 2, 2019
National Politics The Rorschach Tests of Early Debates Primary-election debates are like Rorschach tests. People can watch and hear the same things, and reach very different conclusions. They can see different “winners” too. As of deadline for this… Charlie Cook New Charlie Cook July 2, 2019
den National Politics What to Make of the Democratic Debates AWalter Head Amy Walter June 28, 2019
National Politics Context Is Critical When Parsing Biden's Words Few ardent supporters of former Vice President Joe Biden would argue with the suggestion that he chose his words poorly when discussing his ability to work with Sen. James Eastland of Mississippi and… Charlie Cook New Charlie Cook June 28, 2019
National Politics Trump's Pivot on Immigration Won't Help Him Win the Middle Unless the saber rattling between President Trump and Iran gets much louder in the coming days, the political talk next week will be about the first pair of Democratic presidential debates Wednesday… Charlie Cook New Charlie Cook June 25, 2019
National Politics The Top Tier Versus Trump Two weeks ago, this column took a stab at winnowing the 23-candidate Democratic field of presidential candidates down to a plausible Elite Eight and Final Four. The suggested Elite Eight was made up… Charlie Cook New Charlie Cook June 21, 2019
warren National Politics Can Warren Continue to Rise? AWalter Head Amy Walter June 19, 2019
National Politics OnAir: FL and PA Could Make or Break Trump Two of the nation’s largest swing states, Florida and Pennsylvania, were decided by extremely slim margins in 2016, and both will undoubtedly be of equal or greater importance in 2020. Both states… Kyle Kyle Roberts June 18, 2019
National Politics Quantifying the "Trump Penalty" With only a few exceptions, polling has delivered bad news for President Trump of late. His job-approval rating is 44 percent in RealClearPolitics.com’s average of major national polls. That includes… Charlie Cook New Charlie Cook June 14, 2019
National Politics Who Will Make the "Final Four" of the Democratic Field? It’s both audacious and a fool’s errand for anyone today to predict who will win the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. After all, the final primaries will be a year from today. But we can… Charlie Cook New Charlie Cook June 11, 2019