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February 3, 2025

Election Integrity: 77% Favor Voter ID

An election integrity measure favored by President Donald Trump is also overwhelmingly popular with voters.

February 1, 2025

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending February 1, 2025

In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...

January 31, 2025

Just 26% See Race Relations Improving

As Americans prepare to recognize Black History Month in February, many remain pessimistic about the state of race relations in the country.

January 31, 2025

43% Approve of Biden’s Pardon of Dr. Fauci

Former President Joe Biden’s decision to give Dr. Anthony Fauci a “full and unconditional” pardon for any crimes he may have committed dating back to 2014 remains controversial.

January 31, 2025

Trump Is Moving Fast and Breaking Things By Michael Barone

Move fast and break things. That's the original operating philosophy of Facebook founder and Meta mogul Mark Zuckerberg, and it seems to be the operating procedure of President Donald Trump in these first weeks of his second term.

January 30, 2025

57% Approve of Immigration Raids

By an 18-point margin, more voters approve than disapprove of the immigration enforcement raids launched since Donald Trump became president.

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January 30, 2025

Checking Back on Key 2024 Counties, Part One: The Industrial North By J. Miles Coleman

KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE

— Before the 2024 election, the Crystal Ball isolated several key counties in Toss-up states. We are circling back to see what the results in those counties said about the overall election.

— Several Democratic-trending suburban and touristy counties in the Industrial North continued to move left, although just not by the margins that Kamala Harris would have needed.

— In Pennsylvania, Donald Trump’s notable gains in the Scranton area played into his strong 2024 showing in the state.

— Sticking to the Industrial North generally, and in 2026 news, Sen. Gary Peters’s (D-MI) retirement opens up a Senate seat in Michigan for the second time in as many cycles.

January 29, 2025

Fewer See America as Fair

Less than half of Americans believe they live in a country characterized by fairness and decency, a sharp decline from previous surveys.

January 29, 2025

Fewer See America as Fair

Less than half of Americans believe they live in a country characterized by fairness and decency, a sharp decline from previous surveys.

January 29, 2025

Fewer See America as Fair

Less than half of Americans believe they live in a country characterized by fairness and decency, a sharp decline from previous surveys.

January 29, 2025

The Chainsaw President! By John Stossel

Finally, a real libertarian is president.

January 29, 2025

Republicans Trust Trump a Lot; Other Voters, Not So Much

Who is more trustworthy, President Donald Trump, the news media, or the Federal Bureau of Investigation? For Republican voters, questions like this are easy.

January 28, 2025

Presidential Pardons Controversial for Both Biden, Trump

Both the last-minute pardons former President Joe Biden gave his family members and the pardons President Donald Trump gave to J6 rioters are unpopular with a majority of voters.  

January 28, 2025

A Smart Way to Pay for the Trump Tax Cut: Auction Federal Assets By Stephen Moore

The federal government owns multiple trillions of dollars of federal assets -- from land, to buildings, to patent rights, to mineral rights, to immigrant visas, to oil fields to trucks and trains and unused office furniture equipment.

January 28, 2025

The Pro-Life Federalism of Trump and Vance By Daniel McCarthy

Reports of the pro-life movement's death have been greatly exaggerated.

January 27, 2025

39% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction

Thirty-nine percent (39%) 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 January 23, 2025.

January 27, 2025

America’s ‘Golden Age’: 52% Agree With Trump

A majority of voters agree with President Donald Trump’s declaration in his inauguration address that “the golden age of America begins right now.”  

January 25, 2025

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending January 25, 2025

In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...

January 24, 2025

45% View China as Enemy of U.S.

Voters are now much more suspicious of China than they were when President Donald Trump took office for his first term.

January 24, 2025

Is Donald Trump the Second Coming of Andrew Jackson? By Michael Barone

The portrait of Andrew Jackson has returned to the wall of the Oval Office, put up in time to greet President Donald Trump as he entered for the first time as the 47th president.