MANCHESTER, NH – A new poll in the state that holds the first primary in the race for the White House indicates Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont is 9 percentage points ahead of his closest competitor in the battle for the Democratic presidential nomination. The University of New Hampshire/CNN survey, which was released Sunday, shows Sanders – the populist independent lawmaker who’s making ...

Fifty-seven percent of voters feel optimistic about the economy. That’s down from 66 percent who felt that way when President Trump was inaugurated in early 2017, and from 63 percent who were optimistic in February. In addition, a new Fox News Poll finds 31 percent feel everyone has benefitted under Trump’s economic policies, but 48 percent think only “people with more ...

Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore says Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the de facto leader of the Democratic Party. (Fox News) Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore declared U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez the new leader of the Democratic Party, while urging political moderates to take a position because there “is no middle ground anymore.” “She is the leader. Everybody knows it. Everybody feels it,” Moore said ...

With recreational use of marijuana now legal in nine states plus Washington D.C., the latest Fox News Poll finds a record number of voters nationally favor legalization. The poll shows 59 percent of voters support legalizing marijuana. That’s up from 51 percent in 2015, and 46 percent in 2013 (the first time this question was asked on a Fox News ...

President Donald Trump says what he thinks — a majority agrees on that.  Maybe that’s part of the reason most don’t call him presidential. The latest Fox News Poll asks voters how well several words and phrases apply to the president.  Trump is most defined by the “says what he thinks” trait.  More than 8-in-10 voters think that describes him ...

American voters disagree with President Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey, think the dismissal was for self-serving reasons, and approve of a special counsel being appointed to investigate Russian government efforts to influence the election and the Trump campaign.  In addition, a majority opposes the Republican plan to replace Obamacare.  That’s according to a new Fox News Poll of ...

Tensions over Texas’s Senate Bill 4, the toughest anti-sanctuary bill in the country, bled into the Texas State Senate building that houses Governor Greg Abbott’s office on Monday. About 100 protestors staged a sit-in demanding a veto of the controversy legislation. About 20 people were arrested for staging the sit-in. The bill would allow Texas law enforcement to question the immigration status ...

President Trump began to edge away Monday evening from demanding that funding for his promised border wall be included in a must-pass spending bill, reducing the chances of a government shutdown at the end of the week by making clear he’s flexible on that timeline. Trump told a group of 20 conservative media reporters Monday evening that he would be ...