Two polls show Harris doing better than Biden previously did against Trump
Trump now leads in four battleground states with slimmer margins, according to one poll. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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Trump now leads in four battleground states with slimmer margins, according to one poll. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Vice President Harris is tied with former President Trump in Pennsylvania and Michigan, and down 1 point from him in Wisconsin in a set of new Fox News polls released Friday.
Here's how Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump match up according to poll averages over the past week since Joe Biden left the race.
Polls show a growing gender gap in the 2024 election now that Vice President Kamala Harris is the Democrat facing off against Republican Donald Trump.
Polling indicates Kamala Harris’s candidacy has tightened the US presidential race. At home, the numbers are a mixed bag for the government.
In a recent Economist/YouGov poll, more Americans predicted Harris to win in November over former President Donald Trump.
The aggregate polls reveal a close presidential election where Trump and Harris are inching up or down within the margin of error.
The Michigan Ross poll shows a Democratic candidate leading on the key issue for the first time in nearly a year.
Polls show that a Kennedy withdrawal would probably help Trump more than it hurts him. But if it does, it’s at the margins — though small margins have decided recent elections.
The polling by InsiderAdvantage and Trafalgar in seven battleground states finds Trump on a path to 296 electoral votes — suggesting that Harris has already lost her momentum.
Silver's latest election forecast shows Trump having a higher chance of securing the electoral college vote in November.
Former President Donald Trump’s chances of winning the 2024 election have surged in the last month while Vice President Kamala Harris has struggled to find “a 2nd gear,” according to polling guru Nate Silver.
Trump is up one percentage point over Harris, according to the survey released on Sunday
Former President Donald Trump is neck and neck with Vice President Kamala Harris, according to a new national poll released Monday.
Trump has closed the gap on Harris for the first time in over a month in weekly polling by The Economist/YouGov.
Vice President Kamala Harris is opening a small advantage over former President Donald Trump following this week’s debate.
Trump's upended presidential polling and he finds himself somewhere between his standing in 2016 and in 2020.
Michigan is considered among at least seven critical battleground states that could decide the presidency in November.
The 2020 US presidential election saw the biggest polling miss in 40 years. We ask how much can we trust current figures suggesting Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are in the tightest race for decades? And we give you a steer on how to read individual, tracker and state polls.
With the biggest economy and most powerful military, the eyes of the world are closely watching the US presidential election process.
New York (AFP) – Kamala Harris has taken a slim lead over Donald Trump in the US presidential race, a new poll showed Tuesday, as the Democrat slammed her rival for "weakness" during a media blitz four weeks before the election.Vice President Harris and Republican former president Trump -- who was d...
As the 2024 race enters the final stretch, polls show a tight contest between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.
Trump won among men in 201fsil6 and 2020, and polls suggest he may gain ground among male voters in November.
With just a little over two weeks remaining for the US presidential election, recent poll trends suggest neck and neck contest between Harris and Trump
{beacon} Evening Report © AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin/Evan Vucci Millions vote early as polls drift toward Trump More than 14 million Americans have already cast their ballots with two weeks to go before Election Day, according to NBC’s early voting tracker. The 2024 race for the White House remains a toss-up, but there’s been…
The latest polls are very close. Here’s what they say.
Most polls show a “tied race” between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, yet “a closer look at the numbers indicates that the former president is better positioned now than at any other point since Harris entered the race,” explain Douglas Schoen & Carly Cooperman at The Hill.
Vice President Kamala Harris leads Donald Trump in Michigan and Wisconsin ahead of the election, while the two are tied in Pennsylvania. Legal and political battles define the final campaign stretch, from Harris and Trump's accusations to voter roll purges and ballot deadline extensions in swing states.
Even in the battleground states, the polling figures for Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are very close.
A fresh slate of Atlas Intel swing-state surveys that shows Donald Trump on track for 287 electoral votes if the projections translate into reality Tuesday.
"Trump people are very loud, very vocal, very willing to acknowledge who they voted for or will vote for, and very willing to participate."
Recent polling shows small gains among Harris and Trump in swing states, with an essentially tied race in Pennsylvania.
