What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports:
- President Trump ended the polling week on Friday with a daily job approval of 49%.
- The effort by Democrats to demonize Elon Musk continues to erode the Tesla founder’s popularity, even though nearly two-thirds of voters agree with the cost-cutting mission of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
- In the aftermath of last year’s election defeat, Democratic voters are divided over which way their party should go in the future.
- So far at least, Americans aren’t feeling any boost in economic opportunity from having President Donald Trump back in the White House.
- The president earned a monthly job approval of 51% in March, unchanged from February,
- Voters like J.D. Vance more than they liked his predecessor as Vice President of the United States.
- In the aftermath of the “Signal-gate” brouhaha, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth remains a favorite of Republican voters.
- National unemployment was 8.6% in this month’s Rasmussen Reports Real Unemployment update, it went up almost a point from 8.2% last month.
- Forty-five percent (45%) of Likely U.S. Voters think the country is heading in the right direction
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