Postelection: Economic Confidence Up; Biden Ratings Down Jeffrey M. Jones, Gallup After the election, Americans are more positive about the economy but less positive about Biden’s performance and the state of the nation. The shifts generally reflect sharp changes among one or the other partisan group, including Republicans becoming much more optimistic about the economy’s direction and Democrats less satisfied with the state of the nation after an election that gave Republicans control of the federal government’s executive and legislative branches.
Wide partisan divisions remain in Americans’ views of the war in Ukraine Joseph Copeland, Pew Research Center Nearly three years into the war in Ukraine, President-elect Donald Trump has been promising a swift end to the conflict when he takes office. Americans’ views about U.S. support for Ukraine have shifted little in recent months, but there continue to be wide partisan differences, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted No…