Voters clearly aren’t happy with the major party choices they’re likely to get in the 2020 presidential election. Nearly four-out-of-10 say they’re likely to vote for a third-party candidate.
Most Republicans continue to identify a lot more with President Trump than with the GOP Congress, while Democrats still strongly agree with their congressional representatives. But nearly one-in-five Democrats are now more likely to agree with Trump.
Voters aren’t nearly as convinced as the candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination that more government is the answer.
While foreign aid to Ukraine is dominating the headlines, most voters continue to view U.S. government dollars sent to other countries as a bad deal for taxpayers.
Voters remain highly suspicious of how much their fellow voters know when they go to the polls.
Mitt Romney continues to be perhaps the most vocal Republican critic of President Trump, but GOP voters still side with the president and think Romney is hurting their party.
A sizable number of voters think Nancy Pelosi doesn’t measure up to most of her predecessors as speaker of the House, but Democrats are enthusiastic supporters.
Despite his lukewarm performance at the most recent Democratic presidential debate, Joe Biden holds a near two-to-one lead over Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren among his fellow Democrats nationally.
Just over half of voters still believe in the likelihood of an illegal high-level effort to stop the Trump presidency, but not nearly as many expect anyone to be punished for it. Voters are evenly divided over which of the major 2016 presidential campaigns is more likely to have had illegal foreign help.
Nearly half of voters still regard Syria as important to America’s well-being, but Democrats feel that way much more strongly than other voters.
Voters remain sure that President Trump and the Democratic Party know where they’re headed, but they’re less confident that Republicans have a similar focus.
Even Democrats aren’t overly thrilled about their party’s presidential debates so far, but one-in-five who’ve followed the debates say they’ve switched candidates since they began.
Most voters still think President Trump should turn over his tax returns to his Democratic opponents, but the tax return question is a lot stronger voting issue for Democrats than it is for others.
President Trump’s decision to pull back the U.S. military in Syria may be a policy even most Democrats can agree with.
Some have speculated that if Joe Biden falters in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, Hillary Clinton will jump in. In a repeat matchup of the 2016 election, Clinton runs dead even with President Trump, but even most Democrats don’t want her to get into the race.
Anti-Trumpers are more likely than President Trump’s supporters to say an impeachment vote will drive them to the polls next year. But voters in general still rank illegal immigration ahead of Trump’s impeachment as an action item for Congress and are evenly divided over whether his impeachment would help or hurt the country.
Voters are mad at President Trump and his political opponents, but they’re angriest at the media these days.
Voters are more likely to blame President Trump for the country’s political division but don’t think electing Hillary Clinton instead would have changed much. They also don’t see Trump’s defeat next year as a solution to what divides us.
Voters think President Trump has more to lose in the growing Ukraine controversy than leading Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden, but they still see Trump’s reelection as a surer shot than impeachment.
Fake news or the real thing? Only one-in-three voters think the New York Times gets it completely right most of the time.
