Rick Caruso is a billionaire real estate developer running for mayor of Los Angeles. He was a Republican for years, but entered the race as a Democrat. In this episode of Trending, we examine why so many high-profile celebrities are endorsing him.
The notion that the Democratic Party is overwhelmed has been such a common narrative in the political media that the refrain “Dems in disarray” has become something of a joke online. In this episode of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, the crew debates whether the party struggling to pass federal legislation and facing a difficult semester … Read more
Five states hold primary elections today, but it’s Georgia, with its busy slate of federal and state-level nomination contests, that is most on our minds. (You can read our preview of the other four states’ primaries here.) In total, 10 Georgia primaries have grabbed our attention, and in nearly all of them, the key question … Read more
Yasin Ozturk / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Americans have the constitutional right to abortion, reinforced by the US Supreme Court’s landmark 1973 ruling in Roe v. Wade was long taken for granted. For most of the fall of 2021, Democrats, and especially Republicans, still thought Roe would most likely remain the state’s law for … Read more
Peter Zay/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Days after a white gunman shot dead 13 people and killed 10 at a grocery store in a black-majority neighborhood in Buffalo, New York, reports Fox News host Tucker Carlson broadcast a segment on the “grand replacement theory”. “We’re still not sure exactly what it is,” Carlson claimed of … Read more
It’s college graduation season, so in this episode of The United Stats of America, host Galen Druke interviews incoming New York University graduates about some of the issues facing college students today. How comfortable do students feel voicing their opinions on campus? And how many young people think the government should cancel student loan debt … Read more
Law enforcement outside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. Eric Thayer/Bloomberg via Getty Images After a racist shooting Earlier this month at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, and School shooting on Tuesday In Uvalde, Texas, guns have—once again—become a political issue dominating the headlines. Democrats have spent passionate requests for the government to regulate … Read more
After more than a year of vendettas against Georgia state Republican officials, all supporters of former President Trump failed to unseat the state incumbents on Tuesday. Governor Brian Kemp beat his Trump-backed challenger by more than 50 points and even Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who wrote a book about Trump’s attempt to overturn the … Read more
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In this edition of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, the crew previews Tuesday’s Georgia primary, as well as contests in Arkansas, Alabama, Texas and Minnesota. They also consider whether it’s too early to conclude that the leaked draft Supreme Court advisory opinion on Roe’s ouster had little impact on the political environment.