Attitudes about Special Counsel Robert Mueller are about the same despite his performance last week at a House hearing. But voters are even more convinced now that President Trump will not be impeached.
The Trump administration is planning to tighten requirements for food stamps, potentially cutting more than three million current recipients. Americans agree there are too many who depend on government benefits, but they’re less critical of the food stamp program than they have been in the past.
Most voters say President Trump’s use of Twitter is the wave of the future for subsequent presidents, but nearly as many, including a large number of his political opponents, think Trump’s use of social media to jump over the Washington press corps is bad for the country.
Voters definitely have mixed feelings about President Trump’s political savvy, but most think he listens to voter concerns a lot more than Congress does.
Most voters continue to have a positive opinion of Planned Parenthood, but they’re less emphatic when it comes to a new government policy that withholds millions in federal funding from the group.
Voters tend to disagree with one of the so-called Democratic congressional Squad members that new immigrants love America more than those who were born here.
Before President Trump criticized the so-called “Squad” of young Democratic congresswomen, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was already trying to wrest the media’s attention away from them. Her fellow Democrats tend to agree with Pelosi, but it’s far from a slam dunk.
Voters are closely divided over whether President Trump is a racist, but one-in-three Democrats think it’s racism any time a white politician criticizes a politician of color.
President Trump, like President Obama before him, has relied heavily on executive actions to get around a gridlocked Congress, and voters fall along predictable party lines when asked whether Trump’s actions would pass constitutional muster.
Federal immigration authorities began a major deportation operation this past weekend, and for Republicans it’s long overdue. But Democrats disagree and don’t like the way the Trump administration is cracking down on illegal immigration.
Mega-businessman Ross Perot who died this week ran one of the highest profile third-party presidential bids in history, and many Republicans suspect he elected Bill Clinton in the process. But a sizable number of all voters think Donald Trump, elected as a Republican, is the third-party president that Perot wanted to be.
Democrats and many in the media have been highly critical of the July 4 celebration President Trump hosted in Washington, DC, but voters strongly share the rosy view of America and the U.S. military that the president honored that day.
So-called “antifa” protesters are in the news again, following the recent violent beating of a gay journalist in Portland, Oregon. Voters are less critical of the antifa movement these days, but they still tend to think it’s just looking for trouble.
President Trump’s political opponents are cutting him no slack following his historic step across the border into North Korea this past weekend to further peace talks with dictator Kim Jong Un.
Former Vice President Joe Biden’s still the leader among the 2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls following last week’s debates, although he’s lost notable ground among voters in his own party. Bernie Sanders, the clear number two in previous surveys, now runs even with Senators Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren.
Voters see most of the Democratic presidential candidates as more liberal than they are and rate their agenda as outside the mainstream.
Voters are more worried about a nuclear attack from Iran, but most think President Trump’s stepped-up sanctions against the Iranians will force them to back off their nuclear program.
Most voters are likely to tune in to the Democratic presidential debates that begin this week, but they think all 24 major hopefuls should be included, not the pared-down 20 now scheduled.
Voters still give President Trump the edge in next year’s election, although they’re not convinced that he’s done enough yet to make American great again.
Voters continue to respect the Social Security system, but most of those under 40 still don’t expect it to fully pay off when they retire.
