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                            September 13, 2025What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...

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                            September 12, 202560% Favor Death Penalty in N.C. Stabbing Case
The stabbing death of a young Ukrainian refugee on a train in Charlotte, North Carolina, has drawn nationwide attention to America’s violent crime problem.

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                            September 12, 2025Daily Presidential Tracking Poll
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll shows...

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                            September 11, 202556% Suspect COVID-19 Vaccines Caused Deaths
More than half of voters think COVID-19 vaccines may have killed many people, and back Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s criticism of government health officials.

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                            September 10, 2025Election Integrity: Many Don’t Trust Electronic Voting Machines
Nearly two-thirds of voters suspect electronic voting machines may be vulnerable to online manipulation.

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                            September 9, 2025Limits on ‘Maximum Income’ OK With Most Under-40 Voters
A majority of voters under 40 favor legal limits on how much an individual can earn, including nearly a third who would set the maximum income at $1 million a year or less.

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                            September 8, 2025Struggling and Discouraged, Many Young Voters Turn Radical
Believing that the economy is unfair to them, a majority of voters under 40 favor legislation to confiscate “excess wealth.”

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                            September 8, 202544% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Forty-four percent (44%) of Likely U.S. Voters think the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey for the week ending September 4, 2025.
 
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                            September 5, 2025American Students First: Voters Reject Trump’s Chinese Student Idea
Voters overwhelmingly think American students should get priority over foreigners at U.S. colleges, after President Donald Trump floated the idea of allowing student visas for 600,000 Chinese.

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                            September 4, 202556% of Public School Parents Would Use Vouchers
If school choice vouchers were available, more than half of parents with children in public school would take advantage of the programs to send their kids to private school.

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                            September 4, 2025Most Under-40 Voters Favor Socialism
Support for socialist policies and socialist candidates is now a majority position among younger voters in America.

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                            September 3, 202552% Think New Gun Laws Would Help Prevent School Shootings
In the aftermath of last week’s shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis, more voters see a need for new gun control laws.

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                            September 2, 2025Trump Approval Holds Steady in August
When tracking President Trump’s job approval on a daily basis, people sometimes get so caught up in the day-to-day fluctuations that they miss the bigger picture...

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                            September 2, 2025Republicans Feel Less Represented in Congress
By a 10-point margin, Democrats are more likely than Republicans to believe that their own party’s members of Congress agree with them.

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                            August 29, 2025Trump More Accessible to Media Than Biden, Most Voters Say
After four years of Joe Biden dodging media scrutiny, a majority of voters recognize that President Donald Trump is more available to questions from the press.

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                            August 28, 2025Trump’s Revenge? 48% See John Bolton as Victim
In the aftermath of FBI raids on former National Security Adviser John Bolton’s home and office, most voters don’t believe it was about national security.

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                            August 27, 202539% Support Eliminating Senate’s Filibuster Rule
Opposition to ending the U.S. Senate’s filibuster rule has softened, now that Republicans hold the majority in the upper chamber of Congress.

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                            August 26, 2025Election Integrity: 53% Say In-Person Voting Is More Secure Than Mail-in Ballots
One of President Donald Trump’s proposals to protect election integrity appears to have majority support.

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                            August 25, 2025Trump’s Diplomacy Gets Mixed Reviews
After President Donald Trump met with European leaders and the heads of both Russia and Ukraine, voters are divided over whether this diplomacy will be effective.

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                            August 22, 2025Support Still High to ‘Drain the Swamp’ in D.C.
Nearly two-thirds of voters still favor President Donald Trump’s call to “drain the swamp” of bureaucracy in the nation’s capital, but are divided on how he’s doing so far.