Few are very confident the Secret Service can protect presidential candidates from political violence AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research A majority believe political division and the Secret Service are to blame for the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.
Few Americans trust the Secret Service after a gunman nearly killed Trump, an AP-NORC poll finds Adriana Gomez Licon & Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux, Associated Press Most Americans have doubts about the Secret Service’s ability to keep presidential candidates safe after last month’s attempt on former President Donald Trump’s life, a new poll from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds. Many Americans are confident the 2024 election will be conducted fairly, but wide partisan differences remain Hannah Hartig, Pew Research Center Americans are generally confident that this fall’s presidential election will be conducted fairly and accurately. Yet Republicans and those who lean toward the GOP are far less confident of this than Democrats and Democratic leaners, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted July 1-7, 2024.