Latest polls on Iowa, considered a Red state, give an edge to Kamala Harris over Republican candidate Donald Trump
Kamala Harris has revealed she has mailed in her vote. It comes as both her and Donald Trump head to key swing states ahead of election day, on 5 November. Meanwhile, a pollster behind a shock prediction that Ms Harris could win Iowa has told Sky News how she came to that conclusion.
Political pollsters who underestimated Donald Trump's popularity in 2016 and 2020 said they finally cracked the challenge, a report suggests.Trump won in 2016 despite many polls saying he would lose to Secretary Hillary Clinton, and came close to President Joe Biden when some analysts said it would ...
Amid warning signs for Donald Trump in the polls, how could the Democrats take advantage? Jonathan Freedland speaks to the political strategist Stanley Greenberg
More than half of voters described President Trump’s second term in office as “chaotic” and “scary” in a new poll released Friday.
The president's handling of the economy is being viewed unfavorably by majority of Americans, two recent polls found.
Trump scores poorly on economy and immigration as some fear he is ‘exceeding powers’ and focussed on wrong issues
Trump’s approval rating has declined to 40%, amid concerns of rapidly evolving tariff decisions and administrative cuts, as well as the increased cost of living for the foreseeable future. In the week ahead, discussion on his divisive tax bill will continue
As "No Kings Day" rallies kick off across the country, here is President Trump's approval rating in each state.
President Donald Trump is now the most unpopular he has been during his second term. More than half of American adults disapprove of the job he is doing, and he’s underwater on nearly every important issue of the day. The polling averages show this net disapp…
Polling taken across the past month shows that Americans largely disapprove of the "One Big Beautiful Bill" – but are more split on some of its provisions.
A record high of 79 percent of US respondents in a Gallup survey say immigration is a 'good thing' for the country.
Even in an era of Trump meme coins and library fund shakedowns, voters in key congressional districts see Dems as the corrupt ones, a new poll finds.
The Democratic Party’s approval rating is at its lowest point in at least 35 years, according to a Wall Street Journal poll released last week. In that survey, 63 percent of voters expressed an unfavorable view of the Democrats, while just 33 percent voiced …
This week’s Economist/YouGov poll covers approval of Trump's job performance, partisan gerrymandering, Ghislaine Maxwell's prison move, inflation, and government jobless numbers
Donald Trump's approval rating slipped again in the latest Pew Research Center.
A Reuters/Ipsos survey shows 59 percent of US respondents say Israel's military campaign in Gaza has been excessive.
An InsiderAdvantage poll clashed with credible polls’ results and failed to provide information on its methodology.
President Donald Trump appears to be in deep denial about his historically low approval ratings. “Except what is written and broadcast in the Fake News, I...
Half of US voters believe Israel is committing genocide and six in 10 oppose further military aid, polls suggest.
New data shows he has a commanding lead, though that could change.
Synthetic sampling uses models to “survey” fake respondents. G. Elliott Morris and Verasight compared real polling data against the synthetic variety to find that the latter is error-pr…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump's approval ticked slightly lower in recent weeks as Americans worried about the health of the U.S. economy and...
Americans are concerned about crime, but don't broadly support President Trump's deployment of the National Guard to U.S. cities, according to a new NPR-IPSOS poll.
A growing share of Americans say the country is headed in the wrong direction under Donald Trump’s leadership, according to new polls that show deep unease not only among Democrats and independents but increasingly within his own Republican base. Why It Matte…
As a government shutdown becomes more likely, a new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll shows even though President Trump has a low approval rating, just 1 in 4 approve of how Democrats in Congress are doing.
The poll comes as Congress races to avoid a possible shutdown by the end of the day on Sept. 30.
On hot button issues, a majority say children should be vaccinated; controlling gun violence is more important than gun rights; and Epstein files should be released, in a new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll.
It’s been a little over half a year since RFK Jr. was confirmed as Secretary of Health and Human Services and his tenure thus far has been chaotic, to put it mildly. Listing all of the various forms of fuckery that have already occurred under his watch would …
According to a fresh Gallup poll this week, 43 percent of Americans regard the Supreme Court as “too conservative,” against 36 percent who feel that the Roberts court is an even-tempered administrator of justice. That 43 percent is a new high, per Gallup: “Be…
President Trump's latest actions, including the handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case and tariffs, are reflected in his approval rating in each state.
