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Trump remains favored in 2024 presidential nomination despite criminal charges
The latest Reuters/Ipsos survey conducted following Donald Trump’s arrest and arraignment in New York on Tuesday shows that Americans are divided about Trump’s prosecution and continue to feel the prosecution is politically motivated but the charges against him are believable. The poll also shows that Republicans continue to support Trump for the nomination for president, with his support growing from our survey earlier this week. CONTINUED
Annaleise Azevedo Lohr & Chris Jackson, Ipsos
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A tale of two Americas
While politics in America has not been mild or easygoing any time in recent memory, this past week kicked it up another notch. In the past few days, former president Donald Trump was arraigned in Manhattan on fraud charges, a polarized and consequential state Supreme Court race concluded, and the Tennessee House GOP expelled two Black Democratic lawmakers over gun violence protests. What a week.
It’s not over yet. Title 42, the pandemic-era ban on immigration, ends in a month, which will inevitably restart debate on one of the hot-button topics of American politics.
In short, polarization is front and center in public conversation. CONTINUED
Clifford Young, Sarah Feldman & Bernard Mendez, Ipsos
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Top tax frustrations for Americans: The feeling that some corporations, wealthy people don’t pay fair share
With the annual IRS tax filing deadline approaching, majorities of Americans continue to be bothered by the feeling that some corporations and wealthy people do not pay their fair share in taxes. Majorities also say they would like taxes on these groups to be raised.
About six-in-ten adults now say that the feeling that some corporations don’t pay their fair share (61%) bothers them a lot, while a nearly identical share say this about some wealthy people not paying their fair share (60%), according to a Pew Research Center survey of 5,079 U.S. adults conducted from March 27 to April 2, 2023. CONTINUED
J. Baxter Oliphant, Pew Research Center
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In Divided Washington, Americans Have Highly Negative Views of Both Parties’ Leaders
Nearly three months after the dawn of a new era of divided government in Washington, Americans express highly negative views of President Joe Biden, the congressional leadership in both parties and Congress more broadly.
Americans’ pessimistic mood extends beyond politics. Views of the economy remain overwhelmingly negative, and nearly half of Americans (46%) expect economic conditions to worsen over the next year.
Moreover, in a striking change since just last year, there has been a sharp rise in the share of Americans who say the country cannot solve many of its important problems, from 41% then to 56% today. Americans have even become more skeptical of the public’s political wisdom. Roughly three-quarters of the public (76%) say they have little or no confidence in the wisdom of the American people in making political decisions, up from 62% in 2021. CONTINUED
Pew Research Center
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CNN Poll: Americans’ views of the economy have improved but overwhelming majority still say it’s in poor shape
Americans’ views of the economy are the best they’ve been in more than a year, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS – but they’re still pretty bad, with 7 in 10 saying it’s in poor shape. Closer to home, 50% say their own financial situation is worse than it was a year ago.
About 3 in 10 Americans, 29%, call the country’s economic conditions good. That’s up from 22% in CNN’s polling last fall but well below the 54% majority who said the same in April 2021. …
The survey finds little optimism that the economy will turn around in the next year. About 4 in 10 Americans (39%) expect economic conditions to be good a year from now, a similar outlook to last fall. And the economy continues to top Americans’ list as the most important issue facing the nation. CONTINUED
Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN
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