A meager 9% of Americans believe that campaign messages are usually based on facts, according to a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Opinion Research and USAFacts. Only 14% think policy decisions are often or always fact-based, or that Americans’ voting decisions are rooted in facts.
Ambassador Gordon Sondland told a House impeachment hearing Wednesday that he worked “at the express direction” of President Donald Trump and pushed the Ukrainian government for results that included an investigation into one of the president’s political rivals. But Sondland conceded that Trump never told him directly security assistance was blocked for the probes, and reiterated that Trump told him, “I want nothing. I want nothing. I want no quid pro quo.”
New uncertainty hangs over the Democratic presidential primary as 10 candidates meet on the debate stage once again.
