Philip Bump

Washington Post: National columnist. Newsletter: "How To Read This Chart." Book: "The Aftermath," Jan. 2023.

Public Key

npub12lg795h7wlxmxkjkd5gaqy33qlme9w8w359sqaerl8ecvanh96wqr3620m

NIP-05 Address

pbump_at_journa.host@mostr.pub

Profile Code

nprofile1qqs9050z6tl80ndntftx6ywszgcs0aujhrhg6zcqwu3lnuuxwemja8qpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0wd68ytnsw43qyz42yx

Publishing to

relay.mostr.pub

Author Public Key

npub12lg795h7wlxmxkjkd5gaqy33qlme9w8w359sqaerl8ecvanh96wqr3620m

Show more details

Last Notes

2024-09-10 14:24:27

"Let states decide" on abortion, the mantra goes. Then GOP officials in Michigan and Ohio and Florida and Arkansas and Arizona and Missouri did what they could to ensure what that decision was. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/09/10/gop-officials-arent-too-interested-letting-states-decide-abortion/

2024-08-07 20:36:44

An interesting state-level experiment and a longer national trend both show Harris solidifying support with younger voters. (Older than in the picture.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/07/harris-trump-poll-changes-wisconsin/

2024-08-07 18:41:34

On Fox & Friends this morning, Trump claimed that Walz begged him to save him from protesters during "the riots." Then Politico published an old interview with Walz with a different framing: the protesters were encouraged by Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/07/trump-says-he-saved-walz-protesters-walz-says-trump-sent-them/

2024-08-07 14:54:29

Minnesota had a crummy flag and embarked on a public process to replace it. A young guy from a rural town submitted the winning design. And now the right is trying to turn this into an anti-woke attack on Walz.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/07/no-tim-walz-didnt-give-minnesota-somali-flag/

2024-08-06 21:10:35

Kamala Harris is a boomer unless you don't want her to be (and other assessments of the new age/generational landscape of the presidential race). https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/06/harris-walz-trump-vance-age/

2024-08-06 19:13:22

Vance identified some similarities with Walz, like that they're White guys from the Midwest. But lots of Republicans don't see Ohio as the Midwest — before you even get into Vance's Yale/California background.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/06/vp-race-is-midwest-vs-midwest-depending-how-you-define-midwest/

2024-08-06 16:20:14

Most Americans don't know enough about Walz to have an opinion of him, understandably enough. But there are still signs he energizes voters Democrats need to energize. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/06/almost-no-one-knows-who-tim-walz-is/

2024-08-06 14:17:54

Used the hyperventilating effort to pin the market downturn on Harris to make a broader point about how the clout economy of the right's conversational bubble gives the "weird" attack traction. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/06/weirdness-markets-right/

2024-08-05 20:26:14

Yes, the "find out if they play harp" GOTV strategy is funny. But what struck me about Trump outsourcing voter outreach is how it again erodes the institutional power of the GOP. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/05/republican-trump-get-out-the-vote-turning-point/

2024-08-05 18:14:41

Byron Donalds didn't have a good explanation for Trump's efforts to question Harris's racial identity. I have one, though.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/05/donalds-trump-harris-race/

2024-08-05 16:11:50

New CBS polling shows a modest shift to Harris — but the hyperventilating response from the Trump campaign is a reminder of the importance of momentum. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/05/presidential-race-shifts-modestly-so-far-toward-harris/

2024-07-22 20:35:27

It is increasingly the case that people with strong positive views of a party don't have strong positive views of the opposing party's presidential candidate. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/22/how-hostility-other-partys-candidate-has-grown/
https://assets.journa.host/media_attachments/files/112/832/054/921/921/131/original/fe8bf632c92390ad.png

2024-07-22 19:06:12

Sure, the Bush-Clinton-Biden streak of candidacies is impressive, but what about the Cleveland-Bryan-Roosevelt one? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/22/bush-clinton-biden-election/

