What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending November 2, 2024
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports:
- President Biden ended the polling week with a daily job approval of 44%.
- Former President Donald Trump has a three-point lead over Vice President Kamala Harris in our final national poll of the 2024 presidential election.
- In the closing days of the 2024 presidential campaign, President Donald Trump has a three-point lead over Vice President Kamala Harris in the battleground state of Wisconsin.
- The president earned a monthly job approval of 44% in October, unchanged from September.
- Four days before Election Day, former President Donald Trump leads Vice President Kamala Harris in the crucial battleground states of Pennsylvania, Nevada and North Carolina.
- Nearly half of voters suspect election officials of involvement in cheating, and think such acts deserve criminal punishment.
- Americans are now slightly more optimistic about the state of race relations in the country, but many still see a dire picture.
- Voters overwhelmingly think this year’s presidential election is important, and most will be angry if their candidate doesn’t win.
- Vice President Kamala Harris has a three-point lead over former President Donald Trump in Minnesota, but the presidential contest is nearly tied in New Hampshire.
- More than three months after she was appointed to be the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris remains “underwater” in her favorability ratings.
- More than half of Americans have decorated their home for Halloween this year, and nearly a third of grown-ups will don costumes for Thursday’s spooky holiday.
- Transgender athletes in women’s sports? Men using women’s restrooms? Taxpayer-funded transgender treatment? American voters are against all of it – and not by a narrow margin.
- The presidential race is unusually close in Virginia, while Texas Sen. Ted Cruz leads in his bid for a third term.
- Thirty-five percent (35%) of Likely U.S. Voters think the country is heading in the right direction.
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