The poll also asked likely voters how swayed they were by arguments on either side of the campaign
As the government shutdown drags on with no end in sight, a new AP-NORC poll finds that most Americans see it as a significant problem — and all of the major...
President Donald Trump is headed back to Mar-a-Lago this weekend at the same time as the No Kings protests. What do Floridians think of him?
Vice President JD Vance and California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) are locked in a tight hypothetical 2028 presidential election race.
President Donald Trump appears to be losing his grip on a key segment of voters: men. New polling from YouGov/Economist suggests a slow but steady decline in male support for the president over the past three months, even as his overall approval shows signs o…
By Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Donald Trump's presidential approval rating fell in recent days, tying the lowest level of his term, as more Americans...
The poll found 45% of respondents "strongly" oppose the East Wing demolition.
Over 6 in 10 say Trump and GOP are out of touch. Even more say that about Dems.
Jersey's race for governor at a rally in Newark on Saturday, saying the "country and our politics are in a pretty dark place right now."
And what does new polling tell us about how US voters see Trump?
Donald Trump just slipped to new lows in popularity, with an approval rating of only 37%, according to a poll released today by CNN/SSRS. "Approval of the president has dipped across partisan and demographic lines since the summer in CNN's polling," the outle…
ABC News is taking a look at the 2026 midterms, now just one year away.
One year out from the midterm elections, the Democratic Party holds a sizable enthusiasm advantage as views of President Donald Trump dip further into negative territory, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS.
The off-year elections unusually are a footnote in the overall direction of the country, but Tuesday’s races will provide the first significant glimpse at voter sentiment since Donald Trump returned to the White House. They will provide some indicators for ne…
Donald Trump is throwing a fit as a series of polls spell trouble for him and the GOP. The president, who likes to tell people he has the “best numbers...
President Donald Trump’s approval rating just hit the lowest number of his second term,
It was an encouraging night for the Democratic Party who scored some decisive wins. Here's what we learned.
(Reuters) -U.S. politicians and interest groups reacted to Democratic wins in a trio of races on Tuesday, the first major elections since Donald Trump...
Results from Virginia, New Jersey, and New York City.
Mamdani is set to be the city's first Muslim mayor of south Asian descent.
On The Political Scene Podcast: “We have a lot of indications over the last [few] months that the country is, for the second time, falling out of love with Donald J. Trump,” the staff writer Benjamin Wallace-Wells says.
Tuesday, Republicans got crushed in elections across New Jersey, Virginia, and New York. Not close races. Not razor-thin margins. Massive defeats in states they’d convinced themselves were winnable after Trump’s 2024 victory. Bret Baier—on Fox News, to Fox & …
The new Emerson College poll, released on Friday, showed Trump’s approval rating dropped 4 percentage points.
In a survey taken before the Nov. 4 election, Democrats were seen as the preferred party to lead the next Congress amid economy frustrations.
Edging into lame duck status, Trump feels the weight of the economy
President Donald Trump continued to insist the economy is strong and even insisted polls showing Americans are feeling economic pain are "fake."
Approval of the way President Donald Trump is managing the government has dropped sharply since early in his second term, according to a new AP-NORC poll...
The poll also shows 44 percent of Democrats were 'very enthusiastic' about voting in the 2026 midterm elections.
Pessimism about the country's future has risen in cities since last year, but rural America is more optimistic about what's ahead for the U.S., according to ...
A new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll shows some major warning signs for President Trump and Republicans ahead of the 2026 midterm elections as Americans want the president to focus on lowering prices.
From June to October, Trump's approval numbers were stubbornly immobile, but some voters have now finally had enough.
A new Yahoo/YouGov survey finds that a greater number of U.S. adults now blame Trump for inflation than blamed Joe Biden in 2022.
Dem Chances of Flipping Republican Seat in Tennessee Get Huge Boost... (First column, 15th story, link)
President Trump’s approval rating reached its lowest point 10 months into his second term and the lowest since he left office in 2021, according to a new...
