President Trump ended the week with a bang – first with an airstrike against a Syrian military airfield suspected of launching a chemical weapons attack and then with the confirmation of his first U.S. Supreme Court nominee.
Voters think it’s unlikely President Trump could nominate anyone to the U.S. Supreme Court who would appeal to both Republicans and Democrats, but they still don’t like the Senate changing its rules to make it easier for a nominee to be confirmed.
Donald Trump's unorthodox campaign and unexpected victory have produced a culture of mistrust permeating our politics and threatening to undermine the rule of law. That's not healthy, whatever you think of Trump or his political opponents.
The Democrats' drive to defeat Neil Gorsuch is the latest battle in a 50-year war for control of the Supreme Court -- a war that began with a conspiracy against Richard Nixon by Chief Justice Earl Warren, Justice Abe Fortas and Lyndon Johnson.
Consumers may still be riding the wave of economic enthusiasm since Donald Trump was elected, but that confidence is starting to wane.
Americans still think the United States would be better off with fewer attorneys, though that view has been on the decline.
As President Donald Trump prepares for his first meeting with the Chinese president, most voters believe the current trade situation with the two nations benefits Beijing more than Washington.
Voters overall think the media’s going downhill, but Republicans are more convinced that the media would rather stir the pot than genuinely get to the root of the issues.
The two former Presidents Bush and Republican also-ran Jeb Bush have been critical of President Trump, and most Democrats think the GOP should listen. Most Republicans disagree. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
"Trump may have just signed a death warrant for our planet!" warns CNN host Van Jones.
Voters are closely divided on the importance of Congress investigating whether Russia interfered with the last election, but if it does, they think the Clintons’ ties to the Russians should be part of the probe.
Well, that explains the deafening silence from President Obama.
All these months, it turns out, it was his right-hand hatchet gal and exposed serial prevaricator Susan Rice who was behind the scenes in his administration working all the levers of the most powerful espionage machine on planet Earth to spy on Mr. Obama’s political enemies.
Campus feminists whipped up a Category-5 frenzy over sexual assault allegations at a Northwestern University fraternity in February. But last week, the school's Vice President for Student Affairs Patricia Telles-Irvin was forced to muster up her best impression of "Saturday Night Live's" classic foot-in-mouther, Emily Litella.
Although congressional Republicans have yet to pass anything of substance this year, most Democrats think they are already too pushy about what they want.
Voters are now evenly divided on which party’s views align more closely to their own, but the margin among Republican voters is shrinking when it comes to whether they think more like President Donald Trump or Republicans in Congress.
President Trump recently proposed cutting the budget of the Environmental Protection Agency by nearly a third while dismantling many Obama-era climate change policies, but voters are now nearly divided over which is more important in the battle between stopping global warming and creating jobs.
"If China is not going to solve North Korea, we will."
Thirty-five percent (35%) 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 March 30.
Voters think Republicans in Congress are nearly as big a threat to President Trump’s agenda as Democrats are.
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. To look at the longer-term trends, Rasmussen Reports compiles the numbers on a full-month basis, and the results for Trump’s presidency can be seen in the graphics below.
