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                            February 28, 2025Election Integrity: 60% Favor Requiring Paper Ballots
A majority of voters favor an election integrity measure recently advocated by President Donald Trump.

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                            February 27, 2025FBI Director Kash Patel Starts With 47% Favorability
By a double-digit margin, more voters have a favorable than unfavorable opinion of Kash Patel, newly confirmed as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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                            February 26, 2025Most Voters Are Angry About Waste of Taxpayer Money
As President Donald Trump’s administration exposes wasteful federal spending, more than two-thirds of voters are angry about the situation.

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                            February 25, 2025Is Trump Acting Like a Dictator? 74% of Democrats Say So
While Republicans see President Donald Trump as doing the job he was elected to do, Democrats see the president’s action in a sinister light.

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                            February 24, 202562% Back Trump’s Deportation Policy
Voters strongly favor President Donald Trump’s plan to apprehend and deport illegal aliens.

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                            February 21, 2025Just 29% Think Government Layoffs Would Boost the Economy
The prospect of mass layoffs of federal employees doesn’t strike most Americans as helpful for the economy.
 
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                            February 20, 202553% Approve Trump Ending DEI Policies
By a double-digit margin, more voters approve than disapprove of President Donald Trump’s move to end diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies in the federal government.

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                            February 19, 2025Trump 2028? Many Think He Could Win a Third Term
More than a third of voters favor altering the Constitution to allow President Donald Trump to run for re-election again – and a majority think he could win in 2028.

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                            February 18, 2025Many Think Federal Judges Are Abusing Their Authority
Most voters agree with a Republican congressman’s complaint about federal judges blocking President Donald Trump’s policies.

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                            February 14, 2025Trump’s Leadership Scores Higher in Second Term
Although he’s still widely seen as too confrontational, President Donald Trump’s leadership is now rated much better than it was during his first term in the White House.

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                            February 13, 202555% Approve of Elon Musk Running DOGE
Most voters like President Donald Trump’s decision to put Elon Musk in charge of his cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). And they like the new agency’s mission even more than they like Musk – or Trump, for that matter.

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                            February 13, 2025Rasmussen Reports Immigration Index
The Rasmussen Reports Immigration Index for January increased to 96.6, up more than four points from 92.4 in December. 

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                            February 12, 2025Birthright Citizenship: Majority Want Limits
Amid talk of limiting so-called “birthright citizenship,” there is a clear majority for some limits on the practice of granting automatic citizenship for the U.S.-born children of foreigners.

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                            February 11, 202579% of Republican Voters Say Trump Has Been Good for GOP
Voters have differing opinions of President Donald Trump, but Republicans overwhelmingly view him as beneficial to their party.

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                            February 10, 2025Democrats Should Work With Trump, Most Voters Say
Many Democrats in Congress appear committed to totally opposing President Donald Trump, but most voters think cooperation would be better.

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                            February 7, 2025Voters Rate Trump More Aggressive on Trade Policy
After the Trump administration moved swiftly to put tariffs on foreign goods, voters are divided over the policy, but most agree that Donald Trump is more aggressive on trade issues than most of his predecessors.

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                            February 6, 202554% Still Agree Media Are the ‘Enemy of the People’
Six years after he first said it, most voters still agree with President Donald Trump’s harshest condemnation of the news media.

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                            February 5, 2025Most Voters Support Trump’s Military Transgender Ban
By a 13-point margin, more voters approve than disapprove of President Donald’s Trump policy of removing transgender people from the U.S. military.

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                            February 4, 2025Trump’s Back-to-Work Order Popular With Voters
Two-thirds of voters support President Donald Trump’s order that federal employees return to their offices, ending the work-from-home arrangements that have prevailed since the COVID-19 pandemic began nearly five years ago.

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                            February 3, 2025Election Integrity: 77% Favor Voter ID
An election integrity measure favored by President Donald Trump is also overwhelmingly popular with voters.