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Joe Biden’s first address to a joint session of Congress last night was both a very traditional and untraditional affair, but it was no Donald Trump – in more ways than one. -snip- Biden’s first address to a sparse Congress was one of the least watched in recent history. To Thursday throwback to the last POTUS, the current POTUS’ talk was down about 49% from a newly installed Trump’s first speech to a packed House chamber back on April 30, 2017.

President Trump has jumped back into the race and now trails Joe Biden by just three points in Rasmussen Reports’ weekly White House Watch survey. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds the likely Democratic presidential nominee earning 47% support among Likely U.S. Voters to Trump’s 44%. Five percent (5%) prefer some other candidate. Four percent (4%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.) A week ago, in our first weekly White House Watch survey, Biden held a 10-point lead over Trump – 50% to 40%. The new survey finds Trump with 79% of the...

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has climbed six percentage points after his party's convention last week, garnering his highest support against Hillary Clinton since last September. Trump earns 48 percent support vs. 45 percent support for Clinton in a head-to-head matchup, within a new CNN poll's margin of error. Still, the CNN poll shows Clinton's lead evaporating. Just one week ago, Clinton led by a 49-42 percent margin. One in four Sanders voters still aren't voting for Clinton. Half of those defecting say they plan to vote for Trump and half say they plan to vote for neither. About the...

In Wisconsin, Ted Cruz managed to engineer a 25-point flip in the gap against Donald Trump with intense campaigning — and no small amount of help from Trump himself. Six days out from the New York primary, however, no such momentum has materialized. In the latest poll from Quinnipiac, Trump still dominates with a majority against both Cruz and John Kasich, and looks set to win most if not all of the delegates. The race is closer in the Democratic primary, but still static: ... Both primaries show a remarkable amount of stasis. As noted, this result is almost identical...

Fresh state polls released: Michigan: Trump +20 Louisiana: Trump +20 Mississippi: +24 Florida: +20

Gravis Marketing, a nonpartisan research firm, conducted a random survey of 1,995 registered voters in the U.S. regarding the presidential election. The poll has a margin of error of ± 2.2% (± 3.7% for the 691 Republicans and ± 3.6% for the 731 Democrats). The total may not round to 100% because of rounding. The polls were conducted using automated telephone calls (IVR technology) and weighted by voting demographics. The poll was conducted for One America News Network.

By now the sleepless nights for the Republican establishment types must be piling up. They have made every attack they could think of to derail Donald Trump and nothing has worked. They have constructed “gotcha questions” for their Fox News stooges to ask and Trump has shrugged them off. They have been caught planting questioners in town hall meetings and were exposed for their deceit. They look more and more like Wile E. Coyote witheach passing day. They have willingly accepted and cheered on attacks aimed at destroying Trump; attacks devised by Democrats and their media toadies in direct violation...