Most Americans continue to say gun control laws should be generally stricter, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, which finds broad support for preventing people under the age of 21 from buying any type of gun. At the same time, the country remains closely divided about how […] Read more »
Amid Debt Crisis, Ratings of Biden, Congress Still Low
Amid tense negotiations to raise the federal government’s debt ceiling and avoid default, President Joe Biden’s latest job approval rating of 39% is just two percentage points higher than his personal low recorded last month. Meanwhile, Americans’ approval of the job Congress is doing has edged up four points since […] Read more »
Why the GOP Wants to Rob Gen Z to Pay the Boomers
The budget cuts that House Republicans are demanding in their high-stakes debt-ceiling standoff with President Joe Biden sharpen the overlapping generational and racial conflict moving to the center of U.S. politics. The House GOP’s blueprint would focus its spending cuts on the relatively small slice of the federal budget that […] Read more »
Fox News Poll: Voters say border security is worse compared to two years ago
Two weeks after the pandemic-era Title 42 border restrictions ended, President Biden received his lowest marks to date on border safety with six in 10 American voters preferring the limits had remained. In addition, just over half (51%) of registered voters in a new Fox News survey say security at […] Read more »
Fox News Poll: Views on the economy are going from bad to worse
Inflation continues to be the top concern for voters as large numbers rate both the nation’s economy and their individual finances negatively. That’s according to a new Fox News survey that contains little good news for an incumbent president running for re-election. Some 83% of voters say the economy is […] Read more »
Three years after Floyd’s death, a reckoning for Biden’s agenda on race
Three years after the murder of George Floyd sparked global protests and led then-candidate Joe Biden to endorse a broad platform of racial justice initiatives, the president is under pressure to prove to Black voters that he enacted as much of his equity agenda as possible — and that he […] Read more »