Trump’s Cabinet: Voters Expect Senate to Confirm Most Picks
About half of voters think President-elect Trump has done a good job of choosing Cabinet appointments, and nearly three-quarters believe the Senate will confirm most of Trump’s picks.
About half of voters think President-elect Trump has done a good job of choosing Cabinet appointments, and nearly three-quarters believe the Senate will confirm most of Trump’s picks.
— After the election, many took note of some seemingly unusual patterns in the presidential and Senate voting. Some winning Democrats in states that voted for Donald Trump, for instance, received fewer total votes than Kamala Harris, but still won while Harris lost.
— Some voters likely cast votes just in the presidential race, meaning that there were fewer votes cast in a state’s Senate contest compared to its presidential contest.
— However, there is nothing unusual about this compared to recent history. Senate races almost always have fewer votes cast than presidential races in presidential years.
— In fact, the average size of the Senate “undervote” this year was smaller than many other recent cycles.
— The third party vote was generally larger in key Senate races than in the presidential race, which likely also contributed to the outcomes in certain states. But a higher third-party vote for Senate is also not unusual—it was a feature of some of 2020’s closest Senate races, too.
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Despite her defeat in this year’s presidential election, Vice President Kamala Harris is still seen by most Democrats as the best leader for their party.
People eagerly give money to rich environmental groups. The Natural Resources Defense Council has $463 million in assets.
Earlier this year, in one of the most absurd court rulings in modern times, federal judge Amit Mehta ruled that Google violated U.S. antitrust law by gaining a monopoly in the search engine markets.
While most voters don’t think the Democratic Party did a good job during this year’s election, the party’s own voters have a different opinion.
America is outgrowing the Democratic Party.
Thirty-one percent (31%) 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 November 14, 2024.
A majority of voters support measures to ensure that elections are honest and that results are reported quickly.
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Many voters believe the danger of terrorism has increased during President Joe Biden’s term in the White House, and a majority think America is likely to face more terrorist attacks in the next four years.
Here's another way to look at why Republicans swept the 2024 elections: It's the fault, only partly, of course, of the gerontocracy of the Democratic Party. Going back through history, it's hard to find a time when a party's leadership was so far along in years. The founder presidents retired in their mid-sixties. Andrew Jackson retired at 69, Abraham Lincoln was murdered at 56, and Ulysses S. Grant retired at 54. Theodore Roosevelt died at age 60, Franklin Roosevelt at 63.
Although a majority of American adults are still religious, faith continues declining among those under 40.
During his winning presidential campaign, Donald Trump promised to deport illegal aliens – a plan approved by most voters, who expect him to keep his promise.
— Split outcomes between presidential and Senate results saw a resurgence in 2024, as at least four Donald Trump-won states sent Democrats to the Senate.
— Republicans still took the majority in the Senate because while Sens. Jon Tester (D-MT) and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) performed notably better than Kamala Harris, they did not do so by enough to hold their seats.
— Across most key Senate races, Senate Democrats ran better than Harris in rural parts of their states but were comparatively weak in some suburban counties.
— In one of Harris’s best states, Maryland, former Gov. Larry Hogan (R-MD) stood out as Republicans’ top overperformer, although Harris’s 26-point margin in the state was too much for him to overcome.
Election 2024 is in the rearview mirror. Pollsters won’t be bombarding voters with phone or email polls. Today’s entertainment is liberal heads exploding on social media or the latest Democrat threatening but not actually following through on everything from drinking cyanide to setting themselves on fire or leaving the country if Donald Trump won the election.
The Rasmussen Reports Immigration Index for October decreased to 89.6, down about points from 91.7 in September.
National unemployment was 8.1% in this month’s Rasmussen Reports Real Unemployment update, down from 8.7% last month and significantly more than double the 4.1% rate officially reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics today.
As the nation prepares to install its 47th president, Americans are overwhelmingly proud of their country and its history.