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 51%.
- Since he agreed to lead President Donald Trump’s effort to reduce government waste, Elon Musk has become so hated by liberals that they would overwhelmingly favor a law to put the high-tech billionaire behind bars.
- Voters still trust the Republican Party more to deal with national security, but on the issue of taxes, Democrats are now tied with the GOP in terms of voter trust.
- Although fewer voters now have a negative view of how Congress is doing its job, a majority agree with a Republican congresswoman’s criticism of the GOP majority on Capitol Hill.
- Nearly half of voters believe the news media are biased in favor of Democrats, and most Republicans think it’s impossible to hate the media too much.
- A majority of voters think it’s important for President Donald Trump to keep his promises of releasing records about convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and about allegations of fraud in the 2020 election.
- Fewer than one-in-five Americans say their financial situation has improved, and are more than twice as likely to say it’s gotten worse.
- About two-thirds of Americans consider faith an important part of their lives, built far fewer frequently attend services at their place of worship.
- As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes a significantly more important part of the U.S. economy and society, more than three-quarters of voters would support legislation to protect against AI’s potential threats to constitutional rights.
- National unemployment was 8.6% in this month’s Rasmussen Reports Real Unemployment update, it went up almost a point from 8.2% last month and double the 4.6% rate officially reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics today.
- American voters overwhelmingly prefer the free-market economy to socialism, although younger voters are significantly less enthusiastic about the capitalist system.
- Forty-seven percent (47%) of Likely U.S. Voters think the country is heading in the right direction.
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