Rep. Adam Kinzinger s anti-Trump group faces 1st test in May 1 House election
Rep. Adam Kinzinger on whether the GOP will embrace Trump-ism
Replay Video UP NEXT When House Republicans gather in Florida this week for their annual policy retreat, Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., will be a thousand miles away in Texas, campaigning for Michael Wood in the upcoming special election in Texas 6th Congressional District. Wood, a Marine Reserve major, is one of 23 candidates running in the May 1 election to succeed Rep. Ron Wright, R-Texas, who died in February from COVID-19 and complications from cancer. The crowded field includes Wright s widow, a former wrestler, and several Republicans who served in the Trump administration.GOP Rep Kinzinger starts PAC to resist party s Trump embrace
“We need to give voters more credit than some talking heads and pundits tend to do,” said Steven Greenberg, pollster for Siena College. “Voters see (governors) a lot closer and know a lot more about what they re doing, and therefore can nuance their views (better).”
Polarization - particularly in presidential battleground states - also seems to limit the swing of approval numbers these days. Although most governors saw a double-digit boost in approvals during the early months of the pandemic, most politicians have seen those gains come back to Earth as the partisan divide over COVID deepens.
Bigger swings have been seen in states without deeply-sowed partisan lines, as the most popular governors in the country during the pandemic were moderate Republicans leading traditionally-blue states, according to data intelligence company Morning Consult.
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California will lose one seat in Congress for the first time in state history, while Texas and Florida are among the states that will see their representation increase, according to population data released by the U.S. Census Bureau on Monday that give the first glimpse of the coming decade’s congressional landscape.
The new apportionment figures which uses the decennial head count to allocate representation in the U.S. House of Representatives across the states are a crucial building block in mapping the country’s political geography. The details arrived months later than in a typical census as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic scrambling the standard timeline. The more granular data necessary to draw district boundaries are not expected until the fall, resulting in an uncommonly compressed and chaotic redistricting process.
“We need to give voters more credit than some talking heads and pundits tend to do,” said Steven Greenberg, pollster for Siena College. “Voters see (governors) a lot closer and know a lot more about what they re doing, and therefore can nuance their views (better).”
Polarization - particularly in presidential battleground states - also seems to limit the swing of approval numbers these days. Although most governors saw a double-digit boost in approvals during the early months of the pandemic, most politicians have seen those gains come back to Earth as the partisan divide over COVID deepens.
Bigger swings have been seen in states without deeply-sowed partisan lines, as the most popular governors in the country during the pandemic were moderate Republicans leading traditionally-blue states, according to data intelligence company Morning Consult.