What will they do without him? Post-Trump politics in the US

  • 1 December, 2025
  • Politics
  • Polling

Edited version of presentation to the International Democracy Union Forum, held in Washington DC w/b 01 December 2025.

We are not even a year into Donald Trump’s second term as president, but politics being what it is, attention is already turning to what comes next. My latest research looks at how things are shaping up on both sides of the divide and what this tells us about prospects both for the midterms and the race for 2028.

Let’s start with the President, who was elected for a second time by an extraordinary coalition of voters drawn from a much broader cross-section of American society than any Republican in living memory. How do they see things a year on from their decision?

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