2024-07-22 16:09:40

The "Dems did a coup" stuff is just Jan. 6 whataboutism. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/22/coup-democrats-republicans-trump-harris/

2024-07-22 15:03:30

Sure, the prosecutor-vs.-convict split is a remarkable one. But on a spate of qualities — age, gender, race, incumbency — Harris differentiates from Trump in ways that Biden didn't and many other Democrats couldn't. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/22/harris-trump-differences-presidential-election/

2024-07-21 20:56:52

Can Democrats legally replace their non-nominee with a nominee? Obviously. [standard SCOTUS-calvinball uncertainties may apply] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/21/replacing-biden-democratic-party-nominee/

2024-07-20 14:14:46

Tired: red v. blue
Wired: wind vs. solar
Free to read: https://s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?trackId=596b02b6ade4e24119ac1a18&s=669bc32c61d812022b2257c2&linknum=2&linktot=61
https://assets.journa.host/media_attachments/files/112/819/232/977/214/704/original/5e2131db72b4ccb2.png
https://assets.journa.host/media_attachments/files/112/819/233/165/231/491/original/a9a2dc8b82f107b2.png

2024-07-19 18:37:03

Some thoughts on the effort to score political points over conspiracy theorizing about the Trump shooting. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/19/qanon-blue-anon-trump-shooting-conspiracies/

2024-07-19 16:37:26

New polling shows that Democrats would accept Biden stepping down and Harris getting the nomination — but that, overall, they're no more enthusiastic about her and not overly confident she has better odds of winning.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/19/trump-biden-harris-polls/

2024-07-19 11:20:42

Here's my assessment of Trump's speech and, more importantly, the "unity" bait-and-switch that some people somehow fell for.
Gift link: https://wapo.st/3zIaChu

2024-07-18 20:40:22

As Trump and his allies plan for stuffing the government with loyalists, the convention is a reminder of what that looks like: respected officials kicked to the side and criminals brought close.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/18/trump-federal-employees-maga/

2024-07-18 18:45:31

Vance's speech makes a weirdness to this election plain: It's hard to grouse about left-behind Midwesterners when his running mate spent four years as president.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/18/vance-speech-workers-jobs/

2024-07-18 14:51:03

Kamala Harris has been mentioned seven times more often over the first three days of the 2024 GOP convention than she was over the first three days of the 2020 one.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/18/republicans-are-talking-about-harris-lot-more-than-they-did-2020/

2024-07-17 20:24:22

The RNC is a rare occasion when Republicans have to interact with non-obsequious press. Some of them could clearly use more practice. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/17/republicans-rnc-convention-media/

2024-07-17 18:39:35

I've written this a few ways in the past few weeks but it keeps coming up so: The polls cannot and do not conclusively show that Biden can't win, that another Democrat would win or that Biden is the party's best bet.
Here's a gift link, even:
https://wapo.st/4f7uJG8

2024-07-17 16:10:51

As reporting suggests that Biden plans to support reforms to the Supreme Court, new polling indicates that most Americans, viewing the court with disapproval, support age and term limits. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/17/most-americans-support-supreme-court-reforms/

2024-07-17 14:13:42

If you want to understand how the GOP approaches rule of law, don't listen to the politicians somberly offering fealty. Listen to the reality-TV star. The *other* reality-TV star. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/17/convention-speech-that-best-illustrates-gop-approach-justice/

2024-07-17 11:25:30

Dissecting the ugliest smear offered at the Republican convention last night. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/16/ted-cruz-rnc-speech-immigration-voting/

2024-07-17 02:37:33

I wrote about Ted Cruz's immigrant-voting line, which managed to take a dishonest, opportunistic, hostile argument and make it significantly grosser. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/16/ted-cruz-rnc-speech-immigration-voting/

2024-07-16 20:43:11

The available evidence doesn't suggest conspiracy or saturation with anti-Trump rhetoric as causes of the assassination attempt. But those specifics aren't politically useful to Trump, so the prime mover instead becomes "they."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/16/they-didnt-shoot-donald-trump/

