What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports:
- President Trump, whose term began on Monday, January 20th, ended the polling week on Friday with a daily job approval of 53%.
- Most voters have a low opinion of Joe Biden’s handling of Israel and the Middle East, and nearly half think President Donald Trump will do better.
- Some of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet appointees have faced sharp questioning in Senate hearings, but nearly three-quarters of voters think they’ll all get confirmed eventually.
- Joe Biden campaigned for president on a promise to unite Americans, but he leaves office with most voters saying he failed – and hurt his own party in the process.
- Donald Trump will be sworn in today with his hand on the Bible – actually two Bibles – and voters strongly support this inauguration tradition.
- Voters are now much more suspicious of China than they were when President Donald Trump took office for his first term.
- What used to be called “global warming” has been renamed climate change, and nearly two-thirds of Americans suspect it’s making winter worse.
- The owner of Facebook has announced it will eliminate its Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programs, and less than a third of Americans think the company will be worse without DEI.
- Thirty-one percent (31%) of Likely U.S. Voters think the country is heading in the right direction.
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