Trump Voters Are Likely To Be More Public This Time Around
Republicans appear less likely to hide their support in the next presidential election.
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August 2, 2019
August 1, 2019
Democrats Remain Only Ones Still Pushing Impeachment
Democratic voters are strongly convinced that President Trump is guilty of impeachable crimes, but most voters in general say congressional Democrats need to focus their attention elsewhere.
July 31, 2019
Voters Say Politicians Want to Grow Government Much More Than They Do
Voters continue to believe that their elected representatives want a lot bigger government than they do.
July 31, 2019
49% of Democrats Think Trump Voters Are Racist
Most voters don’t consider supporters of President Trump to be racist, but half of Democrats do.
July 30, 2019
Support for Death Penalty Falls to New Low
Following the Justice Department’s announcement that it is resuming use of the federal death penalty, support for capital punishment has fallen to its lowest level ever.
July 29, 2019
Voters Sink Likelihood of Trump’s Impeachment to New Low
Attitudes about Special Counsel Robert Mueller are about the same despite his performance last week at a House hearing. But voters are even more convinced now that President Trump will not be impeached.
July 25, 2019
Most Still Question Government Dependency But Less Critical of Food Stamps
The Trump administration is planning to tighten requirements for food stamps, potentially cutting more than three million current recipients. Americans agree there are too many who depend on government benefits, but they’re less critical of the food stamp program than they have been in the past.
July 24, 2019
Voters See Twitter As Future Presidential Tool But Don’t Like Trump Using It
Most voters say President Trump’s use of Twitter is the wave of the future for subsequent presidents, but nearly as many, including a large number of his political opponents, think Trump’s use of social media to jump over the Washington press corps is bad for the country.
July 23, 2019
Most Voters Think Trump, Unlike Congress, Listens to Them
Voters definitely have mixed feelings about President Trump’s political savvy, but most think he listens to voter concerns a lot more than Congress does.
July 22, 2019
Voters Aren’t Ready to Cut Federal Funds for Planned Parenthood
Most voters continue to have a positive opinion of Planned Parenthood, but they’re less emphatic when it comes to a new government policy that withholds millions in federal funding from the group.
July 19, 2019
Voters Don’t Agree That Newcomers Love America More Than Natives
Voters tend to disagree with one of the so-called Democratic congressional Squad members that new immigrants love America more than those who were born here.
July 18, 2019
Democrats Want Party To Be More Like Pelosi Than Ocasio-Cortez
Before President Trump criticized the so-called “Squad” of young Democratic congresswomen, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was already trying to wrest the media’s attention away from them. Her fellow Democrats tend to agree with Pelosi, but it’s far from a slam dunk.
July 17, 2019
Trump A Racist? 32% of Democrats Say Any White Criticism of Politicians of Color Is Racist
Voters are closely divided over whether President Trump is a racist, but one-in-three Democrats think it’s racism any time a white politician criticizes a politician of color.
July 16, 2019
Voters Question Trump’s Allegiance to Constitution
President Trump, like President Obama before him, has relied heavily on executive actions to get around a gridlocked Congress, and voters fall along predictable party lines when asked whether Trump’s actions would pass constitutional muster.
July 15, 2019
GOP Wants More Deportations of Illegal Immigrants; Democrats Don’t
Federal immigration authorities began a major deportation operation this past weekend, and for Republicans it’s long overdue. But Democrats disagree and don’t like the way the Trump administration is cracking down on illegal immigration.
July 11, 2019
Republicans Say Perot Cost Bush Reelection, See Trump As 3rd-Party President
Mega-businessman Ross Perot who died this week ran one of the highest profile third-party presidential bids in history, and many Republicans suspect he elected Bill Clinton in the process. But a sizable number of all voters think Donald Trump, elected as a Republican, is the third-party president that Perot wanted to be.
July 9, 2019
73% Share Trump’s Pride in America’s ‘Epic’ Past
Democrats and many in the media have been highly critical of the July 4 celebration President Trump hosted in Washington, DC, but voters strongly share the rosy view of America and the U.S. military that the president honored that day.
July 8, 2019
Voters Still See ‘Antifa’ As More Trouble Than Good
So-called “antifa” protesters are in the news again, following the recent violent beating of a gay journalist in Portland, Oregon. Voters are less critical of the antifa movement these days, but they still tend to think it’s just looking for trouble.
July 3, 2019
Voters Call Trump’s North Korea Outreach ‘Political Posturing’
President Trump’s political opponents are cutting him no slack following his historic step across the border into North Korea this past weekend to further peace talks with dictator Kim Jong Un.
July 1, 2019
Biden Still Leads Among Democrats, But Support Is Down
Former Vice President Joe Biden’s still the leader among the 2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls following last week’s debates, although he’s lost notable ground among voters in his own party. Bernie Sanders, the clear number two in previous surveys, now runs even with Senators Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren.
