June 10, 2020

New polling: Eroding support from white working-class women threatens Trump's re-election

William Galston writes that new exit polling data show worsening numbers for President Trump among non-college-educated white women, with whom Joe Biden has closed Hillary Clinton's gap of 27 points behind Trump to just 6 points.

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In addition, Galston explains what an incumbent president's job approval rating can reveal about their re-election chances.

Low rates of fraud in vote-by-mail states show the benefits outweigh the risks

A database of voter fraud convictions gathered by the Heritage Foundation shows that vote-by-mail states have had few cases of fraud, which in turn impacted very few votes, Elaine Kamarck and Christine Stenglein find.

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Bridging the gaps: A path forward to federal privacy legislation

Despite a promising start in the 116th Congress, the debate over federal data privacy legislation has largely come to a halt on Capitol Hill. A new report from Cameron Kerry, John Morris, Jr., Caitlin Chin, and Nicol Turner Lee attempts to find common ground on polarizing issues like preemption and private right of action.

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More from Governance Studies

Trump's online platform executive order. Niam Yaraghi argues that President Trump's recent executive order regulating online platforms ignores the broad liability protections provided in CDA Section 230.

Fighting implicit bias in law enforcement. Rashawn Ray spoke to Soledad O'Brien about the death of George Floyd and whether this new wave of protests could mark a turning point in the fight against systemic racism.

Trump does not hate protests—he hates dissent. John Hudak writes that President Trump has embraced protest and even violence when it has suited his political purposes, and that when he rails against protests for racial justice it is because he won't tolerate dissent.

What made Trump's protest response in D.C. unique? Scott Anderson, Emma Broches, Eric Halliday, Julia Solomon-Strauss write on Lawfare that President Trump's protest response highlights the extensive authority Congress has given the president over the nation's capital—but points to certain limits on the president's authority.

A note on the Brookings response to COVID-19