2024-07-16 18:56:33

Does Vance actually offer a unique boost in the Midwest? A look at his 2022 race — and, of course, the hostility to his alma mater.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/16/does-vance-actually-help-trump-rust-belt/

2024-07-16 16:13:59

The millennials now have as many appearances on a major-party presidential ticket as Gen X. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/16/millennials-may-be-headed-white-house/
https://assets.journa.host/media_attachments/files/112/797/052/895/932/961/original/94787e56b296a095.png

2024-07-16 14:20:16

The theme of the first night of the Republican convention? Identity politics.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/16/rnc-focus-identity-politics/

2024-07-15 20:54:03

Why'd Trump pick Vance? Well, among other things, Vance has said that he would have done what Pence refused to do and block Biden electors on Jan. 6. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/15/trump-chooses-vice-president-who-would-do-what-mike-pence-wouldnt/

2024-07-15 20:48:41

It's not clear how or if the assassination attempt will affect the presidential race, which, by itself, is a remarkable comment on the state of American politics.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/15/impossibility-knowing-what-will-happen-november/

2024-07-15 17:09:29

The dismissal of the obviously robust classified-documents case is a good demonstration of how the right wants government to work. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/15/preview-government-by-subset-people/

2024-07-15 14:49:34

Saying rhetoric about the threat to democracy led to Saturday's shooting is a way to try to muffle that rhetoric. Saying a change in tone is coming is a way to distract from unchanging policy promises.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/15/trump-shift-momentum-trumpism/

2024-07-13 14:06:48

In this week’s (free) newsletter: Whataburger as disaster gauge, fake New York City, the sunniest day on Earth and righting a wrong about the Mets. https://s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?trackId=596b02b6ade4e24119ac1a18&s=6692886fe7ad4217f04223f7&linknum=2&linktot=67

2024-07-12 18:55:01

Talked to Elle Reeve about her great new book, "Black Pill," and the insecurity that drives fringe-right politics. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/12/insecurity-heart-fringe-right/

2024-07-12 17:27:01

At this point, more people are searching for information about Project 2025 than are searching "dinner." https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/12/project-2025-gets-traction-thanks-part-trump/

2024-07-12 15:33:33

At his press conference, Biden argued that his electoral position wasn't that bad and that polls didn't say he couldn't win. The problem for his party is that his position *is* bad — but the polls *don't* say he can't win, much less that someone else *can*. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/12/biden-polling-drop-out/

2024-07-11 21:42:13

Wrote about the parallels between this year and 2016 and what that might mean for turnout. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/11/election-2024-2016-biden-trump-clinton/

2024-07-11 19:13:49

So the memo from Biden's team assures supporters that, even losing Sun Belt states, there's a path to victory. With shifts in electoral-vote allocation since 2020 and holding only MI, PA and WI, Biden would win … 270 EVs.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/11/biden-memo-path-election-victory/

2024-07-11 17:37:22

Political scientists warn that Trump pushing for Biden to be prosecuted is a significant threat to democracy. James Comer and his Fox enablers are trying to make sure it happens. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/11/comer-biden-impeachment-investigation/?itid=ap_philipbump

2024-07-11 14:44:24

Polling doesn't suggest that other Democrats have significant advantages over Biden in November — and can't really measure whether they have slight advantages. Meanwhile, the stasis of the race keeps Biden just behind Trump in national polls.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/11/biden-polling-drop-out/

2024-07-10 21:38:41

With Lenny Bronner, dug into the new Pew partisanship data. The most GOP/leaning? Young White men. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/10/new-data-upends-how-we-think-about-partisanship-young-americans/

2024-07-10 16:45:09

A good indicator that the 2024 GOP platform is, in fact, a robustly Trumpian one? One in eight characters is a capital letter. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/10/republican-party-platform-trump/

