Voters Say COVID-19 Comes First for Biden
The coronavirus is far and away the top action item on likely new President Joe Biden’s list as far as voters are concerned.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 45% of Likely U.S. Voters say doing more on the national level to fight the COVID-19 pandemic is the first thing Biden should do when he takes office. In a distant second place, nine percent (9%) say reversing President Trump’s executive orders should come first.
Five percent (5%) think Biden should raise taxes on corporations and wealthy Americans first, while four percent (4%) say loosening border control and legalizing the status of the so-called Dreamers should be the priority. Two percent (2%) each put the emphasis on police reform and reentering the Paris climate accord. A whopping 26%, however, think Biden should do something else first. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
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The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted November 29-30, 2020 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. See methodology.
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