Opinion Today
April 16, 2024
As Trump’s hush money case begins, about a third believe he has done something illegal AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research Few are very confident that prosecutors are treating Trump fairly. Nor is the public very confident that the Supreme Court, other judges, and juries can be impartial in his cases. Republicans are especially skeptical that prosecutors are treating him fairly.
Only 1 in 3 US adults think Trump acted illegally in New York hush money case, AP-NORC poll shows Thomas Beaumont & Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux, Associated Press The first criminal trial facing former President Donald Trump is also the one in which Americans are least convinced he committed a crime, a new AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll finds.
Trump Beats Biden on the Economy, Voters Say. Are They Right? Peter Coy, New York Times President Biden must be tearing his hair out over the latest New York Times/Siena College poll of likely voters. Half of the respondents describe economic conditions as “poor.” Only 20 percent say they strongly approve of Biden’s handling of the economy, while 45 percent strongly approve of Donald Trump’s handling of the economy as president.
Chaos In The Crosstabs Lakshya Jain & Giacomo Squatriti, Split Ticket Over the course of this election cycle, perhaps no single demographic has received more attention than young voters, which many polls now suggest to be increasingly Trump-curious. This has been observed alongside a similarly shocking swing toward Biden among elderly voters. If these surveys are correct, then our political landscape would be undergoing an incredible, unprecedented age-based shift in public opinion, despite 2024 being a rematch election in a period of record polarization. To better understand and test this notion, we conducted two surveys.