2024-07-10 15:43:09

Bennet has a point: Biden is running worse than any Democrat at this point since Gore — and far worse than he was four years ago. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/10/biden-polling-drop-out-bennet/
https://assets.journa.host/media_attachments/files/112/762/957/770/527/022/original/ab39e37bcfc4fb66.png

2024-07-09 18:21:37

Meanwhile, the House speaker is using great-replacement rhetoric to hype legislation that would restrict voting access. Elon is all in. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/09/save-act-republican-voting-immigration/

2024-07-09 17:25:36

The eagerness to get ahead of Biden infirmities got some people out over their skis on Monday. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/09/biden-debate-physical-issues/

2024-07-09 14:46:31

- reply

@npub1447…fn50 Uh, yes they do?

2024-07-09 14:43:59

Democratic voters don't think Biden's going anywhere. If he does, though, they think the best bet to replace him is … Michelle Obama. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/09/biden-replacement-democrats-polling/

2024-07-08 19:51:44

J.D. Vance endorsed Trump launching a probe of Biden by 1) misrepresenting the probes of Trump and 2) suggesting that the failed GOP Biden investigation was reason for another investigation. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/08/trump-vance-biden-probe/

2024-07-08 17:56:32

There are at least four hard-to-answer questions that undergird the push to replace Biden as the Democratic nominee, meaning that the multi-week turmoil the party is seeing is not likely to end soon. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/08/biden-campaign-drop-out-questions/

2024-07-08 15:56:01

Personnel is policy — particularly when your campaign assiduously avoids policy and your past and your future personnel is publicly endorsing robust policy proposals. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/08/trump-project-2025-policy-staff/

2024-07-06 14:11:55

Newsletter this week is a buffet of random stuff that is largely not about politics. Free to read! https://s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?trackId=596b02b6ade4e24119ac1a18&s=66894e38f90ed25268ed91ed&linknum=2&linktot=62

2024-07-04 12:39:04

How Americans view America. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/04/republicans-democrats-america-polling/
https://assets.journa.host/media_attachments/files/112/728/259/821/549/752/original/3052301895c44195.png

2024-07-03 20:34:29

The post-debate Times poll is interesting in part because several groups (Black voters, under 30, men) now view the race as they did in April.
Polling averages, though, show a modest shift against Biden in a race where such shifts can be a big problem.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/03/biden-debate-step-down-polling/

2024-07-03 16:32:31

Democrats and Biden have put enormous emphasis on the risk Trump poses to democracy. It's central to his support. But Biden barely mentioned it in the debate and swing-district Democrats have downplayed it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/03/biden-golden-democratic-party/

2024-07-03 15:57:50

If the right is fighting a "second American Revolution," as Heritage's guy put it, it's worth identifying what they are rebelling against. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/03/heritage-foundation-trump-revolution/

2024-07-02 21:45:20

Rejecting the Seal Team 6 scenario on the details is just an effort to downplay the immunity question broadly. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/02/trump-immunity-seal-team-6/

2024-07-02 19:17:56

CNN's new poll doesn't establish some failsafe alternative to Biden for Democrats. But it does run against the twin ideas that the debate itself doomed Biden and that Harris isn't a viable alternative. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/02/biden-replacement-debate-harris-cnn-poll/

2024-07-02 17:43:30

Most Republicans in Congress took office after the 2016 election. They are more conservative than those who took office before Trump won that year. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/02/congress-republicans-trump-era/

2024-07-02 14:55:49

The new expectation of immunity is only one way in which a second Trump presidency would operate outside of traditional limits and accountability.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/02/trump-second-term-immunity/

2024-07-01 21:57:54

Most Americans opposed presidential immunity. But then most voters opposed the presidents who nominated several justices to the court and most Americans were represented by senators who opposed their confirmations. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/01/supreme-court-president-senate-immunity/

2024-07-01 18:50:42

A good lens into views of democracy comes from a Trump VP short-lister who on Sunday talked about the "Biden dictatorship" (executive orders). https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/01/trump-biden-democracy-dictator/

