Opinion Weekend
November 15-16, 2025
Just 29% of Americans support US military killing drug suspects, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds Jason Lange and Matt Spetalnick, Reuters Only 29% of Americans support using the U.S. military to kill suspected drug traffickers without a judge or court being involved, a rebuke of President Donald Trump’s strikes in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific Ocean, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found. Only 35% of respondents said they supported using U.S. military force in Venezuela to reduce the flow of illegal drugs into the United States without the permission of the Venezuelan government.
Most Americans feel the risks of U.S. military action in Venezuela, Mexico outweigh the benefits Clifford Young, Ipsos On Thursday, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced “Operation Southern Spear,” aiming to remove “narco-terrorists” from the Western Hemisphere. It’s not immediately clear what the scope of the operation is and if, or how, it will affect public opinion. But recent Reuters/Ipsos polling conducted shortly before Hegseth’s announcement give us clues as to how Americans might react.
Majorities of Americans disapprove of ICE and say the agency mistreats citizens and immigrants Alexander Rossell Hayes, YouGov Last month, YouGov polling found that a majority of Americans disapprove of how ICE is handling its job. About half of Americans say that ICE’s tactics are too forceful and are concerned that someone they know could be mistreated by ICE. One half or more of Americans think that ICE wrongfully arrests, deports, and uses unnecessary force against both U.S. citizens and immigrants.
Prescription Drug Costs, Views on Trump Administration Actions, and GLP-1 Use Alex Montero, Audrey Kearney, Mardet Mulugeta, Ashley Kirzinger and Liz Hamel, KFF With the Trump administration recently announcing several high-profile prescription drug pricing deals, the latest polling from KFF suggests that few think it is likely the Trump administration’s actions will lower their prescription drug costs, but his base remains more positive. Overall, about one in four (26%) adults say they or someone living with them had problems paying for prescription drugs in the past 12 months, rising to four in ten (41%) among uninsured adults and about one-third among Hispanic adults (33%), Black adults (32%), and those with annual household incomes below $40,000 (33%).
November 2025 LSEG/Ipsos Primary Consumer Sentiment Index Johnny Sawyer, Ipsos Consumer Confidence Declines as Expectations Sub-Index Falls Sharply
Republicans are more likely than Democrats to say they have a good friend in the other party Owen Auston-Babcock, NBC News Among Republicans, 82% say they have a close friend who is a member of the other party, compared with 64% of Democrats, according to the NBC News poll.
The State of Democracy 2025 Alec Tyson and Cristina Tudose, Ipsos A new Ipsos KnowledgePanel survey offers an in-depth analysis of democratic perceptions in 9 Western countries, highlighting dissatisfaction with democracy and deep worries about its future.
Widespread nostalgia for the old days, with many saying things were better back in 1975 Ipsos Is life getting better? In a new 30-country Global Advisor survey, Ipsos asks the public to assess how life is in 2025 compared to their perceptions of life in 1975.
More people are using AI chatbots, but for what? Matt Carmichael, Ipsos More Americans are using artificial intelligence chatbots compared to March, but the number of things people are using it for has declined, according to new data from the Ipsos Consumer Tracker
The Mad Libs Candidate: Polling the Perfect Democrat, No Assembly Required Blueprint Using a “Mad Libs” style conjoint test, we presented dozens of potential bio facts, records, and issue priorities to understand what meaningfully moves a “generic Democrat’s” favorability. The result is a map of the traits, life choices, and policy focuses that voters reward—and the ones that sink them from the starting gate.
