Record Party Gap on Environment-Economic Growth Tradeoff

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Though Democrats and Republicans have long come down on different sides when considering the tradeoffs between economic growth and environmental protection, the gap between the parties has never been larger. Seventy-eight percent of Democrats, compared with 20% of Republicans, now believe environmental protection should be given the higher priority. CONTINUED

Jeffrey M. Jones, Gallup

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How the Other Half Votes: The Southwest

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Key Points
• We’re continuing our series of looking at how the most vote-rich counties in a state vote versus those that make up the rest of the state by moving to the Southwest.
• The region contains the key swing states of Arizona and Nevada, both of which are dominated by a single county that casts well north of half the statewide vote.
• Both the top and bottom halves of Texas have moved toward the Democrats from 2012-2020, but the top half just is not blue enough at the moment.
• Colorado and New Mexico have moved out of the swing state category, pushed by top-half shifts. CONTINUED

Kyle Kondik, Sabato’s Crystal Ball

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How Americans feel about Clarence Thomas and Supreme Court ethics

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New reporting recently revealed that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas accepted lavish trips at the invitation of — and paid for by — Harlan Crow, a Texas real estate billionaire. New polling by the Economist and YouGov finds that most Americans disapprove of Thomas’s having failed to disclose these trips, with many believing that such disclosures should be required of justices of the Supreme Court. …

By 58% to 24%, Americans disapprove of Thomas accepting luxury trips from an American real estate developer without including them in his financial disclosures. Republicans, however, are only slightly more likely to disapprove (40%) than to approve (34%). CONTINUED

Kathy Frankovic & Taylor Orth, YouGov

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Gun debate is ‘another issue’ where the GOP may be ‘out of step with public’

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The GOP’s response to gun violence shows how “out of step with public opinion” the party is as stricter gun reform measures are implemented across the states, Chuck Todd says on Meet the Press NOW.

Meet the Press NOW

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Americans Are Critical of China’s Global Role – as Well as Its Relationship With Russia

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A large majority of U.S. adults (83%) continue to have negative views of China, and the share who have very unfavorable views (44%) has increased by 4 percentage points since last year. Around four-in-ten Americans also now describe China as an enemy of the United States, rather than as a competitor or a partner – up 13 points since last year, according to a March 20-26, 2023, Pew Research Center survey. …

Americans are also critical of China’s behavior on the international stage. Around three-quarters or more say China does not take the interests of other countries like the U.S. into account, that it interferes in the affairs of other countries and that it does not contribute to peace and stability around the world. CONTINUED

Pew Research Center

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What hurts Republicans more: Trump, or extreme abortion bans?

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It’s been a busy couple of weeks for the marquee Republican issues: Trump and abortion. Former President Trump has been indicted, a liberal justice who ran largely on preserving abortion rights won by 11 points in Wisconsin’s Supreme Court election, and federal court judges have issued opposing rulings on mifepristone, a drug used in the two-pill medication-abortion sequence. Some on the Right have started ringing alarm bells.

Sorting out which is more of a drag—important if Republicans want to actually win an election in 2024, since they may or may not be able to dump Trump—is an impossible task. CONTINUED

Natalie Jackson, National Journal

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