Non-MAGA conservatives more likely to disapprove of Trump's economic performance in 2025, with only 46% believing he's improved economic conditions.
If you'd asked me a few months ago about the prospect of a Democrat winning in TN-07, a place where Trump won by 22 last year, I'd have said you were crazy and that it just wasn't possible. But here we are, with Aftyn Behn behind by just 2 points in a poll fr…
Donald Trump was mocked for setting a new low in the polls with a key demographic on Sunday. “When you look at those overall poll numbers, you’ve got to go...
President Trump’s approval rating dropped to its lowest point since he took office the second time, Gallup’s latest poll found. Here’s what the numbers are...
Polls show Democratic candidate within striking distance of Republican rival in district Trump carried by 22 points.
Democrats predicting at least 70 House seats are now in play for 2026, after Tuesday's Tennessee special election
President Trump is slumping in the polls, said Joshua Green on Bloomberg, and he may drag the Republican Party down with him. He is now receiving a negative approval rating from every major pollster. But the “most stinging” numbers came in a recent Fox News s…
By Jason Lange WASHINGTON, Dec 9 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's approval rating edged up to 41% in the past week as Republicans warmed to his handling ...
A Fox News host has issued a dire warning to the president after the latest Democrat victory in a series of stinging Republican electoral defeats. “Look at...
President Donald Trump reportedly grew bored of being warned about his policies and dire polling numbers and instead shifted the conversation to golf. Mark...
The Department of Homeland Security has quietly moved to tone down its immigration enforcement tactics after polling revealed their heavy-handed raids failed...
2028 is shaping up to be a heated race. The post Latest 2028 Presidential Polls Suggest Surprising Shake-up May Be Incoming appeared first on Mandatory.
Survey suggests that the next White House race could be very competitive.
We're basically already at his proven floor after January 6th, and he is getting his worst marks ever on an economy that's holding up pretty well! Yet he now sits six points underwater with all white people, per Gallup’s newest poll. He’s ten points underwate…
The poll found motivation could be a big factor in the 2026 midterm elections.
A growing number also say Trump has been a worse president than they expected, according to a new Yahoo/YouGov poll.
U.S. voters are split on whether President Donald Trump is handling his job better than his former President Joe Biden.
The vibes are getting dangerously hopeful.
The Gallup Organization will no longer track presidential approval numbers, ending a gathering of data that goes back to Franklin Roosevelt. Gallup’s most recent presidential approval rating for Donald Trump, measured from Dec. 1-15, put the president at 36% …
Gallup's decision to stop tracking approval ratings could make it easier for Trump to shrug off public discontent
Democrats/Lean Democratic current conditions assessment is relative insensitive to Trump being president, and statistically significantly related to news sentiment. Republican/Lean Republican perception is overwhelmingly associated with whether Trump is presi…
Americans under 30 swung to the right in 2024, but they’re not getting what they voted for.
Amid this year's Presidents' Day celebrations, survey respondents tell Yahoo and YouGov that Trump is doing a worse job than Joe Biden and Barack Obama.
The poll was conducted just days before a SCOTUS decision invalidating tariffs.
Low-information and poor white voters are turning against the president. Can Democrats win them back?
A record high say he "lacks good enough physical health" to be president.
President Trump says he is raising global tariffs to 15%. And ahead of the president's address tomorrow, most Americans say the state of the union is not strong, according to an NPR poll.
When Trump last addressed Congress, his approval rating was near a career high. Now it's near record lows.
The president's address drew favorable reviews from nearly two-thirds of viewers, though approval fell short of his first-term speeches when at least 70...
Republicans increasingly want their party to follow Trump's direction.
Voters headed to the polls Tuesday in the first primaries of the midterm election season. The latest results from Arkansas, North Carolina and Texas.
Primary voters went to the polls on Tuesday in two Republican-leaning states. Most of them voted in the Democratic primaries. ABC News' Jon Karl reports.
NPR spent several days traveling across a pair of swing districts in Pennsylvania to find out. The answers show how much has changed since the 2020 election.
