Democrats were quick to blame President Trump and Republicans in general – and fundraise off the tragedy - following the recent mass shootings in Texas and Ohio. Perhaps this helps explain why most voters remain skeptical of how politicians respond to gun incidents.
Voters are even more worried about illegal immigration and question the federal government’s commitment to stopping it. But they also remain closely divided over the need for – and effectiveness of - a southern border wall.
Two weeks ago President Trump triggered a media firestorm when he criticized a longtime Democratic congressman’s job performance, saying his Baltimore district is “a rat and rodent infested mess” and “the worst run and most dangerous anywhere in the United States.”
Support for more gun control has jumped to its highest level ever, but a sizable majority of voters also agree that it won’t stop all mass shootings like the ones this past weekend in Texas and Ohio.
A number of the top contenders for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination are championing a government-run, single-payer health care system, but voter support is down. Perhaps that’s because voters see the quality of care suffering, while their personal costs go up.
Front-runner Joe Biden’s Democratic presidential challengers have attacked him for policies enacted under President Obama with whom he served as vice president. Some Democrats complain that criticism of Obama is bad for the party, and Democratic voters are closely divided.
Most voters agree that the billions in taxpayer dollars poured into the inner cities hasn’t worked, but they think spending even more might do the trick.
President Trump triggered a media firestorm when he criticized a longtime Democratic congressman’s job performance, saying his Baltimore district is “a rat and rodent infested mess” and “the worst run and most dangerous anywhere in the United States.”
Republicans appear less likely to hide their support in the next presidential election.
Democratic voters are strongly convinced that President Trump is guilty of impeachable crimes, but most voters in general say congressional Democrats need to focus their attention elsewhere.
Voters continue to believe that their elected representatives want a lot bigger government than they do.
Most voters don’t consider supporters of President Trump to be racist, but half of Democrats do.
Following the Justice Department’s announcement that it is resuming use of the federal death penalty, support for capital punishment has fallen to its lowest level ever.
Attitudes about Special Counsel Robert Mueller are about the same despite his performance last week at a House hearing. But voters are even more convinced now that President Trump will not be impeached.
The Trump administration is planning to tighten requirements for food stamps, potentially cutting more than three million current recipients. Americans agree there are too many who depend on government benefits, but they’re less critical of the food stamp program than they have been in the past.
Most voters say President Trump’s use of Twitter is the wave of the future for subsequent presidents, but nearly as many, including a large number of his political opponents, think Trump’s use of social media to jump over the Washington press corps is bad for the country.
Voters definitely have mixed feelings about President Trump’s political savvy, but most think he listens to voter concerns a lot more than Congress does.
Most voters continue to have a positive opinion of Planned Parenthood, but they’re less emphatic when it comes to a new government policy that withholds millions in federal funding from the group.
Voters tend to disagree with one of the so-called Democratic congressional Squad members that new immigrants love America more than those who were born here.
Before President Trump criticized the so-called “Squad” of young Democratic congresswomen, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was already trying to wrest the media’s attention away from them. Her fellow Democrats tend to agree with Pelosi, but it’s far from a slam dunk.
