Fox News Poll: 9 in 10 voters worried about inflation, America’s future

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Overwhelming majorities of voters are concerned about the specific issue of inflation as well as the broader issue of the future of America, according to a new Fox News survey. Concern with inflation has been consistently high since peaking at 93% in July 2022. Now, nearly a year later, 90% remain worried about higher prices.

About as many, 88%, are concerned about the future of the country. This number has been on the rise since July 2017 when it hit a low of 81%. Since then, the increase is mainly driven by Republicans — in 2017, 74% were concerned while today it’s 96%. Among Democrats, it was 91% in 2017 compared to 83% now. CONTINUED

Victoria Balara, Fox News

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Fox News Poll: Voters believe COVID-19 pandemic permanently changed US

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While a majority of voters believes the coronavirus pandemic is in check, over half say it has changed us forever. The latest Fox News survey finds 57% think the virus has permanently changed how we live in the United States. That’s up from 50% in 2022 and 2021. Another 33% feel things have changed temporarily, while 9% think things haven’t really changed at all.

Currently, 66% say coronavirus is completely or mostly under control. That’s better by 20 points compared to a year ago (46%) and a 46-point improvement since May 2020, when 20% said it was controlled. CONTINUED

Dana Blanton, Fox News

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1 in 5 Teachers Feel Carrying Gun to Class Would Make Schools Safer; More Than Half Think Armed Teachers Would Make Students Less Safe

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U.S. teachers are divided on whether arming themselves would make schools safer, with one in five saying they would be interested in carrying a gun to school, according to a nationally representative survey conducted by the RAND Corporation.

The survey found that 54 percent of teachers believe teachers carrying firearms would make schools less safe, 20 percent believe teacher-carry would make schools safer, and 26 percent feel it would make schools neither more nor less safe.

Yet even more concerning to teachers than guns is bullying, which teachers listed as their top safety concern. CONTINUED

RAND Corporation

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Trump Strongest Candidate Say GOP Voters

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A majority of Republican voters feel former President Donald Trump would be their strongest nominee in the 2024 election. According to the Monmouth University Poll, Trump’s backing has remained firm while support for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has faded, even though he remains about as well liked as Trump among GOP voters. [Note: the interviews for this poll were completed before DeSantis officially launched his campaign last week.]

Nearly half (45%) of Republican voters – including those who lean toward the GOP – say Trump is definitely the strongest candidate to beat President Joe Biden in 2024, and another 18% think he is probably the strongest candidate. CONTINUED

Monmouth University Polling Institute

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Biden-McCarthy compromise is in line with public opinion

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Amazingly enough, President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy managed to broker a debt-ceiling deal and say respectful things about each other over the long weekend. Heavy criticism of the deal from both left and right kept us moored in reality, though, and as of this writing, the bill has yet to hit the House floor.

In the coming days we’ll see surveys emerge showing what Americans think of the compromise bill. Like polls from the past couple of weeks, the forthcoming ones are likely to show that Americans have mixed views on the agreement. The issue is simply not one Americans spend much time thinking about or forming opinions on, and it’s hard to expect them to get more informed when so much media coverage of the debt ceiling focuses on elected officials treating it as a Mortal Kombat battle. CONTINUED

Natalie Jackson, National Journal

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U.S. Mood Remains Glum; 18% Satisfied With State of Nation

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Eighteen percent of Americans are satisfied with the way things are going in the U.S., staying below 20% as it has since March. Americans are slightly more satisfied than last summer when gas prices and inflation were soaring. …

Americans’ confidence in the U.S. economy also remains depressed, with Gallup’s Economic Confidence Index essentially unchanged at -43 in May after dropping in April. However, like the national satisfaction measure, it is not as low as last summer, when it fell to -58 in June 2022, the lowest Gallup had recorded since the Great Recession. CONTINUED

Jeffrey M. Jones, Gallup

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