Opinion Today
December 18, 2024
National survey finds Trump approval at recent high and Biden approval at all-time low Charles Franklin, Marquette Law School Poll Views of the economy improve, though personal finances are unchanged. Public split on Trump cabinet appointments, while a large majority think Senate should take time to hold hearings. Majority is concerned that tariffs will hurt the economy and divided on whether Trump policies will increase inflation. More than three-quarters favor requiring transgender athletes to play on teams that match the sex they were assigned at birth.
Optimism About Trump Policies Tempered by Concern Over Tariff Impact Monmouth University Polling Institute A majority of Americans are optimistic about a second Donald Trump term, with his fellow Republicans even more likely now to feel very optimistic than they were after his 2016 victory. At the same time, the Monmouth University Poll finds concern about how some of the president-elect’s specific policy proposals could impact their own families, especially imposing tariffs on imported goods.
Negativity about the national economy persists, but Republicans are optimistic about improvements in 2025 AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research Two-thirds of the public say the current national economy is poor. Republicans are more likely than Democrats to believe the economy will improve in 2025.
Americans end 2024 with grim economic outlook, but Republicans are optimistic for 2025: AP-NORC poll Josh Boak and Linley Sanders, Associated Press The latest survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research suggests that some Americans are evaluating the economy more by who holds political power than on what the underlying trends suggest. This was a persistent challenge for President Joe Biden that Trump appears to be inheriting — and it raises the possibility that Trump, too, might struggle to translate his economic policies into political wins. Musk and Trump are viewed roughly the same by Americans, an AP-NORC poll finds Thomas Beaumont, Sarah Parvini and Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux, Associated Press Musk’s attachment to Trump has created an alliance between America’s most powerful politician and its richest businessman — and roughly the same percentages of Americans have favorable views of each, according to a new poll from the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. In polarized America, 41% of Americans have favorable view of Trump, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds Jason Lange, Reuters About two in five Americans view U.S. President-elect Donald Trump favorably, fewer than when the Republican was on the cusp of his first presidential term, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll showed. Some 41% of respondents in the three-day poll, which closed on Sunday, said they viewed Trump favorably, while 55% viewed him unfavorably as his Jan. 20 inauguration approached. Americans Now Favor Strengthening US-Japan Alliance to Deal with China’s Rise Craig Kafura, Chicago Council on Global Affairs The 2024 Chicago Council Survey and a series of Chicago Council-Ipsos surveys conducted throughout summer and fall 2024 find Americans express positive views of Japan and the US-Japan security relationship. And in a shift from prior polls, Americans now say the United States should strengthen the US-Japan alliance in order to offset China’s power and uphold regional order. But Americans remain concerned about potential military conflict with China and oppose committing US troops to conflicts between Japan and China, even in response to territorial seizures by Beijing.
What U.S. Latinos Say About ‘Machismo’ Carolyne Im, Luis Noe-Bustamante and Mark Hugo Lopez, Pew Research Center While ‘machismo’ has multiple meanings to Hispanics, most view it negatively
