NBC News poll: Voters are split on Trump's impeachment and removal from office
Mark Murray, NBC News
One day after the U.S. House of Representatives impeached outgoing President Donald Trump for inciting last week's insurrection at the Capitol, a new NBC News poll finds that American voters are divided on his impeachment and removal from office, with most Republicans standing firmly behind the president.
Nearly half of Americans think some GOP lawmakers encouraged violence
Fred Backus, CBS News
For many Americans, the GOP lawmakers who objected to counting the Electoral College votes in Congress share some of the blame for the violence that occurred at the nation's Capitol. While most registered voters would be more likely to support a candidate for Congress who had accepted the 2020 presidential election results in Congress, most Republican voters say they would be more likely to vote for a congressional candidate who tried to overturn the 2020 results.
Reuters/Ipsos Core Political Survey: President Trump's approval rating drops to 34%
Chris Jackson, Ipsos
President Donald Trump’s approval rating is down to 34%, with support waning among his Republican base. Meanwhile, Joe Biden continues to receive approval from a majority of Americans on how he is handling his position as president-elect leading into his inauguration next week.
A third of Americans don't think Joe Biden legitimately won the 2020 election
CBS News
With only a week to go before Joe Biden assumes the office of the presidency, a third of Americans say they do not consider Joe Biden to be the legitimate winner of the 2020 presidential election. 67% consider him to be the legitimate president, while 33% do not.
Gallup U.S. Global Leadership Update
Julie Ray, Gallup
Across 60 countries and areas surveyed during the last year of Donald Trump's presidency, median approval of U.S. leadership stands at 22%.
Gender, Personality and Public Health Compliance
Jonathan Rothwell, Gallup
As new COVID-19 infections persist at high levels throughout much of the United States and worldwide, new research from the Franklin Templeton-Gallup Economics of Recovery Study shows the role of personality traits in affecting adherence to public health guidelines, acceptance of vaccination and confidence in going out in public.
Vaccine Hesitancy Among Hispanic Adults
Audrey Kearney, Lunna Lopes & Mollyann Brodie, Kaiser Family Foundation
With Hispanic adults being among the groups most impacted by the pandemic, the KFF COVID-19 Vaccine Monitor finds that while most Hispanics are open to getting vaccinated, there remains a sizeable share, particularly among younger Hispanics, who express at least some vaccine hesitancy.
Nine in ten Americans have a positive view of Martin Luther King Jr.
Linley Sanders, YouGov
With Martin Luther King Jr. Day approaching, a new YouGov poll finds that nine in 10 Americans (89%) have a positive opinion of the civil rights leader, including 67% who have a “very positive” view.
The demographic divergence that helps explain perceptions of the Capitol rioters
Philip Bump, Washington Post [via opiniontoday.com]
It’s a tension we’ve seen over and over during the past five years, this idea that Trump’s base is both less educated and somehow less impoverished than America as a whole. Normally education and income move hand in hand, so how could those two descriptors (however loosely accurate they might be) overlap? Polling in the wake of Trump’s election loss and the violence in D.C. helps shed some light on the question.
Fallout From the House GOP Leadership Fracture
David Wasserman, Cook Political Report
In the final weeks of 2020, there was a window of opportunity for House GOP leadership to marginalize the loudest voices in the Freedom Caucus who parroted conspiracy theories about a "stolen election." Instead, it was the other end of the GOP conference's spectrum that found itself marginalized. Conference Chair Rep. Liz Cheney (WY-AL) was joined by only nine other Republican members in voting to impeach President Trump over last week's Capitol siege. And the internal repercussions — in primaries and the conference — could be felt for years to come.
Trump's bipartisan impeachment is historic
Harry Enten, CNN
The House voted on Wednesday to impeach President Donald Trump for a second time. This impeachment, unlike his first, was bipartisan. All told, 10 Republican representatives cast their vote to impeach Trump. This vote makes Wednesday's impeachment the most bipartisan impeachment of all time.
The Party Still Doesn’t Decide
Amy Walter, Cook Political Report
In 2016, Donald Trump revealed just how little influence the party has in not only selecting its nominee but in defining itself. The question going forward is whether a party can continue to survive tethered to a personality instead of a platform.
Abandon Trump? Deep in the G.O.P. Ranks, the MAGA Mind-Set Prevails
Lisa Lerer & Reid J. Epstein, New York Times
As President Trump prepares to exit the White House, his ideas, including falsehoods and conspiracy theories, continue to exert a gravitational pull among grass-roots G.O.P. officials.
4 Ways President Trump’s 2nd Impeachment Will Change Washington
Deirdre Walsh, NPR News
Washington and the country are still reeling from the images of the attack on the U.S. Capitol. As more details emerge about how it was orchestrated and the severity of the threats, the political fallout is sure to continue. Here are four ways the impeachment is already changing the political world.
How misinformation primed Trump’s supporters for Capitol riot
Catherine Morris, Ipsos
America’s alternate versions of reality run far deeper than beliefs around election legitimacy
These 3 graphs explain why more House Republicans did not support impeachment
Michael Tesler (UC Irvine), Monkey Cage
Popularity of Mike Pence and Mitch McConnell has nosedived among Republicans since they certified Joe Biden’s victory
How many Senators will vote to convict Donald Trump?
Elaine Kamarck, Brookings Institution
Now that Donald Trump has been impeached for an historic second time, attention turns to the Senate where, according to the Constitution, a trial will begin. The big question is—unlike last year when only one Republican Senator voted to convict Trump on charges resulting from his phone call with the President of Ukraine—will there be 17 Republican senators willing to vote to convict Trump?
Trump Ignites a War Within the Church
David Brooks, New York Times
After a week of Trumpist mayhem, white evangelicals wrestle with what they’ve become.
Capitol siege raises questions over extent of white supremacist infiltration of US police
Vida Johnson, Georgetown U.
The apparent participation of off-duty officers in the rally that morphed into a siege on the U.S. Capitol building Jan. 6 has revived fears about white supremacists within police departments. These concerns are not new.
The Capitol siege shows how White Americans can express anger that Black Americans cannot
Davin L. Phoenix (UC Irvine), Monkey Cage
My research examines how race shapes people’s emotional responses to politics, and the translation of those emotions to political behavior. Wednesday’s assault painted a particularly vivid picture of what I call the “racial anger gap.”
They Used to Post Selfies. Now They’re Trying to Reverse the Election.
Stuart A. Thompson & Charlie Warzel, New York Times
Right-wing influencers embraced extremist views, and Facebook rewarded them.
The Day Politics Spiraled Out of Control
Charlie Cook
Like a lot of other people in or deeply involved in American politics, Wednesday was one of the most distressing and disturbing days of my life. I felt nauseous, then appalled, then outraged. But my final emotion was a sense of sorrow for what we all had witnessed.
America’s CEOs Start 2021 Concerned About Taxes, Optimistic About Trade, & Eager to Return to the Office
Conference Board
As 2021 begins, a new survey from The Conference Board reveals the biggest issues that will keep business leaders up at night in the new year. CEOs in the United States are more worried about higher corporate taxes and increased regulation, but less worried about global political instability and disruptions to global trade.
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