Tuesday, October 1, 2019

Column: Trump’s Ukraine scandal may have just thrown Joe Biden a lifeline

One of the defining dynamics of politics today is negative partisanship. As Emory University’s Alan Abramowitz and Steven Webster wrote in 2017, “Negative partisanship explains nearly everything in American politics today.” The idea is simple: Republicans vote less for Republicans than they do against Democrats — and vice versa. Hillary Clinton lost because more people in several key states voted against her than voted against Trump.
Hence the possibility that an attempt to destroy Biden could one day be remembered as his lifeline.

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