Opinion Weekend
August 5-6, 2023
Americans divided on January 6th indictment, in line with other criminal cases against Trump Ipsos New ABC News/Ipsos polling finds that most Americans believe the charges against former President Trump in the January 6th case are serious, though there are significant differences by partisanship.
Nearly two-thirds of Americans think Jan. 6 charges against Trump are serious Tal Axelrod, ABC News A majority of Americans (51%) think Tuesday's federal indictment of former President Trump related to Jan. 6 and his efforts to overturn the 2020 election is very serious, marking the highest figure yet of the three indictments he's faced, according to a new ABC News/Ipsos poll. CNN Poll: Majority of Americans oppose more US aid for Ukraine in war with Russia Jennifer Agiesta, CNN Most Americans oppose Congress authorizing additional funding to support Ukraine in its war with Russia, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, as the public splits over whether the US has already done enough to assist Ukraine. Few Aware of Medicare Drug-Price Provisions Included in Inflation Reduction Act KFF Nearly a year after President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law, relatively few people are aware of its provisions aimed at lowering prescription drug costs in Medicare. For example, a quarter of the public are aware that there’s a law requiring the federal government to negotiate some drug prices for people with Medicare (25%); capping insulin costs for people with Medicare (25%); and placing an annual limit on Medicare enrollees’ out-of-pocket drug costs (24%).
Are the latest AI safeguards enough? Clifford Young & Bernard Mendez, Ipsos Regulations on AI are still in their infancy. How do Americans feel about the progress that companies and the government have made so far? Sharp partisan divide over sympathy with striking writers and actors, poll finds Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times [via Yahoo] The historic labor dispute paralyzing Hollywood is not, on its face, a partisan issue. But there is a strong partisan divide in how Americans view the strikes, according to a new poll for the Los Angeles Times: People who said they voted for President Biden in 2020 were much more likely to side with the striking actors and writers than people who said they voted for former President Trump.
