Biden approval slips

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Thirty-eight percent of the public approve of how Joe Biden is handling his job as president, down from the 45% who said the same last month, but about where it has stood over the past few months.

Views of how Biden is handling the national economy are more negative. Only 31% approve of his handling of the nation’s economy compared to 68% who disapprove.

Evaluations of the president’s approval overall and his approval on the economy remain strongly partisan. Seventy-six percent of Democrats approve of how he’s handling his job as president and 63% approve his handling of the economy. Republicans continue to disapprove of his job performance and his handling of the economy. CONTINUED

AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research

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Americans voice confidence in their banks, but inflation woes continue

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Three-quarters of Americans have at least some confidence in their own banks, which is more than they have in banks and financial institutions writ large.

Inflation remains the No. 1 reason people continue to say the economy is bad, and that far outweighs recent issues with U.S. banks and the stock market, in the public mind.

That’s partly because as many people ascribe recent problems with banks to decisions made by those banks themselves as to any systemic issues with the banking sector. CONTINUED

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Most see TikTok as a national security risk

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Most see TikTok’s ties to China as a national security risk, and those who do would like to see the video-sharing app banned in the U.S. But younger people — who are the most likely age group to use it — are also the most opposed to a ban, or to the idea that it is a threat.

These views come amid larger concerns about social media platforms in general, such as the prospect of foreign countries using social media to manipulate Americans, and about the privacy risk of platforms collecting personal data. …

We don’t often see partisans agreeing on much these days, but similar majorities of Republicans and Democrats are concerned about foreign influence on social media and their own personal data being put at risk. CONTINUED

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The Transformation of the American Electorate

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Key Points
• The American electorate has changed dramatically over the past 40 years, and a pair of factors — race and education — have driven the changes.
• The electorate has become more diverse and more highly educated. Democrats rely heavily on nonwhite voters and have improved with white college-educated voters, while Republicans have cut deeply into Democratic support with non-college whites.
• Racial and cultural issues, rather than economic ones, have fueled Republican gains with the non-college white electorate. CONTINUED

Alan I. Abramowitz (Emory), Sabato’s Crystal Ball

Party loyalty in presidential elections, 1980-2020

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Signature DeSantis policies unpopular with Americans

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If Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis defeats former President Donald Trump for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, he may have a harder time winning the general election than his supporters expect, according to the latest Yahoo News/YouGov poll.

The new survey shows that more Americans oppose than favor seven out of eight signature policies put forward by DeSantis in Florida, with support ranging from 36% (for requiring public school books to be reviewed for content “the government deems inappropriate”) to a low of 21% (for “granting political appointees the power to fire tenured faculty members at public colleges and universities at any time and for any reason”). CONTINUED

Andrew Romano, Yahoo News

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The biggest decider of who backs a TikTok ban? If they use TikTok.

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More Americans back a TikTok ban than oppose one, with a majority expressing concerns over the company’s links to China, underscoring that distrust of the foreign-owned app has spread beyond Washington, even as its domestic user base soars.

A Washington Post poll finds that 41 percent of Americans support a federal ban of the popular short-video app, while 25 percent say they oppose it. And 71 percent are concerned that TikTok’s parent company is based in China, including 36 percent who say they are “very concerned.”

But the poll shows sharp divisions between generations, political parties and people who actually use the app. CONTINUED

Heather Kelly, Cristiano Lima, Emily Guskin & Scott Clement, Washington Post

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