50% Would Welcome Canadian Provinces to Join U.S.
President Donald Trump has talked of Canada becoming the 51st state, and half of American voters would be OK with it if any of our northern neighbor’s provinces wanted to leave Canada.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 50% of Likely U.S. Voters say that, If some Canadian provinces wanted to secede from Canada, they would support having these provinces become part of the United States. That includes 24% who Strongly Support the idea. Thirty-five percent (35%) are opposed to breakaway Canadian provinces joining the U.S., including 22% who would Strongly Oppose it. Another 15% are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
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The survey of 1,210 U.S. Likely Voters was conducted on February 24-26, 2025 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC.
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