Former President Donald Trump steps off his plane as he arrives in Atlanta to be booked at the Fulton County Jail. AP Photo/Alex Brandon Once more, with feeling: It has been a couple of weeks since former President Donald Trump’s latest indictment (this time in Georgia, in connection with hisContinue Reading
Welcome to FiveThirtyEight’s politics chat. The transcript below has been lightly edited. maya (Maya Sweedler, senior editor): The first Republican debate last Wednesday featured eight candidates — none of whom was the front-runner. Former President Donald Trump elected to skip the debate, writing on his social media website that “TheContinue Reading
ABC News Photo Illustration / REBA SALDANHA Is the 2024 Republican presidential primary already over? If you just look at the polls, you’d be forgiven for thinking so. Consider the state of the states: Several polls published last week showed former President Donald Trump leading in Iowa (with 42 percentContinue Reading
This is a special end-of-meteorological-summer installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast. Galen Druke speaks with pollsters Kristen Soltis Anderson and David Byler in an episode made entirely of “good or bad use of polling” examples. They consider why GOP primary candidate Vivek Ramaswamy polls differently depending on survey methodology, whatContinue Reading
ABC News Photo Illustration When Congress voted in May to restart student loan payments this fall — and then the Supreme Court overturned President Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan in June — Alexa Goins and her husband realized they had a choice: They could keep their house or they couldContinue Reading
The crew discusses their takeaways from the first Republican presidential primary debate in this late-night edition of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast. You can listen to the episode by clicking the “play” button in the audio player above or by downloading it in iTunes, the ESPN App or your favorite podcastContinue Reading
Nikki Haley has been in the race for longer than anyone else on the stage but hasn’t had a breakout moment yet. She was clearly aiming to change that tonight, and she did have one of the most memorable back-and-forths of the night when she took Ramaswamy to task overContinue Reading
The over- (and under-) performers How well likely Republican primary voters who watched the debate expected each candidate to do before the debate versus how well they thought each candidate actually did We asked respondents how they expected each candidate to do, and how well they actually did, on aContinue Reading
Galen Druke quizzes reporters from three early primary states to see how well they know the 2024 Republican candidates and whether they can tell the candidates apart on key issues.Continue Reading
ABC News Photo illustration Welcome to (a version of) FiveThirtyEight’s politics chat. The transcript below has been lightly edited. maya (Maya Sweedler, senior editor): Well, my friends, the Republican National Committee’s debate qualification period has officially come to a close, meaning the first Republican primary debate is set. We’re confidentContinue Reading