2024-07-01 17:20:34

The immunity decision was upside down, fretting about the indictment of Trump as a harbinger of future threats to the presidency instead of recognizing Trump's actions as a past and current one.
Gift link: https://wapo.st/4bquy5M

2024-07-01 14:41:50

For your consideration in the less important news of the day: post-debate polls aren't going to tell you much yet, if they tell you much at all in the future. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/01/biden-post-debate-polls/

2024-06-29 14:10:04

The newsletter is out. This chart is about pizza. Dig in.
https://s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?trackId=596b02b6ade4e24119ac1a18&s=6680138c253baa5f4e19135f&linknum=2&linktot=54

2024-06-29 02:04:41

hypnotist: [swings watch in your face] the newsletter is out in 12 hours and you will sign up for it and enjoy weird commentary about pizza and art among other things
https://wapo.st/readthischart

2024-06-28 19:55:35

Trump claimed last night that he'd been "exonerated" (including by Tapper) for using the phrase "very fine people" to describe protesters at Charlottesville. It's a years-long retcon that requires ignoring a lot of context.
Gift link: https://wapo.st/4cEaH47

2024-06-28 17:27:02

The Supreme Court hands the right a huge victory in its war against the concept of expertise. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/28/supreme-court-gives-right-huge-victory-over-expertise/

2024-06-28 14:58:39

Dems nominated Biden in 2020 because he was seen as the best bet to beat Trump. That's what they're still looking for — and the debate raised huge doubts. The good news for them? Harris, the next-in-line candidate, has some key advantages Biden lacks. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/28/kamala-harris-trump-matchup/

2024-06-28 02:57:40

Even if you think the concerns about Biden's age are somehow a media construct, the debate was an obvious and rare moment to rebut them. He very much did not.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/27/biden-age-debate-performance/

2024-06-27 18:48:59

Super weird that somehow Americans have come to view the Supreme Court as driven primarily by ideology??? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/27/supreme-court-public-opinion/

2024-06-27 17:07:41

Largely because most people don't decide their vote based on policy differences, presidential debates don't usually reshape a race. But in this weird year, this one might.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/27/biden-trump-debate-effect/

2024-06-27 14:30:20

The new Times-Siena poll seemed like a good moment to point out that individual polls can offer insights — but also should be approached with caution. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/27/danger-over-reading-individual-polls/

2024-06-26 20:57:55

In The Post's new swing-state poll, we asked voters if they trusted the media to report fairly on politics. The results were grim. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/26/new-measure-americans-deep-distrust-media/

2024-06-26 18:51:53

The Post's new swing-state poll included detailed questions about democracy and support for authoritarianism. The latter crops up in places you might not expect. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/26/where-support-american-democracy-is-most-wobbly/

2024-06-25 21:21:30

Looking at the composition of gun deaths by state and how they compare to overdoses in recent years. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/25/numbers-behind-public-health-crisis-gun-violence/

2024-06-25 19:26:36

Those drugs that Trumpworld is insisting that Biden will take before the debate to suddenly reverse the cognitive decline they insist afflicts him? Such drugs don't exist. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/25/no-biden-wont-be-performance-enhancing-drugs-debate/

2024-06-25 16:05:30

Important new polling reinforces that Biden's soft support from younger voters is in part a manifestation of an older skepticism and generational frustration.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/25/deep-generational-skepticism-thats-influencing-2024-race/

2024-06-22 14:10:40

A lesson on how not to consider the polls from your friendly neighborhood former president. No paywall: https://s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?trackId=596b02b6ade4e24119ac1a18&s=6676d90986c4c3343d6bf711&linknum=2&linktot=60

2024-06-21 17:39:11

There are nearly 50 full counties where, if every resident pooled their annual salary to make a joint political contribution, they wouldn't be able to match how much Tim Mellon gave to Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/21/why-isnt-everyone-giving-presidential-candidates-75-million/