The head of the Democrats' official Senate campaign arm was bullish about the party's chances of flipping the upper chamber in November due to candidate quality issues.
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Legendary GOP operative Karl Rove marveled at Democrats' remarkable ability to remain more unpopular than President Donald Trump even well into his second...
Two special election victories in Florida provided more evidence that the Democratic success in elections since Donald Trump’s return to the White House rests not just on a motivated base but also on winning over Republicans and independents.
Voters with negative views of both parties are now plus-thirty-freaking-one for the Democrats. That’s a 48-point swing from 2022. The kind of swing that can make a once impenetrable lead in the Senate with a friendly GOP map suddenly look vulnerable in red st…
Voters who dislike both parties are turning against Trump. Trump has traditionally done well with “I hate everybody” voters. But polling suggests they may help Democrats win in 2026.
With elections in Georgia and Wisconsin Tuesday, Democrats continued to overperform, which the party started in 2025 when it regularly improved on its margins compared to the presidential race in 2024.
A more limited landscape for Democratic gains and an unshakable MAGA base both put limits on Republican midterm losses despite all the problems facing that party and an unpopular president.
President Trump's approval rating has long been underwater, spelling trouble for Republicans in the midterms. Iran, high gas prices aren't helping.
A full 70% of Americans now say that the economy is getting worse, and that it's the fault of Trump. It's time for Republicans to flee.
Donald Trump's polling numbers have been steadily declining for the past year, especially when it comes to inflation and cost of living.
There wasn't a shift in support for the ballroom after the attempted shooting.
Poll finds that Americans are concerned about impact of the war on the cost of living and sceptical of success thus far.
Public polls are showing that Democrats now have the advantage over Republicans on the economy, a milestone. Strikingly, Politico reports that a newly-leaked memo from a GOP-aligned group actually confirms the same thing. The memo warns that the group’s inter…
President Trump’s disapproval rating has reached a new high according to recent poll results. A ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll released Friday found...
In the latest Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll, Trump's disapproval rating reached its highest level across both terms. Here are the top issues.
Former GOP presidential candidate Ramaswamy headlines field of candidates.
They have good reason to be optimistic. But they are sounding a bit too giddy.
Several races being closely watched as both parties prepare for the crucial midterm elections in November.
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A new CNN poll conducted by SSRS finds that 77% – including a majority of Republicans – say that President Donald Trump’s policies have increased the cost of...
Even the most Republican-friendly pollsters are getting apocalyptic as Trump approval sinks to lows previously thought impossible.
By Brad Brooks WIGGINS, Colorado, May 16 (Reuters) - Perched behind the cash register at Stubs liquor store, Amy Van Duyn gazed out the window at a red-and...
Tuesday's primary in Georgia features contentious Republican contests for governor and U.S. Senate while Democrats hope an enthusiasm advantage is enough to flip two state supreme court seats.
Two Black men from Georgia who voted for President Trump in 2024 have very different views of how the country is doing now, in the first installment of Swing Shift from NPR's Tamara Keith.
By Jason Lange and Nathan Layne WASHINGTON, May 19 (Reuters) - Donald Trump's presidential approval rating fell to nearly its lowest level since he returned ...
USA TODAY spoke with NBC's Steve Kornacki on all things Georgia elections heading into election day on May 19. He has his eyes on the Senate primary.
President Donald Trump's has had his hands in several primary elections, and recently his candidates prevailed. What is Trump's approval rating?
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Open-ended questions give ABC News an idea of what people think about both parties.
Six states — California, Iowa, Montana, New Jersey, South Dakota and New Mexico — hold elections on Tuesday. Here are key races to follow.
By Jason Lange WASHINGTON, June 16 (Reuters) - As the U.S. approaches its 250th birthday next month, two out of five Americans do not believe it will endure...
A new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll finds a record low share of Americans approve of President Trump's job performance and his handling of the economy heading into the summer before a key midterm election.
Americans have grown less proud of their country's history or the way its democracy works over the past decade, according to a new AP-NORC poll. Americans’...
As America turns 250, voters from our Swing Shift project talk about the state of the country. Their views ranged from "uncertain" and "concerned" to "excited" and "cautiously optimistic."