Fox News Poll: GOP maintains advantage on top issues, but Democrats show some momentum

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The economy is the most important issue facing the country, according to almost 4 in 10 voters, with immigration/border security coming in a distant second. That’s according to the latest Fox News survey released Sunday.

Out of a list of nine issues, 36% say the economy is the country’s top priority (down from 42% in December). Coming in second is immigration/border security (13%), followed by climate change (10%), guns (9%), crime (7%), health care (7%), voting rights/election integrity (7%), abortion (5%), and foreign policy (4%). …

Voters see Republicans as better able to handle border security (by 24 points), national security (+16), the economy (+15), the federal budget deficit (+12), immigration (+10), and foreign policy and taxes (+8 points each). Democrats are preferred on climate change (by 28 points), health care (+23), Medicare (+23), abortion (+20), Social Security (+16), energy policies (+13), voting rights (+9), election integrity (+7), and school curriculum (+5). CONTINUED

Victoria Balara, Fox News

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Fox News Poll: Trump, DeSantis top 2024 Republican preference

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One year out from the 2024 primaries, here is the debut Fox News national survey on the presidential nomination races. Spoiler alert, former President Donald Trump looks formidable, while President Biden faces doubt.

Republican primary voters were read a list of 15 announced and potential candidates for the 2024 nomination. Trump tops the list with 43%, followed by Ron DeSantis at 28%, Nikki Haley and Mike Pence at 7% each, and Greg Abbott and Liz Cheney at 2% each. …

While 37% of Democratic primary voters want to keep Biden as their party’s nominee, a majority of 53% says they would like someone else to run. CONTINUED

Dana Blanton, Fox News

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Consumer sentiment: Positive business outlook outweighs unemployment concerns

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Consumer sentiment lifted for the third straight month in February, rising a modest 3% above January, supported by a 12% improvement in consumers’ outlook over the economy for the year ahead, according to the University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers.

However, sentiment remains well below its historical average; in spite of the recent slowdown in inflation, overall prices are still painfully high for consumers and continue to be at the forefront of their minds, said U-M economist Joanne Hsu, director of the surveys. CONTINUED

Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan

American health in polarizing times

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This week we released our first Axios-Ipsos American Health Index, which builds off of our Axios-Ipsos Coronavirus Index and expands into some of the biggest worries Americans have around healthcare, behaviors surrounding health and wellness, and what policies the public supports.

Between March 2020 and now, a lot has changed. COVID isn’t the top concern for people anymore, as other perennial issues in the American health landscape, like healthcare costs and drug overdoses, rise to the fore.

What has stayed the same? In short, partisanship. The political divide and the different realities partisans live in continue to color views for many Americans. CONTINUED

Clifford Young & Sarah Feldman, Ipsos

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Americans Fairly Satisfied With Social Security System

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Although a middling 45% of Americans are satisfied with the Social Security and Medicare systems, the programs still earn one of the better satisfaction scores in Gallup’s 2023 rating of issues facing the country. The programs rank sixth out of 22 policy areas rated this year, with the military leading the list at 64%. The quality of the environment (with 44% satisfied) roughly ties Social Security and Medicare, while 15 issues are rated worse. …

In addition to being more satisfied with Social Security and Medicare than with most other policy areas of the country, Americans have been less worried in recent years about the Social Security system than about other issues. CONTINUED

Lydia Saad, Gallup

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Initial House Ratings: Battle for Majority Starts as a Toss-up

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Key Points
• The overall battle for House control in 2024 starts as a Toss-up.
• Relatively similar numbers of Democratic and Republican seats start in the most competitive Toss-up and Leans categories, although Republicans start with a few more targets in large part because of the likelihood that they will benefit from redistricting in North Carolina and Ohio.
• Big blue states California and New York, where Republicans have made key gains over the past couple of cycles, loom large as Democrats plot a path back to the House majority. CONTINUED

Kyle Kondik, Sabato’s Crystal Ball

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