2024-06-21 15:06:24

Trump's off-the-cuff green-card proposal is a great illustration of how his immigration rhetoric is completely inconsistent.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/21/trump-immigration-green-cards-china/

2024-06-20 19:27:36

If you are convinced that nefarious professors are brainwashing kids to become liberals, sure, you might think that putting the Ten Commandments in classrooms will push the other way. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/20/us-decline-religiosity-isnt-lack-ten-commandments/

2024-06-20 17:10:28

The new Fox poll indicates that Republican concern about threats to democracy isn't about purported election fraud but, instead, around things like Trump's claim that Biden and the left want to destroy freedom of speech.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/20/across-party-lines-americans-see-2024-pivotal-moment-democracy/

2024-06-20 15:01:33

Fox News released a new poll Wednesday evening showing Biden with a (statistically insignificant) lead. The primetime opinion hosts didn't mention it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/20/new-fox-poll-shows-biden-up-their-primetime-hosts-didnt-mention-it/

2024-06-18 22:16:36

The great replacement conspiracy theorists see a conspiracy in Biden's new executive action. If he's trying to get new votes, he's going to have to wait a while. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/18/new-voters-arent-what-biden-gains-action-immigrant-spouses/

2024-06-18 19:27:32

Wrote about Musk's enthusiasm about an obviously dubious claim about race and murder. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/18/data-race-murder-that-elon-musk-gave-deserved/

2024-06-18 15:50:18

Donald Trump actually has his own scattershot outline of what he plans to do in office: "Agenda 47." He doesn't talk about it much, so I made a searchable index of what it contains. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/18/trump-has-unveiled-an-agenda-his-own-he-just-doesnt-mention-it-much/

2024-06-18 14:26:27

In a private conversation two days before the 2020 election, Trump insisted that he would win, and win easily. It's a reminder of how detached from the political reality he and his supporters were — a detachment that led to what followed his loss.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/18/anthony-fauci-got-last-minute-glimpse-into-trumps-2020-state-mind/

2024-06-17 16:41:55

Lara Trump says the GOP will send tens of thousands of people to polls to catch voter fraud. They said that in 2020, too, before having to pretend that all sorts of fraud occurred anyway.
With a bonus Greg Abbott debunk!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/17/republicans-promise-that-this-time-theyll-find-all-illegal-voting/

2024-06-17 15:15:35

As Trump and his allies attempt to present him as a juggernaut among Black voters, recent/new polling shows that the real reason the gap has narrowed is Biden's weak support. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/17/trumpworld-keeps-overstating-trumps-support-among-black-voters/

2024-06-15 14:07:48

A key consideration as 538 prepared its election forecast visuals: conveying uncertainty. Free newsletter: https://s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?trackId=596b02b6ade4e24119ac1a18&s=666d9e958e6d40572eb5485a&linknum=2&linktot=65

2024-06-15 01:59:48

The newsletter is out in 12 hours. This week: everything you need to know before November, in a sense. And swear words. Free. Sign up: https://wapo.st/readthischart

2024-06-14 18:10:00

How Hispanic voters view immigration.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/14/immigration-views-hispanic-voters-mirror-americans-overall/
https://assets.journa.host/media_attachments/files/112/616/314/707/527/966/original/eb63ada6b8df7ec6.png

2024-06-14 15:39:17

Made some maps of Clarence Thomas’s free trips. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/14/where-clarence-thomas-flew-free/
https://assets.journa.host/media_attachments/files/112/615/722/337/072/461/original/599895935565b01b.png

2024-06-14 13:53:16

A majority of Americans think that presidents shouldn't be immune from prosecution for actions taken in office. That's true across party lines.
Except that Republicans make an exception for one particular president. Once again.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/14/immunity-too-republicans-grant-trump-different-standard/

2024-06-13 22:25:03

It’s easy to forget just how dominant right-wing voices were on Facebook four years ago. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/13/facebook-traffic-political-content/