What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports:
- President Trump ended the polling week on Friday with a daily job approval of 50%.
- Although the next midterm elections are still more than a year away, a slender plurality of voters now favor the Democratic Party, which hopes to recapture a House majority in November 2026.
- Efforts by White House officials to conceal former President Joe Biden’s cognitive impairment constitute a serious scandal, according to a majority of voters who also believe the news media were part of the cover-up.
- Voters are almost evenly divided over how President Donald Trump is handling the war between Russia and Ukraine, with half saying he’s likely to succeed in getting a peace deal to end the war.
- Like every president before him, President Donald Trump took an oath to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States," and most voters think he’s doing it.
- Voters rate President Donald Trump’s handling of national security issues much higher than they rated the previous White House occupant.
- As high school seniors across the country get ready to collect their diplomas, less than a third of Americans believe new graduates are prepared for the future.
- Chicago native Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost made history this month as Pope Leo XIV became the first American to lead the Catholic Church.
- Forty-seven percent (47%) of Likely U.S. Voters think the country is heading in the right direction.
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