FiveThirtyEight’s top politics stories this week

[FiveThirtyEight]( Popular in Politics Thursday, April, 18, 2024 [1. Does it matter that Democrats are raising more money than Republicans?]( [Does it matter that Democrats are raising more money than Republicans?]( Welcome to 538's politics chat. The transcript below has been lightly edited. [Read more]( [2. What the polls say about Trump's hush money trial]( [What the polls say about Trump's hush money trial]( Jury selection begins Monday in Donald Trump's New York hush money case, the first of the former president's four criminal trials. The charges are related to an alleged cover-up of a $130,000 hush money payment made to adult film actor Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 presidential election. But the polls suggest that a guilty verdict would be unlikely to have a big influence come November. [Read more]( [3. Americans really love their governors]( [Americans really love their governors]( On a cool day last October, while federal officials in Washington, D.C., were squabbling to elect a new speaker of the House, Phil Scott was talking about construction. [Read more]( [4. The far right claims there's a 'uniparty' in Washington. Reality suggests otherwise.]( [The far right claims there's a 'uniparty' in Washington. Reality suggests otherwise.]( Conservative populists in the Republican Party might have you believe that there aren't two major parties in the United States, but one conglomeration of politicians in Washington who are ignoring the desires of the American people. In its latest attacks against members of its own party, this faction has embraced a term that disparagingly links supposedly apostate Republicans to Democrats across the aisle: "[uniparty]( Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene [used this descriptor]( last week to justify her [calls for the GOP to remove]( Republican Speaker Mike Johnson from office. Greene said that Johnson, [arguably the most conservative speaker]( in modern times, had overseen "a complete and total surrender to" Democrats in the House. Without a change, she continued, "we are a Uniparty that is hell-bent on remaining on the path of self-inflicted destruction." [Read more]( [5. The less you vote, the more you back Trump]( [The less you vote, the more you back Trump]( In 2016, former President Donald Trump was a political outsider looking to win the GOP nomination for president. In part, his campaign sought to appeal to voters who were [disenchanted with politics](. [Read more]( [FiveThirtyEight] [View in browser]( [ABC News]( [Unsubscribe](