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September 8, 2025

Struggling and Discouraged, Many Young Voters Turn Radical

Believing that the economy is unfair to them, a majority of voters under 40 favor legislation to confiscate “excess wealth.”

September 8, 2025

44% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction

Forty-four percent (44%) 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 September 4, 2025.

 

 

 

September 8, 2025

Daily Presidential Tracking Poll

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll shows...

September 6, 2025

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls

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

September 5, 2025

American Students First: Voters Reject Trump’s Chinese Student Idea

Voters overwhelmingly think American students should get priority over foreigners at U.S. colleges, after President Donald Trump floated the idea of allowing student visas for 600,000 Chinese.

September 4, 2025

56% of Public School Parents Would Use Vouchers

If school choice vouchers were available, more than half of parents with children in public school would take advantage of the programs to send their kids to private school.

September 4, 2025

Most Under-40 Voters Favor Socialism

Support for socialist policies and socialist candidates is now a majority position among younger voters in America.

September 3, 2025

52% Think New Gun Laws Would Help Prevent School Shootings

In the aftermath of last week’s shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis, more voters see a need for new gun control laws.

September 2, 2025

Trump Approval Holds Steady in August

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...

September 2, 2025

Republicans Feel Less Represented in Congress

By a 10-point margin, Democrats are more likely than Republicans to believe that their own party’s members of Congress agree with them.

August 29, 2025

Trump More Accessible to Media Than Biden, Most Voters Say

After four years of Joe Biden dodging media scrutiny, a majority of voters recognize that President Donald Trump is more available to questions from the press.

August 28, 2025

Trump’s Revenge? 48% See John Bolton as Victim

In the aftermath of FBI raids on former National Security Adviser John Bolton’s home and office, most voters don’t believe it was about national security.

August 27, 2025

39% Support Eliminating Senate’s Filibuster Rule

Opposition to ending the U.S. Senate’s filibuster rule has softened, now that Republicans hold the majority in the upper chamber of Congress.

August 26, 2025

Election Integrity: 53% Say In-Person Voting Is More Secure Than Mail-in Ballots

One of President Donald Trump’s proposals to protect election integrity appears to have majority support.

August 25, 2025

Trump’s Diplomacy Gets Mixed Reviews

After President Donald Trump met with European leaders and the heads of both Russia and Ukraine, voters are divided over whether this diplomacy will be effective.

August 22, 2025

Support Still High to ‘Drain the Swamp’ in D.C.

Nearly two-thirds of voters still favor President Donald Trump’s call to “drain the swamp” of bureaucracy in the nation’s capital, but are divided on how he’s doing so far.

August 21, 2025

Voters Favor Action to Stop ‘Debanking’

The practice of “debanking” ought to be illegal, most voters believe, and they support action by Congress and President Donald Trump to stop it.

August 20, 2025

Can Trump Fix D.C.’s Crime Problem?

Half of voters expect crime in the nation’s capital to be reduced by President Donald Trump’s action to increase federal law enforcement in Washington, D.C..

August 19, 2025

Partisan Gerrymandering Undermines Democracy, Voters Say

Voters overwhelmingly condemn the practice of drawing district lines to favor one party, whichever party does it.

August 18, 2025

Majority Back Trump’s Call for a New Census

President Donald Trump has ordered a new census after errors were found in the 2020 numbers, and most voters agree with the president that illegal immigrants shouldn’t be included in census counts.